Everything must go

Steely Dan

CD 2003

Warner Records

drum tuning/maintainance: Artie Smith

officiële press release:

January 22, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

REPRISE RECORDS TO RELEASE EVERYTHING MUST GO, STEELY DAN'S FIRST ALBUM SINCE 2000'S GRAMMY®-WINNING TWO AGAINST NATURE

In Stores Tuesday, May 6 June 10

Steely Dan is releasing Everything Must Go (Reprise) on May 6 June 10. It is Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's first release since 2000, when their Two Against Nature -- the duo's first studio release in 20 years -- garnered multiple Grammy® awards including "Album Of The Year".

Listeners anticipating Steely Dan's patented amalgam of sonic perfection, sinuous musicality, and subversive storytelling will not be disappointed by the new release, whose musical allusions range from Pharaoh Sanders to Tommy James, and whose literary echoes bound from William Gibson to Burmashave. Featured lyrics include such catchy phrases as "and that's when she jumped the turnstile" and "hey -- is that a horseshoe crab"?

Everything Must Go took roughly a year to record -- a veritable wind sprint given Becker and Fagen's legendary meticulousness in the studio. "We went for live tracking this time and got great, in-the-pocket tracks," says Becker. Donald Fagen adds "It's mad: it's wiggy: I love it".

The core band included Keith Carlock (drums), Ted Baker (keyboards), jazz sensation Bill Charlap (keyboards), and Jon Herington and Hugh McCracken (guitars). Becker played bass and guitar, while Fagen contributed keyboards, organs, Rhodes, synths, and -- on all but one cut -- lead vocals. Becker's solo singing on one tune marks the first such credit for him in Steely Dan's studio oeuvre.

Engineering were Elliot Scheiner, Dave Russell, Roger Nichols -- all of whom received Best Engineering Grammys® for Two Against Nature -- along with newcomer T.J. Doherty. Superstar tracking and mixing engineer Elliot Scheiner comments on the process, saying "We did a few things differently -- including tracking and mixing in analog instead of digital. That contributed to giving this album a really rich and satisfying sound".

Steely Dan's official website -- Becker and Fagen's personal internet playpen since 1996 -- can be found at www.steelydan.com, and will be running news, updates, and commentary throughout this promotional season and beyond.

Keith Carlock

Gordon Gottlieb

track listing

Disc 1

01. The Last Mall 03:36

02. Things I Miss The Most 03:59

03. Blues Beach 04:27

04. Godwhacker 04:57

05. Slang Of Ages 04:14

06. Green Book 05:55

07. Pixeleen 04:01

08. Lunch With Gina 04:26

09. Everything Must Go 06:45