The Wicked Pickett

by Wilson Pickett

The Wicked Pickett cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1967
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 29:48
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the record captures the gritty, hard-driving sound of Southern soul at its commercial peak. Backed by an iconic house band, it features definitive brass arrangements and impassioned vocal deliveries that cemented a lasting influence on modern rhythm and blues.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Soul Dance Number Three (2:41)
  2. Funky Broadway (2:36)
  3. I Need a Lot of Loving Every Day (2:23)
  4. I Found a Love, Pt. 1 - Single Version (2:34)
  5. I Found a Love, Pt. 2 - Single Version (3:00)
  6. You Can't Stand Alone (2:51)
  7. Mojo Mama (2:02)
  8. I Found the One (2:33)
  9. Something Within Me (3:43)
  10. I'm Sorry About That - Single Version (3:06)
  11. Love Is a Beautiful Thing (2:15)

Credits

  • Wilson Pickett - primary artist
  • Floyd Newman - baritone saxophone
  • Albert S. Lowe Jr. - bass, guitar
  • Tommy Cogbill - bass, guitar
  • Roger Hawkins - drums
  • Chips Moman - lead guitar
  • Spooner Oldham - piano, organ, written-by
  • Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar

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