Artists
who's who and who's doing what?Willy DeVille
- country:USA
- style(s):Rock
- label:Brilliant
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
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Critic Robert Palmer wrote about him in 1980, "Mr. DeVille is a magnetic performer, but his macho stage prescence 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 seamslessly and hang together solidly. He embodies (New York's) tangle of cultural contradictions while making music that's both idiomatic, in the broadest sense, and utterly original."
The typical DeVille song - if any of his songs can be called "typical" - is filled with romantic conviction and yearning. Latin rhythms, blues riffs, strains of country music, and echoes of early-1960s uptown soul can be heard in DeVille's work.
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