The Midnight Mover – WILSON PICKETT***

I’m A Midnight Mover/Its A Groove/Remember I Been Good To You/I’m Gonna Cry/Deborah/I Found A True Love/Down By The Sea/Trust Me/Let’s Get An Understanding/For Better Or Worse

For The Midnight Mover Southern soul artist Wilson Pickett teamed up with songwriter Bobby Womack on six of the tracks. Comprises uptempo rockers and tearful ballads. (US:91)

“More prime Atlantic Pickett, this one released in '68 packs a punch with both uptempo rockers and tearful ballads. He was just a force of nature at this time.”

“Bobby Womack's vibes, songwriting and guitar are apparent in abundance here and this is a true album collection with virtually no filler. It may be the best LP Pickett ever put together.”

“An interesting album by the Wicked Pickett: six songs are co-written by Bobby Womack, and on Deborah, he sings half in Italian. Otherwise he is at his gritty best.”

“My personal favourite of the Wilson Pickett records, perhaps because its the album on which Bobby Womack's imprint is all over it. Pickett makes I Found A True Love his own. Another reason why this one gets the edge over other Pickett LPs is because Deborah eventually really grew on me. I am impressed by its bravado. The rest of the record is standard R & B fare. Down By The Sea is pretty great too and that's a Pickett original.”

“Wilson Pickett was at his most productive in the late '60s. After the brilliant I'm In Love, he continued the pattern set on that LP with The Midnight Mover. That means that there is a great diversity in styles here and it all works tremendously well.”

“The Midnight Mover is one of the more diverse offerings of Pickett's from the 1960s. It contains the roughshod soul of the title cut, and in his bizarre, psycho soul performance of Deborah, the intro and verse of which are sung in Italian. There are also brilliant ballad performances in It's A Groove, Down By The Sea and Trust Me. Add to this the set closer, the gospel-driven For Better Or Worse. There is also the deep, funky, rock-drenched, snake-hipped anthem We Got To Get An Understanding. The Midnight Mover is simply a monster of an album.”