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Willie Nile
A blue collar songwriter and highly regarded, punk rock troubadour, Willie Nile
became a fixture on New York's music scene in the late 1970s, counting Bruce
Springsteen, Lucinda Williams and Lou Reed as huge fans. Born in Buffalo, New
York, his love of music was sparked by his mother's big band records and his
grandfather, who ran an orchestra and was a pianist for noted, vaudeville
entertainers Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and Eddie Cantor. But, like many of his
generation, his world changed when he saw The Beatles give their iconic
performance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in 1964.
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