I'm currently revisiting some of my favorite Willy DeVille songs - which remind me of a TV shoot I did with him in New Orleans in 1992, on the event of the German release of his album "Backstreets of Desire" (for the magazine "Das! Das Abendstudio" on the Northern German TV channel NDR). He had moved to the French Quarter around 1990 and recorded the album in the Big Easy (just like 1990's "Vic...
Sad to hear that the great Willy DeVille, of NYC punk-era r&b band Mink DeVille, has died of pancreatic cancer. Willy's was the first concert I saw in NYC back in the fall of 2006, when he was doing his "acoustic trio" material consisting of standards like "Let It Be Me," "Spanish Harlem," and his soulful take on "Billy The Kid," from Bob Dylan's soundtrack to the film Pat Garrett and Billy th...
I'm currently revisiting some of my favorite Willy DeVille songs - which remind me of a TV shoot I did with him in New Orleans in 1992, on the event of the German release of his album "Backstreets of Desire" (for the magazine "Das! Das Abendstudio" on the Northern German TV channel NDR). He had moved to the French Quarter around 1990 and recorded the album in the Big Easy (just like 1990's "Vic...
Sad to hear that the great Willy DeVille, of NYC punk-era r&b band Mink DeVille, has died of pancreatic cancer. Willy's was the first concert I saw in NYC back in the fall of 2006, when he was doing his "acoustic trio" material consisting of standards like "Let It Be Me," "Spanish Harlem," and his soulful take on "Billy The Kid," from Bob Dylan's soundtrack to the film Pat Garrett and Billy th...