Memphis, Tennessee

=== Cultural references ===

==== 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>

==== Film and television ====
Many films are set in the American city including, ''[[Black Snake Moan (film)|Black Snake Moan]]'', ''[[The Blind Side (film)|The Blind Side]]'', ''[[Cast Away]]'', ''[[Choices: The Movie]]'', ''[[The Client (1994 film)|The Client]]'', ''[[Elvis (2022 film)|Elvis]]'', ''[[The Firm (1993 film)|The Firm]]'', ''[[Forty Shades of Blue]]'', ''[[Great Balls of Fire! (film)|Great Balls of Fire!]]'', ''[[Hustle & Flow]]'', ''[[Kill Switch (2008 film)|Kill Switch]]'', ''[[Making the Grade (1984 film)|Making the Grade]]'', ''[[Memphis Belle (film)|Memphis Belle]]'', ''[[Mississippi Grind]]'', ''[[Mystery Train (film)|Mystery Train]]'', ''[[N-Secure]]'', ''[[The Rainmaker (1997 film)|The Rainmaker]]'', ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'', ''[[Soul Men]]'', and ''[[Walk the Line]]''.

Many of those and other films have also been filmed in Memphis including, ''Black Snake Moan'', ''Walk the Line'', ''Hustle & Flow'', ''Forty Shades of Blue'', ''[[21 Grams]]'', ''[[A Painted House]]'', ''[[American Saint]]'', ''[[The Poor and Hungry]]'', ''Cast Away'', ''[[Woman's Story]]'', ''[[The Big Muddy]]'', ''The Rainmaker'', ''[[Finding Graceland]]'', ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]'', ''[[The Delta (film)|The Delta]]'', ''[[Teenage Tupelo]]'', ''[[A Family Thing]]'', ''[[Without Air]]'', ''The Firm'', ''The Client'', ''[[The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag]]'', ''[[Trespass (1992 film)|Trespass]]'', ''The Silence of the Lambs'', ''Great Balls of Fire!'', ''[[Elvis and Me]]'', ''Mystery Train'', ''[[Leningrad Cowboys Go America]]'', ''[[Heart of Dixie (film)|Heart of Dixie]]'', ''[[The Contemporary Gladiator]]'', ''[[U2: Rattle and Hum]]'', ''Making the Grade'', ''[[The River Rat]]'', ''[[The River (1984 film)|The River]]'', ''[[Hallelujah! (film)|Hallelujah!]]'', ''[[Elizabethtown (film)|Elizabethtown]]'', ''[[3000 Miles to Graceland]]'', ''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|A Face in the Crowd]]'', ''[[Undefeated (2011 film)|Undefeated]]'', ''[[Man on the Moon (film)|Man on the Moon]]'', ''[[Nothing but the Truth (2008 American film)|Nothing But the Truth]]'', ''[[Sore Losers]]'', ''[[Soul Men]]'', ''[[I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I.]]'', ''[[I'm From Hollywood]]'', ''[[The Grace Card]]'', ''[[This is Elvis]]'', ''[[Cookie's Fortune]]'', ''[[Open Five]]'', ''[[The Open Road]]'', ''[[In the Valley of Elah]]'', ''[[Walk Hard]]'', ''[[My Blueberry Nights]]'', ''[[Savage Country]]'', and ''[[Two-Lane Blacktop]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://historic-memphis.com/memphis/filmed-in-memphis/filmed-in-memphis.html |title= Filmed in Memphis...On Location in the Historic City |last=Gill |first=Gene |website=Historic-memphis.com|access-date=June 22, 2016}}</ref>

The television series ''[[Greenleaf (TV series)|Greenleaf]]'', ''[[Memphis Beat]]'', ''[[Quarry (TV series)|Quarry]]'' and ''[[Bluff City Law]]'' are set in the city.

====Literature====

Many works of fiction and literature are set in Memphis. These include ''[[The Reivers]]'' by [[William Faulkner]] (1962), ''September, September'' by Shelby Foote (1977); [[Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor|Peter Taylor]]'s ''The Old Forest and Other Stories'' (1985), and his [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning ''[[A Summons to Memphis]]'' (1986); ''[[The Firm (novel)|The Firm]]'' (1991) and ''[[The Client (novel)|The Client]]'' (1993), both by [[John Grisham]]; ''Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir'' by James Conaway (1993), ''Plague of Dreamers'' by Steve Stern (1997); ''[[Cassina Gambrel Was Missing]]'' by William Watkins (1999); ''The Guardian'' by Beecher Smith (1999), "We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon" by Corey Mesler (2005), ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (novel)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' by [[Thomas Harris]], and ''The Architect'' by James Williamson (2007).