Name: Ike's Instrumentals
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Ike's Instrumentals

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Album: Ike's Instrumentals
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ho Ho	More Info...	0:02
2)	Prancin'	More Info...	0:02
3)	The New Breed (Part 1)	More Info...	0:02
4)	The New Breed (Pt. 2)	More Info...	0:02
5)	Steel Guitar Rag	More Info...	0:03
6)	The Gulley	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Groove	More Info...	0:02
8)	Twist-a-roo	More Info...	0:02
9)	Katanga	More Info...	0:02
10)	Trackdown Twist	More Info...	0:02
11)	Potato Mash	More Info...	0:02
12)	Doublemint	More Info...	0:02
13)	The Rooster	More Info...	0:02
14)	Going Home	More Info...	0:02
15)	Prancing	More Info...	0:03
16)	It's Gonna Work Out Fine	More Info...	0:02
17)	Twistin' The Strings	More Info...	0:02
18)	Cubano Jump aka Hey Miss Tina	More Info...	0:02
19)	Loosely aka The Wild One	More Info...	0:02
20)	Cuban Getaway aka Hey Bayou Rock	More Info...	0:02
21)	Go To It aka Stringin' Along	More Info...	0:02
22)	All The Blues All The Time (Medley)	More Info...	0:08

Album: Ike's Instrumentals
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ho Ho	More Info...	0:02
2)	Prancin'	More Info...	0:02
3)	The New Breed (Part 1)	More Info...	0:02
4)	The New Breed (Pt. 2)	More Info...	0:02
5)	Steel Guitar Rag	More Info...	0:03
6)	The Gulley	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Groove	More Info...	0:02
8)	Twist-a-roo	More Info...	0:02
9)	Katanga	More Info...	0:02
10)	Trackdown Twist	More Info...	0:02
11)	Potato Mash	More Info...	0:02
12)	Doublemint	More Info...	0:02
13)	The Rooster	More Info...	0:02
14)	Going Home	More Info...	0:02
15)	Prancing	More Info...	0:03
16)	It's Gonna Work Out Fine	More Info...	0:02
17)	Twistin' The Strings	More Info...	0:02
18)	Cubano Jump aka Hey Miss Tina	More Info...	0:02
19)	Loosely aka The Wild One	More Info...	0:02
20)	Cuban Getaway aka Hey Bayou Rock	More Info...	0:02
21)	Go To It aka Stringin' Along	More Info...	0:02
22)	All The Blues All The Time (Medley)	More Info...	0:08

Performer Notes

Full performer name: Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm.
This collection includes the album DANCE, originally released on Sue Records, as well as intrumentals recorded for the Flair, Crown and Stevens labels.
Recorded between 1954 and 1964.
Personnel: Ike Turner (guitar, piano); Eugene Fox, Bobby Fields (saxophone); Ed Silvers (tenor saxophone); Marvin Warrick (baritone saxophone); McKinley Johnson (trumpet); Fred Sample (piano); Willie Sims (drums).
Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Recording information: Cosimo Recording Studios, New Orleans, LA (08/31/1964-??/??/1965); Los Angeles, CA (08/31/1964-??/??/1965); Modern Recordings, Clarksdale, MS (08/31/1964-??/??/1965); Stevens Recordings, St Louis, MO (08/31/1964-??/??/1965); Sue Recordings, Clayton, MO (08/31/1964-??/??/1965).
Arranger: Elmore James.
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

Professional Reviews

Living Blues (5-6/02, p.69) - "...Don't miss this one...Ike belongs on the same pedestal as blues guitar deities like Johnny Watson, Elmore James, BB King, Freddy King and T-Bone Walker..."