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Willy DeVille, the Glossary

Willy DeVille (born William Paul Borsey Jr.; August 25, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American singer and songwriter.^[1]

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A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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Absinthe is an anise-flavored spirit derived from several plants, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium ("grand wormwood"), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin

Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin is a 2002 album by Willy DeVille.

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Akimel O'odham

The Akimel O'odham (O'odham for "river people"), also called the Pima, are a group of Native Americans living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona, as well as northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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Alex Halberstadt

Alex Halberstadt is an American nonfiction writer and journalist.

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Allen Toussaint

Allen Richard Toussaint (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. Willy DeVille and Allen Toussaint are rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Americana music

Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States of America, with particular emphasis on music historically developed in the American South.

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Amphetamine

Amphetamine (contracted from alpha-methylphenethylamine) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity.

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Andre Williams (musician)

Zephire Andre Williams (November 1, 1936 – March 17, 2019) was an American R&B musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (or A&R for short) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Backstreets of Desire

Backstreets of Desire is an album by Willy DeVille.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beehive (hairstyle)

The beehive is a hairstyle in which long hair is piled up in a conical shape on the top of the head and slightly backwards pointing, giving some resemblance to the shape of a traditional beehive.

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Ben E. King

Benjamin Earl King (né Nelson; September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. Willy DeVille and Ben E. King are American soul singers and singer-songwriters from New York (state).

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Big Easy Fantasy

Big Easy Fantasy is an album by Willy DeVille and the Mink DeVille Band.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Black Elk

Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk (baptized Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950), was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man") and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people.

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Blacklight paint

Black light paint or black light fluorescent paint is luminous paint that glows under a black light.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Willy DeVille and bob Dylan are American blues guitarists, American blues singers, American harmonica players, American rock songwriters, guitarists from New York City, singer-songwriters from New York (state) and singers from New York City.

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Boogie

Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm,Burrows, Terry (1995).

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Bourbon Street

Bourbon Street (Rue Bourbon, Calle de Borbón) is a historic street in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans.

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Brenda Lee

Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer.

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Brian Ray

Brian Thomas Ray is an American musician best known as a guitarist, bassist, backing vocalist with Paul McCartney's touring band since 2002 and formerly as a musical director and guitarist for Etta James. Willy DeVille and Brian Ray are American rock songwriters.

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Brown-eyed soul

Brown-eyed soul, also referred to as Chicano soul, Hispanic soul, or Latino soul, is soul music & rhythm & blues (R&B) performed in the United States mainly by Hispanic Latinos and Chicanos in Southern California, East Los Angeles, and San Antonio (Texas) during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Willy DeVille and Bruce Springsteen are American harmonica players and American rock songwriters.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Cabretta

Cabretta, known as Mink DeVille in the United States, was the 1977 debut album by Mink DeVille.

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Cajun music

Cajun music (Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada.

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Canal Street, New Orleans

Canal Street (rue du canal) is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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CBGB

CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in the East Village in Manhattan, New York City.

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Chain gang

A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.

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Coup de Grâce (Mink DeVille album)

Coup de Grâce is the fourth album by the rock band Mink DeVille, released in 1981.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.

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Creem

Creem (often stylized in all caps) is an American rock music magazine and entertainment company, founded in Detroit, whose initial print run lasted from 1969 to 1989.

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Crow Jane Alley

Crow Jane Alley is an album by Willy DeVille.

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Culture Club

Culture Club are an English new wave band formed in London in 1981.

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David Hidalgo

David Kent Hidalgo (born October 6, 1954, in Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos.

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Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino.

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Dirty Linen (magazine)

Dirty Linen was a bi-monthly magazine of folk and world music based in Baltimore, Maryland, US.

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Discovery Records

Discovery Records was a United States-based record company and label known for its recordings of jazz music.

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Dobro

Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone.

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Doc Pomus

Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. Willy DeVille and Doc Pomus are American blues singers.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

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Dr. John

Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. Willy DeVille and Dr. John are American soul singers, rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans and singer-songwriters from Louisiana.

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Eagle Records

Eagle Records is a British record label, a division of Eagle Rock Entertainment, itself a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.

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Earl King

Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003), known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. Willy DeVille and Earl King are American blues guitarists, guitarists from Louisiana, rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans and singer-songwriters from Louisiana.

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East West Records

East West Records (stylized as eastwest) is a record label formed in 1955, distributed and owned by Warner Music Group, headquartered in London, England.

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Eddie Bo

Edwin Joseph Bocage (September 20, 1930 – March 18, 2009), known as Eddie Bo, was an American singer and pianist from New Orleans. Willy DeVille and Eddie Bo are rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television presenter.

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Ernie K-Doe

Ernest Kador Jr. (February 22, 1933 – July 5, 2001), known by the stage name Ernie K-Doe, was an American R&B singer best known for his 1961 hit single "Mother-in-Law", which went to number 1 on the Billboard pop chart in the U.S. Willy DeVille and Ernie K-Doe are rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans.

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Flower power

Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Freebo

Daniel Friedberg, better known by the stage name Freebo, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer noted primarily for his work with Bonnie Raitt.

