More Info on Wet WillieSimilar Undetermined MusicSearch Artistopia
Biography
About|the band|the school prank|Wet willyInfobox musical artist | name = Wet Willie| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| origin = Mobile, Alabama|Mobile , Alabama , United States | genre = Southern rock | years_active = 1970–present| label = Capricorn; Epic| associated_acts = Jimmy Hall The Wet Willie Band Deep South| website = http://www.ktb.net/~insync/wet_willie.html| current_members = Jimmy Hall Jack Hall Lewis Ross John Anthony Ricky Hirsch Michael Duke Donna Hall Elkie Brooks Ric Seymour Wet Willie is an United States|American band from Mobile, Alabama|Mobile , Alabama , United States|U.S . They were best known for their hit "Keep On Smilin'," reaching #10 on the Billboard Chart in August 1974, but had a number of charted songs in the 1970s utilizing their soulful brand of Southern rock .
History
Drummer Lewis Ross assembled the musicians for a group called "Fox" in the summer of 1969, which a year later became known as "Wet Willie."cite web|url= http://www.ktb.net/~insync/wet_willie.html|title=The Official Wet Willie Page|accessdate=09-10-2007 Wet Willie was a versatile, high-energy Southern rock band that, from 1971 until 1978, produced an array of album s awash in good-time music, rollicking high-energy blues - rock music|rock , and white Southern soul, but racked up just one Top 40|Top Ten chart-topper|hit and a lot of admirers.cite web|title= Wet Willie - Biography |last=Eder|first=Bruce|work=AllMusic.com|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p5809/biography|pure_url=yes|accessdate=2007-03-26
Band members
The core members of the band during that period were Jimmy Hall , singing|vocals , harmonica , saxophone ; Jimmy's brother Jack Hall on bass guitar|bass ; John Anthony on keyboard instrument|keyboards ; Ricky Hirsch on guitar , and Lewis Ross on drum s and percussion . The duet (music)|duo of girls singing backing singer|background vocals dubbed "The Williettes" were staple of the classic Wet Willie sound, and always featured Jimmy & Jack's sister, Donna Hall. Keyboardist Mike Duke also joined from The Wetter The Better Album|LP onwards. For a short period of time in 1974 United Kingdom|UK singer Elkie Brooks joined the band as a backing singer , as did future The Honkettes|Honkette Leslie Hawkins .
Recordings
Wet Willie put out several albums on Capricorn Records between 1971 and 1977. Along with a "Greatest Hits" album released on Polydor Records , they also released 2 more final studio albums on Epic Records, although some hits collections and further live recordings have been released as recently as 2006. Perhaps their best-known LP is the 1973 live album , ''Drippin' Wet'', but their main claim to fame is the hit single (music)|single , "Keep On Smilin,'" which reached #10 on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard singles chart. They also enjoyed some other Billboard- record chart|charted song s with "Country Side Of Life," "Everything That 'Cha Do" (Will Come Back To You), "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.
Current formations
They remain an active performing band in two distinct versions. With original singer Jimmy Hall in their lineup, they are billed as Wet Willie. Shows and recordings billed as The Wet Willie Band have Ric Seymour, a member of the band since 1992, as lead singer and guitarist. For example, on the albums High Humidity (Live) (2004) and Playing Live Tonight: The Wet Willie Band (2006), it is Seymour, not Hall, who is the lead singer.
Category:American rock music groups Category:American rhythm and blues musical groups Category:Musical groups from Alabama Category:Jam bands Category:Epic Records artists Category:American funk musical groups Category:Musical groups established in 1970
fr:Wet Willie nl:Wet Willie
Copyright Citations
This article is licensed under the GNU License
Click here for original article: Wet Willie
