![]() “Between the truck and the Rolls, Tina and Ike met and forged their professional and personal partnership in the Up South metropolis of St. ![]() “It is an image of the kind of arrival that African American migrants leaving the South might have dreamed of achieving, heading out west to Los Angeles where the Turners put down roots in the early 1960s,” Mahon writes in the Oxford American feature. The back features the singer with an automobile again - but this time it’s a Rolls-Royce, and Turner sports heels and a fur coat. The album cover depicts Tina Turner in a country setting, propping her bare foot on the grill of a 1950s-style Chevy truck. The story takes the two sides of cover art for the duo’s 1973 album “Nutbush City Limits” as a jumping-off point. Louis: Ike & Tina Turner and the scene that formed their art.” Mahon, who is an associate professor in New York University’s Department of Music, explores that history in a recently published Oxford American deep dive, titled “ Manhattan in East St. “It was a really vibrant scene in the 1940s and 1950s.” ![]() ![]() ![]() “So many African American artists were a part of ,” Mahon explained Thursday on St. Flickr Tina Turner dances to “Proud Mary” during an ABC-TV program in August 1971. ![]()
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