Beale Street - Musical References

Musical References

  • Clutch (a rock band from Maryland) has an album titled From Beale Street to Oblivion. A song on that album, "The Devil & Me", contains a reference to Beale Street.
  • Joni Mitchell's song, "Furry Sings The Blues", is a lamentation of the redevelopment of Beale Street in the late 1960s. It references W.C. Handy and both the Old and The New Daisy Theatre's, among others.
  • Cab Calloway's song "Beale Street Mama" is all about Beale Street.
  • Todd Agnew's song "My Jesus" says that the singer thinks Jesus would prefer Beale Street to the stained glass crowd.
  • Marc Cohn walked 10 feet off of Beale in his 1991 song "Walking in Memphis".
  • In 2002 David Nail's song "Memphis" music video featured images of Memphis.

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