Born in New Orleans and raised in California, Larry Williams is from the hard-driving school of R&B, whose fellow classmates included Little Richard and Robert Parker. He was a good-looking, piano-pounding, singer-songwriter - a rough, rowdy Rock & Roller who wrote and recorded some of the best songs of the 50s. A seriously underrated artist, his influence reached far beyond his low chart tally. John Lennon was a big Williams fan and The Beatles covered no less than three of his prime cuts on their earlier albums. This high quality vinyl reissue his a mandatory, all killer-no filler, addition to the wild-action section of any respectable DJ's flycase.
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