Billy Joel: Piano Man (Legacy Edition) – review

(Sony)Billy Joel had already released four albums – three with groups, and one solo disaster that was mastered at the wrong speed – before Columbia picked him up in 1972 and released this, the album that gave him his first solo breakthrough. For those more familiar with Joel's 80s MOR staples, it's a rum old do, with banjos and dobros every bit as prominent as Joel's piano – as if, in the wake of Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection, every singer-pianist had to somehow pretend to be a cowboy...

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