Song · Ike & Tina Turner
“Nutbush City Limits” by Ike & Tina Turner
Released 1984
“Nutbush City Limits” by Ike & Tina Turner appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1987 and 2023. It was first released in 1984. Its best result is #40 on the Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1987). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,009 alternative song of all time.
"Nutbush City Limits" is Tina Turner writing home, and she isn't sending a greeting card: it's a half-autobiographical snapshot of Nutbush, the rural spot in Haywood County, Tennessee, where she grew up. United Artists put it out as a single in August 1973 with Ike Turner producing, a tough, strutting slab of funk rock, and it turned out to be one of the last hits the husband-and-wife duo would have together.
Don't go looking for the city limits, either: Nutbush is unincorporated, marked only by signs on Tennessee State Route 19 that read "Nutbush, Unincorporated". The song found a second home in Australia, where a line dance called the Nutbush was dreamed up as a teaching aid in the mid-1970s and never went out of style, and much later it went viral worldwide on TikTok.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 40 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1987) | 100 |
| 2022 | 641 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
| 2023 | 169 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
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