If I try to hold you back, you’re going to do it later on, so I would rather see you go now and try to start that career.” With his blessing, Peebles cut “Walk Away,” which became a top thirty r&b hit. She had consulted with her father first, and to her delight the choirmaster responded encouragingly: “I knew that eventually you was going to head for the bright lights because it was in you. Miller booked her for a Hi Records session the next day.Īt the studio Peebles signed a contract with “Papa” Willie Mitchell, producer and chief operating officer. Controlling her gritty voice like a professional, she whispered some lines, shouted others. Without hesitation Peebles took her place in front of the Rosewood Club bandstand, chose Jimmy Hughes’s “Steal Away” as her debut, and proceeded to astound both musicians and audience alike.
Louis and had spent her free time posing in front of a mirror with an imaginary microphone. After all, Peebles had grown up in her father’s gospel choir in East St. “Yes, I can sing,” was the unruffled reply. The veteran horn player was a session man involved in Memphis’s burgeoning soul scene, and by 1969-the year he met Peebles-he’d seen and heard the best performers in town. As Miller saw it, Peebles was just another persistent young woman determined to sit in with his band. Hen Ann Peebles and Gene “Bowlegs” Miller first crossed paths at the Rosewood Club in South Memphis, neither would have called it destiny.
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