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swing. They favoured castanets over tom-toms, and accordion over distorted guitars, and Willy delivered his vocals with a sweet, tuneful flexibility that brought out the emotional resonance beneath his nasal sneer. What the wiry, dapper DeVille had that tied him to fellow CBGB resident bands like The
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American audiences would not warm to a record featuring accordions and strings. "It says something about the state of the American record business—something pathetic and depressing—that Willy DeVille's finest album fell on deaf ears at Capitol," wrote
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So maybe another name change would help—God knows the music was great. Mink Pie ... hmmmm. 'No, it's gotta be something slick—something sorta French, somethin' sorta black ... poetry. Mink ... MINK DE VILLE!' blurted out Toots, Willie's omnipresent, black-bouffanted old lady, whose quiet
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DeVille said about their first meeting, "Now here I am at 29, a writer, doing pretty good and I've just been asked if I want to write songs with a guy who helped lay the foundations for the music I fell in love with sitting at my mother's kitchen table when I was only seven years old. You've got to
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music was born in the mid-1970s. "We auditioned along with hundreds of others, but they liked us and took us on. We played for three years ... uring that time we didn't get paid more than fifty bucks a night", DeVille said. In 1975, CBGB was the epicenter of punk rock and what would later be called
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did in France). Rootsy, hook-laden rock, iconic balladry, and the theater of aural experience were all contained in songs that offered the illusion that one could still find acted out under a streetlamp-lit stage, in front of a trashcan bonfire, narrated by one costumed in the decadent attire of a
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I had band problems, manager problems, record company problems. And yeah, I had drug problems. Finally I got a new recording contract, with
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wrote, "Mr. DeVille is a magnetic performer, but his macho stage presence camouflages an acute musical intelligence; his songs and arrangements are rich in ethnic rhythms and blues echoes, the most disparate stylistic references, yet they flow seamlessly and hang together solidly. He embodies (New
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said about the band, "Mink DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow — timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a
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When Mink DeVille took the stage (at CBGB) and tore into "Let Me Dream if I Want To" followed by another scorcher called "She's So Tough," they had me. These five guys ... were obviously part of the new energy, but I also felt immediately reconnected to all the rock & roll I loved best: the
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which where I come from is a bad word. A punk is somebody who picks a fight with you and then never shows up." In 2007, Willy DeVille said about the bands that played CBGBs, "We were all labeled as part of this
American punk thing but I really didn't see any of us having much in common." "Every
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sort of way." Another story about the Mink DeVille name says that it originated with Fast Floyd, who owned an old
Cadillac with a cracked dashboard. To cover the cracks, Fast Floyd glued an old mink coat he had purchased at a thrift store to the dashboard. According to a 1977 article in
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Atlantic records, having departed from his previous recording commitment under less than amicable circumstances. And on Friday night he was at the
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down on Folsom Street," Willy DeVille recalled. "We were Billy de Sade and the
Marquis then. We played the Barracks. After a while they would take their clothes off. This one guy—Jesus Satin he called himself—he'd dance on the pool table. It was nuts! Crazy!"
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Euro-trash lothario-cum-stiletto-carrying 1950s gang banger ... They captivate a listener in the same way a great period film would—they tell an epic story in a few minutes and capture all of its life and death drama.
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Atlantic Records chairman said, 'You got the look, the performance, the writing, you know exactly what to do.'"
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mercenaries, some cats who just wanted to play and get paid. And those guys turned out to be more devoted to the music than any band I ever had. They're professional, precise, but they're full of fire, too.
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and he came back from Paris with a very different kind of record. They didn't understand the record, but they understood it in Europe. They released it immediately in Europe and everybody loved it." After
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singer ..." Wrote Mark Keresman, "Mink DeVille's earthy, streamlined sound, rejecting the mainstream high-gloss that ruined much of 1970s rock, was accepted by the same folks who'd go to see
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you man, but that's the way it's gotta be.' I still feel guilty about it, but we were just a good bar band. That's all we were. We weren't ready to make great rock and roll records."
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stuff that we grew up with and loved. We just fell in love with each other. We were buddies to the end. He was like my crazy uncle. I called him my mentor and my tormentor.
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telling you what to like. Europe had not had MTV at that point and they were very open to different music." DeVille said about his years with
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Loder, Kurt (December 11, 1980). "Review: Willy DeVille's best –
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Cohen, Elliot Stephen (August–September 2006). "Willy DeVille".
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stuff. The only stuff we were doing that people had heard was '
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in 1985. For this album, DeVille penned two more songs with
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1546:"Mink DeVille: Smooth Running Caddy – The Tale of The Mink"
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Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus
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2253:Jurek, Thom (August 10, 2009).
2180:. No. 329. pp. 20–23.
2118:. No. 332. pp. 55–56.
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2343:"DeVille Files for Bankruptcy"
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2310:. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
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2093:(CD insert). Mink DeVille.
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1604:"Interview: Willy DeVille"
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2586:The Best of Mink DeVille
2556:Spanish Stroll 1977-1987
2387:The Best Of Mink Deville
2089:Albus, Lawrence (2003).
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1650:"Re: Boogie By The Bay"
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1918:Edmonds, Ben (2001).
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1396:Drums: Shawn Murray,
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1352:Willy DeVille Live
1235:Jersey Shore sound
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2506:Return to Magenta
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2299:Jurek, Thom.
2061:Christgau, Robert
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1526:Return to Magenta
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