At 79 years old, Andre Mr Rhythm Williams has been a singer, writer, producer, star-maker, showman, cult hero and hustler for six decades. He has been high, and he has been low. He has toured the world in snazzy suits and lived on the streets asking for change.
For I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City, his fifth album for Bloodshot Records,
he wanted to return to his adopted hometown of Detroit – a town that has seen
peaks and valleys just like Andre; from hustle and bustle to bust, from drinking
out of crystal to drinking out of brown
paper.
Here, the living legend is joined by a who's who of Detroit's finest, including Dennis Coffey (Funk Brothers), Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry, Rodriguez), Dan Kroha (Gories, Demolition Doll Rods), and Jim White (Dirty Three, Cat Power) for a study in slow burning, slinky, psychedelic soul.