Tina Turner’s Finest: 12 Great Tracks From a Catalog That Runs River Deep, Mountain High
variety.comA.D. Amorosi With today’s news of the death of Tina Turner at age 83, it isn’t just the passing of a legend that affects the larger listening audience.
It is the end of a style of song, her style of passionately empowered, rough-edged singing, that brings the deepest loss. For whether it was during her time with ex-husband Ike Turner — the man who discovered Anna Mae Bullock only to abuse her — or during her multi-platinum pop solo career, Tina Turner did it, in her own words, “nice and rough,” with a husky, sultry voice filled with the Southern grace of gospel and the gravel of the rocking blues.
Whether it was raunchy R&B or glossy power ballads, Tina made such song, every song, into a sweaty, elegant display.No one ever sounded like Tina Turner.
No one ever will. Here are 12 of the best musical moments of her 62-year-long career, including greatest hits and rarities alike:Ike & Tina Turner, “I’m Jealous” (1961)As the first track from their first Sue label album, “The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner,” “I’m Jealous” sets us up for so much of what would come to define Tina Turner’s legacy.
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