Pickett liked to do his production at the Fame studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, near the natural youth musical nexus of the University of Alabama, which was chockablock with young boomers in the early 70s. Pickett, who grew up in Alabama, also used the Stax studio in Memphis, Tenn., while under contract to Atlantic.
The consensus is that Pickett was aided "immeasurably" by the marvelous expertise of these studio's tweakers and players, giving him the "soul funk" sound he helped pioneer.
Cited for the superb studio work on "Get Me Back On Time, Engine No 9" are Bobby Martin, arranger, and the four-person "Staff" as producer.
Pickett included white rock music in his repertoire, no doubt eyeing the lucrative potential of the R&B-white rock crossover market. He even covered the Beatles' surprise worldwide hit "Hey Jude" in his soul-funk style but he still echoed enough of the Beatles to give the disc broad new appeal.
The Beatles of course had, in their own Liverpool style, based much of their original music on the breakthrough African American rockers of the 1950s (tho many miss this point because their band simply did not have quite enough bass, yet despite that difference they radiated enough raw, vital energy to reignite the rock boom).
The consensus is that Pickett was aided "immeasurably" by the marvelous expertise of these studio's tweakers and players, giving him the "soul funk" sound he helped pioneer.
Cited for the superb studio work on "Get Me Back On Time, Engine No 9" are Bobby Martin, arranger, and the four-person "Staff" as producer.
Pickett included white rock music in his repertoire, no doubt eyeing the lucrative potential of the R&B-white rock crossover market. He even covered the Beatles' surprise worldwide hit "Hey Jude" in his soul-funk style but he still echoed enough of the Beatles to give the disc broad new appeal.
The Beatles of course had, in their own Liverpool style, based much of their original music on the breakthrough African American rockers of the 1950s (tho many miss this point because their band simply did not have quite enough bass, yet despite that difference they radiated enough raw, vital energy to reignite the rock boom).
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