Andre Williams & The Sadies, "One Eyed Jack"

Here's some exciting news via Twitter and the A.V. Club: blues/R&B/soul musician Andre Williams has once again teamed up with Canada's most dangerous alt-country/garage-rock/surf-guitar band, The Sadies, for his new album, Night and Day (due out May 15th). Dubbed the "Father of Rap" by some for his style of talk-singing, and dubbed the "Master of Sleazy R&B" by others for the punk and garage elements of his music, Williams' career in music goes back to the '50s, when he scored Billboard R&B chart hits with the songs "Jail bait" and Bacon Fat." In the '60s artists such as Stevie Wonder, Ike & Tina Turner, and Edwin Starr recorded songs he had written, and in the '70s he wrote music for the likes Parliament and Funkadelic. Williams struggled with drug addiction, alcohol and poverty throughout the '80s, but he rebounded in the 90's, recording Mr. Rhythm in 1996, Silky in 1998, and his first record with The Sadies, Red Dirt, in 1999. While Williams has continued to struggle with drug and legal issues in recent years, he has also remained prolific as a musician, touring regularly and releasing upwards of ten records in various genres throughout the last decade. Night and Day sees him returning to the garage rock sound he helped pioneer, and doing so with one of the best garage rock bands in the business today. Jump over to the A.V. Club here to listen to "One Eyed Jack."