This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“I’m a soul survivor,” boasts Wilson Pickett, and man, he ain’t foolin’.
More than 30 years (!) after the heyday of In The Midnight Hour, Land Of 1,000 Dances and Mustang Sally, Pickett is still wicked on It’s Harder Now. It’s his first album in more than a decade, but you’d never know it — his soul-powered voice has lost none of its vim, vigour and virility. Likewise, these tunes sound like the product of days gone by with their tight, punchy horn lines, chicken-picking guitars and smoove-groove R&B lines. There’s no loops, no drum machines and no samples — just 100% soul from a survivor.
