This past summer (2013) there’s been some point and counterpoint on a class of jazz fans called the “jazzbro,” You May Also Like: Steely Dan Sunday: “Paging Audrey [Demo]” (2008)

As we’ve covered earlier in the reviews of this album, there are a number of new players and even a new strategy represented by Two Against Nature. You May Also Like: No related posts.

If Two Against Nature was a somewhat unlikely winner Grammy winner for 2001, Album of the Year, the song “Cousin Dupree” was an even more unlikely winner for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. You May Also Like: Steely Dan, “Glamour Profession” from ‘Northeast Corridor’ (2021):Read More

If Two Against Nature came out as a L.P. the song “Jack of Speed” would have made a perfect side two opener. It’s funky, it rocks, it’s sophisticated. You May Also Like: Walter Becker, “Hard Up Case (Live at Slim’s 1995)” (2024): Steely Dan Sunday

<<< BACKWARD (“Janie Runaway”) ||| ONWARD (“Jack Of Speed”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** Not many Billboard top 10 albums have a homage to hookers, but Two Against Nature continues the Steely Dan tradition You May Also Like: Steely Dan, “Glamour Profession” from ‘Northeast Corridor’ (2021): Steely DanRead More

Crisp, dry production, a lean groove — anchored by Becker’s usual fat, bubbling bass line — and Fagen’s smart horn arrangement, “Janie Runaway” is an agreeable little mid-tempo number You May Also Like: Walter Becker, “The Dopest Cut / Down In the Bottom” (1992): Steely Dan Sunday Steely Dan Sunday:Read More

Keith Carlock was under the impression he would never be used as a Steely Dan drummer again. Of course, the rest is history.

Here’s the setup: A self-pitying tale about a promising life wasted at the onset of middle age having chance encounter with an old flame who became rich and famous. You May Also Like: Steely Dan Sunday: “Paging Audrey [Demo]” (2008) Walter Becker, “Hard Up Case (Live at Slim’s 1995)” (2024):Read More

The Nineties brought many surprising events that delighted long-suffering Steely Dan fans who’ve had nearly no new output from either Becker or Fagen since 1982’s The Nightfly. You May Also Like: Walter Becker, “Hard Up Case (Live at Slim’s 1995)” (2024): Steely Dan Sunday

<<< BACKWARD (“Kid Charlemagne [Live]”) ||| ONWARD (“Aja [Live]”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** How do you follow-up an iconic rock, funk rave-up like “Kid Charlemagne”? You May Also Like: Steely Dan, “Kid Charlemagne” from ‘Northeast Corridor’ (2021): Steely Dan Sunday Steely Dan, “Reelin’ in the Years [Live]”Read More