Dirty Logic<\/a> as they lead a discussion of Can\u2019t Buy a Thrill<\/i>. We\u2019ll chat about the background, creation and legacy of the album, and listen to some key tracks that demonstrate the innovation and creativity of Steely Dan. And as always, we\u2019ll facilitate audience discussion.<\/p>\nWHAT<\/b>: Music to Your Ears Discussion Series: Steely Dan\u2019s Can\u2019t Buy a Thrill<\/em>
\nWHO<\/b>: Discussion led by music journalist\/author Bill Kopp with special guest Jake Wolf
\nWHERE<\/b>: Asheville Guitar Bar, 122 Riverside Dr., Suite D, Asheville
\nWHEN<\/b>: Wednesday, Dec. 7 @ 7 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m. (doors open 6:30) $10 at the door \/ SEATING IS LIMITED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most critically and commercially successful groups of the 1970s, for most of its time in the spotlight Steely Dan wasn\u2019t really a band at all. Co-led by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","cat-27-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24196,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193\/revisions\/24196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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One of the most critically and commercially successful groups of the 1970s, for most of its time in the spotlight Steely Dan wasn\u2019t really a band at all. Co-led by the duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan crafted a sophisticated, urbane and oddly inscrutable musical character that nonetheless found a wide audience. To realize their ambitious and idiosyncratic musical goals \u2013 deftly combining witty and oblique lyrical concerns with elements of jazz, soul and rock into something that sounded like no one else \u2013 Becker and Fagen drew on some of the top session musicians. Retiring early from live performance, Steely Dan quickly became a studio project.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/steely_dan.jpg\")
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