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Steely Dan

For full liner notes and bonus content visit http://www.bennysutton.com/Music/Steely-Dan.aspx

Musica De Relajacin - Album Yoga - The Heart Of Reiki

Mayer Hawthorne & The County covers Lorde "Royals" as part of VEVO's Unexpected Covers.

Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/mtcR4BBet3k

Mayer Hawthorne - Vocals
Quentin Joseph - Drums
Joe Abrams - Bass
Quincy McCrary - Keys
Christian Wunderlich - Guitar

Royals

A Funk jam in E I wrote and recorded with my Gecko Bass "Mjolnir

Funkay

Obscure but cool Australian Rocker Billy Thorpe's biggest hit. This was the first attempt at a big production sound with lots of overdubs and voices. 100% solo me.

Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe cover

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (12  Version)

'O)oldschool-acid-tekno-vinyl-mische (k't'c)

Steely Dan & Michael Jackson - Billie Dan

Rusty Foulke played the guitar parts on this one.

Ah Leah Donnie Iris cover by Bernie Garzio

SLEEP MUSIC RELAXING MUSIC INSOMNIA HELPFOR DEEP SLEEP

My smooth jazz guitar version of the Steely Dan classic. I play all instruments except drums.

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I've got a page devoted to Steely Dan where I talk about how to play their great guitar solos 
http://www.bennysutton.com/Music/Steely-Dan-Guitar-Solos.aspx


Steely Dan ---- Peg (free download by clicking the 'buy' button)

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I've got a page devoted to Steely Dan where I talk about how to play their great guitar solos 
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'Josie' is another Steely Dan classic off the 1977 album 'Aja'. 

Steely Dan ---- Josie

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Deacon Blues is another classic Steely Dan track off the Aja album.

Guitarists love Steely Dan because they integrated the instrument into their studio productions so beautifully. In the process they gave the world at least 10 of the top 50 guitar solos of all time!

What's the secret of a Steely Dan guitar solo? Find out at http://www.bennysutton.com/Music/Steely-Dan-Guitar-Solos.aspx 

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Steely Dan ---- Deacon Blues

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Cool Uncle (Bobby Caldwell & Jack Splash) - Game Over (feat. Mayer Hawthorne)

Not strictly a Steely Dan Track this is from Donald Fagen's Nightfly album. However it's as close as he gets to classic Steely tracks. I always thought Fagen wrote it but it is actually a cover they did of a Leiber Stoller song. They know a good song when they see one.
My approach is to jump genres with the beats; there's Dubstep and Disco there! Some horns and a clavinet bassline later and - Voila! The Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. version was originally recorded by The Drifters and was released on a single by Atlantic Records in 1956


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Steely Dan ---- Ruby Baby (downloadable)

This track, when the Steelies first released it, was marked by its distinctive 'voicebox' guitar, quite an innovation at the time when it was initially released Technology has moved on so much since the original track was recorded. 
The original voice box was a tube attached to your amp the sound from which went up a plastic tube and you mouthed vowels etc with your mouth close to a microphone. I have a pedal with a superb setting that does in digitally! I don't use it often but when I do I love it. So you get a clean guitar solo and a voice box one too for the same money! 
I always wondered why the almost reggae beat - that would mean it was called Jamaican Divorce! Slick move Donald to not do the obvious).
source http://www.songfacts.com
The lyrical meaning of the original refers to the odd practice of going to Haiti for a quickie divorce. You could go to Vegas for a quickie marriage, but what if you want a quickie divorce? In the early '70s, Haiti made it easy, allowing foreigners to divorce with hardly any restriction; the big sell was that only one member of the married party had to be present and request it.
For Haiti, this was a tourism ploy, as travel agents would send Americans looking for a quick and easy divorce to the island, where they would often spend some time on a resort. In many cases, these divorces were requested so that the person could immediately get remarried - a service Haiti also provided. So it was not uncommon for a married man to show up in Haiti with his mistress, get a divorce, and marry the new girl all in the course of a weekend. .Donald Fagan talked about the Haitian divorce in a 1976 interview with Sounds. Said Fagen: "It's a fierce and terrible ritual. I'll tell you that. You wouldn't want your sister to have a Haitian divorce, believe me. It was the quick 'divorce, without too much red tape. If you can say 'incompatibility of character' in French you're as good as gold. But we added a few elements to the ceremony itself."
In this song, it's the woman who goes to Haiti for her divorce. She has some fun while she is there, and presumably hooks up with a local - their sex scene is implied in cinematic terms in the lines:

