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LISTEN: Willie Nile, “Under This Roof”

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Artist: Willie Nile
Hometown: Buffalo, New York/ New York City
Song: “Under This Roof”
Album: New York at Night
Release Date: May 15, 2020
Label: River House

In Their Words: “I wrote ‘Under This Roof’ with my buddy Frankie Lee. It was originally written as a love song that offers comfort and shelter to a loved one but now in this current climate with the pandemic it’s taken on added meaning with all the sheltering in place and social distancing that’s going on. Now it resonates as a remembrance of how things used to be with friends, family and loved ones before all this happened while at the same time looking forward to better and safer times in the days to come.” —Willie Nile

Photo credit: Cristina Arrigoni

LISTEN: Willie Nile, ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’

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Artist: Willie Nile
Hometown: New York, NY
Song: “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Label: River North Revords via Virtual Label

In Their Words: “Bob’s mixing up the medicine in what sounds like one of the first rap songs. It was a total blast to record! The band was smokin’. It was the first track we recorded for the album. There was no rehearsal. We just went in the studio, and I played a ruff phone voice memo version of it to the band, and it was off to the races from there. I wanted to combine a bit of rockabilly and a bit of the Beastie Boys and have some fun with it and that we did. Chuck Berry meets the Beastie Boys at the Look Out Kid Motel: ‘Twenty years of schoolin’ and they put you on the day shift!’ ‘Look out, kid,’ indeed. A ‘how to get out of the box’ guide to being free. It’s as true today as ever.” — Willie Nile