Willy DeVille - Backstreets of Desire

Seriously and I mean very seriously under-rated artist; a great singer and guitarist (see also my Mink DeVille box set - This is one of my favourite albums. He has been lauded by many other far greater known artists such as Mark Knoppfler and Bob Dylan. I am going to quote from his wikipedia entry: Critic Robert Palmer wrote about him in 1980, "Mr. DeVille is a magnetic performer, but his macho stage presence camouflages an acute musical intelligence; his songs and arrangements are rich in ethnic rhythms and blues echoes, the most disparate stylistic references, yet they flow seamlessly and hang together solidly. He embodies (New York's) tangle of cultural contradictions while making music that's both idiomatic, in the broadest sense, and utterly original."