What a magnificent album. Sometimes you can let yourself forget how good some music is. I have recently rediscovered it and it is now never far from the turntable.
I have no idea what Cabretta may mean. This album was released in 1977 but really did not take off until about 1979 with the single Spanish Stroll. The album was produced by Jack Nitzsche (a colorful character on the periphery of music from the early 60's who I came across through his connection with Neil Young).
It was also was one of the first made by a band from the mid 70's CBGBs scene in New York in the mid 1970s where bands like Mink DeVille, Television,Talking Heads, The Ramones, Blondie and the New York Dolls could be sharing the bill on any particular night. I have often pondered how such a diverse band of musicians could have coalesced in a single location, what they had in common and how they spurred each other on to make such great music.
Mink DeVille is probably the least known of these bands but that does not mean that they were of any less quality. Leader Willy DeVille took the band down a street tough update of the 1950's and 60's New York doo wop sound, blending it with soul and making something quite distinctive in the process.
There is not a bad track on the album with tracks like Cadillac Walk, Mixed Up Shook Up Girl, Gunslinger, She's So Tough and Party Girls.
If you like this there are other recommended albums by Mink DeVille especially Coup De Grace and Le Chat Bleu
I have no idea what Cabretta may mean. This album was released in 1977 but really did not take off until about 1979 with the single Spanish Stroll. The album was produced by Jack Nitzsche (a colorful character on the periphery of music from the early 60's who I came across through his connection with Neil Young).
It was also was one of the first made by a band from the mid 70's CBGBs scene in New York in the mid 1970s where bands like Mink DeVille, Television,Talking Heads, The Ramones, Blondie and the New York Dolls could be sharing the bill on any particular night. I have often pondered how such a diverse band of musicians could have coalesced in a single location, what they had in common and how they spurred each other on to make such great music.
Mink DeVille is probably the least known of these bands but that does not mean that they were of any less quality. Leader Willy DeVille took the band down a street tough update of the 1950's and 60's New York doo wop sound, blending it with soul and making something quite distinctive in the process.
There is not a bad track on the album with tracks like Cadillac Walk, Mixed Up Shook Up Girl, Gunslinger, She's So Tough and Party Girls.
If you like this there are other recommended albums by Mink DeVille especially Coup De Grace and Le Chat Bleu
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