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One of the last remaining links to the heyday of R&B and funk, "Mr. Rhythm" is a pure living legend of black music. Andre Williams not only produced and wrote songs for folks like Ike Turner, Parliament/Funkadelic, Edwin Starr, and Stevie Wonder, and worked at seminal labels like Chess, Motown, and Fortune Records, but he also wrote and sang an enormous number of his own songs, cult classics like "Jail Bait", "Greasy Chicken", and "Bacon Fat". This release focuses on the earliest -- and dirtiest -- years of his five-decade-long career, compiling all of his singles from 1956-1957 for the legendary Fortune Records label.
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"One of the last remaining links to the heyday of R&B and funk, 'Mr. Rhythm' is a pure living legend of black music. He not only produced and wrote songs for folks like Ike Turner, Parliament/Funkadelic, Edwin Starr, and Stevie Wonder, and worked at seminal labels like Chess, Motown, and Fortune Records, but he also wrote and sang an enormous number of his own songs, cult classics like 'Jail Bait,' 'Greasy Chicken,' and 'Bacon Fat'. This release focuses on the earliest -- and dirtiest -- years of his five-decade-long career, compiling all of his singles from 1957-1958 for the legendary Fortune Records label."
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VAMPI 084CD
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2007 release. With a mind-boggling 50-year career in the music business, 70-year old Andre Williams is showing no signs of slowing down. The original rapper and R&B performer returns to his soulful roots on Aphrodisiac, enlisting The Diplomats Of Solid Sound as his backing band on this diverse and adventurous offering. Hints of blues, rock, R&B, rap and soul fill the grooves of this release that flows seamlessly from start to finish. Andre's voice never sounded better as he tackles topics ranging from alcoholism ("I'm Not Worthy"), Hurricane Katrina ("Thee Sisters"), rejection ("I Can See"), and love ("Do You Remember"). But it's also a fun, masterfully produced album that will transfix both past Andre fans and new listeners. Recorded in Iowa City, this is the real Andre... the real deal... from the "Black Godfather."
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VAMPI 073CD
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2006 release. Vampisoul is proud to release a CD by the genius from Detroit, Andre Williams. Compiling some of his more funky soul tracks from the '60s, originally released by Fortune, Avin, Sport, Wingate, Ric-Tic, Checker and Chess, and featuring previously unreleased songs. Andre recorded over 50 songs for Fortune including: "Bacon Fat," "JailBait," "Pass The Biscuits" and "The Greasy Chicken." Andre began recording under various pseudonyms such as The Five Dollars and The Don Juans. He became known as a record producer and songwriter, composing such tunes as: "Shake A Tailfeather," "Cadillac Jack," "Funky Judge" and "Twine Time." He was hired and fired as staff producer and A&R man numerous times by Barry Gordy at Motown. Mr. Rhythm (as he was nick named by Redd Foxx) produced records for Mary Wells, Stevie Wonder, The Dramatics, The Chi-Lites, Ike & Tina Turner and even penned material for George Clinton's Funkadelic. Andre was always a wild man with the ladies and never said no to a party and by the 1980s Andre Williams found himself down and out -- living on the streets and at the end of a crack pipe. In 1996 Andre bounced back in a big way -- he cleaned up his act and began making music again. His comeback album, Greasy, was recorded for the St. George and Norton labels which put him back on the live performing circuit and back in the conscious of the music buying public. In 1998 Andre released his sleaze-rock masterpiece, Silky, on In The Red Records, which proved to be a commercial and critical smash for Andre. Since the release of Silky, Andre has toured the US and Europe numerous times and his following has grown larger and larger. He toured a number of times with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who wound up recording with Andre as well as crediting him as executive producer on their Acme album. This record is going to be as good as it gets and so is Andre Williams. Lord have mercy!
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