Billy Joel

RUNOUT RADIO: August 6, 2016

RUNOUT RADIO: August 6, 2016

Songs about places tonight on Runout Numbers! We're both from special places: Detroit, out west, Arizona, the prairies of the Midwest, and good ole Music City, USA. As people who have traversed the country a few times and moved homes a few times more, place is important to us.

RUNOUT RADIO: June 25, 2016

RUNOUT RADIO: June 25, 2016

We were lucky enough to sub for the X-Factor again and have another sweet, sweet two hour time block for Runout Numbers this week. We used this opportunity to bring you a two-for-one: two hours full of songs titled with just one word. Succinct, yet supersized.

REVIEW: Chris Smallwood - "Out in the Open"

REVIEW: Chris Smallwood - "Out in the Open"

Smallwood’s first album is a fantastic blend of East and West coast singer-songwriter sensibilities. There’s a lot of Jackson Browne here. There’s even more Billy Joel and Carole King. Even more, there’s a reverence for honest, straightforward music-- especially the best stuff from the 1970s.

From Fans to Frontmen: The Piano Men at The Sutler

 From Fans to Frontmen: The Piano Men at The Sutler

None of the musicians in The Piano Men: The Music of Elton John and Billy Joel wear oversized glitter glasses. They have never played a sold-out concert in Russia at the height of the Cold War. What they offer are the songs of two musical geniuses played with the esteem and reverence that exists only among fans.