Wet Willie (band)
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Wet Willie is a southern rock band formed in 1969 from Mobile, Alabama, USA. After the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie were the hardest-rocking of the Southern bands to come to national attention in the early 70s. From 1971 until 1978, they produced an array of albums awash in good-time music, rollicking high-energy blues-rock, and white Southern soul, and for their trouble they racked up just one Top Ten hit ("Keep On Smilin'") and a lot of admirers.[1]
They put out several albums on Capricorn Records between 1970 and 1976. The core members of the band during that period were John Anthony, keyboards; Jack Hall, bass; Jimmy Hall, vocals, harp, saxophone; Ricky Hirsch, guitars; Lewis Ross, drums, percussion. For a short period of time in 1974 legendary UK singer Elkie Brooks joined the band as a backing singer.
Perhaps their best known work is the 1973 live album Drippin' Wet, although they had a significant top five Billboard Chart hit song many will remember them for entitled "Keep On Smilin'". Also, they enjoyed chart success with "Countryside Of Life", "Everything That'cha Do", and "Leona", and from their Epic Records period, "Street Corner Serenade" and "Weekend", from the LP's Manorisms and Which One's Willie. They toured and recorded extensively from 1969 through the early Eighties, and they still perform today to zealous cult fans.
[edit] Discography
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Wet Willie | Capricorn |
| 1972 | Wet Willie II | Capricorn |
| 1973 | Drippin' Wet (Live) | Capricorn |
| 1974 | Keep On Smilin' | Capricorn |
| 1975 | Dixie Rock | Capricorn |
| 1976 | The Wetter the Better | Capricorn |
| 1977 | Left Coast Live | Capricorn |
| 1977 | Greatest Hits‡ | Polydor |
| 1978 | Manorisms | Epic |
| 1979 | Which One's Willie? | Epic |
| 1994 | The Best of Wet Wille (Live)‡ | Polygram |
| 2003 | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Wet Willie‡ | Mercury |
| 2004 | High Humidity (Live) | Fuel 2000 |
| 2005 | Epic Willie (The Epic Recordings)‡ | Acadia |
| 2005 | Keep on Smilin'/Dixie Rock‡ | Gotdiscs |
| 2006 | Playing Live Tonight: The Wet Willie Band | St. Clair |
Source: Allmusic.com[2]
‡Compilations
[edit] References
- ^ Eder, Bruce. Wet Willie - Biography. AllMusic.com. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
- ^ Wet Willie - Discography. AllMusic.com. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
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