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Willy DeVille is a Blues and House act. Their catalogue also touches Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of The Drifters, John Hammond, Chris Spedding, Eddie Bo and John Hiatt. Those roots explain a lot about how Willy DeVille arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Tony Joe White, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Snowy White and Tim Hardin, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits and Peter Wolf, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Willy DeVille, reaching back through The Drifters and forward to Mark Knopfler. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Willy DeVille grew out of The Drifters, John Hammond, Chris Spedding and Eddie Bo, shares an orbit with Tony Joe White, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band and Snowy White, went on to shape Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits and Peter Wolf. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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