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Willy DeVille

Even as part of the 1970s CBGB's scene in New York which produced remarkable artists and characters like Talking Heads, Television, Patti Smith and The Ramones, Willy DeVille stood out as being unique. Leading his band Mink Deville, he was a flamboyant, rake-thin dandy with a quiffed mane of hair and snakeskin jackets who brought together rockabilly, blues, soul and Cajun sounds into a swaggering, vaudeville rock & roll act. Born into a blue-collar family in the factory town of Stamford, Connecticut, he ran away from home as a teenager and landed in Greenwich Village in the la...