Ike & Tina Turner - Outta Season - Album

Outta Season

Album / Singles (1969)

Outta Season is a blues album and contains Ike & Tina’s signature live song I’ve Been Loving You Too Long, which was also a single the same year. The Tina written song „I’m A Motherless Child“ was re-recorded from her in 2013 for the third Beyond album Love Within. The song Crazy 'Bout You was a single only in England. The album was originally released in 1969 with a wonderful gatefold cover and different cover pictures depending on the country and was reissued on the double CD The Hunter / Outta Season in 2006. For promotion, Blue Thumb Records released a vinyl promo single, featuring a Radio Spot.

The original front and back cover of the album shows Ike and Tina eating a watermelon while wearing whiteface as a mockery of blackface minstrelsy. As a tongue-in-cheek statement, Minstrel characters Amos and Andy who wore blackface are credited on the album for the design & photography. The actual art direction was by Tom Wilkes and photography by Barry Feinstein.

Radio Promo

Producer: Bob Krasnow, Tina Turner
Photography: Barry Feinstein
Release: March 1969 / 2006 (CD)
Label: Blue Thumb (USA) / Liberty (UK) / Minit (Germany) / Blue Moon (CD)
Format: Vinyl / Cartridge / CD
Charts: USA: #41 (R&B), #91 (Pop)

Ike & Tina Turner - Outta Season - Album

Tracks

  1. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long 3:55
    2. Written by Otis Redding, J. Butler
  2. Mean Old World 2:26
    3. Written by Ike Turner
  3. 3 O’Clock In The Morning Blues 2:41
    4. Written by R. King, J. Taub
  4. Five Long Years 3:24
    5. Written by E. Boyd
  5. Dust My Broom 2:31
    6. Written by E. James / Adapted by Ike Turner
  6. Grumbling (Instrumental) 2:39
    7. Written by Ike Turner
  7. I Am A Motherless Child 3:30
    8. Written by Tina Turner
  8. Crazy 'Bout You Baby 3:24
    9. Written by W. Williamson
  9. Reconsider Baby 2:44
    10. Written by L. Fulsom
  10. Honest I Do 2:25
    11. Written by J. Reed, E.G. Abner
  11. Please Love Me 2:13
    12. Written by R. King, J. Taub
  12. My Babe 2:02
    13. Written by Willie Dixon
  13. Rock Me Baby 2:46
    14. Written by B.B. King, J. Josea

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long

is a cover version from Otis Reeding and was released first in 1969 and a second time in America with a different b-side, after Ike & Tina performed it in the Rolling Stones movie Gimme Shelter. This live version from the Madison Square Garden in New York is available on the album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! from 2009. Ike & Tina’s version differs from the original, because they added an additional section with an explicit conversation between them. In their live shows, Tina handled the microphone in a raunchy way, while Ike made suggestive slurping noises.

  1. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long 3:55
    Additional tracks:
  1. Grumbling (Instrumental) 2:39
    2. From the 1969 release
  2. Crazy Bout’ You Baby 3:24
    3. From the 1971 release

Writer: Otis Redding, J. Butler
Producer: Bob Krasnow, Tina Turner
Release: April 1969 / July 1971
Format: 7“ Vinyl
Charts: USA: #23 (R&B) / 68 (Pop)

Crazy 'Bout You Baby

was also released twice in England, instead of the track I’ve Been Loving You Too Long, which was only the b-side. The title track is a cover song, originally released from Sonny Boy Williamson in 1951.

  1. Crazy 'Bout You Baby 2:35
  2. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long 3:40

Writer: Sonny Boy Williamson
Producer: Bob Krasnow, Tina Turner
Release: July 1969 / February 1972
Format: 7“ Vinyl

Ike & Tina Turner - Outta Season - Promo

Put Some Truth Back
In Your Life Brother.

Billboard - March 15, 1969

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