THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
485-Ike & Tina Turner-Nutbush City Limits.
1973-Number 4 single.
Best Bit-At 1.36.Nutbush isn’t a city.it’s actually a little old town in Tennessee,apparently a one-horse town.
This was the last song that Ike and Tina Turner worked on together(see also best songs 752) and it was unusual in that it was written by Tina.
The lyrics are semi-autobiographical as she commemorates her hometown where she lived for the first sixteen years of her life.
Turner has released new versions of the song a further twice as a solo artist,a live version which did not chart in 1988 and a dance mix which peaked at Number 23 in 1991.
In 2002 a segment of Tennessee State Route 19 near Nutbush was named ‘Tina Turner Highway’ in her honor.Nutbush is also the home of Blues pioneer musicians and recording artists Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes.
‘No whiskey for sale you get caught no bail.’
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