Steely Dan – What Makes This Song Great? “Kid Charlemagne”
What Makes This Song Great? “Kid Charlemagne” and the Anatomy of a Seventies Masterpiece In his third episode of What Makes This Song Great?, Rick Beato turns his analytical lens…
What Makes This Song Great? “Kid Charlemagne” and the Anatomy of a Seventies Masterpiece In his third episode of What Makes This Song Great?, Rick Beato turns his analytical lens…
Bodhisattva Revisited: Denny Dias Brings Steely Dan’s Spirit Back to Life at the Iridium, 2015 When Denny Dias, founding member of Steely Dan, stepped onto the stage at New York’s…
A Quiet Triumph of Sophistication: Steely Dan Live on September 21, 1993 On September 21, 1993, Steely Dan delivered a performance that captured the band at a fascinating point in…
Confessions on the Road: Steely Dan, Everything Must Go, and the Art of Letting Music Speak Hidden among the bonus features of the Everything Must Go DVD, Confessions feels less…
Restoring a Hidden Corner of the Steely Dan Legacy: The Bear Reborn in Definitive Form From Bleu’s Audio Archive comes a deeply personal and technically ambitious project that brings renewed…
Babylon Sisters: Steely Dan’s Masterpiece of Cynicism Sometimes a song does more than accompany a moment. It quietly reframes it, lending clarity to chaos and irony to survival. That is…
Steely Dan’s “Home At Last” The Making Of AJA: A Journey into Studio Perfection In the pantheon of modern music masterpieces, Steely Dan’s AJA stands as a milestone of precision,…
Steely Dan Return to Late Night Perfection on Letterman, Revisited in Stunning Quality Steely Dan’s appearance on Late Show with David Letterman on October 20, 1995, has long been remembered…
Steely Dan “Alive in America”: A Rare Window into Perfectionism, Memory, and Musical Discipline The VH1 documentary “Steely Dan: Alive in America” (1995) offers one of the most revealing portraits…
Steely Dan Return to Daytime Television with a Rare Live Set on NBC’s “Today Show” (2000) On May 5, 2000, Steely Dan made a notable return to American television with…