By Bruce Pollack Songfacts.com At the keyboards, Donald Fagen was the smoky voice and songwriting co-conspirator (with Walter Becker) on all of Steely Dan’s classic hits, from “Reelin’ In The Years” to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” to “Peg” and “Deacon Blues” and “Hey Nineteen.” Carving perverse lyrics into cryptic and sardonic story lines, wound […]
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Donald Fagen’s Sunken Condos
By Fred Kaplan Stereophile Donald Fagen isn’t exactly a jazz musician, but he is a musician who plays jazz and whose music is suffused with a jazz sensibility, whether on his own or as co-leader of Steely Dan, so here we go. His 4th solo disc, Sunken Condos (on Reprise), is one of his […]
Donald Fagen Rises to New Heights with “Sunken Condos”
By Dennis Biles San Jose State Spartan Daily Grade: A Donald Fagen, co-founder of legendary rock group Steely Dan, may be getting up there in years but his slick musical style and witty, yet often sarcastic lyricism doesn’t sound dated at all on his latest solo effort “Sunken Condos.” By employing his usual method of […]
Donald Fagen: Sunken Condos
By Zachary Houle PopMatters Associate Music Editor Something funny happened to me while I was listening to Donald Fagen’s fourth solo album, Sunken Condos, and first since 2006’s Morph the Cat. The record company kept a pretty tight leash on this release, and, to make a long story short, I had to download some software […]
Review: Donald Fagen ‘Sunken Condos’
By George Lang NewsOK.com Sunken Condos Donald Fagen Warner Bros. The first three albums of his solo career were separated by more than a decade, but Donald Fagen lives in his own hermetically sealed, meticulously crafted bubble of style. He does not respond to musical trends, and to test whether this is true, load everything […]
A Conversation With Fagen & Leonhart
By Mike Ragogna Huffington Post Michael Ragogna: Guys, the new album Sunken Condos seems like a funk-based new beginning for Donald Fagen’s music. Can you go into what your approach was coming into this creatively? Donald Fagen: Well, I think the first three albums I did, which appeared at ten-year intervals, more or less ended […]
Donald Fagen: Sunken Condos
By Jim Beviglia AmericanSongwriter.com Donald Fagen Sunken Condos (Reprise) Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 Calling Donald Fagen a singer/songwriter is a somewhat limiting description of what he actually delivers, both as frontman of Steely Dan and on his occasional solo albums. His latest, Sunken Condos, is a typical multi-tasking effort: He not only wrote […]
‘Sunken Condos’ Both Familiar and Still Fresh
By Elysa Gardner USA Today One of the perks of having a truly distinctive musical voice is that you don’t have to constantly refresh your sound to stay relevant. For 40 years, with and without Steely Dan, Donald Fagen has delivered a lithe, urbane, instantly recognizable hybrid of rock, jazz and funk. So while Fagen’s […]
New Music Review: Sunken Condos, Donald Fagen (Reprise)
By Bernard Perusse Montreal Gazette Donald Fagen Sunken Condos Reprise Rating: 4 stars If there’s an opposite to smoke and mirrors, Donald Fagen continues to hunt for it on his fourth solo album in 30 years. There’s plenty of space here for all instruments to find a spot, with no players crowding the others out […]
Jon Herington of Steely Dan Talks About His Musical Journey
By Craig Hunter Ross Guitar International Jon Herington is simply one of the most respected guitar players in the music business. His resume is second to none, having provided his skillful and smooth soloing style to some of the biggest names in music. For the past 13 years, he has served as the touring and recording guitarist […]
