Foreign Affair

Personnel: Tina Turner (vocals); Tony Joe White (guitar, harmonica, synthesizers); Dan Hartman (guitar, keyboards); Eddie Martinez, Neil Taylor, James Ralston, Gene Black, Pat Thrall, Phil Palmer, Mark Knopfler (guitar); Elliot Lewis, Nick Glennie-Smith (strings, keyboards); Gary Barnacle, Edgar Winter, Timmy Cappello (saxophone); Phil Ashley, Phillipe Saisse, Casey Young (keyboards); Jeff Bova (synthesizer); Carmine Rojas, T.M. Stephens, Rupert Hine (bass); J.T. Lewis, Art Wood, Geoff Dugmore (drums); Albert Hammond (percussion, background vocals); Danny Cummings (percussion); Lance Ellington, Tessa Niles, Sandy Stewart, David Munday, Roger Davies, Graham Lyle, Holly Knight (background vocals).
Producers include: Tina Turner, Dan Hartman, Rupert Hine, Albert Hammond, Roger Davies.
Engineers include: Chris Lord-Alge, Andrew Scarth, Mike Ging.
Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York.
Tina Turner's gazillion-selling last album of the '80s was, among other interesting things, a sort of affirmative action program for singer-songwriter-guitarist Tony Joe White. White had been little heard from at the time, but here he not only contributed four songs, including the characteristically swampy "Steamy Windows" (where he bounced sinuous lead guitar off Mark Knopfler's charged rhythm work) but also co-produced them. Turner herself is in sensational form throughout the album, particularly on the return to her roots that is "Undercover Agent for the Blues," and the knowingly anthemic and self-referential "The Best." The song's title is an apt review of the entire album.