Ann Peebles – I Can’t Stand The Rain

Classic southern soul with sweet Memphis sound. Peebles’ voice aches and swoons across these songs backed by a band featuring Howard Grimes on drums, Jack Hale on trombone, Charles Hodges on keyboards, and more!

Perhaps because seven out of the ten songs here were written by Ann (in collaboration with her husband, singer-songwriter Donald Bryant, and several others), I Can’t Stand the Rain feels like her most personal album. It’s quieter, less aggressive than much of Ann’s previous work, but no less assured. With her marvelous raw honey voice – so wispy sweet it breaks, then so full and hard it’s chilling – she can be both tough and tender, sometimes in the same song. But whether heartbroken or joyous, righteously vengeful or disillusioned, Peebles always has a strength, a personal fire that makes each song glow from deep inside.

LP / Fat Possum

Cat. No. 76798111381