Bait and Switch

Bait and Switch

ASIN: B00005YMQD

Track Listings

1. Millie in the Garden

2. Pay the Bill

3. Bluehair

4. Nunn Bunn

5. Last Ditch Effort

6. Mending the Nets

7. Nip and Tuck

8. Silly Season

9. Stone Lips

10. Flashpot

11. Throwing the Litter

12. Swatters Rites

13. Montana Thumb

14. Broughton's Flume

Tracks:

My Mysterioius Death (Turn It Up)
Is She Shy
Down to High Street
Quarrel With the World
Cheater's Heaven
Cyclotron
Negative Guest List
Fire in the Swimming Girl
You Can't Kill Stupid
Rnr Hall of Fame
Contract Dispute
Wrongheaded

Customer Reviews:

A classic.......2007-04-17

Bob Petric was a great guitarist and Ron House was a great lyricist. This record is only one rung below the best albums ever made (i.e., End on End, Lonesome Crowded West, Appetite for Destruction). On par with Velvet Underground and Nico, any Stones, any Zeppelin, any Stooges, any Metallica, any Mastodon. Better than pretty much everything else but Unwound and Fugazi.

Greatest album ever made - hands down.......2003-02-21

The Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments are sadly no longer together, but frontman Ron House is still playing. He is opening up for Guided by Voices in Columbus, Ohio on 02-21-03. This record is truly a wonderful complex and intelligent masterpiece with a raw punk sound backed by an almost dance beat like bass track. It rocks. House has been interviewed by Spin Magazine as well as National Public Radio. If you are a fan of true punk music and don't own this album, you are not a true rocker. Check out Cheater's Heaven--the best single ever recorded. Buy this record if you can find it...

Greatest record ever made--hands down.......2003-02-21

Average customer rating:

Pimp (sic) and circumstance.

Bait and Switch
Andre Williams
Manufacturer: Norton
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005JH6X
Release Date: 2001-06-12

Tracks:

Detroit Michigan
Get This Love Off My Mind
I Ain't Guilty (with Rudy Ray Moore)
Bait And Switch
Put That Skillet Away
Sling It Bang It And Give It Cab Fare Home
Soul Brother In Heaven And Hell
It's Gonna Work Out Fine (with Ronnie Spector)
Your Stuff Ain't The Same
The Lie
Head First
Open Your Eyes
Hey Country Girl
Bigger Than Greed Or Need
Sent Up
Burning The Roses

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

This is filthy, filthy stuff in the very best sense of the word. With a grimy, smothering, garage-soul sound and a pocketful of nasty songs, 65-year-old Andre Williams goes right for the throat and doesn't let up. First, the quick facts: Williams establishes himself in the 1950s as the king of raunchy R&B, has some success as a Motown staff writer and producer in the 1960s, spends the ensuing decades watching his musical career devolve into a life as a street hustler and junkie, and finally climbs from the depths in the late 1990s to find a resuscitated career and a cult following waiting for him. Bait and Switch is a powerhouse of smutty soul. The musical core is in the hands of guitarist, cowriter, and producer Matt Verta-Ray (late of indie rockers Madder Rose). Guest shots feature a range of folks from Ronnie Spector and doo-wop singers the Four Dollars to sax-honking Harlem legend Lonnie Youngblood, veteran R&B belter Rudy Ray Moore, and punk guitar god Robert Quine. Williams's salacious spoken-word style has earned him kudos as the godfather of rap, and he offers ample doses of that style here along with some snarling, growling, sneering vocals. The whole package adds up to a gloriously grubby, hair-raising romp. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Pimp (sic) and circumstance........2001-07-20

Andre Williams, known as Mr. Rhythm and the Father of Rap, does it again! Following on the heels of last year's 'The Black Godfather', Williams has unleashed yet another brilliant disc of tough, authentic r&b - the likes of which were thought to be extinct - in 'Bait and Switch'. The formula is deceptively simple: big greasy riffs plus loud, crude vocals equals another inspired Andre Williams masterpiece.

Perhaps best known as the co-author of the r&b classic "Shake a Tailfeather", Williams has penned several standouts for 'Bait and Switch'. Songs like "Sling It Bang It And Give It Cab Fare Home", "Put That Skillet Away", and "Your Stuff Ain't The Same" incorporate the telltale swagger and ethos of Williams' earlier work ("Jail Bait", "The Greasy Chicken", "Bacon Fat,"), and make good on the promise of their outrageous titles, to boot.

Beautifully produced by Billy Miller and Williams' guitarist Matt Verta-Ray, this disc features a pair of amazing vocal cameos: Rudy Ray Moore duets with Williams on the classic courtroom drama for the ears 'I Ain't Guilty', and Ronnie Spector adds her still fine-sounding pipes on Ike Turner's "It's Gonna Work Out Fine".

Also on hand is the inimitable Robert Quine (Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Lou Reed) who contributes his unique guitar stylings to "Head First" and "Bigger Than Greed or Need". Said Quine of the sessions: "Now I've worked with two geniuses: Lou Reed and Andre Williams."

Bait and Switch
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Bait and Switch
Spigot
Manufacturer: Spigot (Burnside)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005YMQD
Release Date: 2001-12-18

Tracks:

Millie in the Garden
Pay the Bill
Bluehair
Nunn Bunn
Last Ditch Effort
Mending the Nets
Nip and Tuck
Silly Season
Stone Lips
Flashpot
Throwing the Litter
Swatters Rites
Montana Thumb
Broughton's Flume

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