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Steely Dan is an American jazz rock group founded by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). The band's first lineup also included guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer.
Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Originally having a full band lineup, Becker and Fagen chose to stop performing live by the end of 1974 and continued Steely Dan as a studio-only duo, utilizing a ...
He also sang lead on most of Steely Dan's songs when performed live during their early concerts because of Fagen's early-career stage fright before audiences. [6] Fagen eventually took lead vocals and Palmer left the band, although Palmer did contribute backing vocals on the band's subsequent release, Countdown to Ecstasy.
Carolyn Leonhart (born July 10, 1971) is a jazz singer, daughter of jazz bassist Jay Leonhart, and sister of the trumpeter Michael Leonhart. She has performed as a back-up vocalist for Steely Dan on several tours and recordings.
Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948) is an American musician who was the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker.
In 2017, Dan Weiss of Billboard ranked the song third on his list of the top 15 Steely Dan songs, [17] and in 2020, Phil Freeman of Stereogum ranked the song second on his list of the top 10 Steely Dan songs. [18] Billboard praised the "sarcastic" lyrics, the "stinging instrumental break" and the "chilling" piano playing. [19]
Katy Lied is the fourth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in March 1975, by ABC Records; reissues have since been released by MCA Records due to ABC's acquisition by the former in 1979. It was the first album the group made after they stopped touring, as well as their first to feature backing vocals by Michael McDonald.
The song's lyrics describe an affair between a man and a married woman, sung by the man. [2] Steely Dan FAQ author Anthony Robustelli describes "Dirty Work" as a "song of self-loathing", [3] while The Guardian describes the narrative as soap operatic. [4] The singer recognizes that the woman is using him, but is too infatuated to end the affair.