Stopping Place - Paul James Band w/ slideshow of Friends Along the Way

"I've been playing the blues for over 40 years now and its taken me round the world, across the country through little towns & big cities. Along the way I've I've been fortunate enough to meet & play with some of the greatest musicians in the world...it is still a mystery to me ...and the Big time is always... Just Around the Corner..." [Paul James]

Stopping Place - Words & Music by Paul James Vigna; Mar Sol /Stony Plain Music; Socan. Performed by Paul James Band
Paul James - Guitars & Vocals
Gary Gray - Piano & Organ
Brian Kipping - Bass
Adrian Vecchiola - Drums

Much more great Paul James Band vids at www.youtube.com/user/pauljamesband

Willy DeVille - Unplugged in Berlin 2002 [2011 release]

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MASTER MIX OF THE ORIGINAL MULTITRACK RECORDING CD+LP+Download available September 30

cover photo © Diethard Küster | MEYER RECORDS no 176 (CD), no 177
(Audiophile 2 LP – 180g Vinyl)

Unplugged in Berlin is the name of an acoustic trio performance by Willy DeVille.
For years it’s been available in bootleg quality only, but now the Cologne label MEYER RECORDS is rereleasing the recording professionally. Mr. Heart & Soul has seldom sounded so poised and soulful – a master at his very best. The lineup of instruments nearly defines the performance’s subsequent character. Grand piano, upright bass, dobro, acoustic and electric guitars provide an intimate setting and frame Willy DeVille’s unforgettable voice just right. Willy needs nothing else. Another good thing about this recording is that it gives this deep and highly emotional musician plenty of space to tell his stories. Willy has always been a good story-teller, but during this concert, performed in Berlin, he was unusually chatty. Almost every song has its own anecdote. The record producers were smart enough to leave room for these, and this lends the recording a unique quality. Unplugged in Berlin shows us ‘Another side of Willy DeVille’ and the right way to preserve an absolutely gorgeous performance.

Tracklisting:
01. Betty And Dupree
02. It's Too Late She's Gone
03. Spanish Harlem
04. Trouble In Mind
05. Storybook Love
06. Big Blue Diamond
07. Shake Sugaree
08. Let It Be Me
09. This Is The Way To Make A Broken Heart
10. Introduction Of The Band
11. Hound Dog
12. Junker's Blues
13. You Better Move On
14. Since I Met You Baby
15. I'm Blue So Blue
16. Keep A Knocking - Sea Cruise
17. Shake Rattle And Roll
18. Heaven Stood Still

Listen (snipped) to this album.
Order at: www.bol.com
Order at: www.amazon.de
Also read Willy DeVille lives on in music and words [Dutch]

MEYER RECORDS Vol 3
Various Artists CD+LP+Download available August 26

cover photo © MEYER ORIGINALS

Tracklisting:
01. Amy Antin - Friday Night
02. Robert Coyne - My Mind Is Blown
03. Rich Schwab w/ eLa Paul - 501
04. Willy DeVille - Nightfalls rehearsal in New York City 2002
05. Little Red Taxi Girl & The Never Going Homes - Walking Blues
06. Mick Fitzgerald - New Years Day (live)
07. Ileana Florentina Tautu - Ausgeliefert
08. Rich Schwab w/ eLa Paul - See Saw
09. Eric Andersen - Moonchild Riversong (live)
10. Anna Sittler - Pink Elefant
11. Little Red Taxi Girl - Song Of A Lonesome
12. Freddy Koella - For Kenny

Order this album at: www.amazon.de

New coverartwork of audio recordings [part 9]

MORE AT: >> CD Coverartwork >> DVD Coverarwork

Palenberg 1991: first version and re-cutted version.

Willy & Mink DeVille with the Chuck Higgins' song Motorhead Baby

[thanks to Louie X. Erlanger and cvm0101]


[thanks to ilbmlb51]

This is the flip side of 'Pachuko Hop' (1952).
Turntable used: Audio Technica AT-LP120 USB Direct Drive inputted straight into the sound card using the built-in pre-amp from the turntable. Cartridge used: SHURE M78S using 78 3 mil needle.

Born Charles William Higgins, 17 April 1924, Gary, Indiana Died 14 September 1999, Los Angeles, California.

Saxophonist / bandleader Chuck Higgins was born in Gary, IN, a town later to become world famous as the hometown of Michael Jackson and his numerous brothers and sisters. His first choice of instrument was the trumpet, which he took up at he age of ten and at which he became considerably more proficient than he ever did at playing the tenor saxophone.

