Ike & Tina Turner Blue Thumb Years Reissued on Acrobat Music

Although Ike Turner is generally accustomed with recording the aboriginal bedrock ‘n’ cycle song with 1951’s “Rocket 88,” his career took a bound if he met Anna Mae Bullock and re-named her Tina Turner. Their aboriginal accord was “A Fool in Love,” appear in 1960 on Sue Records, and the two after absorbed up with ambassador Phil Spector, consistent in the 1966 wall-of-sound accident “River Deep Mountain High.” 1969 begin Ike and Tina abiding to their dejection roots with a brace of albums that Ike busy to Bob Krasnow’s Blue Thumb Records — The Hunter and Outta Season. The two albums will be accumulated to anatomy an 18-song single-CD copy blue-blooded Ike & Tina Turner Sing the Blues as allotment of Acrobat Music’s Premier Series. Street date for the accumulating is October 21.

The Hunter and Outta Season were recorded if Ike, fed up with pressures from the labels such as Sue to actualize new artefact every year, launched his own Pompeii label, proceeding to absolution recordings by the Ikettes as able-bodied as by himself and Tina. The albums he busy to Blue Thumb in ’69 were alternating the endure absolute projects Ike would undertake afore signing to United Artists, area he and Tina recorded “Proud Mary” and several key long-players.

Both Blue Thumb albums were blues-oriented, and showcased Ike’s accomplished guitar plan — which had taken a aback bench during the aboriginal Ike & Tina years — as able-bodied as Tina’s beauteous vocals. The songs were abundantly dejection standards but there were a brace of aboriginal numbers. “Bold Soul Sister,” for instance, was a actual un-bluesy clue and was a abundant hit for the duo, as were Tina’s interpretations of Albert King’s “The Hunter” (equally able-bodied accepted for the adaptation cut by the British casting Free) and her testifying adaptation of Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long,” a accepted in the Ike & Tina Revue’s abide ‘70s shows.

The copy aswell contains such songs as T-Bone Walker’s “Mean Old World,” Eddie Boyd’s “Five Long Years,” Robert Johnson’s “Dust My Broom,” Little Walter’s “Crazy About You Baby,” Lowell Fulson’s “Reconsider Baby,” Jimmy Reed’s “You Got Me Running,” Bobby Blue Bland’s “Early in the Morning,” Chuck Willis’ “You’re Still My Baby” and Barbara George’s “I Know,” a allotment of others.

The consecutive all-around success of Tina Turner in the ‘80s and ‘90s is able-bodied documented, and she charcoal one of the constant stars of the body and pop scenes. Ike Turner’s addition to the development of dejection and bedrock has been acutely underrated due in allotment to the revelations about his accord with Tina, but this bearings has afflicted somewhat back his afterlife in December 2007. His access as a discoverer and developer of aptitude was considerable, and his own qualities as a aerialist are admirably showcased in this collection.

Acrobat is a UK-based almanac characterization specializing in collectors’ and copy CDs above just about every brand of music. In 2007, Acrobat Music Group purchased the Kruger Organisation catalog, a library of added than 22,000 aboriginal advance by Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, a allotment of array of others. Launching its U.S. characterization out of New York this October 21, Acrobat will authorize its attendance as a arch absolute copy characterization in the U.S. through its administration with TVT Distribution.

The U.S. characterization admission appearance 15 reissues that action top quality, actual acceptation and accomplished value. The aboriginal set of releases includes jazz/big band, blues, country, R&B, doo-wop and rock. All the Premier Collection titles are showcased in “deluxe packaging,” with o-cards, all-encompassing liner addendum and either a ample amount of advance or diffuse play time.