Name: Essential Recordings: It Ain't Easy
Brand: Rounder
SKU: 18518
Price: 9.95 USD
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Essential Recordings

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Album: Essential Recordings: It Ain't Easy
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Soul Survivor	More Info...
2)	It Ain't Easy	More Info...
3)	Stone Crazy World	More Info...
4)	Outskirts of Town	More Info...
5)	Bad People	More Info...
6)	It's Harder Now	More Info...
7)	All About Sex	More Info...
8)	Taxi Love	More Info...
9)	Better Him Than Me	More Info...
10)	Stomp	More Info...

Album: Essential Recordings: It Ain't Easy
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Soul Survivor	More Info...
2)	It Ain't Easy	More Info...
3)	Stone Crazy World	More Info...
4)	Outskirts of Town	More Info...
5)	Bad People	More Info...
6)	It's Harder Now	More Info...
7)	All About Sex	More Info...
8)	Taxi Love	More Info...
9)	Better Him Than Me	More Info...
10)	Stomp	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: Wilson Pickett (vocals); Jon Tiven (guitar, piano, organ); Mason Casey (harmonica, background vocals); Crispin Cieo (saxophone); Laurence Etkin, Larry Etkin (trumpet); Sky Williams, Sky Williams (keyboards); Todd Snare, Simon Kirke (drums, percussion); Julia Schell, Theresa Williams, Charlie Feldman, Julia Schell, Theresa Williams, Lou Benjamin, M, Mitch Weissman, Billie Ray Martin, Charlie Feldman (background vocals).
Audio Remixer: Jon Tiven.
Recording information: Studio 900, New York, NY.
Photographer: Jack Vartoogian.
Arrangers: Sky Williams; Jon Tiven; Wilson Pickett.
Wilson Pickett will always be remembered for his mid-1960s stay at Atlantic Records, where, working with the Stax producers and musicians, he issued such deep soul classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Mustang Sally," "Funky Broadway," and "Land of 1000 Dances." Although he remained an exciting singer and was always a powerful stage presence, he never quite equaled that 1960s Stax-fed output again, although he came close in 1999 with his final studio album, IT'S HARDER NOW, produced by Jon Tiven. Gritty and hard-driving, IT'S HARDER NOW was both Pickett's comeback album and his swan song. This set, entitled IT AIN'T EASY, is essentially that final album re-sequenced and minus one track, the mildly risqu‚ "What's Under That Dress?" Cuts like "Outskirts of Town," "Taxi Love" and "Soul Survivor" have a wonderful, joyous and gritty feel, and it's comforting that Pickett was as vital at the end as he was ealier in his career.