It's live with no overdubs anywhere, no digital, no editing. It's recorded the way it was originally done back then. That's when I crossed over to being a local here in New Orleans. John convinced them that they wouldn't get ripped off by this northern white boy. It's funny, because I was just trying to get them money, the writers of the songs, 'cause they all got ripped off in the 50s and 60s. I brought in the rhythm section of The Meters on a couple of cuts. I got all the original guys to come back in, like Earl King, Dr. I picked out the stuff that worked with my voice. We went through them, and there were all these hit records that weren't hit records maybe regional hits by artists from New Orleans. There's so much good material here in New Orleans from the early 50s and 60s, and he still had a box of 45s. So I decided to do an album with a bunch of the musicians from down there, the music of New Orleans." ĭeVille told Sheila Rene about the beginnings of Victory Mixture:Ī friend of mine (Carlo Ditta) who owns Orleans Records here in New Orleans approached me with the idea of working with him on a Delta record, a blues record where you just play acoustic and do what you want to do. So I got down there (to New Orleans) and it was as if this famous guy had come to town, and I didn't want that. He told Leap in the Dark: "I was tired of being 'Willy DeVille,' walking out of my building and having to be the guy who was up on stage all the time, even when I wasn't performing. In 1988, Willy DeVille relocated from New York to New Orleans. The success of Victory Mixture in Europe ensured the label's continuing operation. ![]() The album was released in Europe on the French Sky Ranch label it was released a year later in the United States on the Orleans Records label, that label's second offering. Victory Mixture is unusual in that it was recorded without the use of overdubbing or sound editing, the idea being to record the songs in the same manner as they were recorded originally in the 1950s and early 1960s - without soundboard technology. Trouser Press said about the album, “A rootsy covers collection, Victory Mixture provides a welcome antidote to Miracle's misguided modernity, making the most of the singer's relocation to New Orleans with backup from such local legends as Allen Toussaint, Eddie Bo and Dr. ![]() ![]() The album consists of cover versions of New Orleans R&B and soul classics by DeVille’s musical idols. Victory Mixture is a 1990 album by Willy DeVille.
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