By Richard Cromelin Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The first song in Donald Fagen’s show on Monday at the Wiltern LG was a pretty good clue that this first solo tour by the Steely Dan principal would be neither a greatest-hits joyride nor an infomercial for his new solo album, Morph the Cat, the […]
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Donald Fagen – Morph the Cat
By John Henry Audiophile Audition Now here’s an artist who hasn’t given up on DVD-Audio, and including with it not only both Dolby Digital and DTS options, but also a separate CD – the best all-around approach to “DualDisc” as far as we’re concerned. If the CD changer in my car weren’t on the fritz […]
Influences: Donald Fagen
Steely Dan was the quintessential L.A. band, but Fagen himself has always been a New Yorker at heart. By Ben Williams New York Magazine Were you inspired by anything new when you recorded your new album, Morph the Cat? I basically listen to the same 40 albums that I listened to in high school, near […]
Fagen Keeps His Cool
By Tom Lanham San Francisco Chronicle NEW YORK — For the past 35 years, with his smooth-jazz outfit Steely Dan, Donald Fagen has cultivated an ice-blue, cocktail-hour profile that’s always been several notches classier than whatever rock was happening at the time. Ditto for his three solo albums — 1982’s The Nightfly, 1983’s Kamakiriad and […]
This isn’t Steely Dan, and There Ain’t No ‘Fagen’ It
By Devin Grant Charleston Post and Courier Morph The Cat Donald Fagen Reprise On the rare occasion that Donald Fagen decides to bless the music world with a solo release, it is cause for celebration among fans of his (also occasional) outfit, Steely Dan. You see, Fagen’s solo outings might as well be Steely Dan […]
Storyteller Finds Comfort Onstage
By Doug Pullen Flint Journal DETROIT – Funny thing about Donald Fagen. Used to be he never wanted to tour with Steely Dan, which was more of a songwriting and studio partnership than a living, breathing, touring band. They made some of the greatest records of the pop era, but didn’t hit the road for […]
Catdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan’s unfashionable co-founder catches a New York where things changed forever By James Hunter Village Voice Morph the Cat Reprise Donald Fagen’s new album, the Steely Dan co-founder’s first since 1993’s Kamakiriad, is a funky suite devoted to post–9-11 conundrums. His song cycle is framed by “Morph the Cat,” a lazy-gaited pop-jazz groove that […]
Fagen’s smooth ‘Morph’
By Tom Sinclair Entertainment Weekly What makes great music great? The late Clash singer Joe Strummer once offered a theory about what doesn’t: ”It ain’t about playing the right f—ing chord, for a start,” quoth Saint Joe, making the point that passion trumps technical perfection. He was right, of course, but that doesn’t mean that […]
Donald Fagen – ‘Morph the Cat’
By Paul Woloszyn MusicOMH.com At a time when sounding a bit rough around the edges is not a bad thing there are still some artists who are not swayed by changes in style, none more so than Donald Fagen. One half of Steely Dan, he has been making the same classy brand of jazzy pop […]
