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Tina Turner Goes Country
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Tina Turner Goes Country
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Tina Turner Goes Country
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's
, aka the 1974 United Artists Records LP
, was
's debut solo album, made during the last years of her professional and personal relationship with
. As such, her typically impassioned performance of
probably will strike listeners as the most curious selection on the album. Those looking for clues to the future, however, may be inclined to concentrate on such titles as
and
Actually, the original title of the album is more appropriate than the one on this reissue.
doesn't really go country on the disc. What she does is perform a batch of country songs in her own inimitable R&B/rock style. For better or worse,
has only one mode. She sings full-out, which means that, for instance, the nuances of
escape her, but that, on the other hand, her take on
'
(not actually a country song, even if it comes from Memphis) is masterful. And she goes right to the emotional core of
Other singers might "go country" by making an album full of steel guitar and fiddle arrangements. But whatever the nominal style of music, when
sings it, it becomes
music. ~ William Ruhlmann