Ike's Instrumentals

by Turner, Ike & His Kings of Rhythm, Ike Turner

Overview

Taken from a variety of sources, this collects 22 of Ike Turner's instrumentals from 1954-1965, none of them vocals, none of them recorded with Tina Turner, and all of them highlighting his guitar work. Turner's really wild and uninhibited for much of this set, especially in his ferocious string-bending and use of the whammy bar. While the tunes themselves are mostly generic R&B with a touch of rock & roll, it's also fair to say that generic instrumental rock rarely sounds this good, mostly because Turner's guitar work is so much more inventive and passionate than the nominal songs to which they're tethered. About half of this consists of the tracks on his 1962 Sue album, Dance With Ike & Tina Turner and Their Kings of Rhythm Band, a good showcase for his crackling axework on a batch of mostly self-imposed wordless workouts. There are also a couple of numbers he cut in the late '50s under the pseudonym Icky Renrut; a 1965 single with brass that has a more soul-oriented arrangement than anything else here, albeit soul of a gutbucket kind; and a smattering of items dating back to his mid-'50s R&B days with Flair. There's also an odd nine-minute medley of instrumental blues covers, "All the Blues All the Time," which wound up on a 1963 Crown LP, Rocks the Blues. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	12/12/2000
Label:	Ace
UPC:	0029667178228
Rank:	104882

Tracks

1. Ho Ho
2. Prancin'
3. The New Breed, Pt. 1
4. The New Breed, Pt. 2
5. Steel Guitar Rag
6. The Gulley
7. The Groove
8. Twist-A-Roo
9. Katanga
10. Trackdown Twist
11. Potato Mash
12. Doublemint
13. The Rooster
14. Going Home
15. Prancing
16. It's Gonna Work Out Fine
17. Twistin' the Strings
18. Cubano Jump (AKA Hey Miss Tina)
19. Loosely (AKA the Wild One)
20. Cuban Getaway (AKA Bayou Rock)
21. Go to It (AKA Stringin' Along)
22. All the Blues All the Time: Feeling Good/Love My Baby/Please Love Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm   Primary Artist
Ike Turner   Primary Artist,Piano,Guitar
Bobby Fields   Saxophone
Willie Sims   Drums
Marvin Warrick   Sax (Baritone)
Fred Sample   Piano
Eugene Fox   Saxophone
Ed Silvers   Sax (Tenor)
Jesse Knight   Bass
McKinley Johnson   Trumpet

Technical Credits

B.B. King   Composer
Bill Dahl   Liner Notes
Ike Turner   Composer,Producer
Joe Josea   Composer
Joe Bihari   Producer
Elmore James   Arranger
Sam Ling   Composer
Sarah Martin   Composer
Jules Taub   Composer
Duncan Cowell   Mastering
Sylvia McKinney   Composer
John Lee Hooker   Composer
Rose Marie McCoy   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Bill Greensmith   Liner Note Source
Herman Parker   Composer
Brian Burrows   Package Design
Mike Leadbitter   Liner Note Source
Leslie Fancourt   Liner Note Source
Michael Ochs   Cover Photo
Paul Pelletier   Liner Note Source
Sylvester Weaver   Composer