BILLY D’VETTE (Cold Sweat / Pair-A-Dice) – Back To Denver (2020)

Known for being member of ’80s Hollywood melodic hard rockers Pair-A-Dice and later the underrated Cold Sweat, songwriter, vocalist & guitarist BILLY D’VETTE has released his second solo album titled “Back To Denver“, a really cool mix of American melodic rock&pop, blending electric with acoustics, and including his own version of Whitesnake‘s classic “Is This Love”.

Billy has been performing live and recording for the last 30 years. He enjoyed great success during the peak of the L.A. scene on the Sunset Strip back in the 80s in Pair-A-Dice, with Dave Marshall (ex-Vince Neil, Fiona) and Paul Lancia (Lancia).
D’Vette also replaced guitarist Marc Ferrari (Keel) in Cold Sweat after the band was dropped from MCA Records and shortly after changed the name to Sweatin Bullets. Billy’s days on the Sunset Strip saw him performing along with many Hollywood’s top bands such as Poison, Great White, Guns N’ Roses, Warrant, KIX, Bang Tango, Tuff and many many more.

Billy has also had the pleasure of working in the studio with such producers as Kim Fowley (The Runaways, KISS), Tim Bogart (Jeff Beck, Vanilla Fudge) and Paul Sabu (Bowie, Heart) just to name a few.
He currently fronts his own band called Wild Bill Outlaws which is a high energy acoustic rock act from Denver, Colorado.

The album, ”Back To Denver”, takes the listener on a musical journey filled with tasty guitar licks, melodic vocals and heartfelt lyrics. Drawing from such classic childhood influences like Aerosmith, Bad Company, and The Eagles as well as some of the newer artists like Rival Sons, what he have here is very likeable set of songs with a timeless classic rock feel.
And yes, his cover of “Is This Love” is sweet, stripped, nicely done.

01 – Back to Denver
02 – Is This Love (Whitesnake acoustic cover)
03 – Long Road Ahead of Me
04 – Mexico
05 – Damage Is Done
06 – Going Down to the River
07 – Waiting
08 – If I Could
09 – I Was Meant 4u
10 – Without Your Love

Billy D’Vette: Vocals, Guitars, Bass
Daz Bash: Drums, Percussion
Tom Thorsen: Keyboards

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