recording sessions that made those at Fortune seem professional

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Pickett was among the first of the soul stars to play with an integrated live band, and he would later say, “I don’t think Martin Luther King can take all the credit for kind of scraping shit out down there [in the South], ’cos I think the black entertainers of America had a lot to do with it. I tell you man, we opened the doors, ’cos we were traveling down through there all the time. We stopped going to the back doors, and all that shit. We fought our way out the place, we’ve been shot at, all kinds of shit, had glass put in our food, oh yeah.”