Ann Peebles -I Can't Stand The Rain (Rare Unplugged)

Here's a great and unusual stripped-down version of Ms. Peebles' masterpiece.

There seems to be some kind of mass-extinction happening now on YouTube. Lots of records are disappearing. People tell me that it's record companies pulling LPs, which they own. Often what's left is live material, which is probably owned by the artists. It's all a game, and a little bit silly, because as soon as they pull down an album, someone else will put it back up and it will last a few weeks. But the record companies are always trying to outdo themselves in ridiculousness. There's no stupid trick they won't use to destroy the culture that they are entrusted with.

Smaller, less commercial expressions of genius like this performance seem to survive this process very well, and I'm grateful for that.