Before I get to the song, and my first post here, I'd just like to thank the Star Maker Machine for allowing me to join in and contribute here as a side gig from my regular blog, Reselect.com. It's an honor to be included in the company of so many other excellent music bloggers.
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After the cynical misfire of 1991's Twenty 1 and stillbirth of its intended followup, the lost and lamented Stone of Sisyphus , Chicago dove full-bore into the casinos-and-state-fairs circuit, and though they still pay lip service to the bona fide creativity that bought their homes and pays their alimonies, it evaporated long ago.
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Since his career went supernova with Silk Degrees, Boz Scaggs has continued to hone his craft, digging deeper into the blues, employing broader jazz brushstrokes — and nowhere is that fine tuning more obvious than on his terrific new album.
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David Palmer was only the lead singer of Steely Dan for a few short months in late 1972 and early 1973.
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Boz, can you take us on a tour of Memphis.
Read MoreBoz Scaggs will release MEMPHIS , his first album of new studio material in five years, on March 5th.
Read MoreFor my top five albums of the year, we begin with something I didn't think I would like but then did.
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We've each already had our say, individually.
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You can probably find a little bit of Ray Charles in most anything Donald Fagen plays, but on occassion, his affection for the music of America's most important soul man is explicit.
Read MoreProbably the place where my tastes intersect with conventional wisdom.
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For the sixth straight year, it's time to look back on the year in music to recollect which albums I really, really liked this year and make a list.
Read MoreA rare talk with co-founding Band multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson, presented in two parts over the course of November, shot to the top of our November 2012 readers poll , with a live report on the Monkees' stop in Chicago finishing at No. 2.
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Here is the second part of a three installment series chronicling harmonica extraordinaire Will Galison's first hand experience working with Donald Fagen on a couple of tracks for what became Fagen's next album, Sunken Condos.
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For today and the next two Sundays, this column will take a temporary break from the Steely Dan related song-a-week format and cede the floor to Will Galison.
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Shake off that weekend rust with gulp of fresh-roasted musical goodness from the likes of Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, Jefferson Starship's Craig Chaquico and Steely Dan's Donald Fagen — not to mention Jamey Johnson, John McLaughlin and the Fusion Syndicate.
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There's been a major development in Steely Dan Land since our last SDS, as RollingStone.com posted a stream of a track from Donald Fagen's upcoming Sunken Condos release.
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On the Rocks is jointly credited to the song's only performers: Steve Khan and Donald Fagen.
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2012 has been defined for many by the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, with the eyes of the world focused on our scepter'd isle.
Read MoreMost musicians start off playing because it's something they love to do.
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One of the recurring themes in my long-running series "Steely Dan Sunday" is that if a guitar player is good enough for Steely Dan, they're probably good enough for anybody.
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That the rollicking hootenannys he'd been hosting at his barn — called the Midnight Rambles — would go on.
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip … through our record collections.
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Marooned with only a handful of musical choices, which would you make?
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"These are songs that have made me think about pop music in dramatically different ways. A list of my favorite songs is nearly impossible for me, but I'll never get tired of listening to these ones on repeat."
Read MoreProgressive music simply dominated the Top 10 for May 2012, as readers celebrated new music (and interviews!) from Squackett, UK, Asia and Spectrum Road. Items featuring Chris Squire, Steve Hackett, John Wetton and Spectrum Road's Vernon Reid took up an amazing six spots.
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In 2010, while touring with the supergroup the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue alongside Steely Dan 's Donald Fagen and iconic blue-eyed soul man Boz Scaggs, singer Michael McDonald performed "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing," a 1965 Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure song the former Doobie Brothers singer hadn't revisited since he was 14.
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Steely Dan's Donald Fagen will play with the Cabin Down Below Band all night at the Tenth Annual Dylan Fest, which takes place May 24th and 25th at Irving Plaza in New York City. Organized by New York radio station WFUV (who are also responsible for Petty Fest ), each year Dylan Fest brings together a slew of musician to celebrate and play the music of Bob Dylan.
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