Description
ALVIN LEE BAND: NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS/HIGH TIMES
Category: ROCK
Media: 45RPM
Label: AVATAR
Release Number: AAA 122
Manufactured: GB UNITED KINGDOM
Release Date: 12/31/81
Originally written by Tina Turner
First release: Nutbush City Limits by Ike and Tina Turner on the audio single Nutbush City Limits (1973)
Nutbush City Limits
A school house, outhouse
On highway number nineteen
The people keep the city clean
They call it Nutbush, oh Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits
Nutbush city
Twenty-five was the speed limit
Motorcycle not allowed in it
You go t’the store on Friday
You go to church on Sundays
They call it Nutbush, oh Nutbush
Said they call it Nutbush city limits
Nutbush city
You go to the fields on week days
And have a picnic on Labor Day
You go to town on Saturday
But go to church every Sunday
They call it Nutbush, Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits
Nutbush city
No whiskey for sale
You get drunk, no bail
Salt pork and molasses
Is all you get in jail
They call it Nutbush, oh, Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits
Nutbush city
A little old town on the Tennessee
Quiet little old community, one-horse town
You got to watch what they’re puttin’ down
Old Nutbush, they call it Nutbush
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush, they call it Nutbush
Alvin Lee is most famous for his time in Ten Years After, a band enjoying moderate success as a blues-rock band and happy with pop obscurity until his mind-blowing style was captured on film in a legendary Woodstock performance. Fortunately for the rest of the band, but to Lee’s horror, they quickly became superstars, a status capped by Columbia pushing them into a more pop-oriented album and the instant classic with I’d Love to Change the World. The resulting fame drove Lee from the band, so he could produce more artistic, pleasantly highest-common-denominator work. But he did keep returning to the band, off and on, for the next thirty years.
Lee was called “the world’s fastest guitarist” in the 60s and 70s. But it was more of a compliment than when applied to the “rain of notes” players of the eighties and nineties. He didn’t just spew scales and riffs at high velocity, he played lightning-fast melodies, creating a song from his guitar work itself…when he chose to play fast. In a call-back to Chicago style, he would vary between shredding speed and sculpting notes in a slow and powerful way, forming Blues-rock masterpieces like evolution.
Lee was a beloved collaborator in the rock world, working alongside so many greats that compiling them here would wear out the Genius server. A subset include: George Harrison (The Beatles), John Mayall, Steve Winwood, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood (of The Rolling Stones), Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), Albert Lee, Peter Frampton…well, you get the idea.
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