The Spiritual QC Information

Hello, I'm Lee Williams. I'm lead singer for The Spiritual QC's of Tupelo, Mississippi. I was born and raised in Tupelo. These guys are all come in from towns I never heard of. Anyway, I've been in Tupelo all my life and started singing gospel when I was about 8 years old and sang gospel and drove tractor trailer for, like, 24 years, and then the Lord decided that he give me a choice to drive truck or come on the road. And naturally, I 'took to comin' on the road 'cause I love singing. When You Gonna Wake Up that song means to me, it's not pointin' a finger at anybody; it's not singling anybody out. It's a song that I took personally for myself. There's a lot of things that I'm not aware of, that I want to become aware of, I wanna know what's what, and it's not that--some things that you know about that there's nothin' you can do about it. But then, there are a lot of things we can, and that's what we want to do is wake up and do something about it. I would have to say my biggest influence was the guy that started me singing when I didn't wanna sing; he said I was gonna sing, and I did. That was my mom's baby brother, Mitchell Thornton. He started me to sing and so he was one of my biggest mentor. After he made me do it for a while, I began to love it, you know, wanted to do it myself. So, and then guys like the Pilgrim Jubilees, The Mighty Clouds, The Fairfield Four--a lot of those guys really influenced me into singing gospel music. For more than three decades, Lee Williams & the Spiritual QC'S made music for little but love-love of the Gospel message, memorable melodies, sweet harmony and a beat that just refused to let feet sit still. And none of that has changed one bit. At the same time, almost everything else surrounding this dynamic foursome in the last six years could read like a great novel, if it wasn't the honest-to-goodness truth. Hot on the heels of Lee & the QC'S smash album, Good Time, featuring the national, chart-topping hit, "You Didn't Have To," comes their eagerly anticipated MCG Records ...