    Now we dolly back
    Now we fade to black

    When she returns to America, she is pregnant, as Fagen sings, "Some babies grow in a peculiar way."
    The girl in this song drinks a zombie from a coconut shell, which at the time was a very typical island experience. A zombie is a rum-based cocktail that was popular at the time - an alternative to the Pina Colada.


Steely Dan ---- Haitian Divorce

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Lyrics:
If I had a dollar
For every dream of you and me
I'd buy myself a rocket
And shoot into your galaxy
There wouldn't be no parts unknown
I'd search every uncharted zone
And when it's time to come back home
I'll send ya
My antenna
Is pointed at

My cosmic love
You’re my cosmic love
From the stars above
You're my cosmic love

Incoming transmission
I'm crashing through your atmosphere
There's no interference no
I read you darling loud and clear
Because you're my

My cosmic love
You’re my cosmic love
From the stars above
You're my cosmic love

My cosmic love from up above
You are the one I’m thinking of
My cosmic love

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Man About Town

Cosmic Love

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HAL is a great little groove. Very typical Steely Dan chord progressions. I manage to play a lot of the melody on guitar during this track. Some Steely tracks melodies can be limited to a couple of notes for the vocals (e.g. Black Friday). This one has a beautiful melody, complete with those odd little passing notes and key changes we know and love (Becker/Fagen for).
I'm very pleased with the solo on this one. You can't beat the Steelies to improvise over. It's tough to play with such a clean sound and guitar tone but this you can get #in the pocket' of. It's bluesey, it's jazzy, and, as you know, I'm sparing with the number of notes I play per musical bar. I'm out to be the most expressive I can be - and that means making the most you can of the notes  you've got (and the silences between them).
At over five minutes this is one of the longest Steely track I have done!
Steely Dan Trivia... Apparently, this song is based lyrically on the epic novel The Odyssey by Homer. The hero, Ulysses, is trying to get home across the ocean after the Trojan War, but the gods keep making it difficult:
It's off the Aja album


Steely Dan ---- Home At Last

Lead & Backing vocals: NayJ.
Keys: Jamie Rhind (https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind)
Mix & Master: H.V. Classical (https://soundcloud.com/h-v-classical)

Lyrics :

I don't like you
But I love you
Seems that I'm always
Thinking of you
Though oh, oh, oh,
You treat me badly
I love you madly
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby


I don't want you,
But I need you
Don't want to kiss you
But I need to
Oh, oh, oh
You do me wrong now
My love is strong now
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby


I love you and, all I want you to do
Is just hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me
Tighter, tighter


I want to leave you
Don't want to stay here
Don't want to spend
Another day here
Though Oh, oh, oh, I want to split now
I just can't quit now
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby


I love you and all I want you to do
Is just hold me, squeeze me, hold me, hold me


You've really got a hold on me
I've said you've really got a hold on me
You know you've really got a hold on me


You Really Got A Hold On Me - (feat. Jamie Rhind)

It's been too long since Ohio bluesman Joe Bongiovanni and I recorded a tune together, so I wrote this one with Joe's soulful and lyrical playing in mind.  Joe has several times been a finalist at the World Championship of Blues Guitar, and it sure shows in his beautiful playing.  This is our 13th tune together, and I'm really proud of what we have recorded.  Check out Joe's wonderful gallery at https://soundcloud.com/joe-bongiovanni

The photo is one of my favorite sunsets I have ever shot, in beautiful East Hampton, NY.  

