Word: pickett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wicked Wilson Pickett is at the Sugar Shack. Little's been heard from him, and that's a partial result of a general mellowing in R 'n' B over the past few years. Pickett's being replaced by the slickness of your Al Greens. And that's too bad, because you can't always dance to the Rolling Stones, and ass-wriggling to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes just ain't the same...
...JOHN PICKETT Bartow...
...took over from Bob Pickett last year and was encouraged by what...
...Stokely Carmichael" box or a "white" box or a "Sidney Poitier" box. The thing is that no black- or no human being, for that matter- ever fits into any box. As Morning's family changes its voice from an Amos'n' Andy inflection to a John Lindsay or Wilson Pickett or Rap Brown inflection, the white audience is scared out of its wits. It doesn't know how to react. (The suburban liberal in the second row tells himself each time a character says "Shee-it" : "I can't laugh at that- it may be funny, but everyone will think...
...Depression year, and the good citizens of Glory aren't about to let a freshly pardoned convict walk off with it. "When I hit town at sunup I heared it," says a taleteller. "Talk. Everywheres. A muttering meanness. In the Krogers and the A.&P. and up at Pickett's Store and at the farmers' market out First Street by the glass works. Mean whispering, stranger -grumbling mean...