Stephanie Pickett

Thanks for stopping by this weeks Science of Soul and it's all back to normal after my 3 week trip to the States and a big thank you goes out to Mickey who keeps everything running smoothly. Had an amazing time with some amazing people .... certainly a trip to remember. Included in this show some new music and material from the folks who were a major part of my trip. Thanks to; Ty Causey, W R Sanders, Stan Mosley, Theo Huff, Lyn Orman Weiss, Reggie Torian, Aaron & Lavon Cohen and my adopted family the Benedicts & Andrews', just beautiful people.

Leroy Allen

It's a little different this week in so much as I don't have a featured album but a featured artist in Stephanie Pickett, wife a nephew of Wilson Pickett. I think you will be a little surprised at how talented this lady is, I know I was. I have new music from Leroy Allen , Evette Busby & Sympli Whitney whose album "Rise of The Phoenix" is pretty special. Got a whole lot of Old Skool classics that folks love so much so something for everyone. Njoy! (check Johnny Taylor's Unsung episode at foot of this page)


Hour One
Stan Mosley - Thank You
Four Real Inc,. - The Man (The Master Plan)
Larry Wright - It's Ok With Me
Evette Busby - What Went Wrong
Calvin Richardson - Home In A Minute
Leroy Allen - Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You
Reggie Torian - You'll Want Me Back
Sympli Whitney - 7 Days A Week
Stephanie Pickett - Still Want You Back
Stephanie Pickett - My Love Is Guaranteed
Latimore - All You'll Ever Need
Ty Causey - I Wanna Know Bout Love
W R Sanders - Sweet Memories
Regina Bell - Be Careful Out There

Hour Two 

Stan Mosley - Your Wife Is My Woman

Shirley Brown - If This Is Goodbye 

Dells/Dramatics - Love Is Missing From Our Lives

Townsend x3 & Rogers - Playground Of Love

Anthony Hamilton - Why 

The Emotions - Don't Ask My Neighbour

Stephanie Pickett - Run'n

The Facts Of Life - Caught In The Act 

The Impressions - Sooner Or Later
Johnny Taylor - Your Love Is Rated X

Teddy Pendergrass - Just Because Your Mine

Sam Brown - Feeling You

Stephanie Pickett biography:

Stephanie Hill was born on March 19, 1967 in Montgomery, Alabama. She gained the name Pickett when she married a Prattville, Alabama nephew of Wilson Pickett, Willie Pickett. Stephanie sang in Montgomery school and church choirs as well as at Alabama State University, where she majored in music and vocals, before her professional career blossomed in 1992 as a back-up singer for Ronnie Lovejoy, who grew up in Wetumpka, just sixty miles north of Montgomery. In the mid-nineties Pickett joined an Alabama rhythm and blues group named the Style Band as the female lead vocalist. The members were Melvin Spencer (bass, guitar), Richard Spencer (lead guitar), Perry Spencer (drums), Reginald Phillips (sax), Kent Hill (lead guitar) and Antonio Goldson (keys). Pickett remained with the band for fourteen years. In 2008 a friend named Robert Moody became her informal manager and sent some demos to Dylann DeAnna (CDS Records), leading to her first record contract and solo album, Finally Made It (Aviara, 2009).

Much of the material was recorded in Montgomery, Alabama, using many of Pickett's current bandmates from the newly configured and named N-Style Band: Jeffrey Singleton (male vocalist), Kent Hill (lead guitar), Jesse Knight (lead guitar), Charlie Porter (keys), Arnold Henderson (sax), Michael Johnson (bass guitar) and Durrell Ellis (drums). Pickett performed both lead and background vocals. Pickett composed and Melvin Spencer (along with Richard Spencer and Terrence Baldwin from the old Style Band) arranged the bulk of the tracks from Finally Made It, including the showcase song, "Run'N," not to mention "Still Want You Baby," "Let's Get It Together," and "Love Me Right." Roosevelt Bradley (with three tracks), Carl Marshall (with the tune "Family Man") and Atlantan Charles Harmon (with the cabaret ballad "Stay With Me") filled out the disc. In 2010 Pickett released a well-received Southern Soul single entitled "(The) Only Time I Get Lonely," an uptempo dance tune, and the album containing the single appeared the following year: A Woman's Soul (2011, Aviara). The same year (2011), Stephanie Pickett won the Jus' Blues Music Foundation Award for New Female Southern Soul Artist of the Year. She had previously (in 2009) won a Best New Southern Soul Artist in Blues Critic's Readers' Poll.