I've been thinking about Tom Waits, whether I'm wrong. After holding my feet to the fire, I still don't know. I do know how I am affected. No one cares but me. I have been struck by how similar Willy Deville and Waits can sound, although not so much on this one. While Deville was not so much a pure songwriter, I think I'll stick with him.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8EwYeeM5aE&feature=related
Allan Pollock
PS: thanks for introducing me to Deville's music--very good stuff.
hrmm, listening to his older stuff with Mink Deville....sounds surprisingly similar to a cross between the music that elvis costello was making around the same time and the music that the velvet underground made about ten years earlier.
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