Steely Dan, “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” from ‘Northeast Corridor’ (2021): Steely Dan Sunday
“Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” Steely Dan’s most popular single, doesn’t consistently make it on the set list. Are they bored with it too?
“Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” Steely Dan’s most popular single, doesn’t consistently make it on the set list. Are they bored with it too?
There’s a good reason that “Kid Charlemagne” debuted on the Citizen Steely Dan Tour in 1994 and has never left the setlist.
This lineup has played together longer than any incarnation of Steely Dan, so the results overall are excellent.
I’ve reached the end of this collection of great Donald Fagen songs with mixed feelings.
An expertly performed live version of the opus “Aja” is an advance single from the upcoming concert album ‘Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!’
Here is the advance track “I.G.Y.” from the upcoming Steely Dan/Donald Fagen release ‘Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly Live,’ set to drop on September 24, 2021.
‘Everything Must Go’ boasts a warmth missing from 1977’s ‘Aja,’ the album Steely Dan fans usually gush over, as well as 1980’s ‘Gaucho.’
Don Breithaupt joined Ross Boissoneau to discuss career-shaping albums by Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.
Walter Becker’s ’11 Tracks of Whack’ outtake “The Dopest Cut / Down In the Bottom” is another treat for Steely Dan fans that shouldn’t go unnoticed.
Let’s return to a handful of lesser-known moments from Steely Dan’s ‘Katy Lied,’ which arrived 45 years ago this month.