{"title":"Ann Peebles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnn Peebles is an American singer and songwriter, born on April 27, 1947 in East St. Louis, Illinois. She gained international acclaim for her popular Memphis soul albums in the 1970s on the Hi Records label. Not only did she sing hits for the label, but she also co-wrote them with Don Bryant, whom she later married in 1974. Ann Peebles' music has had a lasting impact and has been sampled by numerous Hip-Hop artists including RZA, Wu-Tang Clan, and Missy Elliott.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"i-can-t-stand-the-rain","title":"I Can't Stand The Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003eRemastered version on Fat Possum.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 Mitchell's 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. Her best song is here, the eccentric but brilliant 'I Can't Stand the Rain,' along with a marvelous version of Joe Simon's '(You Keep Me) Hangin' On,' and perfect readings of a pair of Earl Randle songs, 'If We Can't Trust Each Other' and 'I'm 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, and beautiful Southern soul. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"Silver LP | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50401473298763,"sku":"2003703","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50401472643403,"sku":"369810","price":15.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50401473102155,"sku":"369809","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP (US Version)","offer_id":57801441902923,"sku":"R7869-2569","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/I_Cant_Stand_the_Rain_717dc392_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726522963"},{"product_id":"straight-from-the-heart-2","title":"Straight From the Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf Al Green is 'heads' on the Hi Records coin, Ann Peebles is 'tails'. The signature female artist on the legendary Memphis soul and R\u0026amp;B label, Ann Peebles rocked the pre-disco 1970s with songs of love, lost love and love straight up taken. Released in 1972 and preceding Peebles' uber classic 'I Can't Stand The Rain' by just two years, 'Straight From The Heart' proved the young soon- to-be American R\u0026amp;B icon didn't need worldwide fame and record sales for a license to be fierce and provocative (see 'I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home Tonight', for example). Written by Ann Peebles and husband Don Bryant, 'Straight From The Heart' includes the classic R\u0026amp;B hits 'Slipped, Tripped And Fell In Love', 'I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home' and 'Somebody's On Your Case'. Out of print for years, with original editions fetching $150 or more from collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50468631478603,"sku":"392255","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50468632461643,"sku":"392254","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e219578e-8a7c-4426-a539-d51016095cfe_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727349502"},{"product_id":"part-time-love","title":"Part Time Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eRemastered Fat Possum reissue. Peebles hardly seemed like a beginner on 'This Is Ann Peebles', but she's even more confident on 'Part Time Love's new material, with a tougher and more soulful edge announcing itself on 'I'll Get Along' and the title cut, and while the Hi Records house band are as tight as ever here, the newer songs have a funkier energy that suggests how much was changing in R\u0026amp;B as the 1960s gave way to the '70s.LP - With Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50470757925195,"sku":"382219","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/169215a1-05ba-4abc-88c1-61697d5e922d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727382027"},{"product_id":"the-handwriting-is-on-the-wall","title":"The Handwriting is on the Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003eFat possum remastered reissue. 'If This Is Heaven', Ann Peebles' 1977 attempt to merge her Southern soul influences with the disco grooves that were dominating the airwaves and the charts, proved to be a commercial disappointment, and for her next album, Peebles and longtime producer Willie Mitchell took a grand step backwards. Released in 1979, 'The Handwriting Is on the Wall' boasted some high-powered funk backdrops, but for the most part the album finds Peebles taking on a set of straight-ahead soul numbers in which she was usually either taking a man away from some woman who didn't know how to hold on to him, or was warning the ladies why they should stay away from her significant other. Peebles is a tower of defiant sass on 'I Didn't Take Your Man' and 'You've Got the Papers (I've Got the Man),' she leaves no doubt about why she's dating outside her age group on 'Old Man with Young Ideas,' and 'Bip Bam Thank You Mam' alerts listeners to the consequences of not pleasing Ms Peebles.LP - With Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50470796165451,"sku":"384379","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/89be1c4f-1563-47ce-b947-48456a3edf3d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727383006"},{"product_id":"this-is-ann-peebles","title":"This Is Ann Peebles","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnn Peebles was all of 22 