Wild Willy Barrett

Wild Willy Barrett

Wild Willy Barrett is an English folk singer best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style is witty and his humour onstage is dry. He is known for virtuoso fiddle playing, ability with a great number of stringed instruments, and playing slide guitar with a whole raw egg.

Recently he has been performing vocal and strings for Sleeping Dogz, and closed the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

He is credited with supporting guitar, fiddle and vocals in a number of other albums, from Rolf Harris' version of "Stairway to Heaven" to playing fiddle, guitar and mandolin for George Hamilton IV.

Discography

* 1977 "John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett"
* 1978 "Deep and Meaningless" (with John Otway)
* 1979 "Call of the Wild"
* 1980 "Way and Bar" (with John Otway)
* 1981 "Krazy Kong"
* 1981 "Gone With The Bin" - The Best Of Otway & Barrett (compilation)
* 1986 "Organic Bondage"
* 1989 "The Wimp and The Wild" (with John Otway)
* 2002 "Gypsies Too"
* 2004 "Drum With No Ears"

External links

* [http://www.musiczoo.co.uk/ Official website]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070502002147/http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~xav/wild_willy.html WWB page by xav]


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