Other References
Composer Charles Ives used the Hymn tune Beulah Land in his String Quartet No.1 (1896) entitled "Salvation Army".
Blues musician Mississippi John Hurt recorded a song for the Library of Congress in 1963, which was entitled "Beulah Land."
Alternative Piano Artist Tori Amos wrote a song also entitled "Beulah Land" which was a B-side on her 1998 album From the Choirgirl Hotel.
In the final moments of the opera The Ballad of Baby Doe, the title character (referring to her husband) sings "In the circle of his arms I am safe in Beulah Land."
The Tom Waits song, "Take Care Of All My Children," includes the line "I'll be goin' up to Beulah Land."
The Vigilantes of Love song "Earth Has No Sorrow" from the album Killing Floor, includes the line "I hear angels 'cross that river in Beulah land".
Modern author Krista McGruder, a native of the Ozarks, entitled her first collections of short stories "Beulah Land".
Mary Lee Settle, National Book Award winner for Blood Ties, 1978, wrote a series of novels called the Beulah Land quintet, beginning with O Beulah Land in 1956.
Oregonian novelist H. L. Davis, best known for his 1935 Pulitzer Prize–winning Honey in the Horn, wrote a 1949 novel called Beulah Land about the travails and westward travels of a family of Cherokee Indians from the Southeastern United States. A coffee shop and bar called Beulahland (one word) in Portland, Oregon, is possibly named after Davis' novel.
Songwriter Drew Nelson won international acclaim with the 2009 album "Dusty Road to Beulah Land", produced by Michael Crittenden of Mackinaw Harvest Music. The album has been described as "a love song to the state of Michigan." Local community radio station WYCE in Grand Rapids, Michigan awarded the album "Best Local Album" at the 2010 Jammie Awards.
There is some uncertainty about the origins of "Is Not This the Land of Beulah." Public domain records show it attributed to William Hunter, somewhere before 1884, yet other records credit William B. Bradbury with the modern arrangement being attributed to John W. Dadman in 1911.
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