Wet Willie: Keep On Smilin' / Dixie Rock on CD
Keep On Smilin' / Dixie Rock
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- BGO
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1974-75
- Item number:
- 9787188
- UPC/EAN:
- 5017261208736
- Release date:
- 1.6.2009
These are Wet Willie’s third and fourth studio releases, originally on the Capricorn label. Unusual among Southern boogie bands of the 70’s, Wet Willie included a strong R&B element in its music.
Quote From AMG: “Wet Willie was, after the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the hardest-rocking of the Southern bands to come to attention in the early 1970s. 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’‘ (included here) – and a lot of admirers”.
'Keep On Smilin’‘ is the definitive Wet Willie studio album. Produced by Tom Dowd, who was responsible for producing / engineering some of the greatest records to come out of Atlantic Records as well as scores of rock albums, including Cream’s 'Disraeli Gears' and Derek & The Dominos’ ‘Layla’.
‘Dixie Rock’, the follow-up album, included the band’s new backing group the Williettes, adding a gospel flavour to proceedings. Sublime slide work from Ricky Hirsch and Jimmy Hall's mournful harp help make this one of the band's most cohesive works.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Country side of life
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2 Keep On Smiling
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3 Trust in the lord
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4 Soul sister
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5 Alabama
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6 Lucy was in trouble
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7 Soul Jones
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8 Don't wait too long
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9 Spanish moss
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10 In our hearts
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11 She's My Lady
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12 Ain't he a mess
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13 Dixie rock
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14 Poor judge of character
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15 Mama Didn't Raise No Fools
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16 It's gonna stop rainin' soon
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17 Jailhouse moan
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18 He set me free
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19 Leona
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20 Take it to the music
