Wilson Pickett the mightiest of the soul singers

Whether it's R&B or rock and roll or folk music or whatever it is, it doesn't get much better.

Wilson Pickett was one of the mightiest of the soul singers if not the mightiest.  He was a natural force much the same way that Howlin' Wolf was a natural force.  Few equalled or approached his power.  This much was evident on his very first single with the Falcons, "I Found A Love," one of the greatest recordings ever with Robert Ward playing this totally crazy guitar figure against Clarence Satchel's insistent humming sax with Eddie Floyd and Mack Rice singing backup.  No slouch of a group at all but Pickett dominates the procedings.  He was straight from the church but the devil was in his shout.  And that was just the beginning.  He went on to innumerable top ten hits and it didn't matter whether he recorded in New York, Memphis, Mussel Shoals or Philly, he'd just go right to the top.  His hits after "I Found A Love" were a bit tamer but only slightly.  He also had the unique talent of taking a song that had already been a hit and making it a huge sometimes even bigger hit all ov…