Post by cofi on Mar 11, 2007 17:41:28 GMT
Wet Willie (band)
Wet Willie were, after the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the hardest-rocking of the Southern bands to come to national attention in the early '70s. For seven years, from 1971 until 1978, they produced an enviable 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. In contrast to the Allman Brothers Band, whose jumping-off point was really Cream and who based their music on long jams, Wet Willie were closer in spirit to Booker T. & the MG's and perhaps the Mar-Keys, of Stax/Volt fame, much more steeped in sweaty, good-time R&B than the blues-rock of the Allmans or the country-rock of the Marshall Tucker Band. Think of what Lynyrd Skynyrd might have sounded like with but one lead guitar on a white chitlin circuit, if such a thing had existed.
Today Wet Willie continues to excite fans with their live performances, and appears in two distinct formats: The Wet Willie Band consists of original members Jack Hall on bass, John Anthony on keyboards, T.K. Lively on the drums, and Jacks sister Donna D Hall on vocals and harmonies. Ric Seymour, with the band for over a decade plays guitar and handles lead and backing vocals, while Ricky Chancey plays blues harp and guitar. When scheduling permits, original vocalist Jimmy Hall appears, and the band is billed as Wet Willie, featuring Jimmy Hall.
From Wikipedia,
Wet Willie is a southern rock band from Alabama, USA. 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.
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.
Wet Willie were, after the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the hardest-rocking of the Southern bands to come to national attention in the early '70s. For seven years, from 1971 until 1978, they produced an enviable 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. In contrast to the Allman Brothers Band, whose jumping-off point was really Cream and who based their music on long jams, Wet Willie were closer in spirit to Booker T. & the MG's and perhaps the Mar-Keys, of Stax/Volt fame, much more steeped in sweaty, good-time R&B than the blues-rock of the Allmans or the country-rock of the Marshall Tucker Band. Think of what Lynyrd Skynyrd might have sounded like with but one lead guitar on a white chitlin circuit, if such a thing had existed.
Today Wet Willie continues to excite fans with their live performances, and appears in two distinct formats: The Wet Willie Band consists of original members Jack Hall on bass, John Anthony on keyboards, T.K. Lively on the drums, and Jacks sister Donna D Hall on vocals and harmonies. Ric Seymour, with the band for over a decade plays guitar and handles lead and backing vocals, while Ricky Chancey plays blues harp and guitar. When scheduling permits, original vocalist Jimmy Hall appears, and the band is billed as Wet Willie, featuring Jimmy Hall.
From Wikipedia,
Wet Willie is a southern rock band from Alabama, USA. 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.
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.
