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| | BoxCar Willie (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | BoxCar Willie, whose gentle country voice and songs of life on the road evoked memories of a time when hobos watched America pass by from the door of a freight car, died in Branson, Missouri, on April 12. |
 | | Born Lecil Martin in Sterrett, Texas, in 1931, BoxCar Willie was the son of a railroad man who used to play his fiddle on the porch as his son played guitar. |
 | | He said he took the BoxCar Willie look and name after seeing a freight train pass him by one day in Lincoln, Nebraska, as he was stuck in traffic. |
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