By Greg Kot Chicago Tribune Donald Fagen and Walter Becker chuckle when they recall the night they derailed the Eminem victory train at the Grammy Awards in 2001. The Steely Dan duo had just walked away with an unexpected triumph for album of the year, their “Two Against Nature” pulling an upset over the rapper’s […]
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Everything’s Going Right for Steely Dan
By Chris Hovan Cleveland Free Times As sophisticated icons of contemporary pop music, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have secured a space among the landscape of modern mainstream culture. Beginning with 1974’s Pretzel Logic, the pair would lead Steely Dan through a number of quintessential albums that featured a slick blending of pop and jazz […]
Ever-Droll Steely Dan Still Offbeat
Newhouse News Service When Steely Dan released “Two Against Nature” in 2000, it was the band’s first new studio album in 20 years. Now, just three years later, Steely’s colorful co-founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are confounding expectations with the release of the comparatively instantaneous studio follow-up album, “Everything Must Go.” Then again, as […]
Recording ‘Everything Must Go’
By George Petersen MixOnline.com It seems like only yesterday that we gazed through the glass at Two Against Nature, the landmark comeback album for Steely Dan. Now, danmeisters Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — the enigmatic showbiz kids who consistently broke all the rules to create some of the coolest mainstream cult-pop on the planet — […]
Lust for Life
By Art Thompson Guitar Player If there’s one thing you can say about Steely Dan, it’s that they always deliver exactly what you expect. True, their sound hasn’t changed a great deal in the last 30 years, but if consistency counts for anything, then Walter Becker and Donald Fagen deserve kudos for sticking to the blues-meets-jazz-meets-R&B template that has […]
One Hour Sale, A Conversation with Steely Dan
By Jody Denberg KGSR radio Welcome to “One Hour Sale, A Conversation with Steely Dan,” featuring songs from their new album “Everything Must Go,” available as of June 10th, 2003. “Everything Must Go” is Steely Dan’s ninth studio album, only their second studio album in the last quarter century and their first since 2000’s “Two […]
Showing Their Mettle
Originally published on June 6, 2003 By Dan Aquilante New York Post Walter Becker and Donald Fagen – known collectively as Steely Dan – are among the finest musical minds of a generation. Few would dispute their credentials, accolades and extensive body of work. So when you ask these elder statesmen to say something suitably profound, […]
The Backpages Interview
This week sees the release of “Everything Must Go,” the follow-up to Steely Dan’s Grammy-grabbing “Two Against Nature.” BARNEY HOSKYNS discusses war, economics and online smut with WALTER BECKER and DONALD FAGEN RBP: It’s ironic that you’re now on Reprise. Shouldn’t you have been on that label from the start? WB: Well, in fact we […]
Dan Dares Again
They made it big — and lost it even bigger. Now, Steely Dan are back, with a new philosophy and a new album. And the thinking man’s hippies sound better than ever. By Robbin Eggar Times of London Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have always been too clever by at least two-thirds. They are so […]
Nature Boys
By Mark Felsot RockDaily.com It took four years of eligibility, but on March 19, jazz-rock brainiacs Steely Dan were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The honor was truly a momentous occasion for guitarist Walter Becker and singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen, but you wouldn’t know it by their nonchalant demeanor at the […]
