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WILLIE NILE

What is your first musical memory?
Hearing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony while still in the womb.

What was the first album you owned?
Meet The Beatles

Were you not a musician, what would your profession be?
A Sioux Indian Medicine Man.

What song do you wish you had written, and why?“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.� Because it would be such an honor to have Levon Helm sing something I wrote as good as he sang that.

What was the first concert you attended?
Babu Olatunji with the Masai Warrior Spear Dancers in Buffalo, NY.

Who would be in your ultimate three-band, live performance lineup, dead or alive?
Television. Elvis in ’56. Beethoven conducting the Fifth Symphony.

What instrument would you like to play, that you currently cannot?
Cello.

With whom would you like to collaborate?
Harpo Marx. Because he has such a way with words.

Which one of your songs would you put in a time capsule?“On Some Rainy Day�

What album can you not live without?
The Rolling Stones: Singles Collection The London Years

Who was your first pop star romantic crush/fantasy?
Joan of Arc

 
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