Wet Willie
is an American band from Mobile, Alabama, U.S. They were best known
for their hit "Keep On Smilin'," but 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, which a year later became known as "Wet Willie." Wet Willie was 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 white Southern soul, but racked up just one Top Ten hit and a lot of admirers.
