Nutbush, Tennessee

Nutbush is a rural unincorporated community in Haywood County, Tennessee, United States, in the western part of the state, approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-east of Memphis. It was established in the early 19th century by European-American settlers, who bought enslaved African Americans to develop the area's cotton plantations. Houses and churches built during that time still stand.

Agriculture is still the most important element of the rural economy, focused on the cultivation and processing of cotton, which has been the main commodity crop since the antebellum years, when its cultivation depended on slave labor. As of 2006, there was one cotton-processing plant in the community.

Nutbush is the childhood home of singer Tina Turner, who described the "town" (really a tiny settlement of 259) in her 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits". In 2002, a segment of Tennessee State Route 19 near Nutbush was named "Tina Turner Highway" in her honor. It is also the home town of pioneer blues musicians and recording artists Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes.