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==== Music ==== Memphis is the subject of numerous pop and country songs, including "[[The Memphis Blues]]" by [[W. C. Handy]], "[[Memphis, Tennessee (song)|Memphis, Tennessee]]" by [[Chuck Berry]], "Night Train to Memphis" by [[Roy Acuff]], "Goin' to Memphis" by [[Paul Revere and the Raiders]], "[[Queen of Memphis]]" by [[Confederate Railroad]], "[[Memphis Soul Stew]]" by [[King Curtis]], "[[Maybe It Was Memphis]]" by [[Pam Tillis]], "[[Graceland (song)|Graceland]]" by [[Paul Simon]], "Memphis Train" by [[Rufus Thomas]], "[[All the Way from Memphis]]" by [[Mott the Hoople]], "[[Wrong Side of Memphis]]" by [[Trisha Yearwood]], "[[Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again]]" by [[Bob Dylan]], "Memphis Skyline" by [[Rufus Wainwright]], "Sequestered in Memphis" by [[the Hold Steady]] and "[[Walking in Memphis]]" by [[Marc Cohn]]. In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including "[[Proud Mary]]" by [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], "[[Honky Tonk Women]]" by [[the Rolling Stones]], "[[Dixie Chicken (album)|Dixie Chicken]]" by [[Little Feat]], "[[Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes]]" by [[George Jones]], "Daisy Jane" by [[America (band)|America]], "[[Life Is a Highway]]" by [[Tom Cochrane]], "[[Black Velvet (song)|Black Velvet]]" by [[Alannah Myles]], "[[Cities (song)|Cities]]" by [[Talking Heads]], "Crazed Country Rebel" by [[Hank Williams III]], "[[Pride (In the Name of Love)]]" by [[U2]], "M.E.M.P.H.I.S." by the [[Disco Biscuits]], "New New Minglewood Blues" and "Candyman" by [[the Grateful Dead]], "You Should Be Glad" by [[Widespread Panic]], "Roll With Me" by [[8Ball & MJG]], "Someday" by [[Steve Earle]] and popularly recorded by [[Shawn Colvin]], and many others. More than 1,000 commercial recordings of over 800 distinct songs contain "Memphis" in them. The [[Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum]] maintains an ever updated list of these on their website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.memphisrocknsoul.org/over1000songs |title=Over 1,000 Songs |website=Memphisrocknsoul.org |access-date=November 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623030942/http://www.memphisrocknsoul.org/over1000songs |archive-date=June 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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