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DescriptionAll tracks are Properly tagged with art embedded in tag. Billy Joel – 1974 - Streetlife Serenade (2014 HDtracks) [FLAC@96khz24bit]  Billy Joel  Wikipedia: William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States. His compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 is one of the best-selling albums in the US. Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the US, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. Joel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006). In 2001, Joel received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2013, Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors, the nation's highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah", Joel stopped writing and releasing pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams. However, he continues to tour, and he plays songs from all eras of his solo career. Streetlife Serenade (2014 HDtracks)  Artist: Billy Joel Title: Streetlife Serenade Format: 10 × File, FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz (HDtracks) Producer: Michael Stewart Release Date: October 11, 1974, (HDtracks 2014) Recorded: Spring-Summer 1974, Devonshire Sound, North Hollywood, CA Label: Legacy/CBS/Sony Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul Duration: 37:56 Website: http://www.hdtracks.com/streetlife-serenade Wikipedia: Streetlife Serenade is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel (his second with Columbia Records), released on October 11, 1974. Joel's follow-up effort to 1973's Piano Man, Streetlife Serenade did not enjoy the relative success of its predecessor; it marked the beginning of his frosty relationship with critics and the music industry more generally. In "The Entertainer", Joel mocks the entertainment industry, reminiscing over his record label's earlier insistence that the single version of Piano Man's title track (the album's major hit) be shortened to maximize radio airplay: "It was a beautiful song but it ran too long./If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit./So they cut it down to 3:05." "The Entertainer" peaked at #34 on the US Singles Chart. The album itself peaked at #35 on the charts, eventually selling over one million copies. The album contains two songs that were featured in many of Joel's live shows during the 1970s: the instrumental "Root Beer Rag" and the short song "Souvenir", which Joel often played as the final encore during that time period. Two others, "Streetlife Serenader" and "Los Angelenos," were included on Joel's first live album, Songs in the Attic (1981). Joel says that he had been touring in clubs and theatres and opening for big acts such as The Beach Boys, thus leaving him little time to write new songs, but was under pressure to put out a new album after "Piano Man". He also says that he didn't have too many songs, hence the inclusion of two instrumentals - the aforementioned "Root Beer Rag" and "The Mexican Connection". The back cover has a portrait of a barefoot Joel sitting in a chair looking unhappy and Joel himself says that he had only recently had his wisdom teeth removed two days prior to the shoot. AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Piano Man gave Billy Joel his long-desired big hit, but it also somewhat threw him for a loop. He had been driven on Piano Man, determined to deliver an album that established him as both a serious artist and a commercial contender. Having achieved at least one of those goals (critics never gave Joel much credit), he had to release another album quickly if he wanted to keep his profile high, which he did. The problem is, Joel had put all of his best songs on Piano Man, leaving him with a shortage of material. Furthermore, promotional duties ate up his time, leaving him little to write new songs. As a result, Streetlife Serenade, the crucial third album, was a bit of a slump. Stylistically, it was a reiteration of its predecessor's Tumbleweed Connection obsessions, spiked with, of all things, Rockford Files synthesizers and ragtime pulled from The Sting. That isn't a facetious reference, either -- it's no coincidence that the record's single and best song, "The Entertainer," shares a title with the Scott Joplin rag that provided The Sting with a main theme. Joel is attempting a grand Americana lyrical vision, stretching from the Wild West through the Depression to "Los Angelenos" and "The Great Suburban Showdown." It doesn't work, not only because of his shortcomings as a writer, but because he didn't have the time to pull it all together. There are no less than two instrumentals, and even if "Root Beer Rag" (yet another sign of The Sting's influence) is admittedly enjoyable, they're undeniably fillers, as is much of the second side. Since he has skills, he's able to turn out a few winners -- "Roberta," a love song in the vein of Cold Spring Harbor, the mournful "Streetlife Serenader," and the stomping "Los Angelenos" -- but it was the astonishingly bitter "The Entertainer," where he not only disparages his own role, but is filled with venom over "Piano Man" being released in a single edit, that made the subtext clear: he'd had enough with California, enough with the music industry, enough with being a sensitive singer/songwriter. It was time for Billy to say goodbye to Hollywood and head back home to New York.  01 - Streetlife Serenader - 5:17 02 - Los Angelenos - 3:41 03 - The Great Suburban Showdown - 3:44 04 - Root Beer Rag - 2:59 05 - Roberta - 4:32 06 - The Entertainer - 3:48 07 - Last of the Big Time Spenders - 4:34 08 - Weekend Song - 3:29 09 - Souvenir - 2:00 10 - The Mexican Connection - 3:37 Personnel: Billy Joel – keyboards, vocals, Moog synthesizer Richard Bennett – guitar Joe Clayton – congas, percussion Gary Dalton – guitar Mike Deasey – guitar Don Evans – guitar Wilton Felder – bass guitar Emory Gordy, Jr. – bass guitar Al Hertzberg – guitar Larry Knechtel – bass guitar Art Munson – guitar Raj Rathor – guitar William Smith – organ Michael Stewart– guitar Ron Tutt – drums Tom Whitehorse – banjo, pedal steel    ♪♬♫ ENJOY! ♪♬♫ Sharing Widget |
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