captain jack song captain jack song featured album piano man live version album songs attic considered important pivotal early compositions performance song april live radio concert studios philadelphia subsequent airplay live version received station brought attention major record labels including columbia sign recording contract composition wrote captain jack late sitting apartment long_island looking window trying find inspiration song street housing project observed suburban teenagers going project obtaining heroin dealer known captain jack coming new_york suburbs told travels seen lot suburb country song sort brutal good brutal people keeps toes song according anti drug song says horrible affluent young white teenager life got shoot heroin song consider loser kind lifestyle accused song promotes drug use listen song guy loser writing song liner notes songs attic album emphasized point friends long_island dirt miracle modern chemistry killed vietnam didn pre release promote debut album cold spring harbor undertook tour lasted spring early summer people noticed liked music director philadelphia radio station arranged perform concert radio station listeners won tickets saturday night april performed hour long concert contest winners sound studios philadelphia touring band bass guitar lead guitar drums performed songs seven cold spring harbor songs recorded songs later recorded piano man including ballad billy kid prayer captain jack captain jack immediately embraced audience year half station kept live version song regular rotation listeners called wanting know find song album appeared song big hit philadelphia new_york radio stations got tape copies began play president noticed festival puerto_rico easter sunday april constant airplay unreleased song kept label attention columbia_records best track turning record deal signed columbia spring release reaction captain jack songs recorded los_angeles debut piano man quickly staple rock stations album release november song songs piano man entertainer songs best known release stranger reception song positive rolling_stone called best efforts called signature piece said song centerpiece album compelled attention portraits urban fringe life despite underlying believed song bob_dylan feel rock stars important early influences bob_dylan fact piano man captain jack ambitious early tunes recent better woman practically keyboard parodies critiques says author called captain jack bleak portrait growing affluent suburbs punk hit nearly decade later called song lyrically expansive dark slate negative review work criticized captain jack song loser dresses clothes shoots heroin eyes songwriter superior television appearance wake release syndicated program performance recorded live chicago march captain jack songs broadcast keeping broadcast television standards time forced alter lyrics slightly instead singing line sit home sang sit home recalled knew going big star captain jack disappeared concert played philadelphia forgot role song city played early career version recorded spectrum july live album songs attic wrote captain jack plays power conviction philadelphia audience sets kind internal explosion adrenaline screams veins play captain jack actually committing act pure brutality white rolling_stone like version calling song entered news mistakenly hillary_clinton announcement campaigning according npr report worst campaign songs notes playing captain jack mistake played compilation greatest_hits volume song intended played track clinton inadvertently played track captain jack presumed opponent ended running senate criticized song use alleged drugs read lyrics song live press conference replied statement lot important issues facing voters senate race politician interpretation song wrote nearly years ago issue voters new_york state think
Captain Jack (Billy Joel song)