| Full Time Love | ||||
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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Soul, R&B | |||
| Label | Bullseye Blues [1] | |||
| Producer | Ron Levy | |||
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Full Time Love is an album by the American musician Ann Peebles, released in 1992. [2] [3] Peebles supported the album by touring with Otis Clay. [4]
The album was produced by Ron Levy. [5] It marked a reunion between Peebles and the Hi Rhythm Section; the Memphis Horns also played on the album. [6] [7] About half the album's songs were cowritten by Peebles. [8] Peebles, working with her husband, Donald Bryant, wrote mostly in the studio, choosing to concentrate on positive topics. [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| Robert Christgau |  [11] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [12] |
| MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide | [13] |
The Orlando Sentinel wrote that Levy "gives the album a bluesier feel than Peebles' old albums, and she shows plenty of blues feeling on Robert Ward's 'Fear No Evil' and Delbert McClinton's 'Read Me My Rights', a number floating on a wash of organ chords and embellished with horns and gospel-style piano." [14] Rolling Stone thought that "Peebles's small but steely voice has grown stronger, richer and more sinuous in the twenty-odd years since her last album." [15]
USA Today praised the "yearning reinterpretation of the Rolling Stones' 'Miss You' and [the] stark reprise of 'I Can't Stand the Rain'." [16] The Toronto Star called Peebles "like Tina Tuner without the raunch." [17] The Washington Post said that the songs "possess the same horn-driven sound that defined Memphis soul in the early '70s." [18]
AllMusic wrote: "Gritty, unpretentious and hard-hitting, this magnificent date throws pop and urban contemporary considerations to the wind and screams 'Memphis soul' in no uncertain terms." [10]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bouncin' Back" | |
| 2. | "St. Louis Woman (With a Memphis Melody)" | |
| 3. | "Read Me My Rights" | |
| 4. | "Full Time Lover" | |
| 5. | "Fear No Evil" | |
| 6. | "Nobody but You" | |
| 7. | "Ain't No Business Like Your Business" | |
| 8. | "I Miss You" | |
| 9. | "Just You Just Me" | |
| 10. | "He's My Superman" | |
| 11. | "I Can't Stand the Rain" |
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