During the 1980?s, New York City-based singer-songwriter Willie Nile released two albums on Arista Records, "Willie Nile" and "Golden Down," and toured with The Who during one of their reunion tours across the U.S. Nile has recorded and performed with many musicians, including Roger McGuinn, Richard Thompson, Ringo Starr, Tori Amos, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Ian Hunter, and Barenaked Ladies. A live Central Park concert, "Willie Nile-Archive Alive," was released on Archive Recordings, and Willie was one of the vocalists on the ensemble album, "Largo," along with Joan Osborne, Cyndi Lauper, Levon Helm, The Chieftains, Taj Mahal and Carole King. Another recent project found Nile writing and performing most of the songs for the soundtrack to the memorable Kevin McLaughlin film, "Pinch Me!" The New York Times rock critic Robert Palmer said "he is one of the... singer-songwriters to emerge from the New York scene..." His fans are known to liken him to "a o