Pop Songs about Iowa/Iowa Towns

[CYlent Bob]

Back in '82, The Hawks cut an album (yeah, an honest to God vinyl album) called "30 Seconds Over Otho". Otho is a little spot on the map just south of Ft. Dodge.

Hawks - Tonight You Are Mine/Nobody Loses Tonight/Listen To Her Sing - YouTube

 

[ketchupnmustard]

Salt of Society had a song called "Knoxville." "It's a hole in the ground."

 

[CYlent Bob]

"Salt Lake City......really makes Des Moines look second rate"

Bobby & The Midnites ~ 1-26-83 ~ Salt Lake City - YouTube

 

[Tri4Cy]

This one is a classic:
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I'm pretty sure it is about Brooklyn, IA. I drive past it all the time.

 

[Cutlass]

CW McCall has several mentions of Iowa. In Classified he 'was thumbing thru the want ads in the Shelby Country Tribune'...admittedly there might be other Shelby counties, but when you throw in the reference to Nishnabotna, which is also referenced in 4 wheel drive (we went screaming thru the valley where the Nishnabotna flows)

CW was from Council Bluffs, so his songs have a **** ton of Western Iowa references.

 

[MidwestZest]

This one is all about Iowa.
Interstate 80 Iowa - YouTube

Also this related Heywood Bands Song:
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I like the one about Wayne Gacy Jr. and decatur.

Reppin'

 

[CylentButDeadly]

"Heads Carolina, Tails California" - Jo Dee Messina

I got people in Boston.
Ain't your daddy still in Des Moines?
We can pack up tomorrow.
Tonight, let's flip a coin

Not proud that I know this.

 

[CylentButDeadly]

"Colt 45" - Afroman

Probably best not to quote the mention of Iowa from that song.

 

[isuska]

Justin Moore - Flyin' Down a Backroad

Up there in Des Moines they knew my songs line by line

 

[MidwestZest]

Turn the Page..."On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha"...that would be Iowa haha

Sioux City and Waterloo are mentioned in Johnny Cash "I've Been Everywhere". So is Spirit Lake but I think there are quite a few towns and lakes named that.

Also "Big River" by Cash mentions Davenport

 

[Tri4Cy]

This is the low hanging fruit:
[video=youtube;ov4epAJRPMw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw[/video]

 

[pulse]

Take This Job and Shove It is a song about Dubuque, right..? Right?

 

[Cyclonetrombone]

You all are forgetting "The Day the Music Died" by Don McClean while no... it doesn't mention Iowa, it is about an event IN Iowa.

The Day The Music Died - Don McLean on Buddy Holly's crash - YouTube

 

[CLONEing around]

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Hard to believe nobody posted this yet.

That didn't work right.

 

[TXCyclones]

Hopefully everybody is already a Carbon Leaf fan. But they have a song from a couple years back "Midwestern Girl", that talks about the "Val Air Ballroom out in Western Des Moines" in the second verse, and the chorus is "I.O.W.A now". Nice props from a Richmond, VA band.

Carbon Leaf - Midwestern Girl - YouTube

 

[TXCyclones]

Did anybody mention Slipknot? The biggest thing to come out of Des Moines since I-35 was completedbiggrin:. On their album "Iowa", they've got a song "515", and "Iowa".

 

[iacyguy]

"Colt 45" - Afroman

Probably best not to quote the mention of Iowa from that song.

Word on the street is that he still owes that "escort" from iowa city. she must not have been worth the money.

 

[SwirlingFloater]

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Not often that I see Caroline's Spine mentioned. Bravo!

My brother used to live in Tulsa and was friends with the band members.

 

[Cy4Lifer]

This was the first song that popped into my head when I saw the thread title. As a kid I always thought it was cool to hear the name of my little town in a song on the radio.

Which "little town"?

 

[ISUME]

Word on the street is that he still owes that "escort" from iowa city. she must not have been worth the money.

The transaction was paid by credit, so he has to pay his bills.