Wet Willie
12 articles
Audio interviews
Capricorn Records' Phil Walden (1976)
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, 1976
The Capricorn boss talks about his disillusion with soul music after management client Otis Redding's death; his move into white rock with the Allman Brothers Band; the attention brought to southern music as a result; the current state of the Allman Brothers Band; brother Gregg's problems; the Atlanta Rhythm Section; dropping Travis Wammack; Dobie Gray... and Bonnie Bramlett's new album Lady's Choice.
File format: mp3; file size: 25.6mb, interview length: 26' 38" sound quality: **½
List of articles in the library
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1971
WET WILLIE is young five-man group originally from Mobile, Alabama, that's been touring with the Allman Brothers Band lately, and winning a bunch of new ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974
EVER SINCE the Allman Brothers came howling out of Macon, Gorgia, and Texas graciously gave Johnny Winter and Janis Joplin to the world, Southern rock ...
Southern Rock: Under The Sign Of Capricorn
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 2 February 1974
DOWN ON COTTON Avenue in Macon, Georgia, lie the offices of Capricorn Records, slotted between a funeral parlour and a beauty salon that's anything but ...
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 19 April 1973
SPARKLING PLENTY ...
Allman Brothers, Edgar Winter Group, Mahavishnu Orchestra et al : Rock & Roll Nine, Hollywood FLA
Live Review by Jim Esposito, Rock, 26 February 1973
ALMOST EVERYTHING about Rock & Roll Nine was good in some ways and bad in others. Celebrated on an isolated raceway in the swampy boondocks ...
Review by Jim Esposito, Creem, September 1974
THE ONLY THING missing from Keep On Smilin' is one of Capricorn's "Support Southern Music" buttons on the jacket of that blind old black beggar ...
Jeff Beck, Flash Cadillac, Wet Willie: Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1971
New Jeff Beck Group in Long Beach Concert ...
Wet Willie: Kiel Center, St Louis
Live Review by Paul Yamada, Concert News, July 1984
DURING THE 60's, there was a huge flood of "local colour" bands, which had national hits, one national album, and then, disappeared from the face ...
Fanny, Wet Willie: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1971
Fanny Rock Group in Engagement at Whisky ...
Allman Brothers, Wet Willie: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio
Live Review by Richard Riegel, Phonograph Record, March 1973
DON'T KNOW how it is up in those choice stageside seats you pro critics reputedly get your asses greased with, but auditing a rock concert ...
Overview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 18 January 1975
"Oh yeah, who says?" asks a sceptical ROY CARR who, after swigging hard on the Confederacy's brew of Redneck Rebel Rock, remains stubbornly unintoxicated. ...
back to LIBRARY