In the Midnight Hour
It is midnight and I can’t sleep because WIlson Pickett is running my Jukebox Brain all on his own. How many times I have played this song is impossible to count. I recall smokey blue light bar rooms and stages with hundreds of adoring people all moving and groovin’ to this tune. If there was a fight breaking out on the dance floor Midnight Hour was the tune that de-escalated the confrontation. It is a love song of the first order, rather a seduction song. It is assumed that the woman being addressed in the song is an interested participant. Wilson is very insistent in his message. He describes what techniques of love making he will employ. This is a trademark of great soul music; the unabashed confessions of the singer’s intentions. This honesty was a major artistic element for the African American composer and singer. The white crowd had Pat Boone and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Elvis appropriated the mystique. This verbalization of technique separated Soul music from any other form of pop music. The soul charts were unique unto them selves. Great producers like Willy Dixon at Chess records created the super soul hero and the public ate it up, literally. But they needed drummers like Al Jackson to put it back in the pocket.
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