years old when she cut her debut album for the great Memphis R\u0026amp;B label Hi Records, but she sure didn't sound like a novice once she stepped into the studio. \u003ci\u003eThis Is Ann Peebles\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a strong and confident artist who sounds thoroughly assured even when she's covering Aretha Franklin, and though Peebles doesn't quite take \"Chain of Fools\" away from the Queen of Soul, she gives it a taut but weary reading that lends that tale of romantic betrayal a flavour unique to Peebles' rendition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's not the only instantly recognizable cover Peebles was saddled with on her first LP, but she sounds even more assured on \"It's Your Thing\" and \"Rescue Me,\" and on fresh material like \"Crazy About You Baby,\" \"Make Me Yours,\" and \"Give Me Some Credit,\" her clear but resonant voice and emphatic readings establish her as a seasoned professional right out of the box. It doesn't hurt that Peebles was working with some of the best talent in Memphis on these sessions; the Hi Records rhythm section lays down a lean and indelible groove on every selection, the Memphis Horns punctuate the melodies with gale-force soul, and producer Willie Mitchell brings it all home with subtle but fiery results. It would be 1974 before Ann Peebles finally got the breakthrough hit she deserved with \"I Can't Stand the Rain,\" but \u003ci\u003eThis Is Ann Peebles\u003c\/i\u003e should convince anyone with a taste for classic rhythm \u0026amp; blues that she had the goods long before the rest of the world caught up with her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50482253594955,"sku":"1119581","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dc73f758-4de9-4cca-a549-66260000f7ab_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727550222"},{"product_id":"the-essential-ann-peebles","title":"The Essential Ann Peebles","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheap double CD best of. A delicate, slinky figure with a powerhouse voice, Ann Peebles occupied a special place among the many great talents that roamed the halls of Memphis' iconic R\u0026amp;B label Hi Records in the 1960s and 1970s. While producer Willie Mitchell was the company's heart, musicians the Hodges Brothers its soul and Al Green its top star, it was Peebles who gave the label its first national success and a lasting female identity. Over the course of seven albums and dozens of singles for Hi, Peebles expressed a complex range of moods and emotions in her music. Her songs were alternately pleading ('I Needed Somebody') and defiant ('I Pity The Fool'), seductive ('Being Here With You') and destructive ('I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down') but always utterly soulful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"CDx2","offer_id":50523779498315,"sku":"386218","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Essential_Ann_Peebles_a162f8d2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728023656"},{"product_id":"tellin-it","title":"Tellin' It","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first vinyl pressing in half a century of \u003cstrong\u003eAnn Peebles\u003c\/strong\u003e' 1975 album \u003cem\u003eTellin' It\u003c\/em\u003e, fully remastered after decades untouched in the \u003cstrong\u003eHi Records\u003c\/strong\u003e vault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeebles\u003c\/strong\u003e was at the height of her powers here, arriving after her biggest hit, \u003cem\u003eI Can't Stand the Rain\u003c\/em\u003e. Produced by \u003cstrong\u003eWillie Mitchell\u003c\/strong\u003e at \u003cstrong\u003eRoyal Studios\u003c\/strong\u003e in Memphis, it carries that deep \u003cstrong\u003eHi\u003c\/strong\u003e groove, with \u003cstrong\u003eHoward Grimes\u003c\/strong\u003e on drums and the \u003cstrong\u003eMemphis Horns\u003c\/strong\u003e in full flow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003cstrong\u003eAndy Beta\u003c\/strong\u003e wrote for \u003cstrong\u003eBandcamp\u003c\/strong\u003e: “\u003cstrong\u003ePeebles\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMitchell\u003c\/strong\u003e don't just recast \u003cem\u003eRain\u003c\/em\u003e 10 different times—instead, they lean into the supple support laid down by the \u003cstrong\u003eHi Rhythm Section\u003c\/strong\u003e, who have plenty more uptempo grooves to offer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe original master tapes were first heard again in fifty years by \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Nicholson\u003c\/strong\u003e at \u003cstrong\u003eNashville Tape Transfer\u003c\/strong\u003e, then remastered by \u003cstrong\u003eClay Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e in Taylor, MS. Lacquers were cut in Memphis by \u003cstrong\u003eJeff Powell\u003c\/strong\u003e at \u003cstrong\u003eTake Out Vinyl\u003c\/strong\u003e, with plating and pressing at \u003cstrong\u003eMemphis Record Pressing\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57923892609355,"sku":"R6974-4665","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KhxyzDSZ.jpg?v=1784747870"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_30225614_thumbnail_4096_44be9c53-6210-4dd2-ba2e-05bbae902ac8.jpg?v=1726522917","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/ann-peebles.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}