Tumult!: The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner by Donald Brackett

Author:Donald Brackett [Brackett, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493055067
Google: TX7hzAEACAAJ
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2020-11-15T23:50:15.928813+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, now. If you made it this far in the book. you know how much I respect this artist. However, everyone sometimes make a big mistake, and this was hers—or, rather, theirs since it was her husband’s idea: a somewhat crass attempt to expand their audience base using his primary commodity: her. But country? I’m not a big fan, it’s true, but I definitely know great country when I hear it (Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, June Carter, and Dolly Parton before she went pop), and this isn’t it. They even tried describing it as country rhythm and blues, a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.

It was a tricky venture as your first debut album on your own, even if you are dissatisfied with your usually popular rhythm and blues going through a slump in sales. Weirdly, it still managed to garner a Grammy nomination for Tina for best rhythm-and-blues female vocal performance in 1974, a fact that still mystifies me to this day. This record of course did not fare well and has never been released on CD. Count your blessings perhaps, although I totally understand why completist Tina fans would want it in their collection since I have a healthy compulsive streak myself.

It should also not be confused with myriad other strange Ike attempts to cash in, even after she’d left him, with other blurred-line releases of dubious distinction, such as Tina Turner Sings Country, Soul Deep, Country My Way, Good Hearted Woman, Country in My Soul, Stand by Your Man (really!), Country Classics, You Ain’t Woman Enough to Take My Man (poor Tammy!), and The Country Side of Tina Turner, all of which represented Ike’s persistence, if nothing else, in scraping every scintilla of sound she’d ever left behind her in his home-based Bolic Studio.

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