WET WILLIE - Discography - Mp3

Biography by Bruce Eder 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.The band, originally called Fox, got together in Mobile, AL, in 1969 behind the powerful vocals and distinctive sax of Jimmy Hall, with Jimmy's brother Jack on bass and banjo, Ricky Hirsch on lead and slide guitars and mandolin (as well as writing a lot of the songs), Lewis Ross on the skins, and John Anthony (later succeeded by Mike Duke) playing the keyboards. They counted the Rolling Stones and the Animals among their influences, but their sound was closer in spirit to early Otis Redding or Little Richard -- which made the move to Macon, GA, in early 1970 a natural one, the town being Richard Penniman's onetime home, as well as the headquarters of Capricorn Records, the company run by Redding's onetime manager, Phil Walden. Wet Willie auditioned for Capricorn that summer and were at work on their debut album by the fall of that same year.Despite sharing the same label as the Allmans and the Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willie wasn't like either of those groups. They jammed, but usually not for stretches of more than ten or 12 minutes, and they weren't laid-back Southerners. Rather, Wet Willie played an intense, very vocal-oriented brand of white Southern soul. Indeed, they were probably the only white group that one could imagine doing a song such as, say, "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," and not embarrassing themselves in the process; the group probably most like them in later years was Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, and they were much less defined regionally.Their first two albums were released with barely a ripple, and their third, a live concert document called Drippin' Wet, was the first to scrape the lower reaches of the Top 200 albums. The group's third studio release, Keep On Smilin', finally gave them a hit with the title track, and yielded a handful of other popular tracks. The addition of the female backing group the Williettes only opened the group's sound out further with a gospel and soul sensibility. Dixie Rock and Wetter the Better followed in short order, but neither of those albums matched Keep On Smilin' in the songwriting department, and the band suffered a gradual decline in its album sales, despite getting a hit single out of "Dixie Rock." The band issued one final album on Capricorn in 1977, which was followed, perhaps too closely, by Wet Willie's Greatest Hits (Capricorn by that time had run into severe financial problems and was releasing anything that looked like it might sell).Around this time, the group went through a series of internal shifts and it next emerged in 1978 with new lineup and a new contract with Epic Records. Jimmy and Jack Hall were still there, only now they were joined by three additional singers -- in addition to keyboardist Mike Duke, guitarist Marshall Smith and drummer Theophilus K. Lively contributed seriously to the vocalizing, and, to top it off, the band now had another guitar player in Larry Berwald. The result was the gorgeous Manorisms album, which showed off harmony singing like nobody's business and a pop side to the soul stylings that occasionally had the group crossing successfully close to Motown territory, only a lot hotter and sweatier than, say, the Grass Roots (who also had a kind of white Motown sound) ever got. Sad to say, while their concert audiences were healthy and they were at no loss for gigs, Manorisms never sold, lacking the hit single to get it a foothold on AM radio. The band released one more album, Which One's Willie?, in 1979, which performed just as poorly or worse. The group finally broke up in 1980 after nearly a decade of great records and even better shows.In the 1990s, Wet Willie re-formed around a core of keyboardist John Anthony, guitarist Ricky Hirsch, and Jimmy Hall, with other musicians -- including Smith, Duke, and Lively -- filling out their ranks. Wet Willie's recording efforts have been intermittent at best, but they've been very busy performing on-stage. In 1996, they were inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and, in March of 2001, were inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. They remain an active performing band in two distinct incarnations -- with Jimmy Hall in their lineup, they're billed as Wet Willie, while for shows and on records for which Hall is unable to participate, they work as the Wet Willie Band, with guitarist Ric Seymour as lead singer. Source: AMG +-------------------------------------------------+ Wet Willie Discography +-------------------------------------------------+ Left Coast Live -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 01 - Shame, Shame, Shame.mp3 2. 