You ain't lookin' too good... Even behind that mask, I can tell...
Right Here, I got what You need to make You feel better!
Take THIS and I'll Guarantee You'll be feelin' better - at least for a while, anyway!
Go on, Take it home and Crank It Up or get You a nice set of headphones and get lost in THIS and away from Everything Else!
This is a "Damn Near Perfect!" FM Recording!
You ain't heard me say that about a bootleg, yet!
I was listenin' to THIS late last night and DAMN! (Yeah, I said DAMN!)
I dug THIS out of The Barn Archives...And I had forgotten about Wet Willie, and how good they were! They were on Capricorn Records back then, and had a few hits, but mostly got over-shadowed by many of their label-mates...
THIS is Good Time Rock & Roll!
If You wanna listen to "Keep On Smilin'" first, that's fine - it'll pick You up, then "Street Corner Serenade (Fun Song!)," Cool!
But DO NOT Ignore the rest of this show at The Bottom Line!
It starts with an Up-Tempo Rocker: "Leona" - from the title You'd think it a love song, and well it kinda is: 'Bout a place way down south called Leona's Home Cooking Cafe and how Jimmy Hall got a Fried Chicken Dinner there. A simple song 'bout simple things! Derek, we used to stop at diners down south and eat lunch together, packed in a run-down lookin' place with a ton of cars outside!
The best burgers and homefries could be had there, or an open-faced roast beef sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy and sweet tea (Not that kind where you have to add like 25 packets of sugar to, and still it don't get sweet!!!).
Back to the music:
Wet Willie had a Great Sound and one of the best, soulful singers in Jimmy Hall...
There's guitars, bass and drums, vocals, horns, harmonica, Etc. all blendin' together! The last song reminds me of a Chuck Berry tune from long ago!