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DescriptionAll tracks are Properly tagged with art embedded in tag. Billy Joel – 1983 - An Innocent Man (2013 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. An Innocent Man (2013 HDtracks)  Artist: Billy Joel Title: An Innocent Man Format: 10 × File, FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz (HDtracks) Producer: Phil Ramone Release Date: August 8, 1983, (HDtracks 2013) Recorded: Spring, 1983, Chelsea Sound and A&R Recording, Inc., New York, New York Label: Columbia/Legacy Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Doo-Wop, Blue-Eyed Soul Duration: 40:27 Website: http://www.hdtracks.com/an-innocent-man Wikipedia: An Innocent Man is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on August 8, 1983. The concept album is a tribute to the American popular music of Joel's teenage years with Joel paying homage to a number of different popular American musical styles from the late 1950s and early 1960s, most notably doo-wop and soul music. The album cover artwork was taken on the front steps of 142 Mercer Street, just north of the intersection of Mercer and Prince Street in the SoHo neighborhood in New York City. AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Recording The Nylon Curtain exhausted Billy Joel, and even though it had a pair of major hits, it didn’t rival its predecessors in terms of sales. Since he labored so hard at the record, he decided it was time for a break — it was time to record an album just for fun. And that’s how his homage to pre-Beatles pop, An Innocent Man, was conceived: it was designed as a breezy romp through the music of his childhood. Joel’s grasp on history isn’t remarkably astute — the opener “Easy Money” is a slice of Stax/Volt pop-soul, via the Blues Brothers (quite possibly the inspiration for the album), and the label didn’t break the pop charts until well after the British Invasion — but he’s in top form as a craftsman throughout the record. Only once does he stumble on his own ambition (“This Night,” which appropriates its chorus from Beethoven). For the rest of the record, he’s effortlessly spinning out infectious, memorable melodies in a variety of styles, from the Four Seasons send-up “Uptown Girl” and the soulful “Tell Her About It” to a pair of doo wop tributes, “The Longest Time” and “Careless Talk.” Joel has rarely sounded so carefree either in performance or writing, possibly due to “Christie Lee” Brinkley, a supermodel who became his new love prior to An Innocent Man. He can’t stop writing about her throughout the album — only three songs, including the haunted title track, aren’t about her in some form or fashion. That giddiness is infectious, helping make An Innocent Man an innocent delight that unwittingly closes Joel’s classic period.  01 - Easy Money - 4:05 02 - An Innocent Man - 5:18 03 - The Longest Time - 3:42 04 - This Night - 4:18 05 - Tell Her About It - 3:53 06 - Uptown Girl - 3:18 07 - Careless Talk - 3:48 08 - Christie Lee - 3:31 09 - Leave A Tender Moment Alone - 3:57 10 - Keeping The Faith - 4:41 Personnel: Billy Joel – Baldwin acoustic piano (SF-10), Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 organ, lead & background vocals Liberty DeVitto – drums Doug Stegmeyer – bass guitar David Brown – lead electric & acoustic guitars Russell Javors – rhythm electric & acoustic gutars Mark Rivera – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, percussion Ralph MacDonald – percussion on “Leave a Tender Moment Alone” and “Careless Talk” Leon Pendarvis – Hammond B3 organ on “Easy Money” Richard Tee – acoustic piano on “Tell Her About It” Eric Gale – electric guitar on “Easy Money” “String Fever” – strings Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone on “Easy Money”, “Careless Talk”, “Tell Her About It” and “Keeping the Faith” Jon Faddis – trumpet on “Easy Money” David Sanborn – alto saxophone on “Easy Money” Joe Shepley – trumpet on “Easy Money”, “Careless Talk”, “Tell Her About It” and “Keeping the Faith” Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone on “Careless Talk”, “Tell Her About It” and “Keeping the Faith” John Gatchell – trumpet on “Careless Talk”, “Tell Her About It” and “Keeping the Faith” Tom Bahler, Frank Floyd, Lani Groves, Ullanda McCullough, Ron Taylor, Terry Textor, Eric Troyer, Mike Alexander – background vocals “Toots” Thielemans – harmonica on “Leave a Tender Moment Alone” Mark Rivera – alto saxophone on “Keeping the Faith”, “This Night” and “Christie Lee”    ♪♬♫ ENJOY! ♪♬♫ Sharing Widget |
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