Loup Garou (album)
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| Studio album by Willy DeVille | ||||
| Released | November 4, 1995 (Europe) June 18, 1996 (U.S.) |
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| Recorded | The Nut Ranch, Studio City Room & Board, Nashville Schnee Studio, North Hollywood Track Studio, North Hollywood |
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| Genre | Country, Blues, Cajun, Mariachi, R&B, Soul | |||
| Length | 54:51 | |||
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EastWest (Europe) Discovery (U.S.) |
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| Producer |
John Philip Shenale Willy DeVille |
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Loup Garou (French for werewolf) is an album released in 1995 by Willy DeVille. First released in Europe in 1995 on the EastWest label, it was released the following year in the United States on the Discovery label. It was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by John Philip Shenale, who also produced DeVille’s Backstreets of Desire album.
Loup Garou includes a duet with Brenda Lee (“You’ll Never Know”). DeVille said about recording with Lee:
She’s amazing, and so professional. She's just this tiny little woman who has this great big voice. I had to cool out her accent a little bit. She had a real cracker-type of accent. I guess it's gotten thicker over the years, because she didn't sound like that when she was a teenager doing "Sweet Nothing."
She didn't know who the hell I was. I just called her up, played the song for her, and she loved it. She had her business people check me out, and they reported that I was big in Europe and had been recording for twenty years. So I flew to Nashville, which is a very weird place. Everybody is in the music business—every cab driver, waiter and busboy.
Allmusic's 2008 capsule review says, “With Loup Garou, Willie DeVille explored new rhythmic and melodic territory, experimenting with cajun and mariachi music. Not all of the songs work—frequently, Deville sounds too nervous and studied to really break free and have fun with the material—but it nevertheless is enjoyable, with enough strong songs (especially ‘You’ll Never Know,’ a duet with Brenda Lee) to make it worthwhile for longtime DeVille followers.”
The album received at least two favorable reviews at the time of its release. Musician said, “Loup Garou is subtle in nuance but staggering in scope; it connects the dots between all of the artist’s sacrosanct influences, often within the framework of a single song … All of it is on the money, performed from the heart.”
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