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There are no songs from Aja on the following list. Nor are there any from its follow-up Gaucho. I mention this because I am fully aware that Aja – Steely Dan’s sixth album – is beloved by ...

During the early 1970s, while other hotshot L.A. guitarists hustled session gigs at auditions, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter was in the ...

I knew Steely Dan was going to do this song and I was just finishing building a Stratocaster. No dressings on it. It weighed about, I don’t know, ten pounds. It was a very heavy instrument.

It looked for quite some time the legacy of Steely Dan would be confined to the ‘70s, a decade their music helped define. Who could ever have expected that they’d make a grand return, sounding eerily ...

But even a scant glance at some of music's most influential and beloved ... Despite being hailed at the time as one of Steely Dan’s most accessible singles, 1977’s Josie is nothing short ...

The folk legend Bob Dylan might have inspired a million musicians, including Steely Dan, but over the years Donald Fagen has fuelled a feud with the star.

Of course, this being Steely Dan, there’s still the twist of it being a love song to a prostitute. Steely Dan was still very much a confined unit in 1973 when they released the album Countdown ...

The original Steely Dan songs were so meticulously arranged and brilliantly played that it's a thrill to hear Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's musical fussiness copied so faithfully. Tedde doesn't ...

Steely Dan have been making music for nearly 55 years - but many of the band's fans have been left scratching their heads over the meaning of their stage name. The American rock band, formed by ...

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