I’ve heard it in central Minnesota pharmacies, I’ve heard it at Upper Michigan cookouts, I’ve heard it in Oshkosh, WI on a radio station that’s single blocked out every other station in my parents’ neighborhood. They listened to the Doobie Brothers, who wrote songs like “Black Water,” “Minute by Minute,” and most importantly “What a Fool Believes,” a song that is more popular across “classic” music radio stations in the upper Midwest than any other. You hear that Bruce Springsteen wrote a lot of songs that meant a lot to working people, but the working people I know who were alive in 1979 didn’t listen to fucking Bruce Springsteen. It’s hard to understate the impact that the Doobie Brothers-who were from California-and “What a Fool Believes” have had on the Midwest.
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