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"Detroit City" and Other Hits by Bobby Bare, 1963
Written by Danny Dill & Mel Tillis, 1962
I'm revealing vast ignorance here, but not knowing anything about this song but the title, I imagined a 1950s-style hot-rodder early rock track. Instead it's an example of the smooth countrypolitan Nashville sound, a plaintive ode to the narrator's Southern home, a land-locked "Sloop John B." (with which it shares a refrain, as well as a shade of the melody). The narrator isn't happy in Detroit City and wants to go back to his ancestral lands. Many can relate. The song was released one year earlier (as "I Wanna Go Home") by Billy Grammer, who had a hit with "Gotta Travel On."
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