Ann Peebles
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Audio interviews
Ann Peebles and David Hudson (1989)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 28 October 1989
Accompanied by fellow R&B singer David Hudson, the Memphis belle talks about producer Willie Mitchell; her roots in gospel and R&B; 'I Can't Stand the Rain'... and the John Lennon Kotex incident at the Troubadour!
File format: mp3; file size: 26.2mb, interview length: 28' 35" sound quality: ***
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Retrospective by Andria Lisle, Oxford American, June 2001
WHEN ANN Peebles and Gene "Bowlegs" Miller first crossed paths at the Rosewood Club in South Memphis, neither would have called it destiny. As Miller ...
Various Artists: Royal Memphis Soul – Hi Records
Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 1996
When Muscle Shoals went flabby and Stax couldn't pay their taxes, Hi Records took up the soul baton. Barney Hoskyns says hello to a collection ...
Ann Peebles and David Hudson (1989) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 28 October 1989
This is a transcript of Barney's audio interview with Ann Peebles and David Hudson. Hear the interview here. ...
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 28 February 1976
IN 1968 IN Memphis, Tennessee, Willie Mitchell succeeded to the board of an ailing record company called Hi. ...
Ann Peebles: "You Never Stop Paying Your Dues," Husband Don tells David Hancock
Interview by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 29 March 1975
ANN PEEBLES IS UNCONCERNED ABOUT HER LACK OF RECOGNITION HERE ...
Ann Peebles: Sweet and Soulful
Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 22 October 1974
David Nathan reports on Ann Peebles' London gigs and talks shop with the delectable lady. ...
Ann Peebles: Hangin' On To Success
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974
ALL OF a sudden, it seems like the whole world is talking about the talents of a magnificently soulful young woman and she puts it ...
Ann Peebles: The Girl with the Big Voice
Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 20 February 2014
THERE'S A COMMON cliché in music biopics that you might call the eureka fallacy. Our hero is having a conversation or strumming a guitar when ...
Ann Peebles: I Can't Stand The Rain
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc, 19 October 1974
BRITAIN has been bitten by the Ann Peebles bug and, in a typical reciprocal move, our very own famous bug (commonly known as 'flu) has ...
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 29 January 1976
ONCE A CONSISTENT R&B hit-maker, Ann Peebles's output has seen a precipitous drop in both the vitality of her music and the sales of her ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 15 January 1974
WHILST THE Philadelphia Sound has undoubtedly been the top sound of 1973, the nearest rival to it has been the Memphis Sound as carried out ...
Willie Mitchell: Gettin' Hi High Again
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 March 1978
Willie Mitchell has virtually forsaken his own career in favour of running Hi Records and putting the label back up there... ...
Ann Peebles: Learning To Cope With The Rain
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 15 April 1975
BEING THE recording artist for a classic can have almost as many pitfalls as advantages. The history of our music is littered with names who ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 November 1971
ALREADY BEING tipped as a potential giant R&B record in this country is Ann Peebles version of 'Slipped, Tripped And Fell In Love'. The only ...
"You're My Idol": Ann Peebles Is Next
Profile and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 28 February 1974
MEMPHIS — The track may be pure chooglin' Memphis: There's that Willie Mitchell/Al Green horn arrangement easing in midway, and there's that easy glide in ...
Ann Peebles: Brand New Classics
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, May 2006
THE RETURN OF two legendary names from the past: Track Records, the label which gave us Jimi Hendrix and the Who, not to mention fine ...
Ann Peebles: Soul Train Club, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 August 1974
Ann Peebles — a major soul talent in S.F. debut ...
Ann Peebles: The Biba Rainbow Room, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 5 October 1974
APPLAUSE IN this sybaritic cafeteria is always a little suspect, being related to how far the performer can corroborate the Biba audience's good opinion of ...
Ann Peebles: Gulliver's, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 19 October 1974
CONCERTS at the ultra-trendy Biba's Rainbow Room almost invariably, for some reason or other, turn out to be disappointing and, from the reviews I've read ...
Willie Mitchell: Sounds like it's Memphis
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 11 December 1971
IF ANY one man personifies the solid beat of Memphis soul then surely it's Willie Mitchell. Not only has he turned out 14 hit albums ...
Ann Peebles: Will Princess Ann Be Queen
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 13 November 1971
ON THE distaff side, soul music has produced a long run of superb girl singers and these soul sisters have found it far easier to ...
Ann Peebles...and the Hi Records Story
Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, December 1975
THOUGH NASHVILLE, Tennessee, has proclaimed itself "Music City U.S.A.," the traditional center of musical activity in that area of the country, and the city from ...
Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, December 1974
THREE ENCOUNTERS with Ann Peebles: the first painful, the second enjoyable, the third revealing. ...
Willie Mitchell: Memphis Maestro
Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, February 1975
Tony Cummings talks to WILLIE MITCHELL, man behind Al Green and that Memphis sound... ...
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