Wet Willie / Wet Willie (US, Capricorn Records, SD 861) <1971> ①

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Wet Willie / Wet Willie (US, Capricorn Records, SD 861) <1971>
(ONE) ST-CAP-712297A 1-STEREO
(TWO) ST-CAP 712298A 2-STEREO

数年前にヘンテコなジャケに惹かれて何も知らずに購入しました(ジャケの写真は裏→表が連続して見えるように載せました)。1970年代に活躍した適度にルーズなサザン・ロック系のバンド。荒削りなサウンドが楽しく、なかなか聴かせてくれます。かなり気に入って、状態のよい盤を探して数枚購入してきましたが、先日ついに白ラベルのプロモ盤に巡り会いました。

Wet Willie is an American band from Mobile, Alabama, U.S. They are best known for their hit "Keep On Smilin'," which reached No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in August 1974, but they had a number of charted songs in the 1970s utilizing their soulful brand of Southern rock.

Drummer Lewis Ross assembled the musicians for a group called "Fox" in the summer of 1969 and after relocating from Mobile, Alabama to Macon, Georgia, home of Capricorn Records, became known as "Wet Willie". Wet Willie is a versatile, high-energy Southern rock band that, from 1971 until 1978, produced an array of albums awash in good-time music, rollicking high-energy blues-rock, and Southern soul while releasing several charting singles and achieving one Top Ten hit and a lot of admirers.They toured and recorded extensively from 1969 through the early Eighties, and they still perform today in two slightly different versions, depending on whether Jimmy Hall is present. When Hall is with the band, it is billed as Wet Willie; otherwise, it is billed as The Wet Willie Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEQtKP4DQU

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