The Soul Of Ike & Tina Turner – IKE & TINA TURNER***

I’m Jealous/I Idolize You/If/Letter From Tina/You Can’t Love Two/I Had A Notion/A Fool In Love/Sleepless/ Chances Are/You Can’t Blame Me/You’re My Baby/The Way You Love Me

First album release from the husband and wife soul duo who would achieve more widespread commercial success in the mid 1960s. The Soul Of features Ike on guitar and Tina on powerful vocals.

“The first early-'60s Ike & Tina Turner album, with Tina sounding tentative at times, and other times gaining confidence as the song progressed. They were far from a finished, polished act, especially in the studio. Tina was still determining how much power and sensuality she had in her voice and was developing her delivery and presentation, while Ike was honing the backdrop, and his band learning when to push and when to lay out behind Tina."

“The Soul Of Ike And Tina Turner, their first album, was recorded with the fabulous Ikettes while they were on tour and comprised almost exclusively Ike Turner compositions. All but three of the tracks also appeared on singles and there is remarkably little padding on the record.”

“When the dust settles this might end up being duo's most important work. Whatever commercial success they achieved later in their career, these gritty, sweaty and finger-poppin’ songs are where Ike & Tina came from.”

“Horn-driven dance material of the early 1960s with the irresistible Ikettes harmonizing in the background, their dark voices matching Tina's lusty screams note for note. The most surprising thing about this LPs is how exciting it sounds today; basically it is a compilation of very strong singles with no filler, just great music all the way.”

“This is of course very early Turner material, but that's not a bad thing. This album is fully of catchy and fiery numbers you can easily bop along to as Tina belts 'em out and Ike stars on the guitar. To me, you could definitely tell by this album that this dynamic duo were going places.”

“In their prime, the Ike & Tina Turner Revue specialized in a hard-driving, funked-up hybrid of soul and rock 'n' roll that, in its best moments, rose to a visceral frenzy that few R & B acts of any era could hope to match.”