Radio Dupree (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Looks like a new solo record from Donald Fagen will be here before we get another Steely Dan album. According to this short article in The Cleveland Plain Dealer Donald have plans to record some new songs early next year: “I have a bunch of songs that I’m set to record sometime in the spring,” Fagen said. And as far as a new Steely Dan album go: "Walter and I keep tossing around...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
for much of their careers, Donald Fagen and WAlter Becker preferred to toil in the dark confines of recording studios, tweaking their jazz-influenced songs into drum-tight perfection rather than spend 18 months on the road trying to replicate them live. Now, they're coming here.
WineFoodChat.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Pretzels are not just sold on the street corner, chowed down at the Yankees (or Mets) game, or served just with beer for Oktoberfest any more -- they have gone gourmet..
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) -- Bruce Springsteen is doing it. So are Van Morrison, the Pixies and Steely Dan. Playing a classic album in its entirety in concert — along with random favorites, of course. On tour this year, Steely Dan is rotating the three biggest albums from its 1970s warped jazz-rock heyday: "Royal Scam," "Aja" and "Gaucho." To get Rock and...
I Spent My Rent On Records (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Thought I'd ease myself back in with a fairly lightweight, and perhaps rambling post. The liner notes of Donald Fagen's 1982 album, The Nightfly, read: "The songs on this album represent certain fantasies that might have been entertained by a young man growing up in the remote suburbs of a northeastern city during the late fifties and early sixties i.e. one of my general weight, height and build."...
Cultural Offering.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The making of a masterpiece. Donald Fagen, Michael Becker and friends discuss the interesting method to Steely Dan's madness: I love singer/songwriter, Michael McDonald. Steely Dan uses him on " Peg " for "certain words that they just wanted to hear a certain way". On Christopher Cross's " Ride Like the Wind ", he simply repeats "such a long way to go" over and...
Radio Dupree (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Radio Dupree monthly chart is here! Some weeks ago we tossed in a couple of excerpts from Mike Oldfield's classic Tubular Bells, and heureka, one of them reached the number one postition. Then George Duke, Frank Zappa and Yes follow. The top 20 also includes two pieces each by Mahavishnu Orchestra and David Bowie. What about our Album of the Month then? Did you listeners enjoy Zappa's Hot Rats...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Ken Shane revisits this 1981 classic in a cold and blustery autumn edition of Cratedigger.
The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The voice was still there, strained and squeezed at times, but alive and electric and calling to the crowd from the 70s like out of some long dark tunnel of time. But there he was: Donald Fagen, lording over the Fender Rhodes center-stage Sunday night at the Masonic Center in SF, leading a 13-piece band through two hours of [...]
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Veteran blues-jazz-pop wunderkind moves beyond his Memphis base to woo a crossover audience.
PA Pundits (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Today’s music video is ‘Reelin’ In The Years’ from Steely Dan. This video was posted to You Tube by evilOlive Steely Dan has been a loose coalition of many musicians grouped around the two main originators of the band Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. Before they formed Steely Dan, they actually had a former band with Chevy [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Steely Dan's Walter Becker. Pop music longevity being what it is, Steely Dan's surprisingly visible second act comes as a revelation. The multi-Grammy- winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have survived a 19-year break in public performances and a 20-year break between studio albums in a willfully uncoventional career. Their current emergence as a major concert draw during a time of dwindling...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
I have come across a couple of odd facts recently, which were new to me if no-one else, about people who are now well known in other fields, but whose first ambition seems to have been Pop Star. It made me wonder if there are the other examples. The slightly diverse names that made me think of this were Chevy Chase, drummer in Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s first band, and Kevin Kennedy (Curly...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Up here in Wisconsin, we’ve had a whole string of days this week best described as leaden. Gray, windy, spitting raindrops—such a day isn’t an artistic masterpiece, but it’s not necessarily bad, either. Bright frosty mornings and golden sunny afternoons are October also, but blustery weather definitely has its place. I was out in it [...]
8/1 (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
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