Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Give Me Some Credit
2. Crazy About You Baby
3. Make Me Yours
4. My Man
5. Solid Foundation
6. Chain Of Fools
7. It's Your Thing
8. Walk Away
9. Rescue Me
10. Won't You Try Me
11. Steal Away
12. Respect
13. I Can't Let You Go
14. Part Time Love
15. I'll Get Along
16. I Still Love You
17. Generation Gap Between Us

Disc 2:

1. Slipped Tripped And Fell In Love
2. Trouble Heartaches And Sadness
3. What You Laid On Me
4. How Strong Is A Woman
5. Somebody's On Your Case
6. I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home
7. I've Been There Before
8. I Pity The Fool
9. 99lbs
10. I Take What I Want
11. Heartaches Heartaches
12. I Can't Stand The Rain
13. Do I Need You
14. Until You Came Into My Life
15. Hanging On (You Keep Me)
16. Run Run Run
17. If We Can't Trust Each Other
18. Love Vibration
19. You Got To Feed The Fire
20. I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
21. One Way Street

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6319 in Music
• Released on: 2003-04-28
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

Customer Reviews

Real Soul from Memphis - 4 stars for disc 2 - 3 for disc 1
Ann Peebles could be considered a female equivalent of Al Green, both had some success before moving to Hi records but their real high points (no pun intended) came on that label - that Anne Peebles failed to emulate Al's superstar status is something of a puzzle though.

On the first disc, there are workmanlike covers of well known tunes, which for me, do little for her, or those originals. It is on the ballads where she shines, tracks like "Walk Away" and "I Still Love You", where the Hi rythym section and their spare, pared back sound, really bring out the best in her delivery.

It is on disc 2 where this comes into it's own, on both ballads and uptempo tracks. Stand outs are "I Can't Stand The Rain", "Run Run Run" and "Somebody's On Your Case", but for me the quality runs right through this disc

This set shows that in the early 70's, other than Aretha, Anne Peebles was the equal of any other female Soul singer. Her stories (that's what they are) cover the usual love and pain scenarios, but in her hands they radiate feeling - "Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home" for example fairly scorches out of the speakers as a tale of loneliness.

If there is a criticism it is that a double CD of this kind of intensity can wear you out !!

A Funky Bluesy Soul Classic
Ann Peebles work on Hi Records is about as classic as earthy southern soul gets. This CD, and the other volume, are therefore essential to any lover of soul. The house band do tend to stick to similar grooves at times, but theyre so damn good, that it's not to the musics detriment. Theres a touch of Ike and Tina Turner and Denise La Salle to the songs except the quality is higher and the recordings are fresh and clean.

She's definitely become a favourite in this household.

This 1st volume includes some of her early covers which are less succesful than the later tracks in general.

Vol 2 is also excellent and a bit more varied.Buy both, you will not be dissapointed. Ann Peebles is one of the best of the 70's soul singers, and her sound stays in a classic 60's/early 70's vein throughout, without veering into much disco or other lightweight formats. Soul almost all the way!

Irresistable First Stop
The Complete Ann Peebles On Hi Records, Vol. 1 contains her first four albums, as well as the additional B-sides up to 1974, and contains much of her best work. To find them collected and complete on just two CDs at a reasonable price should make it an irresistible first stop for anyone wishing to add some of Ann Peebles work to their collection on CD.

Ann Peebles of course continues to this day to be an important artist, and Volume 2 and beyond are recommended subsequent purchases, but for sheer quantity of gems, such as I Can't Stand The Rain, Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home, I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, I Pity The Fool, (You Keep Me) Hangin' On and A Love Vibration, all hit singles, this obviously is the place to start, and naturally you get to hear the albums as they were meant to be heard as well as two B-sides that did not appear on albums. Ann Peebles' third album, Part Time Love, named after her hit version of the Little Johnny Taylor track, is an exception to this at it was largely a repackaging of previously released material, and the duplicated tracks are not repeated, but the four new tracks complete disc one, following This Is Ann Peebles. This was her debut album and contains far less original material than her other albums. However I have no complaint at hearing Ann Peebles singing Bettye Swann, Fontella Bass, Aretha Franklin or the untypically funky Isley Brothers hit It's Your Thing.

Disc two is essentially Straight From The Heart, a title that sums up Ann Peebles vocal style, and her fourth album, I Can't Stand The Rain. Both contain a number of songs written by Ann and her partner Don Bryant, and some by Hi staff writer Earl Randle.

All the tracks were recorded at the Royal Recording Studios in Memphis, produced, engineered and arranged by Willie Mitchell, and hugely benefit from the combined forces of the Hi Records studio band, the Memphis Horns, the Memphis Strings and the backing vocals of Rhodes, Chalmers and Rhodes; the same team of course that created those great Al Green sides.

Mastering is very good considering the age of the masters and stereo album mixes have been used throughout, with the strange exception of I've Been There Before. This was also the B-side of Somebody's On Your Case, so possibly the mono single mix has been used in error, as the stereo mix has turned up on previous CD pressings that include the album Straight From The Heart. Both the non-album B-sides, Heartaches Heartaches and I Can't Let Go, are also mono, presumably because they were never mixed into stereo.