Andre Williams LiveAt the Park Bar on Saturday, March 20th
**New Album THAT’S ALL I NEED coming out on Bloodshot Records in the spring!**
Andre "Mr. Rhythm" Williams is a R&B legend, and you may not even know it.
He wrote "Shake A Tail Feather," and sang such uber-raunch cult classics as "Bacon Fat" (covered by the Cramps), "Greasy Chicken," and the epitome of songs about little girls, "Jail Bait." He worked at seminal labels such as Motown, Chess, and Fortune. He wrote songs for, or produced folks Ike Turner, Parliament/Funkadelic, Edwin Starr and Stevie Wonder. The guy is like music's version of Zelig; he's been everywhere, man.
Yeah, baby.
After a few hard years in... er... retirement, he stormed back in the late 90's with a record of smutty garage punk called Silky recorded with members of the Demolition Doll Rods and the Dirt-Bombs. Since then he has recorded with the Sadies, Jon Spencer, Two-Star Tabernacle (which included a very young Jack White) and many others. His resurgence of popularity (and notoriety) continues as he tours the world. Recently he was the subject of a documentary, Agile, Mobile, Hostile that premiered at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. Andre tells it like it is, and if you get all bashful and shit with the blue language, you might want to steer clear--this guy can make Redd Foxx (who gave him his nickname, by the way) look like Bill Cosby.
Don't let the shtick fool you, though, the man has put together some of the most bad-ass soul shakers in the history of music. He strips away all the bells and whistles and shoots musical arrows right to your goodie spot. Music at its most feral.
You can catch a book reading earlier in the day at the Book Beat @ 5pm
Andre Williams Live
Saturday, March 20th at the Park Bar
2040 Park Ave. – Detroit, MI
Ticket Cost: $10
Show Time: 8pm
We got the upcoming release "That's All I Need" in the mail just in time for the weekendIt was one of those rare MCB weekends where we didnt work much but rather attended a few shows to have some fun without the hassle of video and photos.
As we drove the streets of Detroit digging this new record it felt like we were running numbers or hustling on Cass Corridor and we would have to say that
there is a such thing as good dope
THIS ALBUM!!
we dont have any promos yet for the new record(drops May 18th)
but Bloodshot sent over a copy of the previous release
to give you a taste of what this guy has knocked out before
1st emailer gets it - motorcityblog@earthlink.net
Get to this show - you will not regret it
Cant make the Detroit show?
Catch him in Ann Arbor on Sunday night as well...