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"You're My Idol": Ann Peebles Is Next

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 mid-word. But Ann Peebles' voice is nothing like the gutsy, throaty wails of Carla Thomas, the Memphis fixture, or Etta James (Ann's favorite).

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