The Complete Ann Peebles on Hi Records, Vol. 2 [Import]

Ann Peebles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 5, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1974
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Hi Records (UK)
• ASIN: B000093ON9
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,002 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come To Mama

2. I Dont Lend My Man

3. I Needed Somebody

4. Stand By Woman

5. It Was Jealousy

6. Doctor Love Power

7. You Cant Hold A Man

8. Beware

9. Put Yourself In My Place

10. Love Played A Game

11. Im Leaving You (Bonus Track)

12. Fill This World With Love (Bonus Track)

13. If This Is Heaven

14. A Good Day For Lovin

15. Im So Thankful

16. Being Here With You

17. Boy I Gotta Have You

18. When Im In Your Arms

19. Youre Gonna Make Me Cry

20. Games

See all 38 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Full title - The Complete Ann Peebles on Hi Records Vol. 2 - 1974-1981. This 38 track, budget price two CD set rounds up every released recording the soul vocalist recorded for Hi Records between 1974-1981, including her fourth, fifth, & sixth albums & eight non-LP single sides, plus eight bonus tracks, 'I'm Leaving You', 'Fill This World Love', 'If You Got Time', 'Heartaches', 'I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love', Be for Me', 'Mon Belle-Amour' (with Donald Bryant) & 'Waiting' (with Donald Bryant). Slipcase. Demon/Westside. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Southern Fried Soul at it's Hottest!, February 16, 2004

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Mr. K. Sinclair (leeds, w yorks United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Ann Peebles on Hi Records, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

This and Vol 1 covers EVERYTHING that Ann ever recorded. To put it quite simply, Ann Peebles is the best of the southern style soul singers. This is as much down to the awesome music (provided by the same backing band that Al Green used) of the Hi Records house band as it is to the lady herself.
There is enough funk on here to please fans of James Brown, enough soul to please fans of 60's Aretha Franklin.
She doesnt quite hit the heights that those 2 reached, perhaps, but Ann is her own woman.
The music is consistently stuck in a soul/funk/ style, but that is part of the appeal.
Ann stayed pretty faithfully to the Hi Records formula and that was not a bad thing. There are a few hints at disco-ish grooves on her second to last album, but some of her strongest soul material on here comes from the awesome 'Handwriting Is On The Wall' album. Despite the fact that it actually came out in 78, it was considered to be retro even then, sounding much rawer and soulful than most music from this time.

Yes the last 2 or 3 singles she did were awful, but there are less than 5/6 weak tracks here. It is as solid as volume 1 and together with that double CD, amount to some of my favourite soul music.

Other people who are recommended if you like this; Ann Sexton, Candi Staton 'Fame Years', Denise La Salle, Betty Wright, Millie Jackson, Betty(e) Lavette.... there are many more, but none better!