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Apart from the brilliant R&B opener I’ve Been Loving You Too Long, the rest of the tracks on this 1969 album
are brilliant blues numbers. In writing recently of Lynn Carey’s great vocal I
invoked the great vocal of Janis Joplin, citing her as the always obvious rock’n’blues
template, and then you listen to an album like this and remember that Turner too
has got to be on a vocal par with the best.
This isn’t an album I know well but listening today I was
immediately struck by Tina Turner’s excellence throughout. I was therefore
surprised to read this album dismissed in the allmusic review of it - the site I usually turn to for background
information and generally astute opinion - the nameless reviewer of Outta Season stating the album has since been deleted, and deservedly so. I
usually respect differing opinion as it is just opinion, but this seems absurd.
The one ballad on the album is the song I Am A Motherless Child – attributed alternatively to Ike or Tina as
writers depending on where you search – but this too exemplifies the beauty as
well as strength of Turner’s vocal range, and hardly a song to be consigned to
opinionated deletion.
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