Description
This wonderful album, originally released in 1974 on the Memphis-based Hi Records label, deserved a wider audience than it ended up getting at the time. It played to Ann Peebles great strength, her poised and sultry voice, and surrounded by the sparse, easy funkiness of the trademark Hi rhythm section, and producer Willie Mitchells perfect use of horns and strings, she sings like a resilient but disappointed angel on this impressive set of songs about the darker side of love.
Anns best known song is here, the eccentric but brilliant I Cant Stand The Rain, along with a marvellous version of Joe Simons (You Keep Me) Hangin On, and perfect readings of a pair of Earl Randle songs, If We Cant Trust Each Other and Im Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down.
Peebles sings her heart out, and with those somehow bright sounding Hi grooves behind her, it all comes together to make a classic album of dark, bouncy, beautiful Southern soul.
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