
07/07/2025
On this day in 1991, the Marc Cohn single “Walking in Memphis” peaked at #13 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The song's lyrics are, in his words, “100 percent autobiographical", chronicling a 1985 trip that Cohn, then a struggling songwriter and singer, took to Memphis to overcome a bout of writer's block.
After visiting the church where former soul singer Al Green was preaching, Elvis Presley's former home of Graceland, and a small nightclub in nearby Mississippi, as well as wandering various streets of downtown Memphis, he returned to New York and began composing the song.