Reprise
Let’s not mince words here: This is great stuff.
More than Fagen’s other solo albums — 1982’s “The Nightfly” and 1993’s “Kamakiriad” — this sounds like a Steely Dan album. One could dare say it sounds more like Steely Dan than the Dan’s last two albums.
Columbia
These are heady days for slide guitar fans.
The old guard (Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Sonny Landreth) continues to crank out albums, although with age the output seems to have slowed to about one every five years — collectively.
Self-released
Poco meets Pink Floyd?
El Capitan, a San Francisco-based group of modern-day space cowboys, are on to something. After all, David Gilmour used a pedal steel on “Dark Side of the Moon’s” opener, “Breathe.”
Hungry for Music
The sheer size of this tribute speaks volumes (three, to be exact) about the peer recognition troubadour Case has.
