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Willie Wright

Willie Wright has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 25 June 2013. Willie Wright's music has been featured on 23 episodes.

Willie Wright (born William C. Gathright in Belen, Mississippi, on 7 July 1939; died 4 June 2020) was an American soul singer and songwriter, remembered for his 'rediscovered' 1977 album, Telling the Truth.

An enigmatic figure on the 1970s soul scene, Wright has spent much of his career laboring in obscurity. He began making music professionally in New York City where he sang with doo wop groups, but he settled in Boston in the late '60s as the city's hippie scene was…

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Right On For Darkness
Willie Wright
Hotel Records1969
Right On For Darkness
Willie WrightHotel Records1969
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Nantucket Island
Willie Wright
Hotel Records1977
Nantucket Island
Willie WrightHotel Records1977
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In The Beauty Of The Night
Willie Wright
Hotel Records1977
In The Beauty Of The Night
Willie WrightHotel Records1977
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I'm So Happy Now
Willie Wright
Hotel Records1977
I'm So Happy Now
Willie WrightHotel Records1977
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Indian Reservation
Willie Wright
Hotel Records1977
Indian Reservation
Willie WrightHotel Records1977
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Right On For The Darkness
Willie Wright
Hotel Records2011
Right On For The Darkness
Willie WrightHotel Records2011
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