Wicked Woman

During the 1940s, realism reigned in British cinema - but not at Gainsborough Pictures. The studio, which had been around since the twenties, found new success with a series of pleasurably preposterous costume melodramas. Audiences ate up these overheated films, which featured a stable of charismatic stars, including James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, and Phyllis Calvert. Though the movies were immensely profitable in wartime and immediately after, Gainsborough did not outlive the decade. This set brings together a trio of the studio’s most popular films from this era - florid, visceral tales of secret identities, multiple personalities, and romantic betrayals.

The Wicked Lo-Down made waves with their excellently received debut album ​“We Hot” in 2022.

A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything - great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing Wilson Pickett hollering, screaming, shouting, and soaring on anything he covered, from ballads to uptempo dance and midtempo wailers. It also has been deleted at present.