Hardly the commercial success of its predecessor Can’t Buy A Thrill, the second Steely Dan album, Countdown to Ecstasy, (released July 1973) was the only record of the group’s written and arranged for a
Approaching the half-century anniversary of Steely Dan’s Aja (released 9/23/77) it’s confounding to try and figure out why it became the group’s most commercially successful album. After all, a fair-sized hit,
When Steely Dan is not touring or when the schedule affords a multi-day break saxophonist and composer Walt Weiskopf finds opportunities to go full jazz mode with his European Quartet,
When you think of some of the most well-respected musicians in the business, it’s a good bet that Jeff Baxter, better known as Skunk, ranks very high on that list.
Th-th-th-th that’s all, folks! Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann says Steely Dan dropped her as the opening act on their upcoming 42-date 2022 summer tour, and that she’s baffled as to why.
Feast your eyes (if you dare)…
Check out the band’s latest setlist switch-ups from the second week of their Mood Swings tour.
Check out our first batch of setlist coverage for Steely Dan.
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are taking Steely Dan back on the road starting in July
Want to see Steely Dan in San Diego this summer? It’ll cost ya…