Shit, we were listening to "Cadillac Walk" only last night, and "Spanish Stroll" is one of my partner's all-time favourite records. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wKV2TKanI
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 9 August 2009 10:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Just found about this. RIP Willy.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
My dad played some of his old tracks. :-( Fuck, this has been an awful year.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
interesting bit here on toots deville, who sounds ... interesting from a distance, and probably a disaster up close.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
(or maybe not a disaster, exactly -- the final couple of comments to that post give some added perspective.)
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
R.I.P. Wished I had tracked down the dude. one of the few folks left who could tell me about Jack Nitzsche, i reckon.
― beta blog, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
man i have been really jamming on his first two recrods lately. how long does he keep this up? cuz these are fucking great.
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow I started this thread 17 years ago. Astounding. Well, to answer myself then. his mid-'90s solo album Backstreets of Desire is unexpectedly good.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 February 2020 05:07 (four years ago) link
That Toots DeVille link is still active and quite interesting. One picture of Willie, Toots and his manager sitting in wheelchair had me thinking manager was Doc Pomus for a second.
― Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 February 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link