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. The single was reviewed in Billboard magazine in it’s issue from April 19, 1969 and again in the issue from July 10, 1971.

  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
Label: Blue Thumb / Liberty
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
Label: Liberty / United Artists
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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