Outta Season

Outta Season is a 1969 album by R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner, released on Blue Thumb Records in the US and Liberty Records in the UK.[1] The album contains their signature live song "I've Been Loving You Too Long."

Outta Season
Studio album by
Ike & Tina Turner
ReleasedMarch 1969
Recorded1968
Genre
Length33:00
LabelBlue Thumb
Producer
Ike & Tina Turner chronology
So Fine
(1968)		 Outta Season
(1969)		 In Person
(1969)
Singles from Outta Season
  1. "I've Been Loving You Too Long"
    Released: April 1969
  2. "Crazy 'Bout You Baby"
    Released: July 1969

Content and release

Outta Season is a heavy blues album produced by Tina Turner and Bob Krasnow.[2] The controversial album cover features the Turners (Ike on the front and Tina on the back) in whiteface eating watermelon. The art direction was by Tom Wilkes and photography by Barry Feinstein.[3][4] As a sarcastic statement, Amos and Andy are credited for the design & photography on the album due to the history of the characters wearing blackface.[5]

The album contains the track "I Am a Motherless Child," which is based on the negro spiritual "City Called Heaven".[6] The first single, "I've Been Loving You Too Long," peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 23 on the Billboard R&B chart in April 1969.[7] The second single "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" was only released in the UK.[8]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[9]

Cash Box (March 29, 1969)

The 'now' sound is blues, and the blues are now the sound of Ike and Tina Turner. This newly-recorded set features the vet R&B/Pop duo in a more contemporary framework than ever before, with increase emphasis on instrumental happenings. Material includes such blues standards as "Honest I Do," "My Babe," "Rock Me Baby," "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" and "Mean Old World" as well as several Ike or Tina originals and Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long."[1]

Track listing
Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I've Been Loving You Too Long"Otis Redding, Jerry Butler3:40
2."Mean Old World" (adapted by Ike Turner) 2:20
3."3 O 'Clock in the Morning Blues"B.B. King, Jules Taub2:35
4."Five Long Years"E. Boyd3:20
5."Dust My Broom" (adapted by Ike Turner) 2:30
6."Grumbling"Ike Turner2:35
7."I Am a Motherless Child"Tina Turner3:30
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Crazy 'Bout You Baby"Sonny Boy Williamson3:25
2."Reconsider Baby"Lowell Fulson:40
3."Honest I Do"Ewart Abner, Jimmy Reed2:20
4."Please Love Me"B.B. King, Jules Taub2:10
5."My Babe"Willie Dixon1:50
6."Rock Me Baby"B.B. King, Joe Josea2:45

Chart performance
Chart (1969) Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs[10] 91
US Billboard R&B LPs[11] 43

References
  1. "Cash Box Album Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box: 30. March 29, 1969.
  2. Turner, Tina (1986). I, Tina. William Morrow and Company.
  3. "Album Cover Artist Tom Wilkes Dies Unexpectedly at Home in California". PRWeb. July 5, 2009.
  4. O'Hagan, Sean (October 24, 2011). "Barry Feinstein obituary". The Guardian.
  5. Wright, Joshua K. (March 1, 2017). "Reflections on Black Image in Amos 'n' Andy". Abernathy. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  6. Ramey, Lauri (2008). "Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry." New York City: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-34953633-7. p. 105.
  7. "Ike & Tina, "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Chart Positions". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  8. "Ike & Tina Turner - Crazy 'Bout You Baby". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
  9. "Outta Season - Ike & Tina Turner | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  10. "Top LPs" (PDF). Billboard. May 10, 1969.
  11. "Rhythm & Blues LPs" (PDF). Billboard. July 19, 1969.
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