
Funk brothers separated at birth? Or just Ike Turner being a cheeky liberator of one of Sly Stone's grooviest riffs? Sly 's Sing a Simple Song came out in 1969 on the Stand! album. One year later Ike & Tina Turner released The Hunter , a downright gutteral blues/soul/ r'n' b stomper of a record. The cover of the album sets the tone - Ike is wearing his best Beatles wig and Tina is dressed as some sort of Amazonian warrior princess. It's even better between the grooves - it wails, moans, bleeds and sounds [...]