You can view the complete playlist and listen to a special podcast commemorating the Ultimate Mississippi Playlist on MPB’s Next Stop Mississippi.

1. “Cross Road Blues” by Robert Johnson
2. “The Thrill is Gone” by B.B. King
3. “Ode to Billie Joe” by Bobbie Gentry
4. “Come Monday” by Jimmy Buffett
5. “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis
6. “Stand by Your Man” by Tammy Wynette
7. “Hello Darlin’” by Conway Twitty
8. “Heartbreak Hotel” by Elvis Presley
9. “Misty Blue” by Dorothy Moore
10. “Mississippi River” by Paul Davis
11. “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man” by Muddy Waters
12. “Chain Gang” by Sam Cooke
13. “Stop In the Name of Love” by The Supremes
14. “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
15. “Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good)” by Sugarland
16. “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” by Jerry Butler
17. “Proud Mary” by Ike and Tina Turner
18. “Kryptonite” by 3 Doors Down
19. “Hillbilly Rock” by Marty Stuart
20. “Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)” by Jimmie Rodgers
21. “Little Red Rooster” by Willie Dixon
22. “Back Where I Come From” by Mac McAnally
23. “Cadillacs on 22s” by David Banner
24. “Black Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd
25. “Porcupine Meat” by Bobby Rush
26. “Roll on Mississippi” by Charley Pride

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The Ultimate Mississippi Playlist

by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today
December 1, 2017

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