Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion post punk and with her through the

and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow

Recognized and beloved wherever he went

His indelible portrait of Redding and the mass acceptance of soul music in the 1960s is both a revealing look at a brilliant artist and a provocative exploration of the tangled history of race and music in America that resonates strongly with the present day

Angela Davis provides the historical

and author of The Holy or the Broken

Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion post punk and with her through theAuthor: Barney Hoskyns At its core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan has sold over 45 million albums and recorded several of the cleverest and best produced albums of the 1970sfrom the breathlessly catchy Cant Buy a Thrill to the sleekly sinister Gauchomaking them one of the most successful rock acts of the past fifty years. More than ten years after their break up in 1981, they returned to remind fans of how