The Grateful Dead recorded a song titled "Sugar Magnolia" that was first released on the 1970 album American Beauty. The song made its live debut on June 7, 1970, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. The semiofficial 1972 Dead movie Sunshine Daydream has its title taken from the song's coda section. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers second studio album You're Gonna Get It! includes a track called "Magnolia", written by Tom Petty. J.J. Cale (1938–2013) wrote a song about a woman named Magnolia, which has been covered by Poco, Beck and Lucinda Williams. "The Scent of Magnolia" is the first track in David Sylvian's compilation album, Everything and Nothing. In 2003, Songs: Ohia released The Magnolia Electric Co. This was the last release under that project's name for Jason Molina before renaming his band Magnolia Electric Co. after the album. "Magnolia" is the fifth track on Australian indie rock group Gang of Youths' debut album, The Positions. "Magnolia" is a hit song by rapper Playboi Carti In his song titled "Marry Me" Thomas Rhett mentions the magnolia flower. In his song titled "Roller Coaster" Danny Vera mentions the magnolia flower. "The Sweet Magnolia Tree" is the eighth track on Doug Wamble's 2003 CD Country Libations. Singer-songwriter Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem included "Honey Magnolia" to his first solo debut album titled Painkillers released in March 2016. "Magnolia" is an album by progressive rock band The Pineapple Thief. It includes a track called "Magnolia". Literature The 1989 movie Steel Magnolias is based on a 1987 play, Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling. In the 1939 song "Strange Fruit", originally written as a poem by New York schoolteacher and communist activist Abel Meeropol to condemn the practice of lynching, the magnolia flower was referred to as being associated with the Southern United States, where many lynchings took place: Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Despite Meeropol's frequent mention of the South and magnolia trees, the horrific image which inspired his poem, Lawrence Beitler's 1930 photograph capturing the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith following the robbery and murder of Claude Deteer, actually occurred in Marion, Indiana, where magnolia trees are less common. In the 1960s, magnolias were a symbol of the South in the popular press: the New York Post