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Ike Turner: Ike Turner - Rocks (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 33 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.

Ike Turner proved to be a challenging and polarizing character, considered moody, irascible and aggressive, even towards his partner.
Despite all his contradictions, Ike Turner the musician is considered an influential figure in R'n'R, a talent scout, producer, pianist and pioneering guitar stylist.
Bear Family Records® gathers the very best early rockers and instrumentals by this brilliant musician on a CD in our Rocks series.
Chicago music historian Bill Dahl has studied Turner's life and work in great depth and describes the significance of the R'n'R eccentric in the illustrated and detailed liner notes.
As always, our team has made every effort to extract the best possible sound quality from the original sources.

Sometimes you have to separate the man from the music--seldom a wiser course of action than in the case of Ike Turner. No matter your feelings regarding the man himself, the recordings he made during the 1950s rocked with an unbridled vengeance, whether Ike was laying down supple boogie piano underpinnings or whammy bar-laden guitar magic. This collection largely concentrates on Turner’s pre-Tina years, when his band, The Kings of Rhythm, operated like a well-oiled machine and Ike was the picture of polished professionalism. He and The Kings bounced from one label to the next (Chess, Modern, Federal, Cobra and Sue are all amply represented), spotlighting an array of extraordinary vocalists.

Many of them are showcased on this set, beginning with Jackie Brenston’s immortal Rocket “88,” a 1951 R&B chart-topper and a genuine rock and roll landmark. Dennis Binder, Billy Gayles, Clayton Love, Tommy Hodge, and Jimmy Thomas all had big, booming voices when they fronted Ike’s combo—a must, since Turner was going insane behind them on his lethal axe. That was especially true on the band’ 1956-57 Federal sides; I’m Tore Up, Sad As A Man Can Be and Gonna Wait For My Chance are downright intimidating in their rollicking intensity. Several splendid instrumentals from The Kings of Rhythm’s 1961 album ‘Dance’ represent a last stand for the band’s initial phase, Tina’s ascension to stardom shifting Ike’s creative energies in another direction. This is truly some hellraising stuff!

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Interpret: Ike Turner
Album titlle: Ike Turner - Rocks (CD)
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
Genre Rock & Roll
EAN: 4000127176790
weight in Kg 0.115

Turner, Ike - Ike Turner - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01	Just One More Time	Billy Gayles with Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhtyhm
02	Much Later	Jackie Brenston with Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm
03	Matchbox (Tommy Hodges: vocals)	Ike Turner
04	Hey Hey	Icky Renrut
05	Sad As A Man Can Be	Billy Gayles with Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhtyhm
06	The Groove	Ike Turner
07	(I Know) You Don't Love Me	Ike Turner
08	The Rooster	Ike Turner
09	Rocket '88'	Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats
10	Box Top	Ike Turner
11	Jack Rabbit	Icky Renrut
12	Early Times	Dennis Binder and his Orchestra
13	The Big Question	Ike Turner
14	Hoo-Doo Say	The Sly Fox
15	Trouble Up The Road	Jackie Brensten with Ike Turner's Orchestra
16	Peg Leg Woman	Willie King with Ike Turner's kings Of Rhythm
17	It's Gonna Work Out Fine	Ike & Tina Turner
18	Katanga	Ike Turner
19	Do You Mean It	Ike Turner
20	I'm Tore Up	Billy Gayles with Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm
21	Steel Guitar Rag (Square Dance)	Ike Turner
22	She Made My Blood Run Cold	Ike Turner
23	Ho-Ho	Icky Renrut
24	That's All I Need	Ike Turner
25	Gonna Wait For My Chance	Jackie Brenston with Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm
26	No Coming Back	Billy Gayles with Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm
27	Walking Down The Aisle	Ike Turner
28	Go To It	Ike Turner
29	Do Right Baby	Billy Gayles with Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm
30	Lookin' For My Baby	Bonnie and Ike Turner
31	Potatoe Mash	Ike Turner
32	In Your Eyes Baby	Icky Renrut
33	Loosely	Ike Turner

