Live From the Streets of New York [Digipak]

Performer: Willie Nile
Distributor: Phantom Import Distributi

Notes: Personnel: Willie Nile (vocals, guitar, keyboards, maracas); Jimmy Vivino (vocals, guitar, mandolin, melodica, keyboards); Andy York (vocals, guitar); Brad Albetta (vocals, bass instrument); Frankie Lee, Richard Pagano (vocals, drums, percussion); Peter Fornatale (spoken vocals). Audio Mixer: Richard Pagano. While promoting his excellent 2006 release, STREETS OF NEW YORK, singer-songwriter Willie Nile played a memorable gig at New York's Mercury Lounge, captured on this live CD and a companion DVD. Nile's gritty, understated vocals--recalling that other New York son, Lou Reed-are paired with spirited, uplifting outings that pay musical homage to Bob Dylan, Irish folk, and Bruce Springsteen. Only Willie Nile could write a song about meeting the late Bo Diddley in Washington Square Park and make it sound like a lost Pogues tune. Fans will appreciate the live treatment, and newcomers will see what all the critical fuss has been about since the `80s.

Willie Nile was one of the many "new Dylans" in the early-1980s heyday of literate guitar-slingers, and his earthy, passionate, four-chord approach also invited comparisons to Graham Parker, John Hiatt, and Elvis Costello. While his peers went on to greater fame, the Buffalo-born Nile kept his intentions pure and kept churning out solid albums of well-crafted, wordy folk-rock epics. He has toured with artists as diverse as The Who and Lucinda Williams, and his 2006 release, STREETS OF NEW YORK, topped many critics' best-of lists for that year.

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