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CBGB (country bluegrass and blues) was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973 it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles but became a forum for American punk and new wave bands like the Ramones Misfits Television the Patti Smith Group Mink DeVille The Dead Boys The Dictators The Fleshtones The Voidoids The Cramps The B-52’s Blondie Joan Jett & The Blackhearts The Shirts and Talking Heads.