Cold Spring Harbor
| Billy Joel
Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor is the debut studio album by American recording artist Billy Joel, released on November 1, 1971 by Family Productions. - Wikipedia
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Sputnik Musicc
Standouts might be in short supply, but Cold Spring Harbor accomplishes just what it should as a debut album.
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Blogcritics
Cold Spring Harbor is, at heart, a piano and vocal album. While the songs may lack the appeal of his more commercial material, they are nevertheless well crafted with an innate beauty.
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Christoph Manuel Jansen
The very sparing instrumentation, the voice and the tasteful piano playing of the young Billy Joel shows very well, you can clearly hear the influence of a Paul McCartney.
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Earn This
As it stands, the bare and inconsistent takes on this album mar an otherwise compelling, if slightly inconsistent, work.
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All Music
It may be a bastardization of the original release, but it's an acceptable one, since these changes only accentuate the intimacy and vulnerability of the recording.
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Backseat Mafia
Listening to it now, it sounds for all the world like an obscure curio by a long forgotten singer-songwriter whose one album disappeared without a trace.
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Album Reviews
Cold Spring Harbor features beautiful, fluid piano playing, and some pretty tunes, but it’s difficult to shake the feeling that Joel’s jumping on the soft-rock bandwagon on the early 1970s rather than embracing his own identity.
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