With a voice of astonishing power, Tina Turner evoked joy and pain

THERE ARE very few living American singers whose work springs from a distant, lost past. Dolly Parton, a titan of country music, was born in a one-room cabin by Little Pigeon River in Tennessee. Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, grew up in Nutbush, Tennessee, where her father oversaw sharecroppers; she had childhood memories of working in the cotton fields. Before she died on May 24th, she was a link to the forces that shaped the blues and country and rock’n’roll. Like Ms Parton, she came to prominence in the...