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 under the different title Mother 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

Singles

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long is a cover version from Otis Reeding and was taken from the album Outta Season. The single was released a second time in America with a different b-side, after Ike & Tina performed it in the Rolling Stones movie Gimme Shelter. 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.

In England, the track Crazy Bout’ You Baby was instead released, and also this one twice. The first time in 1969 from Liberty Records and the second time in 1972 from United Artists Records. It's a cover song, originally released from Sonny Boy Williamson in 1951.

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long: April 1969 / July 1971 / USA: #23 (R&B) / 68 (Pop)
Crazy Bout' You Baby: July 1969 / February 1972 / 

Ike & Tina Turner - Outta Season - Promo

Put Some Truth Back In Your Life Brother

Billboard - March 15, 1969

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