Saturday, November 27, 2021

Lee Shot Williams - I've Got So Much To Give (repost)

 

Henry Lee "Shot" Williams (May 21, 1938 – November 25, 2011) was an American blues singer. He got the nickname "Shot" from his mother at a young age, owing to his fondness for wearing suits and dressing up as a "big shot."
Williams grew up in the country close to his cousin and fellow blues man, Little Smokey Smothers. "Shot" moved to Detroit in 1954 and to Chicago in 1958. He joined Smothers there and began singing with Smokey's band in 1960 and a few years later joined Magic Sam's band as a vocalist. In 1962, Williams recorded his first singles for Chicago's Foxy label, "Hello Baby" and "I'm Trying." He recorded a series of singles for other labels, including King/Federal, Palos, Gamma, Shama and Tchula. His 1964 recording "Welcome to the Club" was a hit in Chicago, and was later covered by guitarist/singer Little Milton for Checker Records in 1965. Another regional hit, "I Like Your Style," came out in 1969 and was later covered by Junior Parker. Several more singles followed including the very popular "Drop Your Laundry Baby". His first album under his own name, "Country Disco", was released on the Roots label in 1977. In the 1980s, Williams released a slew of singles on labels like Tchula, 4-Way, True & Dis-Muke. He released an album on cassette with many of these cuts called "I Like Your Style". In 1994 the Japanese label Vivid Sound released an album called "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" containing tracks Williams recorded in Memphis apparently for (but not released by) Quinton Claunch's SoulTrax imprint. The Black Magic label decided to give Lee a "Shot" behind his own band. The result, "Cold Shot" was released in 1995 and was voted the Best Blues Album of 1995 (New Recording - Soul/Blues) by the Living Blues readers' poll.
His debut for the Memphis-based Ecko Records, "Hot Shot", brought Williams home to the "Southern Soul Blues" world with the hit "I'll Take The Risk". In 2000 Williams scored another hit with "She Made A Freak Out Of Me", followed by "Somebody's After My Freak". Williams left the label again and recorded one disc for Charles Wilson's label called "Let The Good Times Roll" before returning to Ecko for four more successful albums, establishing him as one of the icons of the genre.
In 2008 Williams signed with CDS Records. His first CD for the label was released in 2008 and produced the hits "It's Friday (Time To Get Paid)" and "Wrong Bed". Two more albums were released by CDS Records, "I'm The Man For The Job" & "The First Rule Of Cheating" in 2010.

This is a 2CD set lovingly compiled by a collector. It collects almost if not all, Lee "Shot" Williams early singles together.

KansasJoe post: https://krakenfiles.com/view/TkAhtXYYYW/file.html     Files have not been tagged

15 comments:

Preslives said...

This is nothing short of brilliant. Shot was incredible in his youth. I am very grateful to you and the compiler for doubling my collection of his early 45s.

Anonymous said...

I just discovered your blog. First, blown mind by Mojo LP, now Lee Shot's 45s. You're killing me!

Thanx!!!

edison61 said...

Killer stuff; Lee "Shot" is great...thanks!

Moe said...

Any chance for a re-up? Thanks!

Fourcade said...

Great!! A discovery for me. Thanks so much.
Cheers Daniel, from Spain...

imnokid said...

Thanx for the post. I lost most of this in a crash last year. Great stuff.

Leif said...

Surprise to me! Thanks

Bob said...

Missed this.Could this be reposted ..thanks

snakeboy said...

Thank you for taking the time to put this together and posting.

DukeBurgundy said...

Hello,
As the person who put this collection together some eighteen years ago it's gratifying that it's still being enjoyed. I'm not sure how you came by it because there were originally maybe just six plus master copies in existence and it went to a mates. Please don't sell it because it was not completed for commercial purposes. Happy Christmas.

Xyros said...

@ DukeBurgundy, very nice comp that put together especially something done 18 years ago.
All I have is this digital copy that is floating around.

KansasJoe said...

@DukeBurgundy, thank you again for this great comp. It was me who ripped the cd's for Xyros. And it was me whom you got the coverpicture from. Maybe you can send a replacement for the two faulty tracks?

VL Washington said...

Anybody gotta track list for the compilation?

Xyros said...

@ Vl Washington, the track listing is included in the files. I'm just to lazy to tag a double cd.

Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities said...

Many thanks