Wet Willie
Biography
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.. 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.
Top Albums |
1. The Best of ..
| 2. Drippin' Wet
| 3. Keep On Smil..
| 4. Left Coast L..
| 5. 20th Century..
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6. The Wetter t..
| 7. Dixie Rock
| 8. Wet Willie
| 9. Miles of Smi..
| 10. Wet Willie I..
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11. Wet Willie's..
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Top Songs |
| Name | Album | Time | Price | |
1. | Keep On Smilin' | Keep On Smilin' | 3:57 | $1.29 | |
2. | Keep on Smilin' | 20th Century Masters - The .. | 3:55 | $0.99 | |
3. | Street Corner Serenade | Gold: Southern Rock | 4:50 | $0.99 | |
4. | Street Corner Serenade | Hot Southern Nights | 5:28 | $0.99 | |
5. | Grits Ain't Groceries | 20th Century Masters - The .. | 3:02 | $0.99 | |
6. | Keep On Smiling (Live) | 70s Rock Greatest Hits | 6:38 | $0.99 | |
7. | Keep On Smiling (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 6:19 | $0.99 | |
8. | Grit's Ain't Groceries (Live.. | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 3:31 | $0.99 | |
9. | Same Old Moon (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 6:33 | $0.99 | |
10. | Leona (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 5:54 | $0.99 | |
11. | Lucy Was in Trouble (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 6:32 | $0.99 | |
12. | Too Tall to Mambo (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 5:53 | $0.99 | |
13. | Rendezvous With the Blues (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 9:02 | $0.99 | |
14. | Easy Street (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 5:19 | $0.99 | |
15. | Country Side of Life (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 3:33 | $0.99 | |
16. | Lonely (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 5:03 | $0.99 | |
17. | Rock Steady (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 4:22 | $0.99 | |
18. | Street Corner Serenade (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 5:25 | $0.99 | |
19. | One Track Mind (Live) | Miles of Smiles (Live) | 4:40 | $0.99 | |
20. | Keep On Smiling | School of Rock Live From th.. | 6:42 | $0.99 | |
21. | Dixie Rock | Wet Willie's Greatest H.. | 5:11 | $0.99 | |
22. | Red Hot Chicken | Wet Willie's Greatest H.. | 4:44 | $0.99 | |
23. | Country Side of Life | Wet Willie's Greatest H.. | 3:28 | $0.99 | |
24. | Grits Ain't Groceries | Wet Willie's Greatest H.. | 3:02 | $0.99 | |
25. | Everything That 'Cha Do (Will Co.. | Wet Willie's Greatest H.. | 5:13 | $0.99 | |