STEELY DAN/ DONALD FAGEN Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!/ Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly Live UMG

STEELY DAN have a well-deserved reputation as the ultimate studio band. During their 1970s heyday, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen became increasingly meticulous when it came to session musicians and state-of-the-art recording techniques, creating LPs that still stand as the epitome of sonic perfectionism for the era. That elevated level of craftsmanship always carried with it a healthy dose of irony, of course. Steely Dan’s records sounded perfect but the jaded, wasted and weird characters who populated the lyrics were the opposite.

Preferring the, recorded during their first reunion tours in 1993 and 1994. The new and a live remake of Fagen’s , both recorded on tour in the US in 2019, add a considerable (if relative) weight to the band’s live legacy on record.