Steely Dan only released nine albums during their fantastic run. Remember there was a 20-year break in there that slowed them ...

Because I dearly love the first five albums. Steely Dan roared out of the gate in 1972 with Can’t Buy a Thrill. It yielded two top twenty hits and established a hybrid of multiple musical genres ...

Steely Dan's Walter Becker declared this one artist the greatest songwriter of all time, with the entire lineup of the rock ...

The undeniable winner here is the minor pentatonic scale, proving its versatility by forming the backbone of solos in both ...

Steely Dan are great. Danzig(‘s music has often been) great. So the idea to combine the two disparate acts’ respective hits, “Dirty Work” and “Mother,” was a brilliant one — and it works amazing well.

The HBO doc 'Yacht Rock' takes a fond, ironic look at how 1970s bands like Steely Dan, Toto and Christopher Cross found a new ...

The consensus is Aja is Steely Dan at their very peak, and it’s hard to argue against that when you hear songs like “Deacon Blues.” With music that’s complex yet accessible, and lyrics ...

The original Steely Dan songs were so meticulously arranged and brilliantly played that it's a thrill to hear Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's musical fussiness copied so faithfully. Tedde doesn't ...

like Kenny Loggins with the “Top Gun” hit “Danger Zone.” Michael McDonald became a pivotal figure in Yacht Rock by singing and sometimes playing keyboards with Steely Dan, the Doobie ...