I Can't Complain

I Can't Complain is the ninth studio album by American singer/songwriter Phoebe Snow, released in 1998.

However Snow found the single-genre focus dis-satisfying and the eventual track listing for I Can't Complain featured only two traditional blues songs: "Big Leg Blues" and "Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Cryin'", the album's core comprising R&B covers and Snow's own versions of songs by other singer-songwriters she admired.

Featuring as session players Vivino and his regular collaborators Scott Healy and Mike Merritt, and also Al Kooper, I Can't Complain was recorded in four days and released in February 1998.

"[4] More moderately endorsed by Elysa Gardner of the Los Angeles Times - "None of [the album's tracks] are exactly revelatory, but Snow's tangy, warmly virtuosic voice and accessible blues-pop arrangements provide guilt-free easy listening,"[5] - I Can't Complain also had its share of emphatic naysayers, exemplified by Bob Wallace of The Morning Call: "Why did the sweet-voiced [Snow] make this banal mix of adult contemporary video-pop[?]

As they say in show biz, no one was steering the ship"[3] - an evident reference to internal issues at House of Blues the album's indie label of release.