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Reelin' in the Years: Steely Dan Announces Two Live Albums, New Tour

July 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Steely Dan Northeast Corridor

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Yesterday, Steely Dan announced the kickoff of its Absolutely Normal Tour '21 which will take the Donald Fagen-led band up and down the U.S. east coast in October and November.  To coincide with the tour, two new live releases will arrive from UMe in CD and digital formats on September 24 and 180-gram vinyl one week later on October 1: Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! and Donald Fagen's The Nightfly Live.  These are the first Steely Dan albums without founding member Walter Becker who passed away in 2017.

The first Steely Dan live album since 1995's Alive in America, Northeast Corridor was recorded on the group's last tour at venues including New York's Beacon Theater, The Met Philadelphia, and others.  (The band's nine-show Beacon residency in 2018 featured themed shows including performances of full albums, a "By Popular Demand" night, and more.)  The single-disc set of 12 songs (of course abbreviated from a typical tour setlist) features songs off Can't Buy a Thrill ("Reelin' in the Years"), Countdown to Ecstasy ("Bodhisattva"), Pretzel Logic ("Rikki Don't Lose That Number," "Any Major Dude Will Tell You"), Aja ("Black Cow," "Aja," "Peg"), The Royal Scam ("Kid Charlemagne"), Gaucho ("Hey Nineteen," "Glamour Profession"), and Everything Must Go ("Things I Miss the Most"), plus a cover of "A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry."  The Norman Gimbel/Frankie Laine/Irving Reid tune was recorded by Arthur Prysock, Chuck Jackson, and Joe Williams, among others.

Donald Fagens The Nightfly Live

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Donald Fagen's 1982 solo debut The Nightfly picked up where his work with Steely Dan left off, albeit with a more autobiographical lyrical bent.  The recording by producer Gary Katz, engineer Roger Nichols, and mixing engineer Elliot Scheiner took full advantage of early digital capabilities to bring Fagen's sly, jazz-pop compositions to life.  The album yielded the hits "I.G.Y." and "New Frontier," netted seven Grammy nominations, and was certified Platinum in the U.S. and in the U.K., as well.  Now it's returning in a start-to-finish live performance by The Steely Dan Band from 2019.

Look for Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! and Donald Fagen's The Nightfly Live on September 24 (CD and digital) and October 1 (180-gram vinyl LP) from UMe.  You'll find pre-order links and the track listings below.

Steely Dan, Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! (UMe, 2021)

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  1. Black Cow
  2. Kid Charlemagne
  3. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
  4. Hey Nineteen
  5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
  6. Glamour Profession
  7. Things I Miss the Most
  8. Aja
  9. Peg
  10. Bodhisattva
  11. Reelin' in the Years
  12. A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry

The Steely Dan Band, Donald Fagen's The Nightfly Live (UMe, 2021)

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  1. I.G.Y.
  2. Green Flower Street
  3. Ruby Baby
  4. Maxine
  5. New Frontier
  6. The Nightfly
  7. The Goodbye Look
  8. Walk Between the Raindrops

Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Donald Fagen, Steely Dan

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. kemo says

    July 27, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    Missed opportunity. Wanted some more obscure tracks from Royal Scam like Sign In Stranger, Don't take me Alive or the Royal Scam, disappointed No Show Biz Kids either. Also wanted the song Gaucho. No Uncle Walter His raps during Hey 19 were lots of fun. but take what i can get. Hopefully there are Beacon shows after 11/20

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  2. Rob M says

    July 27, 2021 at 2:32 pm

    I think it's very telling that the Steely Dan performances were recorded during "the last tour." I guess they can't even release new, heretofore unreleased performances with Walter Becker on them. That's sad, if true. They've recorded many if not all of their past shows for certain.

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    • Adam V. says

      July 28, 2021 at 11:56 am

      Maybe they just want to promote Steely Dan as they are today instead what they lost without Becker. It's great that Fagen is still out there so I'm okay with these releases.

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  3. Aaron Blurr says

    July 29, 2021 at 8:36 am

    ...and the winner of worst Steely Dan cover art of all time is...Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! Congratulations to whomever spent 10 minutes in Microsoft Word putting it together.

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    • Danny says

      August 14, 2021 at 4:56 am

      I couldn't agree more! What a piece of art that is...

      Reply
    • Rob M says

      September 25, 2021 at 10:28 am

      It’s frickin’ clip art.

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