wsporter, I'm definitely on the Pickett line with you. He was one of the originals.
I agree with your props (in your previous post) to the Bryan Ferry cover of "In The Midnight Hour." But nobody delivers the immortal line more convincingly, "In the midnight hour, when my love comes tumbling down..." like the cat with the cool name, Wilson Pickett.
PS - my all-time favorite Roxy cover is Ferry's take on "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."
Slice, On the Picket line. Yes. There was something so free yet so aspirational about the music. Songs full of hope delivered by messengers who were proud of where they were. I think for me that's why they're so timeless.
Sometimes I'll listen to an album I haven't opened in years and wonder what the hell I was thinking when I went gaga over it. CSNY's "Four Way Street" is a recent example. There aren't three songs on that mess I can sit through now. When I hear "These Foolish Things" and his take on "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" I think I can hear the next 20 years of the Punk-Pop-Avant-garde movement. It's a big smile. B. Ferry could get it done.
Thanks for mentioning this, Alex. I was more saddened by Pickett's death than any other celebrities' death in quite a while. I guess that I had hoped that he had at least one more comeback album in him, a la Solomon Burke.
He was one of the all-time greats. Amongst male soul singers, off the top of my head, personally I would only rank Otis, Marvin, and possibly Al Green above him.
By the way, have you read the new Sam Cooke bio? I read a great review of it in the new Mojo.
I agree with your props (in your previous post) to the Bryan Ferry cover of "In The Midnight Hour." But nobody delivers the immortal line more convincingly, "In the midnight hour, when my love comes tumbling down..." like the cat with the cool name, Wilson Pickett.
PS - my all-time favorite Roxy cover is Ferry's take on "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."
Sometimes I'll listen to an album I haven't opened in years and wonder what the hell I was thinking when I went gaga over it. CSNY's "Four Way Street" is a recent example. There aren't three songs on that mess I can sit through now. When I hear "These Foolish Things" and his take on "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" I think I can hear the next 20 years of the Punk-Pop-Avant-garde movement. It's a big smile. B. Ferry could get it done.
He was one of the all-time greats. Amongst male soul singers, off the top of my head, personally I would only rank Otis, Marvin, and possibly Al Green above him.
By the way, have you read the new Sam Cooke bio? I read a great review of it in the new Mojo.
Comment status: comments have been closed. Baseball Toaster is now out of business.