Bad Sneakers
Donald Fagan, appearing at the Tower Theater Saturday, on the difference between Steely Dan and solo work: women.
"We both have families and wives and everything," he told Ira Robbins in Newsday yesterday. "Steely Dan is guys without girls. The collective persona that we unintentionally developed is a guy who's talking to the guys, except once in a while, he breaks down and you get to see that he's unstable. Kind of like Dick Cheney. Every once in a while, he takes a shot in the bushes without knowing what he's shooting at."
Morph the Cat, to be released Tuesday, is the first solo album from Fagan in 13 years. His Web site is playing three full songs last time I listened, the title track, H Gang, and What I Do, a conversation of sorts with the late Ray Charles.