Hello world, meet Andre Williams, man of letters. If you’ve already met “Mr. Rhythm” in his better-known persona as purveyor of greasy R&B to the world, said knowledge shall deepen your deep-frying sensation at his debut between covers. If not, you need not worry. Williams moves along the printed page as “crazy” and “crude” (two [...]
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YouTube du Jour: Andre Williams
February 25, 2010 – 9:47 am
Tonight, R&B legend Andre Williams plays the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and as a part of the show, he’ll be interviewed by the Ponderosa Stomp’s Dr. Ike. Here’s a trailer from a 2008 doc on Williams - Agile, Mobile, Hostile – shot before he’d finally addressed some of his demons.
Andre Williams and the New Orleans Hellhounds, Can You Deal With It? (Bloodshot)
August 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
On first blush—and there’s plenty of blush-raising material here—you’da thought that the man behind “Shake a Tail Feather,” “Bacon Fat” and “Greasy Chicken” deserved something a little more, you know, authentic than the barely incognito Morning 40 Federation krewe and guest Quintron could give him. Screw authentic. These guys caught septuagenarian Chicago legend Williams’ spirit, [...]
Morning 40 meets Andre Williams
July 2, 2008 – 1:27 pm
Cristina Black – who once wrote for OffBeat – has a piece in the new Village Voice about Morning 40 Federation’s Ryan Scully and the work that went in to producing Andre Williams’ new album, Can You Deal With It? (Bloodshot): It took three years to make Can You Deal, officially credited to Andre Williams and [...]
First Stevie, Then Scully
July 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Fabled R&B singer Andre Williams recorded with Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner and Mary Wells. Ryan Scully joins that list with the Black Godfather’s latest album, Can You Deal with It? on Bloodshot Records, due out at the end of the month. Scully and his bands, Morning 40 Federation and the New Orleans Hellhounds, [...]