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French Quarter

The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans.

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Gang

A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.

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George Jones

George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Glenn A. Baker

Glenn A. Baker (born 28 July 1952) is an Australian journalist, commentator, author, and broadcaster well known in Australia for his vast knowledge of Rock music.

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Graceland

Graceland is a mansion on a estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, once owned by American singer Elvis Presley.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver; it is a type of viral hepatitis.

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Heredity

Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.

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Hey Joe

"Hey Joe" is an American song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and has been performed in many musical styles by hundreds of different artists.

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Hip replacement

Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis.

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Horse of a Different Color (Willy DeVille album)

Horse of a Different Color is a 1999 album by Willy DeVille.

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House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play at an establishment.

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Jack Nitzsche

Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer.

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Jean-Claude Petit

Jean-Claude Petit (born 14 November 1943) is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne.

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Jeff Baxter

Jeffrey Allen "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. Willy DeVille and Jeff Baxter are American slide guitarists.

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Jerry Scheff

Jerry Obern Scheff (born January 31, 1941) is an American bassist, best known for his work with Elvis Presley from 1969 to 1977 as a member of his TCB Band and on the Doors' L.A. Woman.

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Jim Dickinson

James Luther Dickinson (November 15, 1941 – August 15, 2009) was an American record producer, pianist, and singer who fronted, among others, the band Mud Boy and the Neutrons, based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Jim Gilstrap

James Earl Gilstrap (born November 10, 1946) is an American singer and session musician.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. Willy DeVille and Jimi Hendrix are American blues guitarists, American blues singers and American rock songwriters.

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Jimmy Zavala

Jimmy 'Z' Zavala (born July 12, 1955) is an American musician. Willy DeVille and Jimmy Zavala are American harmonica players.

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Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that featured expressive body movements.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Willy DeVille and John Lee Hooker are American blues guitarists and singer-songwriters from Mississippi.

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John P. Hammond

John Paul Hammond (born November 13, 1942) is an American singer and musician. Willy DeVille and John P. Hammond are American blues guitarists, American blues singers, American slide guitarists, guitarists from New York City and singers from New York City.

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John Philip Shenale

John Philip Shenale (often mentioned as Phil Shenale) is a Canadian composer, arranger, musician and producer based in Los Angeles.

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Kabuki

is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance.

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Latin rock

Latin rock is a term to describe a subgenre blending traditional sounds and elements of Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean folk with rock music.

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Latino (demonym)

The masculine term Latino, along with its feminine form Latina, is a noun and adjective, often used in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, that most commonly refers to United States inhabitants who have cultural ties to Latin America.

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Le Chat Bleu

Le Chat Bleu is the third album by the rock band Mink DeVille, released in 1980.

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Lead single

A lead single (or first single) is the first single to be released from a studio album by an artist or a band, usually before the album itself is released and also occasionally on the same day of the album's release date.

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Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter. Willy DeVille and Little Richard are American rock songwriters and American soul singers.

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Los Cerrillos, New Mexico

Los Cerrillos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.

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Los Lobos

Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves") is a Mexican-American rock band from East Los Angeles, California.

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Louis X. Erlanger

Louis X. Erlanger (born June 3, 1952, New York City) is an American rock and roll and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Mink DeVille. Willy DeVille and Louis X. Erlanger are guitarists from New York City and Mink DeVille members.

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Louisiana Creole

Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana.

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Louisiana Voodoo

Louisiana Voodoo (Vaudou louisianais, Vudú de Luisiana, Voudou Lalwizyàn), also known as New Orleans Voodoo, is an African diasporic religion that originated in Louisiana.

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Loup Garou (album)

Loup Garou (French for werewolf) is an album released in 1995 by Willy DeVille.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.

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Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras (also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.

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Mardi Gras throws

Mardi Gras throws are strings of beads, doubloons, cups, or other trinkets passed out or thrown from the floats for Mardi Gras celebrations, particularly in New Orleans, the Mobile, Alabama, and parades throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States, to spectators lining the streets.

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Mariachi

Mariachi is an ensemble of musicians that typically play ranchera, the regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico.

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Mariachi los Camperos

Mariachi los Camperos de Nati Cano is a Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles–based mariachi ensemble which was formerly led by Natividad "Nati" Cano.

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Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Marlboro

Marlboro is an American brand of cigarettes owned and manufactured by Philip Morris USA (a branch of Altria) within the United States and by Philip Morris International (now separate from Altria) outside the US except Canada where the brand is owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco Canada.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Mink DeVille

Mink DeVille was a rock band founded in 1974, known for its association with early punk rock bands at New York's CBGB nightclub and for being a showcase for the music of Willy DeVille.

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Miracle (Willy DeVille album)

Miracle is an album by Willy DeVille.

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American singer and guitarist of hill country blues music. Willy DeVille and Mississippi Fred McDowell are American blues guitarists, American blues singers and American slide guitarists.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". Willy DeVille and Muddy Waters are American blues guitarists.

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Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section is a group of American session musicians based in the northern Alabama town of Muscle Shoals.

