When Kenny Loggins’s second cousin, Dave, becomes, for a moment, the Alpha Loggins, you know spring has sprung.

Don’t know if any of you guys have heard this long lost track by #SteelyDan !? Check it out…

Up on the hill

People never stare

They just don't care

look ma, i’m a beach boys podcaster

During the 1980s synthesizer boom, Donald Fagen continued composing songs at the piano.

“I figure if I start writing with the machines,” he said in 1988, “then it will start to sound like everyone else’s records.”

“This is danger-zone territory [for NC State]—Kenny Loggins territory.”

—Ian Eagle

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'Hey, Donald, what's that Steely Dan song about?'

🎷NEW NEWSLETTER 🎷

When a bootleg of Donald Fagen’s 1988 appearance on Ben Sidran's radio show came my way, I was excited that the interview could be heard as aired. Still, nearly all of the music remained missing. So I’ve restored the songs as originally broadcast.

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That feeling when the dogs begin to smell her

🎷In the latest newsletter 🎷

Donald Fagen narrates the songs of his life

A three-hour mixtape featuring every piece of music mentioned in Fagen's 'art-o-biography,' EMINENT HIPSTERS, accompanied by audiobook commentary from the author.

Here's a sample—Fagen on Henry Mancini.

Happy Easter

Donald Fagen- Kamakiriad (1993)

Nominative determinism among recording studio–based Bobs:

–Bob Rock

–Bob Clearmountain

–Bob Power

One assumes this broadcast originates from the foot of Mt. Belzoni.