Pop Songs about Iowa/Iowa Towns

Matt Woods is an Iowa blues artists who also has a song called Fairfield. Iowa State fan for good measure. Don't know if he is an alum. I used to see him occasionally in the genetics lab that Pioneer had in Dallas Center where he worked his day job.

 
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The Iowa connection in 'Til Tuesday's "Coming Up Close" stems directly from the song's opening lyrics: "One night in Iowa / He and I in a borrowed car / Went driving in the summer / Promises in every star." [1]
Aimee Mann, who wrote the track, has explained that the song was inspired by a romantic epiphany she experienced while driving through the cornfields of Iowa with a friend while listening to a tape of Bob Dylan. The memory of that summer road trip served as the creative foundation for the song's nostalgic and bittersweet