Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers assumed the song he was writing in 1973 about a slow-moving Texas town called "China Grove" was fictional. Until he remembered that it wasn't. The song started ...
Though “China Grove” is undeniably part of the classic rock canon, it has some country crossover appeal as well. Dolly Parton performed a cover of the song on an episode of her mid-’70s variety show ...