02 - Baby Fat.mp3 3. 03 - Girts Ain't Groceries.mp3 4. 04 - Everything That Cha Do.mp3 5. 05 - Teaser.mp3 6. 06 - Jelly Jelly.mp3 7. 07 - Country Side Of Life.mp3 8. 08 - Ring You Up.mp3 9. 09 - Lucy Was In Trouble.mp3 10. 10 - Keep On Smilin'.mp3 11. 11 - No, No, No.mp3 12. Left Coast Live.jpg 13. Wet Willie. Left Coast Live.bmp 14. www.rockbits.rollover.at.URL Dixie Rock -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. AMG review.txt 16. cover.jpg 17. Wet Willie - 01 - Dixie Rock - She's My Lady.mp3 18. Wet Willie - 02 - Dixie Rock - Ain't He A Mess.mp3 19. Wet Willie - 03 - Dixie Rock - Dixie Rock.mp3 20. Wet Willie - 04 - Dixie Rock - Poor Judge Of Character.mp3 21. Wet Willie - 05 - Dixie Rock - Mama Didn't Raise No Fools.mp3 22. Wet Willie - 06 - Dixie Rock - It's Gonna Stop Rainin' Soon.mp3 23. Wet Willie - 07 - Dixie Rock - Jailhouse Moan.mp3 24. Wet Willie - 08 - Dixie Rock - He Set Me Free.mp3 25. Wet Willie - 09 - Dixie Rock - Leona.mp3 26. Wet Willie - 10 - Dixie Rock - Take It To The Music.mp3 Drippin' Wet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27. Drippin' Wet.jpg 28. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 01 - Thats alright.mp3 29. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 02 - Mule to ride.mp3 30. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 03 - No Good woman blues.mp3 31. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 04 - Red Hot Chicken.mp3 32. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 05 - Airport.mp3 33. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 06 - I'd rather be blind.mp3 34. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 07 - Macon hambine blues.mp3 35. Wet Willie - Drippin' Wet - 08 - Shout Bamalama.mp3 36. Wet Willie - Keep On Smilin'.mp3 Keep On Smilin' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37. 01 Wet Willie - Country Side Of Life.mp3 38. 02 Wet Willie - Keep On Smilin'.mp3 39. 03 Wet Willie - Trust In The Lord.mp3 40. 04 Wet Willie - Soul Sister.mp3 41. 05 Wet Willie - Alabama.mp3 42. 06 Wet Willie - Lucy Was In Trouble.mp3 43. 07 Wet Willie - Soul Jones.mp3 44. 08 Wet Willie - Don't Wait To Long.mp3 45. 09 Wet Willie - Spanish Moss.mp3 46. 10 Wet Willie - In Our Hearts.mp3 47. Keep On Smilin'.jpg The Wetter The Better -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_01_No No No.mp3 49. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_02_Teaser.mp3 50. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_03_Baby Fat.mp3 51. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_04_Ring You Up.mp3 52. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_05_Comic Book Hero.mp3 53. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_06_Walkin' by Myself.mp3 54. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_07_Everything That 'Cha Do (Will Come Back to You).mp3 55. Wet Willie_The Wetter The Better_08_Everybody's Stoned.mp3 56. Wetter The Better.jpg Wet Willie - Manorisms (1978) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57. 01 - Rainman.mp3 58. 02 - Make You Feel Love Agian.mp3 59. 03 - So Blue.mp3 60. 04 - We Got Lovin'.mp3 61. 05 - Don't Turn Me Away.mp3 62. 06 - Street Corner Serenade.mp3 63. 07 - One Track Mind.mp3 64. 08 - How 'Bout You.mp3 65. 09 - Doin' All The Right Things (The Wrong Way).mp3 66. 10 - Let It Shine.mp3 67. Wet Willie - Manorisms (1978).txt 68. Wet Willie - Manorisms.m3u Wet Willie - Manorisms (1978)Cover -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69. Back.jpg 70. Front.jpg 71. Inlay.jpg Wet Willie - Wet Willie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72. 01 Have A Good Time.mp3 73. 02 Dirty Leg.mp3 74. 03 Faded Love.mp3 75. 04 Spinning Round.mp3 76. 05 Low Rider.mp3 77. 06 Rock And Roll Band.mp3 78. 07 Pieces.mp3 79. 08 Shame, Shame, Shame.mp3 80. 09 Beggar Song.mp3 81. 10 Fool On You.mp3 82. Wet Willie.jpg =================================================================== Files: 82 Total Size: 453.25MB List Created: 1/31/2009 6:52:25 PM

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