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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is an American recording studio in Sheffield, Alabama, formed in 1969 by four session musicians known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

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Music of Latin America

The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States.

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Music of Louisiana

The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Musician (magazine)

Musician was a monthly magazine that covered news and information about American popular music.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New Orleans rhythm and blues

New Orleans rhythm and blues is a style of rhythm and blues that originated in New Orleans.

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Nick Lowe

Nicholas Drain Lowe (born 24 March 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer.

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Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.

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Nose piercing

Nose piercing is the piercing of the skin or cartilage which forms any part of the nose, normally for the purpose of wearing jewelry, called a nose-jewel.

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Overdubbing

Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording new, doubled, or augmented tracks onto one or more available tracks of a digital audio workstation (DAW) or tape recorder.

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Pachuco

Pachucos are male members of a counterculture that emerged in El Paso, Texas, in the late 1930s.

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Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass.

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Pazz & Jop

Pazz & Jop was an annual poll of top musical releases, compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice and created by music critic Robert Christgau.

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Pequots

The Pequot are a Native American people of Connecticut.

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Peter Wolf

Peter Wolf (born March 7, 1946) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of The J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and as a solo artist. Willy DeVille and Peter Wolf are American blues singers and American rock songwriters.

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Phil Spector

Harvey Phillip Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer best known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s along with his two trials and conviction for the murder of Lana Clarkson in the 2000s.

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Picayune, Mississippi

Picayune is the largest city in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States.

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Pistola

Pistola is the last album by Willy DeVille, released on Mardi Gras day 2008 as a nod to DeVille's musical roots in New Orleans.

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Polydor Records

Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Pompadour (hairstyle)

The pompadour is a hairstyle named after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), a mistress of King Louis XV of France.

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Post-industrial society

In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Puerto Rico

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Ram pickup

The Ram pickup (marketed as the Dodge Ram until 2010 when Ram Trucks was spun-off from Dodge) is a full-size pickup truck manufactured by Stellantis North America (formerly Chrysler Group LLC and FCA US LLC) and marketed from 2010 onwards under the Ram Trucks brand.

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Raven Records

Raven Records was an Australian record label that specialised in retrospectives and reissues or recordings by American, British and Australian artists.

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Return to Magenta

Return to Magenta, issued in 1978, is the second album by the rock band Mink DeVille.

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Rhett Butler

Rhett Butler (born 1828) is a fictional character in the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and in the 1939 film adaptation of the same name.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rob Reiner

Robert Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Robert Palmer (American writer)

Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Roots rock

Roots rock is a genre of rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music.

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Second line (parades)

The second line is a tradition in parades organized by Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs (SAPCs) with brass band parades in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Selective breeding

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

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Sideman

A sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform live with a solo artist, or with a group in which they are not a regular band member.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Southside Johnny

John Lyon (born December 4, 1948), known professionally as Southside Johnny, is an American singer-songwriter who usually fronts his band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Willy DeVille and Southside Johnny are American blues singers, American harmonica players and American soul singers.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

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Spanish Stroll

Spanish Stroll is a 1977 single by Mink DeVille, off their debut album Cabretta.

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Sportin' Life (Mink DeVille album)

Sportin’ Life is the sixth and final studio album by the rock band Mink DeVille, released in 1985.

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Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, outside of New York City.

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Steve Douglas (musician)

Steven Douglas Kreisman (September 24, 1938 – April 19, 1993) was an American saxophonist and flautist.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Sture Lagerwall

Sture Lagerwall (13 December 1908 – 1 November 1964) was a Swedish actor and film director.

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Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists. Willy DeVille and Tammy Wynette are singer-songwriters from Mississippi.

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Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal.

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Tejano music

Tejano music (música tejana), also known as Tex-Mex music, is a popular music style fusing Mexican and US influences.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Drifters

The Drifters are an American pop and R&B/soul vocal group.

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The Holy Modal Rounders

The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who formed in 1963 on the Lower East Side of New York City.

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The Human League

The Human League is an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The J. Geils Band

The J. Geils Band was an American rock band formed in 1967, in Worcester, Massachusetts, under the leadership of guitarist John "J." Geils.

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The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Meters

The Meters (later The Funky Meters) are an American funk band formed in 1965 in New Orleans by Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), George Porter Jr. (bass), Leo Nocentelli (guitar) and Art Neville (keyboards).

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The Princess Bride (film)

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Robin Wright.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Ronettes

The Ronettes were an American girl group from Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles

The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles is a charts reference book published in October 2008.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Wild Magnolias

The Wild Magnolias are a Mardi Gras Indian tribe who also record and play as a funk musical act from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Theme music

Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at some point during the program.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor. Willy DeVille and Tom Waits are American rock songwriters.

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Toots Deville

Toots Deville (February 19, 1950 – August 19, 2004) was known as the wife of musician Willy Deville, and for her work as his personal manager and association with the band Mink DeVille during the 1970s.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven decades.

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Victory Mixture

Victory Mixture is a 1990 album by Willy DeVille.

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Virgin Books

Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.

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Wall of Sound

The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_DeVille

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