Rolling Stone : Steely Dan

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:28:21 PST

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 19, 2001.

New Release : Everything Must Go

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:24:03 PDT

Artist: Steely Dan

Article : Q&A: Steely Dan's Walter Becker

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:42:46 PDT

After fourteen years, it's still a thrill to listen to Walter Becker's 1994 solo debut 11 Tracks of Whack, an album that boasts tracks that stand up to his best work in Steely Dan, like "Surf and/or Die," "This Moody Bastard" and "Hat Too Flat." Becker's second solo disc, Circus Money, out in June, is just as compelling, and was inspired in large part by the Sixties and Seventies Jamaican grooves Becker finds endlessly fascinating. Unlike most Steely Dan-related projects, Becker maintains...

Album Review : Gaucho

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:41:53 PST

Artist: Steely Dan
Album: Gaucho
Review: The thing you begin to notice, listening to Steely Dan's songs, is that no one ever answers anyone. For all the talk---and their latest album, Gaucho, is as compulsively chatty as dinnertime on death row --- there's no conversation. Whoever keeps asking, "Who is that guacho, amigo?" might as well be talking to the wall.

Even the melody of "Gaucho" just throws the singer's questions back at...