By Chris Gray
It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again.
BILLY JOEL
The Stranger
(Columbia/Legacy)
As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Go
By Michael McCall Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo
young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor
Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these
years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal
Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and George
Strait kept filling arenas and at least maintaining their popularity on
the road, if not with record sales. But as has often been the case, the
best country music has little
Joe EskenaziWhat's in a name? That depends upon whether your relatives owned or were owned, right? We'll admit it. We're not huge country music fans, so the massive Kenny Chesney poster hanging off AT&T Park didn't really draw our attention. What did get us doing a double-take was the name of what appears to be the tertiary opening act: Lady Antebellum. Doing a little rudimentary Web sleuthing, we were surprised to find out that Lady Antebellum -- unlike Lady Gaga or Lady Miss Kier -- is not
And if the lights are still on six hours later, you can blame a country musicianThe longest nine-inning game in National League history took place right here at San Francisco's AT&T Park back in 2001; the Los Angeles Dodgers outscored the hometown boys, 11-10, in a heart-breaking, ass-crack-numbing four hour and 27 minute Wagnerian opera of a ballgame. Even still, the game would have been over by "just" 11:45 p.m. So it was confusing to see the lights of AT&T Park blazing away at 1 a.m.
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