Fabled R&B singer Andre Williams recorded with Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner and Mary Wells. Ryan Scully joins that list with the Black Godfather’s latest album, Can You Deal with It? on Bloodshot Records, due out at the end of the month.

Scully and his bands, Morning 40 Federation and the New Orleans Hellhounds, have a history that spans the last decade with the 70-year-old Williams. With a mutual love for hard, heavy riffs and debauched ly...