Mustang Sally/New Orleans/Sunny/Everybody Needs Someone To Love/Ooh Poo Pah Doo/She Ain’t Gonna Do Right/Knock On Wood/Time Is On My Side/Up Tight Good Woman/You Left The Water Woman/Three Time Loser/Nothing You Can Do
The Wicked Pickett showcases some more raw and infectious Southern soul tracks from Wilson Pickett, captured during his commercial and artistic peak on the Atlantic label. (US:42)
“It brings together a fine selection of cuts featuring Wilson Pickett doing what he does best: kicking up gritty Southern soul in style. As usual, Pickett proves himself an excellent interpreter of others' material.”
“A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything - great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing Wilson Pickett hollering, screaming, shouting, and soaring on anything he covered, from ballads to uptempo dance and mid-tempo wailers.”
“Wicked indeed, because Wilson Pickett could sing his feet off with a kind of raw earthiness that few other male singers would ever commit to tape. Hear him yelp and holler his way through his late '66 hit Mustang Sally with no-holds-barred approach that was the essence of the Pickett sound.”
“Wilson Pickett sings out the heart of soul with his gritty swaying vocals. Every song on this album rocks and souls, Pickett's best record.”
“The Wicked Pickett is his third for the label, a terrific set which captures Pickett in his stride. As such it has a consistency of feeling lacking in some of the artist's more randomly compiled sets.”
“Pickett released his second all-killer-no-filler platter of unadulterated Southern soul. The real nitty gritty, Mustang Sally is legendary, the stuttering groove, the raw horns and infectious backing vocals and, above all, that sweat-stained, growlin' 'n' wailin' by the Wicked Pickett. This tune epitomizes Southern soul at its fiercest.”
No comments:
Post a Comment