Nutbush City Limits
| "Nutbush City Limits" | ||||
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| Single by Ike & Tina Turner | ||||
| from the album Nutbush City Limits | ||||
| B-side | "Help Him" | |||
| Released | August 1973 | |||
| Studio | Bolic Sound (Inglewood, California) | |||
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| Length | 2:57 | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tina Turner | |||
| Producer(s) | Ike Turner | |||
| Ike & Tina Turner singles chronology | ||||
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| Official Audio | ||||
| "Nutbush City Limits" on YouTube | ||||
| "Nutbush City Limits (Live)" | ||||
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| Single by Tina Turner | ||||
| from the album Tina Live in Europe | ||||
| B-side | "Overnight Sensation" (live), "Legs" (live) | |||
| Released | March 16, 1988 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:30 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tina Turner | |||
| Producer(s) | John Hudson | |||
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| "Nutbush City Limits (The 90s Version)" | ||||
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| Single by Tina Turner | ||||
| from the album Simply the Best | ||||
| B-side | "The Best" | |||
| Released | September 1991 | |||
| Genre | Dance-pop | |||
| Length | 3:42 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tina Turner | |||
| Producer(s) | Chris "C. J." Mackintosh, Dave Dorrell | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Nutbush City Limits" on YouTube | ||||
"Nutbush City Limits" is a semi-autobiographical song written by Tina Turner which commemorates her rural hometown of Nutbush in Haywood County, Tennessee, United States. Originally released as a single on United Artists Records in August 1973, it is one of the last hits that husband-wife R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner released together.
In the years since, "Nutbush City Limits" has been performed by popular artists such as Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, and Turner herself re-recorded several different versions of the song.
As an unincorporated rural community, Nutbush does not have geographical city limits; rather, its general boundaries are indicated by signs reading "Nutbush, Unincorporated" which are posted on the local highway (Tennessee State Route 19).
A line dance to the song, called the "Nutbush", created in the mid-1970s as a teaching aid in Australia, has seen sustained popularity in that country, and later gained viral popularity internationally through TikTok.