Why Steely Dan Doesn’t Suck, Radio Silence, April 2014

The Countdown to Ecstacy vinyl reissue, remastered by Donald Fagen for Geffen/UMe for release on May 26th, makes a good peg for this Steely Dan overview. Dan Stone had me write it up for Radio Silence, that handsome Bay area journal. (In the first paragraph, I dig myself out of that defensive headline.) Plus, Quantum Criminals by Alex Pappademas and illustrator Joan LeMay just arrived from the University of Texas Press. More on that in a future issue. Walter Becker died in 2017, but Donald Fagen still tours as Steely Dan, and the tapes keep rolling.

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