Before Donald Fagen was fully comfortable with being the lead singer of Steely Dan, David Palmer was briefly employed to be ...
David Crosby was a lifelong fan of Steely Dan, so for his last album, 'For Free', he collaborated with his musical hero, ...
While reading the many fine tributes written over the weekend for Steely Dan’s Walter Becker — who died Sunday at age 67 — I noticed two common threads. The first is that people have been eulogizing ...
Fans of live, local music may see a lot of familiar faces at Old City Prime’s Upper Lounge on Saturday, Nov. 1, as The Dans, ...
A previously unreleased Steely Dan cover of Joni Mitchell’s Blue song “Carey” has been unearthed. As The Dan Vault‘s YouTube channel points out, the radio host Steve Acri played the track on ...
Steely Dan was, and remains, an anomaly. More on that later. The house was full Friday night at the Cynthia Woods Pavilion, despite the fact that the band (such as it is) has released no music that ...
In pop music, Steely Dan’s hybrid of pop, jazz and R&B represents an artistic standard few can match. Steely Dan — the musical enterprise of songwriting team Walter Becker and Donald Fagen — hit its ...
Walter Becker wasn’t easily impressed. Addressing a crowd of show-business luminaries in 2001 as his band, Steely Dan, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he took a typically sly — and ...
Time to Shine There’s an unreleased Steely Dan album finally seeing the light of day after languishing in limbo for 52 years. Its gestation and suppression is a fascinating tale of how Linda Hoover, a ...
Fans of Steely Dan — we see you lurking in either the “literature” or “true crime” section of the bookstore — have great reason to thank Brian Sweet’s mother for having him. After all, he is the ...
Steely Dan - that band's debut album in 1972 fused together jazz, rock guitar, drums, keys. And they just created this sound. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DO IT AGAIN") STEELY DAN: (Singing) In the morning, ...
Steely Dan has never been the most user-friendly of bands. But that may be changing, if the band's current show is any indication. Steely Dan has never been the most user-friendly of bands. For most ...