In 1940, the Higgins family moved to Los Angeles, where Chuck attended the L.A. Music Conservatory. He hooked up with a quartet of musicians that included Frank Dunn on piano and sax player Johnny Parker. When Parker quit this band, Higgins took on the sax blasting duties himself and became the leader of the band, soon to be called the Mellotones. Chuck's composition "Pachuko Hop" became his first record, on Jake Porter's fledgling Combo label in 1952. It is the definitive Higgins instrumental and his biggest seller, but due to Combo's poor distribution, sales were limited to the West Coast and insufficient to dent the national charts. Many of Higgins' s recordings feature a vocal by varying members of his combo. This was also the case with the flip of "Pachuko Hop", which is a classic of early rock 'n' roll in itself. "Motorhead Baby" features the vocals of 17-year old John Jacob Watson Jr, who was still pounding the piano before taking up the instrument that would make Johnny "Guitar" Watson a household name. After switching from piano to guitar in 1953, Watson left the Mellotones, giving Frank Dunn the chance to rejoin the band. Of the eight singles that were released on Combo in 1952-53, the most interesting (IMO) were those featuring a vocal : "Motor Head Baby" and "Just Won't Treat Me Right" by John Watson, "Big Fat Mama" and "Real Gone Hound Dog" by Daddy Cleanhead (Chuck's older brother Fred Higgins). In 1953, the combo switched to Aladdin, where they had three singles released (3215, 3224, 3283), and then, in 1954, to Art Rupe's Specialty label. Fourteen titles were recorded during three sessions (most of them with vocals by Daddy Cleanhead), eight of which were originally issued, on four singles (532, 533, 539, 541). Art Rupe was a perfectionist and replaced some of Higgins' band members in the studio by up-and-coming session pros such as H.B. Barnum and Jimmy Nolen.

Chuck temporarily retired from performing and became a music teacher at various L.A. high schools. For the last 20 years of his life he was a professor of music at UCLA, a job which he combined with a 1970s comeback as a honking saxblaster. In that decade, he had two LP releases (and one single, "Too Smart") on Ronnie Weiser's Rollin' Rock label. The second of these (1979) was called: "Chuck Higgins Is A PHD", PHD here standing for "Pretty Heavy Dude". In August 1983, Higgins was part of Ace's "1950s R&B Jamboree", in the company of LA contemporaries Young Jessie, Willie Egan and fellow honker Big Jay McNeely. This was a great success and Higgins was finally discovered by European R&B fans, as his Combo recordings were released on an Ace LP. He died of lung cancer in 1999, leaving behind an estimable body of work, even though he never scored a national hit. More rare vinyl at this blog.

Winterland Shows '66 - '78

07 June 1978, Mink De Ville played at Winterland, San Francisco, CA with Elvis Costello & The Attractions and Nick Lowe [Mink DeVille in the early days] View a b/w Mink DeVille video here!



All Winterland Shows listed!
This page list details of the various Bill Graham promoted shows held at the Winterland Ballroom. Copyright © 2004-2010 Ross Hannan and Corry Arnold. All Rights Reserved.Thanks to: Andre Oullet and Jeff Goldstein for their comments

Sept. 13 Is Officially Jimi Hendrix-Winterland Day in San Francisco!
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors just proclaimed Sept. 13, 2011, to be Jimi Hendrix Winterland Day in honor of six concerts Hendrix performed at S.F.'s historic (and now long gone) Winterland Ballroom in October 1968. The supervisors decided to recognize the guitar god in honor of the 4-disc box set, out today. To celebrate, Amoeba Music will be hosting a party with Hendrix's sister, Janie, and legendary bassist and Hendrix fan Bootsy Collins.


The event starts at 7 p.m. on Sept. 13. Collins will be signing copies of his new album, The Funk Capital of the World, and Amoeba will screen rare video clips of Hendrix.

2nd Annual DeVille Memorial pic/vid reviews

Anne Raso: `I had a great time. Great to see Louie, Ruben, Bobby and Manfred back together and then of course, Willy's more recent bands played in different configurations.' More pics by Anne Raso. Thanks a lot Anne!

Joseph Vasta: 'We had a great time, thanks to David Keys. This would have never happen, he's the gas for the engine here! So I thank David for all hes done plus his wife too, what a doll. Love to the minkers!! Thanks for being there all those years, hope you are doing fine. Be good.' - Joey V jr -

Muddy Waters Rose Out of the Mississippi Mud


Mixed Up Shook Up Girl


thanks to Miraklwkr

Storybook Love


thanks to Anne241

Willy DeVille Memorial Concert - Aug 31 NYC

Guitars:
Louie X. Erlanger
Ricky Borgia
Mark Newman

Keys:
Bobby Leonard
Ken Margolis
Darin Brown

Sax:
Crispin Cioe
David Leathers

Bass:
Ruben Siguenza
Joey Vasta
Bob Curiano
David J Keyes

Drums and Percussion:
Shawn Murray
Boris Kinberg
Manfred Allen

And here is the original Mink...



...Steady Drivin' Man - MINK DE VILLE - WDR Studio-L Köln 16.06.1978

Saro talks with Willy deVille [Dutch - 2005]

Interview of Saro with Willy DeVille March 2005.
(c) Oog tv [Eye TV] Groningen The Netherlands.





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