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"Ike Turner"

Ike and Tina Turner evolved one of the most dramatically successful rock stage acts of the Seventies after a career embracing most forms of blues and soul. Ike Turner was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, deep in the Delta cotton belt, on Nov. 5, 1931. A disc-jockeying job at station WROX led to the formation of the Kings Of Rhythm, a band of local musicians led by Turner. Their first record was 'Rocket 88' (Chess, 1951), sung by Jackie Brenston, a disc which is often cited as the first rock'n'roll recording.

Next, he became a talent scout in the southern states for Modern Records, fixing sessions by Bobby Bland, B, B. King, Howlin' Wolf and others. With the arrival of rock'n' roll in 1956, Turner moved north to St Louis, recording and playing in clubs with the Kings Of Rhythm. With them he evolved a revue format featuring various singers, while playing piano and guitar himself.

He found the focal point for the act in Annie Mae Bullock, who was born on Nov. 26, 1938 in Brownsville, Tennessee, and moved to Knoxville, where she sang in the choir of her father's church. She was known at first as Little Ann, but her first record, 'A Fool In Love', was credited to Ike and Tina Turner. Released on Sue in 1960, it reached No. 2 in the R&B charts, No. 27 in the pop charts and eventually sold a million. That success led to the formation of the Ikettes (of which P. P. Arnold, Merry Clayton and Bonnie Bramlett have been members at one time) to back Tina, and the construction of the stage act which has persisted until the present day, in its essential features.

Like many black artists, Ike Turner has proved himself able to adapt to changing moods in both black and white audiences while still producing worthwhile music on many of the thirty-odd albums he and Tina have recorded for Sue, Warner Bros., Philles, Blue Thumb and United Artists amongst others. Perhaps surprisingly, they have had few major hits. 'It's Gonna Work Out Fine' (Sue, 1961), a fiery blues classic, was the most successful until their Top Ten version of 'Proud Mary' (Liberty, 1971), the funky, futuristic `Nutbush City Limits' (United Artists, 1973) and 'Sweet Rhode Island Red' (1974). In 1966, Ike Turner relinquished production control to Phil Spector for the remarkable 'River Deep — Mountain High'. It reached only No. 88 in America but was a Top Three record in Britain.

By the Seventies, Ike had his own studios, Bolic, and recorded a highly personal solo album, Blues Roots (United Artists, 1971), which suggested that the increasingly spectacular and regimented stage act, centred on Tina's flaunting sexuality, might be less than satisfying for him.

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From: Frederic On: 15 Dec 2024

High quality recordings, careful packaging. It's perfect.

One of the best record companies for reissuing music from the 1950s.

From: Rocket 65 On: 11 Sep 2024

amazing stuff - no filler

top release *****

From: Fred 'The Strat' Kabulski On: 11 Sep 2024

Top CD!

Ike anne Gitarre! Großes Tennis! Höre die CD schon zum dritten mal UND ich habe sie erst seit 2 Tagen! Was für ein Brett!

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Presse - This album contains a wide range of Ike Turner's early recordings from before he started his life and career with Tina Turner. Born in Clarksdale in 1931, the musician was interested in the blues from a young age. He worked as a headhunter for Sun Records and Modern Records and it was mainly thanks to him that Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King and Bobby “Blue” Bland, among others, were able to start their careers. Pinetop Perkins taught him the piano and how to play boogie-woogie. Recorded in 1951, the song Rocket 88 is considered to be the first rock 'n' roll hit in which we hear an electric guitar in dialogue with a saxophone. The performers of this song were the group Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm. On the record, however, it was credited to one of the musicians of The Kin-gs of Rhythm - singer and saxophonist Jackie Brenston and the group Delta Cats. Ike Turner resorted to various tricks with false names to credit his recordings more than once.

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