We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago…..
It’s an album that screams 1972. Full of fuzztones and wah-wah peddle. Driving bass and skittery drums. And the high-energy yowling of Ms. Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner.
The album called “Feel Good” is a break out album in the sense that while it really doesnt have any hits…it does have a bunch of songs written by Tina. In fact, all but one (a cover of the Beatles ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window) were penned by the Queen of Nutbush.
Ike and the other players lay down a 70’s funky vibe that moves from James Brown style, horn drenched R&B, to funky southern soul, to sleazy slow jams. And all the while Tina is wailing out her demons and her libidinous feelings.
One reviewer called it ‘relentless in its rhythms and fearless in its funk”.
My faves include the title track and “I Like It” along with a tribute to the dances of her youth “If You Can Hully-Gully ( I Can Hully-Gully Too)”.
Get down with yo bad self!
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