For nearly 40 years, New York songwriter
Willie Nile has given his global cult of fans albums unapologetically romantic in their streetwise rock & roll poetics and poignant in their keen, sweeping observations of everyday life's yearning, brokenness, disappointment, and optimism.
Children of Paradise is a return to original material after 2017's
Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan.
Nile's sound, equally steeped in roots rock, hooky garage pop, vintage punk, and urban folk music, is readily on offer on this unabashedly political album.