A newsletter about Steely Dan, featuring original interviews, oral histories, audio stories, themed mixtapes, and more transmissions from the Daniverse
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Elliott Randall on searching for the lost chord with Steve Hiett
The “Reelin’ in the Years” guitarist recalls making a dreamy 1983 album in Japan with the late British fashion photographer. (Plus: a Hiett tribute mixtape!)
When discussing his storied career as a guitarist, Elliott Randall often makes re...
The ‘lost Steely Dan film’ has been found
‘You’ve Got to Walk It’ had been thought missing for decades. After a years-long search, a third of the film recently surfaced on a bootleg VHS tape.
Earlier this month, I published an in-depth oral history of You’ve Got to Walk It Like Yo...
Hippies, cocaine, and 'dog meat': the oral history of 'You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It'
The sordid tale of how a lost counterculture film gave Walter Becker and Donald Fagen the chance to make their first album
Neither of them wanted to discuss it. They seemed embarrassed to even acknowledge its existence, as if it were a you...
The Becker-Fagen songbook mixtape (volume one)
Explore songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen that never appeared on a Steely Dan album.
Nearly three years ago, I received a message from the British DJ, radio host, and Oasis cover boy Sean Rowley. He told me he had started cur...
Donald Fagen waits all night for calls like these
In a never-before-published appearance on the call-in show 'Rockline' from 1983, Fagen hears from listeners about his debut solo album, 'The Nightfly.'
When Donald Fagen appeared on the call-in radio show Rockline in January 1983, the buzz...
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