Nutbush City Limits is one of the best known album from Ike & Tina because of it’s title track about Tina’s hometown. Beside of this track, a total of five songs were written by Tina and it includes also a different version of River Deep - Mountain High. The song „Make Me Over“ was re-recorded by Tina in 1993 under the different title „Tina’s Wish“ for the soundtrack album What’s Love Got To Do With It. The album was re-issued on compact many times - among others on the double CD Nutbush City Limits / Feel Good in 2006. The album was reviewed in Billboard magazine in it’s issue from November 24, 1973.
Producer: Ike Turner for I & TT Productions Inc.
Recorded: Bolic Sound, June - September 1973
Photographer: Fred Valentine
Illustrations: Dave Willardson
Release: November 1973 / Various (Reissue)
Label: United Artists / Various (Reissue)
Format: Vinyl / Cassette / Cartridge / CD
Charts: USA: #21 (R&B) / Germany: #21
Tracks
- Nutbush City Limits 2:57
- Make Me Over 3:05
- Drift Away 3:18
- That’s My Purpose 4:41
- Fancy Annie 2:20
- River Deep, Mountain High 4:01
- Get It Out Of Your Mind 3:16
- Daily Bread 2:45
- You’re My Sunshine 3:20
- Club Manhattan 2:53
Billboard - November 24, 1973
He was a hipster from the big city.
She was a barefoot country girl from Nutbush, Tennessee.
He had big ideas that would lead to Hollywood and Stardom.
She could sing a song like nobody's business.
He gave her …………….direction.
She gave him……….her all.
The result: NUTBUSH (City Limits) …. The album Ike & Tina Turner always had in them….is out.
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