
I Can’t Stand the Rain” — Ann Peebles (1973): It’s ostensibly a lament for a lost relationship. But the rain against Peebles’ window pain, literalized in the song’s electric timbale open, is as deep an object of contemplation as Otis Redding’s bay tides. Here, though, the elements represent not peace, but emotional peril. Peebles made it a […]
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