“Mississippi River Raft” is a song recorded by J.D. Crowe and the New South, the band the banjo player J.D. Crowe led from the early 1970s. It appeared on the 2006 album “Lefty’s Old Guitar.”
The song drifts along with the river. A raft on the Mississippi becomes an image of escape and easy travel — of leaving trouble behind and letting the current carry the singer on.
J.D. Crowe and the New South were among the bands that shaped modern bluegrass.
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