Straight from the Heart
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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.