Silky

Artist: Andre Williams
Label: In the Red Records
Category: Music

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Media: LP Record

UPC: 759718505610
EAN: 0759718505610
ASIN: B00005YAFT

Release Date: 1998-02-24

Silky

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Tracks:

Agile, Mobile and Hostile
I Wanna Be Your Favorite Pair of Pajamas
Bonin'
Through It All
Looking Down at You/Looking up at Me
Bring Me Back My Car Unstripped
Car With the Star
Pussy Stank
Only Black Man in South Dakota
Let Me Put It In
Country Western Song
Everybody Knew

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Williams made his nickname of "Mr. Rhythm" by talking his way through a series of fun, creepy, sleazy-sounding R&B records back in the '50s. The 1998 Silky is a lot more, uh, explicit (there's a big difference between "Bacon Fat" and "Let Me Put It In"), and Williams sometimes sounds unconvinced by the words he's drawling, though his torn-up purr slyly makes the point of "Only Black Man In South Dakota." The band behind him--a group of garage rock all-stars including members of the Gories and Demolition Doll-Rods--is terrific, backing him up with an echoey multi-guitar roar that's nothing like what he used in his R&B days, but suits his rasp nicely. <I>--Douglas Wolk</I>

Customer Reviews:

not for people with weak hearts.......2005-08-17

if you do not like to hear "raw" music, then don't buy this CD. But if you want to hear something different, then buy it. I like it, it kind of grows on you (but not like a fungus, but almost). This is about as uncommercial as it gets, I'm surprised anybody besides me actually wants to hear this, but it's good. i particularly like the cut 'Bring Me Back My Car Unstripped (Mother******)" and "Car With The Star".

raving mad and depraved brilliance.......2004-01-02

Andre Williams has survived more than most of us ever will. In the 50s and 60s he worked on the fringes of the rock/R&B field, issuing sleazy records like "Bacon Fat" and "Greasy Chicken," and working as a producer. A stint in Ike Turner's post-Tina band helped him acquire a severe drinking and crack habit that landed him on the street. He struggled back from addiction and began making records again in the 90s.

Far from being 50s R&B records, Williams' current CD's are skull-cracking exercises in the kind of depravity that the late Screamin' Jay Hawkins used to indulge in. "Silky" is a triumphant, raging comeback of filthy-minded (and filthy-mouthed) garage rock that sounds like the musical equivalent of the wildest night you ever had, multiplied by 10. He drawls and growls his way through songs like "P*ssy Stank," "Bring Me Back My Car Unstripped," and the frankly frightening "Agile, Mobile and Hostile," with impressive panache, especially considering he's 65 years old. This is music to get drunk and pick up strippers and steal a firetruck and rob a bank to.

Back in the day, there used to be preachers who would refer to rock and roll as the Devil's music. Andre Williams' "Silky" is exactly what they had in mind. Listen now, repent later.

Another badly produced album spoils a great artist.......2000-07-23

Like Williams' other recent CD, RED DIRT, this is so badly produced, you have a hard time hearing some of the lyrics--which are the whole point of the exercise. Massively loud, bad guitar work hammers the rest of the mix. (Surprise: The guitarist did dual duty as the "producer" of this mess.) Andre Williams needs to dump these clowns and get the kind of professional production he enjoyed in the 1950s.

Raw, raunchy and excellent.......2000-07-14

This is one of the greatest garage rock n' roll albums EVER! For fans of Andre's early work as well as fans of the Cramps, Blues Explosion, Gories, ect. Mr. Rhythm is king!

Good Lord, what he gets away with.......2000-05-03

"Silky" is actually a garage-rock effort, pretty far removed from Andre's R&B roots. But it's also the greatest garage-rock album of the '90s, and would have fit right alongside the Gories on the Crypt Records roster of the decade. For a 60+-year-old man, Andre's mind is strictly in the juvenile gutter, but at least he's a talented exhibitionist. References to sex (all types) abound, albeit with comparitively little obscenity. Two cuts especially, the obvious "Let Me Put It In" and the jealously apocalyptic "Everybody Knew," make him sound like he's in physical pain. He growls, huffs, and doesn't give a damn what you think. What more could you ask?

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