{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Outta Season | type = studio | artist = Ike & Tina Turner | cover = IkeTina_OuttaSeason.jpg | alt = | released = March 1969 | recorded = 1968 | venue = | studio = | genre = {{Flatlist| * Blues<ref name=":0" /> * R&B<ref name=AM/> * soul<ref name=AM/> }} | length = 33:00 | label = Blue Thumb | producer = *Tina Turner *Bob Krasnow | prev_title = So Fine | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = In Person | next_year = 1969 | misc = {{Singles | name = Outta Season | type = studio | single1 = I've Been Loving You Too Long | single1date = April 1969 | single2 = Crazy 'Bout You Baby | single2date = July 1969 }} }}
'''''Outta Season''''' is a 1969 album by Ike & Tina Turner, released on Blue Thumb Records in the US and Liberty Records in the UK.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=March 29, 1969|title=Cash Box Album Reviews|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1969/CB-1969-03-29.pdf|journal=Cash Box|pages=30}}</ref> The album contains their signature live song "I've Been Loving You Too Long."
== Content and release == ''Outta Season'' is a heavy blues album produced by Tina Turner and Bob Krasnow.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/itina00turn|page=120|url-access=registration|title=I, Tina|last=Turner|first=Tina|date=1986|publisher=William Morrow and Company}}</ref>
The album contains the track "I Am a Motherless Child," which is based on the spiritual "City Called Heaven".<ref>Ramey, Lauri (2008). "Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry." New York City: Palgrave Macmillan. {{ISBN|978-1-34953633-7}}. p. 105.</ref> The first single, "I've Been Loving You Too Long," peaked at No. 68 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 23 on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart in April 1969.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ike & Tina, "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Chart Positions|url=http://musicvf.com/song.php?title=I%27ve+Been+Loving+You+Too+Long+by+Ike+%26+Tina+Turner&id=19831|access-date=January 24, 2017}}</ref> The second single "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" was only released in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Ike-Tina-Turner-Crazy-Bout-You-Baby/release/3001667|title=Ike & Tina Turner - Crazy 'Bout You Baby|website=Discogs|date=July 1969 |language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref>
== Cover art == The art direction was by Tom Wilkes and photography by Barry Feinstein.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2608414.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709163011/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2608414.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2009|title=Album Cover Artist Tom Wilkes Dies Unexpectedly at Home in California|date=July 5, 2009|website=PRWeb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/oct/24/barry-feinstein|title=Barry Feinstein obituary|last=O'Hagan|first=Sean|date=October 24, 2011|work=The Guardian|language=en-GB}}</ref> As a sarcastic statement, Amos and Andy are credited for the design & photography on the album due to the history of the characters being portrayed by white actors wearing blackface in the film ''Check and Double Check''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abernathymagazine.com/reflections-on-black-image-in-amos-n-andy/|title=Reflections on Black Image in Amos 'n' Andy|last=Wright|first=Joshua K.|date=March 1, 2017|website=Abernathy|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
The album cover features the Turners (Ike on the front and Tina on the back) in whiteface eating watermelon. Due to the white audiences' interest in blues music in the 1960s, music critic Pete Johnson noted that the Turners are "pictured in whiteface eating big slices of watermelon each winking broadly at any young record buyers who might suspect that black people can't sing the blues."
== Critical reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name=AM>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/outta-season-mw0000840119|title=Outta Season - Ike & Tina Turner {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us}}</ref> }} The album received positive reviews.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 27, 1969 |title=Music Records |pages=31–EN |work=Oakland Tribune}}</ref>
Music critic Pete Johnson wrote for the ''Los Angeles Times'' (March 29, 1969):<blockquote>Tina is as good a blues interpreter as can be found in the contemporary scene and the material is expertly—if a bit unimaginatively—selected to show off her versatility. Ike Turner's arrangements and guitar playing are consistently good and tasteful. ... "Outta season" is a strong album by some talented people who have been ignored too long.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pete |first=Johnson |date=March 29, 1969 |title=Popular Records: New Album From Ike, Tina Turner |pages=Forty-Five |work=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref></blockquote>''Cash Box'' (March 29, 1969):<blockquote>The 'now' sound is blues, and the blues are now the sound of Ike and Tina Turner. This newly-recorded set features the vet R&B/Pop duo in a more contemporary framework than ever before, with increase emphasis on instrumental happenings. Material includes such blues standards as "Honest I Do," "My Babe," "Rock Me Baby," "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" and "Mean Old World" as well as several Ike or Tina originals and Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long."<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = | title1 = I've Been Loving You Too Long | length1 = 3:40 | title2 = Mean Old World | length2 = 2:20 | title3 = 3 O 'Clock in the Morning Blues | length3 = 2:35 | title4 = Five Long Years | length4 = 3:20 | title5 = Dust My Broom | length5 = 2:30 | title6 = Grumbling (instrumental) | length6 = 2:35 | title7 = I Am a Motherless Child | length7 = 3:30 | total_length = | writer1 = Otis Redding, Jerry Butler | headline = Side A | writer2 = adapted by Ike Turner | writer3 = B.B. King, Jules Taub | writer4 = Eddie Boyd | writer5 = adapted by Ike Turner | writer6 = Ike Turner | writer7 = Tina Turner }}{{Track listing | all_writing = | title1 = Crazy 'Bout You Baby | length1 = 3:25 | title2 = Reconsider Baby | length2 = 2:40 | title3 = Honest I Do | length3 = 2:20 | title4 = Please Love Me | length4 = 2:10 | title5 = My Babe | length5 = 1:50 | title6 = Rock Me Baby | length6 = 2:45 | total_length = | headline = Side B | writer1 = Sonny Boy Williamson | writer2 = Lowell Fulson | writer3 = Ewart Abner, Jimmy Reed | writer4 = B.B. King, Jules Taub | writer5 = Willie Dixon | writer6 = B.B. King, Joe Josea }}
== Chart performance == {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1969) !Peak<br>position |- |US ''Billboard'' Top LPs<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=May 10, 1969|title=Top LPs|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1969/Billboard-1969-05-10.pdf|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> |align="center"|91 |- |US ''Billboard'' R&B LPs<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=July 19, 1969|title=Rhythm & Blues LPs|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1969/Billboard%201969-07-19.pdf|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> |align="center"|43 |}
== References == {{reflist}}{{Ike & Tina Turner}} {{Authority control}}
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