The Picketts were Seattle's only "grange rock" combo. Led by vocalist Christy McWilson, the band also included drummer "Blackie" Sleep, McWilson's guitarist-husband Scott McCaughey, and rhythm guitarist Jim Sangster.
McWilson and McCaughey had met at San Francisco State. They moved to Seattle in 1980, where McWilson started a '60s retro/new wave band called the Dynette Set, and McCaughey fell in with the ragged pop combo Young Fresh Fellows. Raised in Northern California, McWilson had grown up on the Bakersfield sound and the cosmic country of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris...