The Turners are currently contracted to Liberty, have authorized product out on A&M and Blue Thumb, and caveat emptor. Apparently it was cut some years ago for Cenco (?) Records. Granted, most and maybe all of them are better than this, a humdrum blues runthrough (with big-band horns and fake-symph strings) on which Ike claims authorship of such works as "Dust My Broom" (here yclept "I Believe") and "Ten Long Years" (here yclept "Five Long Years"). A-Įlevated by the Rolling Stones into mythic status among white people, the Turners are now haunted by their profligate recording habits-Capitol is the tenth label to release an I&TT LP in the past two years. The problem insofar as there is one, is that that kind of intensity can't sustain itself for the length of an album. Much of it is in a class with the title cut, though not up to it. Since I have been known to make grumbling noises about Ike and Tina Turner albums and Phil Spector albums, I thought I ought to exempt this one, which is both. Proud Mary-The Best of Ike and Tina Turner A.
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