Every good thing anyone says about Joel is absolutely confirmed from this quarter. I've seen him perform all over Michigan for the last thousand years, or so, believe he was a national flat-picking champion or some such accomplishment, and as all the previous posts have said, his lyrics are wry, witty, ascerbic, poignant and heartwrending. If you haven't heard of him, go out of your way to. And if by some quirk of fate there is an old recording of Joel doing "The Jam at Cubbie's Van" I'm ready to go into expedited negotiations for it....