BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Vocalist, USA
Known For: Live Fillmore West 65 (2004) Album
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Soul, R&B
Location: CA, United States of America
Date Born: 2nd March 1938
Location Born: Flora, Missippi, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Willie Chambers
Willie Chambers is a singer, guitarist, and former member of The Chambers Brothers, a rock band in the 1960s with hits such as “In The Midnight Hour, “I Can’t Turn You Loose”, and “Time Has Come Today”.
He was a founding member of The Chambers Brothers and stayed with them until their eventual breakup. He sang lead on one of their hits, a cover of Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour”. He also co-wrote their biggest hit “Time Has Come Today” with his brother Joe. He would later work as a session musician.
Recent activity
In 2006 he sat in with a group called Vince and the Invinceables at a benefit concert for Arthur Lee of the group Love. More recently, he has become more active and has collaborated with artists such as Louis Metoyer, and involved with the Artie Vegas Revue. He has also been involved with Australian born artists such as Jessie Sparks and singer Stephen Rowe, appearing in his “Restless Soul” video. He and his brother Joe Chambers, contributed to the song “Calendar Years” which featured on Sparks’ EP.
The group was formed in 1954 in Los Angeles, California by four brothers from Mississippi.
George Chambers
Willie Chambers
Lester Cahmbers
Joe Chambers
The group toured extensively throughout southern California, but did not achieve nationwide success until 1965 when, with the addition of drummer Brian Keenan, they appeared at the Newport Folk Festival.
As the Chambers Brothers toured rock clubs including the famed Fillmore in San Francisco) and R&B venues most notably the Apollo Theatre alike, their music increasingly embraced elements of both; after recording 1968’s Shout! for the Vault label, the group signed to Columbia.
Keenan died of heart failure in 1986.
He was a founding member of The Chambers Brothers and stayed with them until their eventual breakup. He sang lead on one of their hits, a cover of Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour”. He also co-wrote their biggest hit “Time Has Come Today” with his brother Joe. He would later work as a session musician.
Albums include.
People Get Ready (1965)
Now (Vault, 1966)
The Time Has Come (1967)
A New Time – A New Day (1968)
The Chambers Brothers Shout! (1968)
Love, Peace and Happiness (1969)
Feelin’ the Blues (1970)
New Generation (1970)
Oh My God! (1972)
Unbonded (1974)
Right Move (1975)
Live in Concert on Mars (1977)
Now! Live (1999)
Live Fillmore West 65 (2004)
Live (Acrobat, 2005)