Located in a converted tobacco warehouse in nearby Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Pickett recorded some of his biggest hits there. Both tracks were million sellers. Womack was the guitarist on all these recordings. Pickett returned to Fame Studios in late and early , where he worked with a band that featured guitarist Duane Allman, Hawkins and David Hood. Late found Pickett at Criteria Studios in Miami. It was another Pickett recording that clocked up sales in excess of one million copies.
This collection was sold online only via Rhino. However, he was no longer crossing over to the pop charts with any regularity, as none of these songs reached higher than 90 on the Hot His last record was issued in , although he remained fairly active on the touring front until he became ill in In , Pickett was involved in an accident where he struck an year-old pedestrian, Pepe Ruiz, with his car in Englewood.
Ruiz, who helped organize the New York animation union, died later that year. Pickett had been previously convicted of various drug offenses. One of the corollaries of '60s soul is that if a performer rose to fame with Motown or Atlantic, he or she would produce little of note after leaving the label.
Pickett , unfortunately, did not prove an exception to the rule. His last big hit was "Fire and Water," in He continued to be active on the tour circuit; his most essential music, all from the '60s and early '70s, was assembled for the superb Rhino double-CD anthology A Man and a Half.
It's Harder Now , his first new material in over a decade, followed in Pickett spent the early part of the s performing before retiring in late due to ill health.
He passed away on January 19, , following a heart attack. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. The thing about Wilson was he was just a great screamer but he did it with control.
While Pickett's talent was undeniable, some of his friends and others believed that his prickly, distant, and sometimes explosive personality limited his success and public acclaim when compared with other soul singers from the same time period such as Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, and Al Green. Despite his personal problems, Pickett's recordings were surpassed by his legendary live shows.
Live, he combined his gospel background with funk-like stylings such as added shouts, grunts, and screams to each song, much like James Brown. His live performances had a instinctual, animal-like quality to them. By the late s and early s, Pickett began experimenting with covers of other artists' songs. Pickett's career began to decline as he lacked chart hits after By the time disco took hold in the s and popular music continued to change in the s, Pickett's star faded, though he continued to tour and record on occasion.
He also became more unstable in his personal life and developed a drinking problem. In , he was arrested for brandishing a gun during an argument in New York. Thirteen years later, Pickett was arrested and sentenced to probation for possession of a loaded shotgun in his car. The s saw a revival in Pickett's career. In , he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More attention was brought to his importance as an artist when the hit film The Commitments was released.
The film focused on a young Irish band obsessed with American soul music and a desire to meet Pickett himself. While his career was revived, Pickett had a series of run-ins with the law. While living in Englewood, New Jersey, in , he drove his car onto the mayor's lawn, spewed death threats, and was arrested. Pickett was convicted of drunk driving in The conviction resulted in a sentence of a year in jail and five years probation.
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