"Can we talk about Elvis?" lead singer Corey Glover teased, by way of introducing the song. View Gallery: Beale Street Music Festival photos: Highlights from SaturdayīSMF 2023: Here's what you missed at Beale Street Music Festival on Saturday It was probably well past his bedtime, but the appearance by child rapper Lil King proved to be one of the more intriguing elements of Finesse2Tymes’ Saturday night performance on the Bud Light Stage. Memphis in May: Is new Tom Lee Park a good fit for Beale Street Music Fest? It was a bit like Twister Lil King
and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." Says the fish: "Yuuuck!" It had been a while since I'd seen one, and "The First Jaws" is a winner, with a particularly graphic illustration accompanying the verse: "The Lord spake unto the fish. Distributed worldwide from Chick's California headquarters, they continue to be handed out to presumed "sinners" at concerts and other events. Chick, who died in 2016 at the age of 92, spent decades publishing palm-sized rectangular black-and-white comic book-style gospel tracts with often alarming religious messages. Possibly you've seen these "Chick tracts" and been unaware of their history. I took one and my heart was gladdened, because it had been a long time since someone had passed me a Jack Chick comic book gospel tract, and this one was a doozy: The cover caption promised "The Story of Jonah - The First Jaws," and the accompanying illustration of a toothy leviathan snatching at the prophet looked more Steven Spielberg than Old Testament. Saturday and were immediately replaced by banner-carrying fundamentalist Christian preachers, who eventually made their way down the street, from the area near Handy Park where the new Blues Stage was located to the main festival entrance at Tom Lee Park.Īs usual, the preachers' minions passed out literature promoting their particular brand of salvation.
Jack Chick's 'Jaws'Īs if it were a shift change at a factory, the female exhibition jump ropers of the 40+Double Dutch club left Beale Street at about 5 p.m. The inflatable gorilla couldn't steal the show from GloRilla, but it definitely caught the crowd's attention. Throughout GloRilla's performance, the bass not only shook the park but also the inflatable gorilla, which moved with each note and bass drop.
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