RIP Willy DeVille

When this song first hit my ears, I was a young music fan in college in 1979. The song had come out a couple years earlier but somehow didn't make it past The Boss until '79, which was a freakin' awesome year for music. The B-52's eponymous debut, Damn the Torpedos by Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, London Calling by the Clash, Entertainment by Gang of Four, Buzzcocks' Singles going steady, Joy Division, The Wall by Pink Floyd, Joe Jackson, Supertramp, Rust never sleeps, Rickie Lee Jones, Highway to Hell by AC/DC, Nick Lowe's Labour of lust, Blondie, The Police, Cheap Trick Live at Budhokhan. Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa, Talking Heads Fear of music, XTC, DEVO. Fuck. What a great time to be 19. And I was. And right in the middle of it was this perfect song Spanish Stoll. Great dance tune, great song of the times. Willy's AP obit here.