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waitingmanIt may be a little old town in Tennessee, but Australians have adopted it - dancing to this song has become a rite of passage at any birthday, wedding, school dance... & now our not-so-secret has been discovered by Americans
Like most Australians, I had no idea this wasn't the actual dance everybody does when that riff starts up, but apparently, we are indeed alone in this. It's been a thing since at least the early 80s - when I first started going to those sorts of parties & even I was mystified by how everyone seemed to know the steps to it when all I knew was how to play the riff... Even then I was a player, not a dancer
I wonder if Tina is aware of the phenomenon... & I wish I could find some footage of her performing the song in Australia
'Til then, as Sean Barry Parsons says - "Fuck Cotton-Eye Joe... we gotta Nutbush!!"
Like most Australians, I had no idea this wasn't the actual dance everybody does when that riff starts up, but apparently, we are indeed alone in this. It's been a thing since at least the early 80s - when I first started going to those sorts of parties & even I was mystified by how everyone seemed to know the steps to it when all I knew was how to play the riff... Even then I was a player, not a dancer
I wonder if Tina is aware of the phenomenon... & I wish I could find some footage of her performing the song in Australia
'Til then, as Sean Barry Parsons says - "Fuck Cotton-Eye Joe... we gotta Nutbush!!"
