Nutbush

[waitingman]

It 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!!"

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Comments

[basefinder]

I don't think I have ever heard that song before! Nor could I jump in to that dance routine!

Most of the moves look like common elements of line dancing, which takes place in country bars or dance halls, therefore my only perspective is seeing it occasionally on TV.

I guess the equivalent of this, for me, is the Chicken Dance. When did that become a widespread thing, was I absent from class that day, and why didn't I receive the memo?

[paserbyp]

Very good for exercise and loosing weight!

[anais_pf]

Performance of 'Nutbush City Limits' on the Australian TV program 'Countdown':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eznuKzgt5XU