The 70s: Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be

As we wrap up a rather unremarkable year, I leave you with the most remarkable Ann Peebles.

She really wasn’t on my radar in the 70s, unlike her label-mate Al Green.

But where The Reverend tended to be just a bit more atmospheric with a secular spiritual sound (if that makes sense), Peebles tended to get a bit nastier and down in the groove, often more so than Green. And this is grown-up music, something a 16-year old white boy from Pennsylvania is never going to be able to process.

And that Hi Records Rhythm Section just kicked it and locked down into the aforementioned groove, over and over. The Hodges Brothers are some of the most unheralded musicians in history, and combined with producer Willie Mitchell’s golden touch, the music made in the Royal Recording Studio in Memphis is some of the finest this country has ever produced.

And truthier than the greatest truths.