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1-My Time Will Come 2-America 3-That's All I Need 4-Just Call Me 5-Tricks 6-When Love Shoots You In The Foot 7-Cigarettes And My Old Lady 8-There Ain't No Such Thing As Good Dope 9-Too Light To Fight 10-Amends (2010 'Bloodshot') (41:02/10) R&B, Soul, Rock and Blues von einem der großen Alten, dem einzigartigen Entertainer Andr großartigen Band hat er ein weiteres spannendes Album aufgenommen. Er hat alle Songs geschrieben und zeigt sich, gemessen an seinem Alter, in exzellenter Form. Starkes Album! / R&B, soul, rock and blues from one the real Greats, Andr Supported by his excellent band, he's supplying us with another great set of recordings. Andr shape. Excellent! - Digipak. ANDRé WILLIAMS - voc, MATTHEW SMITH - gtrs, DENNIS COFFEY - gtr, TROY GREGORY - bas, ERIC VILLA -bass, DAVE SHETTLER - drums, MIKE ALONSO - drums.
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The Charles Bukowski of the outre musicale scene regales the listeners with more stories from the front line of the war between the genders, the joys of drinking whiskey, smoking cigarettes and rootin and tootin in the dirt of the mudpile, like a hog with the scent of a bloodhound, or should that be the other way round?...No this is Andres world.
His cracked aged voice provides the perfect foil for his personal stories to roll out from beneath the tongue. He hardly sings in a mainstream tune. Andre Williams if you don't know is one of those survivors from the 50's who cracks a tune about pussies, bacon fat, being beaten by a woman and pleading for bail. He is the King of Sleaze, the midwife of a blues noir.
A new patriots song for Amerika and then back to reminiscing about poverty breast stroke. Here he talks about the perils of shootin' dope; makes you flat broke even if you think you're a movie star. Your woman will go and that's why there' no such thing as good dope.
The music is more laidback as the lounge lizard of sleaze drums up a blues standard backing to not overpower his baritone reflections. An antidote to everything modern, bland, imbued with escapism, Andre brings reality to you with a wide grinned smile.
His cracked aged voice provides the perfect foil for his personal stories to roll out from beneath the tongue. He hardly sings in a mainstream tune. Andre Williams if you don't know is one of those survivors from the 50's who cracks a tune about pussies, bacon fat, being beaten by a woman and pleading for bail. He is the King of Sleaze, the midwife of a blues noir.
A new patriots song for Amerika and then back to reminiscing about poverty breast stroke. Here he talks about the perils of shootin' dope; makes you flat broke even if you think you're a movie star. Your woman will go and that's why there' no such thing as good dope.
The music is more laidback as the lounge lizard of sleaze drums up a blues standard backing to not overpower his baritone reflections. An antidote to everything modern, bland, imbued with escapism, Andre brings reality to you with a wide grinned smile.
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Williams puts street smarts punk roots music
21 July 2010
Format:Audio CD
By Jim Clark
Publisher, Lee County Courier, Tupelo, MS
Andre Williams sings he "just needs one step above the ghetto, that's all I need."
He should know. Twenty years ago if you were on a Chicago bridge you would found Andre, homeless, drug addicted and begging for money.
And that wasn't the first time the 74-year-old R&B'blues artist had hit bottom. He hit it early when his mama died when he was six and raised by his "aunties."
All that's in the past. Andre now over dresses in three piece lavender suits, with a zoot hat and large Turquoise ring and brings audiences, young and old, to their feet with his scanting lyrics of street life delivered over hollow drums and fuzz guitars. His latest CD, That's All I Need, recently released on Bloodshot Records.
Andre had previous high-points too. He co-wrote Stevie Wonder's first song "Thank You for Loving Me," "Shake a Tail Feather,"'for the Five Du-Tones and "Twine Time" for Ike and Tina Turner.
After kicking the crack habit in the late 90s he released Silky considered one of the most over-the-top street CDs ever.
That's All I Need picks up from there.
Pay attention to the cuts "When Love Shoots You In the Foot,"'"Cigarettes and My Old Lady" and "There Ain't No Such Thing As Good Dope." Cow punk is back.
Publisher, Lee County Courier, Tupelo, MS
Andre Williams sings he "just needs one step above the ghetto, that's all I need."
He should know. Twenty years ago if you were on a Chicago bridge you would found Andre, homeless, drug addicted and begging for money.
And that wasn't the first time the 74-year-old R&B'blues artist had hit bottom. He hit it early when his mama died when he was six and raised by his "aunties."
All that's in the past. Andre now over dresses in three piece lavender suits, with a zoot hat and large Turquoise ring and brings audiences, young and old, to their feet with his scanting lyrics of street life delivered over hollow drums and fuzz guitars. His latest CD, That's All I Need, recently released on Bloodshot Records.
Andre had previous high-points too. He co-wrote Stevie Wonder's first song "Thank You for Loving Me," "Shake a Tail Feather,"'for the Five Du-Tones and "Twine Time" for Ike and Tina Turner.
After kicking the crack habit in the late 90s he released Silky considered one of the most over-the-top street CDs ever.
That's All I Need picks up from there.
Pay attention to the cuts "When Love Shoots You In the Foot,"'"Cigarettes and My Old Lady" and "There Ain't No Such Thing As Good Dope." Cow punk is back.
30% brilliant - the rest good
1 Jun 2011
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With Dennis Coffey present on guitar, Andre Williams turns in a stellar "talking blues" CD. At least three of the tracks deserve immortality - "That's All I Need", "Tricks" and "Amends", This CD is certainly more main stream blues/ R & B than some of Mr. Williams' recent output - and he is to be admired and congratulated at the age of 75 - and a life style that is the stuff of legend - for continuing his contributions. On this CD, Mr. Williams certainly matches up to the late Gil Scott-Heron and his voice has some of the authority of William Burroughs in his later years. Good stuff
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