recorded debut album Cabretta

Mink DeVille recorded their debut album Cabretta (entitled Mink DeVille in the U.S.), produced by Jack Nitzsche , in January 1977. Nitzsche would, in alternation with Steve Douglas , produce the first four Mink DeVille albums. Both men, members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , had apprenticed under Phil Spector and helped shape the Wall of Sound production technique. These producers were a natural fit for Mink DeVille, whose members’ tastes ran to the Ronettes , the Crystals and other 1960s-era New York City bands with their Brill Building sound. Said Willy DeVille, “You listen to that music and you hear those really high strings , and that percussion, and the castanets ; that’s all Jack’s (Jack Nitzsche’s) work. All that really cool stuff”.