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Ike & Tina Turner: Outta Season

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In March 1969, “Blue Thumb” label released “Outta Season”, the eight Ike & Tina Turner album. It was recorded in 1968, and was produced by Bob Krasnow and Tina Turner.

Personnel:

  • Tina Turner – vocal
  • Ike Turner – guitar
  • Tom Wilkes – art direction
  • Barry Feinstein – photography

Track listing:

  1. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long – Otis Reding, Jerry Butler
  2. Mean Old World – adapted by Ike Turner
  3. 3 O’clock in the Morning Blues – B.B. King, Jules Taub
  4. Five Long Years – Eddie Boyd
  5. Dust My Broom – adapted by Ike Turner
  6. Grumbling – Ike Turner
  7. I am a Motherless Child – Tina Turner
  8. Crazy ‘Bout You Baby – Sonny Boy Williamson
  9. Reconsider Baby – Lowell Fulson
  10. Honest I Do – Ewart Abner, Jimmy Reed
  11. Please Love Me – B. B. King, Jules Taub
  12. My Babe – Willie Dixon
  13. Rock Me Baby – B. B. King, Joe Josea

Wayne Jackson

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On June 21, 2016, Wayne Lamar Jackson died aged 74. He was musician (trumpet, trombone, French horn). song writer and producer, playing trumpet in the “Stax Records” house band The Mar – Keys, but best known as co-founder, together with Andrew Love, and member of The Memphis Horns, regarded as  “arguably the greatest soul horn section ever”. Jackson and Love played together on 52 No. 1 songs, and recorded and toured with many famous names, including Elvis Presley, Otis Reding, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, The Doobie Brothers, Al Green, Dusty Springfield, Jimmy Buffet, Robert Cray, Sam & Dave and many others. In 2012, the Memphis Horns received a “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award” for outstanding artistic significance in music.

Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You

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On March 10, 1967, “Atlantic” label released “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You”, the eleventh Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in January and February, 1967 at “Fame Studio”, “Muscle Shoals” and “Atlantic Recording Studios”, in New York, and was produced by Jerry Wexler.  In 2003, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked the album at number 83 ranking on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of all Time”.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – vocals, piano
  • Jimmy Johnson– guitar
  • Chips Moman– guitar
  • Dewey Oldham– keyboards
  • Tommy Cogbill– bass
  • Gene Chrisman – drums
  • Charles Chalmers– tenor saxophone
  • King Curtis– tenor saxophone
  • Charles Chalmers– tenor saxophone
  • Willie Bridges – baritone saxophone
  • Melvin Lastie – trumpet, cornet
  • Carolyn Franklin– backing vocals
  • Erma Franklin- backing vocals
  • Cissy Houston– backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. Respect – Otis Redding
  2. Drown in My Own Tears – Henry Glover
  3. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) – Ronnie Shannon
  4. Soul Serenade – Curtis Ousley, Luther Dixon
  5. Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
  6. Baby, Baby, Baby – Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin
  7. Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
  8. Good Times – Sam Cooke
  9. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man – Dan Penn, Chips Moman
  10. Save Me – Curtis Ousley, Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin
  11. A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke