Ike & Tina Turner – Outta Season
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The eleventh studio album release by Ike & Tina Turner has a double cover, each showing a portrait of the couple, with their names set in Thorowgood Sans Shaded; the album title is revealed on the inside of the gatefold: Outta Season. The music consists of a mix of original tracks and covers.
At first I thought the album artwork (shot an arranged by “Amos and Andy”) was a reference to the artwork of You Don’t Have to be Black to Love the Blues by Junior Parker – but the Ike and Tina album predates Parker’s album by three years. In turn, Parker’s album is a parody of the popular “You don’t have to be jewish” campaign for Levy’s Jewish Rye bread which ran in the 160s–70s. It looks like the designers found some inspiration in that campaign, but what about the reversed blackface? References like the racist stereotypes of black children and adults with watermelons from the US South, and Al Jolson’s blackface are easily found in reference to this cover, adding to (at least my) confusion about what we’re looking at.
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