[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_olU7is4jE&w=420&h=315] <<< BACKWARD (“On The Dunes”) ||| ONWARD (“Confide In Me”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** And so we reach the conclusion of Kamakiriad with a funky horn-drenched number. You May Also Like: Steely Dan, “Reelin’ in the Years [Live]” (2021): Steely Dan Sunday Donald Fagen, “NewRead More

On every Donald Fagen album, there’s inevitably a track or two that particularly brings to mind Steely Dan’s Aja and on Kamakiriad, that “Aja” track would be the smooth lounge-y jazz-pop number “On the Dunes.” You May Also Like: Steely Dan, “Reelin’ in the Years [Live]” (2021): Steely Dan SundayRead More

<<< BACKWARD (“Tomorrow’s Girls”) ||| ONWARD (“On The Dunes”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** When the Doobie Brothers had released One Step Closer in 1980, I eagerly snapped up the album looking forward to another Minute By Minute, but the album was largely a disappointment to me. YouRead More

Below is the final installment in a three part series spanning Will Galison’s first hand account of some session work on an album by one of the most notorious studio perfectionists in rock history, Donald Fagen. You May Also Like: Donald Fagen, “New Frontier” from ‘The Nightfly Live’ (2021): SteelyRead More

*** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** 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 You May Also Like: Donald Fagen, “New Frontier” from ‘The NightflyRead More

*** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** Editor’s note: Over the next three Sundays, this column will take a break from the Steely Dan-related song-a-week format and cede the floor to Will Galison. You May Also Like: Donald Fagen, “Ruby Baby” from ‘The Nightfly Live’ (2021): Steely Dan Sunday Donald Fagen,Read More

<<< BACKWARD (“Snowbound”) ||| ONWARD (“Florida Room”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** Kamakiriad got its mojo going with “Snowbound” and reached the summit at “Tomorrow’s Girls.” This song was the single spun off the album, and achieved some mild success, reaching #20 on the “Mainstream Rock Tracks” chartsRead More

Like Simon & Garfunkel’s post-band breakup hit “My Little Town,” Steely Dan reconvened for a single, new original song with “Snowbound.” You May Also Like: Walter Becker, “Hard Up Case (Live at Slim’s 1995)” (2024): Steely Dan Sunday Walter Becker, “Three Sisters Shakin’” (circa 1992): Steely Dan Sunday

<<< BACKWARD (“Countermoon”) ||| ONWARD (“Snowbound”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** It’s no fun to write about the failing of an artist for which you have an immense amount of respect and admiration, but we’ve reached that nadir for Donald Fagen with the flaccid “Springtime.” You May AlsoRead More

Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen gets down with the slowed-down, hand-clapping funk of “Countermoon,” but it could have been better.