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Miracle is an album by Willy DeVille. Recorded in 1987, it was the first album that Willy DeVille recorded under his own name. Prior to Miracle, DeVille recorded six albums with the band Mink DeVille, the last four of which were really solo albums by Willy DeVille in that no members of the original band played on the four albums. Miracle was recorded in London and produced by Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler, who also co-wrote the song Spanish Jack with DeVille

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Album, 1990, Sky Ranch. Re-Issue in Europe in 2003 by Blue Moon. The Willy DeVille Acoustic Trio in Berlin. Live, 2002, Eagle Records.

Willy DeVille (born William Paul Borsey Jr. in Stamford, Connecticut, on August 25, 1950; died in New York City on August 6, 2009) was an American singer and songwriter.

Studio album by Willy DeVille. Willy DeVille on vocals; Roger Hawkins on drums; David Hood on bass; Jack Holder on acoustic guitar; Luther Dickinson on electric guitar, mandolin; Spooner Oldham on Wurlitzer; Jim Dickinson on piano, organ; Freddy Koella on violins; Jim Spake on saxophone; Scott Thompsen on trumpet; Susan Marshall, Brenda Patterson, Betram Brown, William Brown on background vocals. Goin' Over the Hill - ( Fred McDowell ) - 2:21.

Willy DeVille appears more gaunt and haggard than ever here – he looks like Tommy Lee’s sleazier junkie brother – but he’s never been more artistically potent than on Pistola, confronting the demons of his past with an impressive lyrical honesty and unexpectedly diverse musical imagination. DeVille’s beloved New Orleans provides the touchstone for most of the album: the ex-addiction anthem Been There DoneThat, for instance, is couched in infectious clavinet funk, while You Got The World In Your Hands sounds like Tom Waits covering Dr John’s Gris-Gris.

Willy and Mark Knopfler worked together on the 1987 album Miracle, which Mark produced, and which featured what may be DeVille’s most well known song. Storybook Love was also used on Mark’s soundtrack for The Princess Bride, and was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Song. After about 15 years away, Willy returned to New York, and continued to record and tour regularly. His 16th and final release, Pistola, came out in 2008. Sources: WillyDeVilleMusic.

The album represented a departure for the band, as frontman Willy DeVille dismissed the only other remaining original member of the band, guitarist Louis X. Erlanger, and hired Helen Schneider's backup band ("The Kick") to record the album. Dutch rock magazine OOR named Coup de Grâce the fifth best album of 1981.