As the title suggests, it's sort of a country record. One of the strongest tracks is her cover of Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On" but what's really happening here is a blend of country, soul, rock, blues, even some musical elements that probably came from gospel.

While "Bayou Song", the album opener, was written for Turner, mostly the record mines material from heavy-hitting songwriters of the day: Dolly Parton's "There'll Always Be Music", James Taylor's "Don't Talk Now", Kris Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and two by Bob Dylan: "He Belongs to Me" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You".

One of the absolute best songs is "If You Love Me, Let Me Know", which had been a hit for Olivia Newton John and was written by John Rostill, who played bass in The Shadows and wrote many of their songs as well.

Tina's vocal performance is out of this world. It feels like all of the intensity of her life's experiences is coming pouring out and smashing through the speakers. There's such depth of feeling, such range and power and such impeccable musicianship, it should be enough to convince anyone that she was one of the greatest singers of all time.

The band is also incredible. This isn't a big, elaborate countrypolitan type of thing. Bass, drums, guitars, keyboards, a bit of saxophone. It's pretty stripped down. J. D. Maness's steel guitar playing makes him one of the MVPs but there's also some very tasty playing from the great James Burton.

This is the kind of record that's so good I want to buy it and hear it for the first time again. In fact, after buying the CD I also got the fiftieth anniversary LP release.