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Wet Willie is an American southern rock band from Mobile, Alabama. Their best-known song, " Keep On Smilin' ", reached No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Several other of the group's songs also appeared on the singles charts in the 1970s, which utilized their soulful brand of Southern rock .
Drippin' Wet is a live album by the Southern rock band Wet Willie, released in March 1973 through Capricorn Records. It was recorded on New Year's Eve 1972 in "The Warehouse" in New Orleans when opening for The Allman Brothers Band. Bassist Jack Hall said that this was the album that "finally captured the raw power and energy of our live shows ...
Capricorn Records was an independent record label founded by Phil Walden and Frank Fenter in 1969 in Macon, Georgia. Capricorn Records is often credited by music historians as creating the southern rock genre.
Jimmy Hall (born April 26, 1949) is the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie. Hall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and reared in Mobile, Alabama. He first gained recognition in 1970 as the lead vocalist, saxophonist and harmonica player for Wet Willie.
Left Coast Live is a live album by American rock band Wet Willie, released in June 1977. It was recorded on April 19, 1976, at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood. The album showcases the band's energetic performances of blues rock and southern rock songs.
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The two front men of the new group were Allmans guitarist and vocalist Betts and Wet Willie lead vocalist, saxophonist, and harmonica player Hall. The other two prominent members were Chuck Leavell , who had joined the Allman Brothers in 1972 and whose piano playing was a key in the group's mid-1970s commercial success, and Butch Trucks , a ...
"Keep On Smilin'" is a 1974 hit song by the American group Wet Willie. It was the title track of their third studio album. [2] The song was also the first of their three top-40 singles and became their greatest hit. "Keep on Smilin'" reached No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and is ranked as the 66th biggest hit of 1974. [3]