Gritty Soul Men: Remembering Lou Rawls and Wilson Pickett
Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 26 January 2006
Grit was not just about the "sound" of soul, but also the grittier social and political realities that soul music offered transcendence from. The recent deaths of Lou Rawls and Wilson Pickett mark the passing of two of the grittiest Soul Men to walk the earth.
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