Tina Turn The Country On! is Tina’s very first solo album while she was still married with Ike and a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. All songs are cover versions from different artists, recorded at Ike’s Bolic Sound studios in June, 1974. Tina recorded twenty songs, but only a selection of ten made it to the final tracklist. The remaining tracks were released for the first time in 1979 on the album Good Hearted Woman.
The only song Tina performed live in her concerts was „Help Me Make It Through The Night,“ available on the Wild Lady Of Rock home video from 1984. The track „Bayou Song“ was performed live from Ike & Tina at the TV-Show Midnight Special in 1975 as well as „I’m Movin On“ at the De Van Speyk Show in 1974 for promotion.
The album didn’t charted, but was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975. It was reviewed in Billboard magazine in it’s issue from September 14, 1974 and was reissued in 2024 on vinyl and for the first time on compact disc, as part of the 'Tina Turner 74 - 79 Reissues‘, promoted with a lyric video of the track „Bayou Song“.
Producer: Tom Thacker
Photographer: David Alexander
Release: August 1974 / November 2023 (Digital) / 2024 (Vinyl, CD)
Label: United Artists / Parlophone (Reissue)
Format: Vinyl / Cartridge / Cassette / Digital
Grammy: Best R&B Vocal Performance (Nomination 1975)
Tracks
- Bayou Song 3:28
- Help Me Make It Through The Night 2:55
- Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You 3:00
- If You Love Me (Let Me Know) 3:05
- He Belongs To Me 4:07
- Don’t Talk Now 3:04
- Long Long Time 4:55
- I’m Moving On 2:40
- There’ll Always Be Music 4:17
- The Love That Lights Our Way 3:15
