One of the most beloved albums of the 1970s, Billy Joel's The Stranger, get 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 is available in a book-style case boasting a live CD recorded at Carnegie Hall from June 1977, and in a special limited edition featuring a bonus DVD with promotional videos for 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. Also looking back with a "bottle of red, and a bottle of white" is a 30-minute documentary on the DVD with Joel and producer Phil Ramone.

We've got some show updates to report this week. There's much to be excited about here at Daytrotter central, which reads, "The Quad Cities."

The All Music Guide's review of the Botticellis' debut full-length begins by noting that "you'd never know from listening that it took the Botticellis four years to craft their debut album Old Home Movies. It sounds like the work of one sun-soaked late summer afternoon spent playing tunes with friends and family."

Singer and songwriter Alexi Glickman - who is bringing the San Francisco-based quintet to the Capitol Theatre in Davenport on Friday as part of a quadruple bill presented by Daytrotter.com - would be pleased.

For Sam Beam, the impressively bearded man behind Iron & Wine, the transition from the spare, intimate folk that made his name in alternative-music circles to playful, lushly fleshed-out songs with an African flair was not something that gave him pause.

"It would just be kind of lame to do the same record over and over again, don't you think?" he said in a phone interview last week. "I can get bored real fast, to be honest."