Music
Jay Farrar of the band Son Volt wrote a song called "Sultana", paying tribute to "the worst American disaster of the maritime". Farrar calls the ship "the Titanic of the Mississippi" in the song, which was released on the American Central Dust album.
The Norwegian group Titanic had a hit in 1971 with an instrumental called "Sultana".
The Back Porch Majority performed a song entitled "The Great Sultana" on their album Riverboat Days.
Southaven, Mississippi born singer/songwriter Cory Branan recorded a song titled "Sultana" about the disaster.
Upstate New York singer/songwriter Jeff Stachyra released an album called The Sultana: April 27, 1865 on April 27, 2012. It recounts the days leading up to the disaster as well as the explosion and its aftermath.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It’s the music a man’s spirit sings to his heart, when the earth’s far away and there isn’t any more fear. It’s the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)
“This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air; thence have I followed it,
Or it hath drawn me rather.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“My love shall hear the music of my hounds.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)