Sixteen years ago, Mike DelGuidice was a 30-year-old musician living with his young children in a trailer on Long Island and scraping by on gigs at bars, weddings and the occasional funeral. He wrote his own songs, but always got his biggest reaction from crowds when he covered 1970s heavyweights like James Taylor, Elton John and, especially, his idol
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