Active: 50's, 60's Born: May 21, 1931
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Born Tasio Golios, the country singer with the tired stage name is a member of the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame but actually didn't get that far North until he was in his mid-twenties. He came to Maine in 1955 to work on television with Ernie and Candy Lindell and the #Rhythm Rancho Show, which combined with that state's cold weather might be enough to make anyone feel sleepy. He later worked with Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cody. When he joined the Wagon Masters, it was the beginning of his association with Dick Curless, one of the funniest country singers from New England, who wore an eye patch and specialized in the genre known as truck driving music. The band broke up, but Willis formed a new trio with Curless and Harold Carter and, with a stack of songs about 18-wheelers and a CB radio, went to Bangor to began a long residency at the ~Silver Dollar.
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