Nutbush City Limits

June 1973

Nutbush City Limits is written by Tina Turner song she released in June 1973 together with her ​​then-husband Ike as a duo Ike & Tina Turner. The piece is one of her best known songs.

Original version

The piece was produced studio in May 1973 by Ike Turner's Bolic Sound. In June 1973, the single was released. In November 1973, the song appeared on the same album. The song reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 4 on the British charts. In Europe, it was successful in 1974 - it reached # 2 in Germany, 1st place in Austria and # 12 in Switzerland.

The play is about the small town of Nutbush, Tennessee, grew up in the Tina Turner. There is now named after her, a " Tina Turner Highway". However, the city has no real city limits in reality, although make signs to the exit from the local attention.

More versions

Tina Turner sang Nutbush City Limits during her solo career often live and published it twice as a single, once in a live version (1988 ) - the single from the album Tina Live in Europe in Germany reached number 45 on the charts - once known as "The 90s version " (1991). The latter version made ​​it to Germany and Austria at number 25, in Switzerland number 12 in the charts in the UK it peaked at # 23 This version was a single from the album Simply the Best There is also a cover version of Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet band (1976 ), which was released as a single. Pearl Aday sang the song on their 2010 released album Little Immaculate White Fox.

1980 Brian Johnson sang Nutbush City Limits along with Whole Lotta Rosie at his first audition for AC / DC, after which he became the lead singer of the band.