Straight from the Heart album cover
Straight from the Heart

Ann Peebles

1972
Hi Records

From the moment the opening guitar lick locks in with the big horn lines and uncomplicated drum beat you know you’re in Southern soul territory. Produced by Willie Mitchell with the Memphis Horns in attendance, Peebles is in fine, raw, earthy form over the mid-and-uptempo tracks here which are all solid, early 70s Memphis fare: chunky horns, choppy guitar, church organ, blues piano and a swinging rhythm section. Peebles could exhort, scream or whisper with equal emotion, generally presenting a sassy, assured, powerful persona and she delivers heartbreak and redemption here with equally consummate ease.

Harold Heath

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