One of the most beloved albums of the 1970s, Billy Joel’s The Stranger, gets a labor-of-love reissue next week from Columbia Records’ Legacy imprint. Celebrating 30 years since its original release and double Grammy win, the remastered edition in a book-style case boasts a live concert CD recorded at Carnegie Hall from June 1977, and in special limited edition featuring a bonus DVD with promotional videos from the album’s title track and “Just the Way You Are,” and 10 songs filmed for the BBC’s “Old Grey Whistle Test” television show from the following March.

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Bryan Smith remembers meeting Lee Tyler Post sometime around 2004 when Smith and his brother performed security detail for a concert to benefit the Victory Junction Gang, a charity organization set up by car racing legend Richard Petty. There wasn't much need for security, Smith recalls, because the audience numbered maybe four people.

The album opens with what I might consider one of the best summer college songs for 2008, First Time, a song about infinite possibility and the loved ones at your side who empower you to go anywhere and do anything then, of course, the person is lost and no longer around (hello summer love story).

Do I want to interview George Clinton? Do I want to interview George Clinton? You damn right I want to interview George Clinton, the godfather of funk, the Atomic Dog, the Supreme Commander of the Mothership. I want to talk to that guy as long as I can keep him on the phone.

An antiquated yellow lab and a frisky doberman pinscher are vociferous escorts to the front steps of the modest, wooden house secured by a towering brick chimney standing sentinel to Jim and Susie Avett, parents of Scott and Seth. The living room is an humble assortment of the lares and pennants of Jim and Susie’s 40 years together.