Flying Cowboys is an album by Rickie Lee Jones that was released in September 1989 and produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan. After the release of The Magazine in 1984, Jones retreated from the limelight. She married Pascal Nabet Meyer and gave birth to daughter Charlotte Rose in 1988 while working on her fourth […]
“Josie” is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and first released by Steely Dan on their 1977 album Aja. It was also released as the third single from the album and performed modestly well, reaching #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #44 Easy Listening. It has appeared on several Steely Dan […]
Can’t Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 by ABC Records. It was produced by Gary Katz and written by band members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The album was recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. The album was originally released […]
Rootin’ was the only album from Navasota, released in 1971. Navasota was Dicky Sony, Lindsey Minter, Paul Minter, Ray Pawlik and Steve Long. Tracks 1 Western Boots (Navosota) 2:462 $2 Bill (Navosota) 2:183 Ballad Of A Young Man (Navosota) 3:454 Thats How It Is (Playin’ In A Rock & Roll Band) (Navosota) 4:155 Canyon Ladies […]
“Pretzel Logic“ is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen that was released as a single by Steely Dan from their album Pretzel Logic, originally released in 1974 by ABC Records. It reached number 57 in the Billboard charts. Steely Dan FAQ author Anthony Robustelli describes “Pretzel Logic” as a bluesy shuffle about […]
“Rikki Don’t Lose That Number“ is a single released in 1974 by rock/jazz rock group Steely Dan and the opening track of their third album Pretzel Logic. It was the most successful single of the group’s career, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1974. The song features Jim […]
Light and Shade is the fourth studio album by Norwegian new wave band Fra Lippo Lippi. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California and produced by Walter Becker (of Steely Dan fame). Following the success of the 1985 album Songs, Virgin Records had the band work on a follow-up album with the US as its […]
Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American jazz rock band Steely Dan, released in 1980. The sessions for Gaucho represent the band’s typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded […]
The track “Black Friday” from the Steely Dan album Katy Lied, which was released as the first single from the album, relates the story of a crooked speculator who makes his fortune and absconds to Australia. Muswellbrook, a town in New South Wales, was chosen to fit in with the lyric, as Fagen later explained: “It […]