And for those interested, I have just released Barcelona and I Believe, 2 CDs of my own music and a few jazz standards.   SoundCloud's Dan van den Berg and Al Schulman wrote the liner notes for them.  Here's a link if you are interested in checking them out - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/barcelona/id1071251143

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, your comments and feedback and your shares.  

Feelin' Blue - with Joe Bongiovanni / guitar

Enjoy slow music for background, meditation, yoga, or as your office music (when you have a cool workplace ;)  This is another peaceful relaxdaily tune, created to make you slow down and/or being able to focus on the task at hand. 

>>> Listen to this track also on my website as part of my 'Focus Music' stream: https://relaxdaily.net/focus-music/

About me and relaxdaily:
My mission is to create the most beautiful relaxing music on the planet (I know that's a vague goal). At least it should sound peaceful, soothing and beautiful in my ears. I began creating music in the broader 'Relaxation Music' genre in late summer of 2011 (search for 'relaxdaily N°001'). ...Read the rest of my story at https://relaxdaily.net/about

If you like my music, you might comment below, how it makes you feel or in which setting or for which activity you use it. This really helps me to create new tunes. It inspires me.

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© 2012, relaxdaily - Michael Fesser

Season 1

N°037

Slow Music for Background – Meditation, Yoga, Office – relaxdaily N°037

Whitney Houston & Steely Dan - Babylon Sister

Pacific Festival: The Dunes will be taking place at the Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort & Marina on Sunday, September 2, 2012 on Labor Day Weekend.

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Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out

"Misty Mountain Hop" - Led Zeppelin (vinyl 45)

This slow, peaceful and calming piano music instrumental has all the positive power and emotion to be a working soundtrack while you study or work, relax or calm down, meditate or enjoy your yoga, spa or massage session. When you're into love songs: Don't you think this instrumental has a romantic touch to it? I hope you enjoy this piece of music. Let me know how you feel about it ;)
- Michael (relaxdaily music creator)

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© 2012 relaxdaily

FYI: With this project I try to create music that is different to what you hear on the radio. While I believe that it can make us happy to listen to uptempo, stimulating and entertaining pop music throughout the day,  I also believe that we all can benefit from a slow and  peaceful instrumental from time to time. With this project, I want to create a place where you can come to, when you feel the need to.   

... relaxdaily: music for the mind, body and soul.

Season 2

N°057

Slow, Peaceful and Calming Piano Music -  work, study, love songs - relaxdaily N°057

"Funk #49 & #50" - Joe Walsh & Daryl Hall Band (live)

This is - hopefully - my final cover of Steppenwolf's Born to be wild. Please like, comment, share with your friends and enemies :). Thanks!

No copyright infringments intended, this is my way to pay tribute to Steppenwolf and their awesome song.

Steppenwolf - Born to be wild - Cover, 2013-05-24

Check out my Soundcloud channel for my latest music releases. 
Love Guitar? You're in the right place!
I'm different! I play melodies - even when improvising!  
I'm really not interested in impressing other musicians. I'm creating music for everyone.
I'M ALSO HERE...
http://www.bennysutton.com
MY VIDEOS http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TJp0GyhYOnusiCGB8z4fG0T8G35gTTi
https://soundcloud.com/bennysutton_covers


ABOUT ME
I play the music I like to listen to. 
As a guitarist I like to think I have my own style.
Harmony, and the groove is what I'm chasing, hopefully with a tasteful, nuanced, and distinctive presentation. 
I don't have a genre as such. I could sort of call myself a smooth Jazz 'n' Blues guitar 'thang' but in reality every track crosses over multiple strands of R&B/Jazz/Funk/Pop. Don't be put off by my use of the "J" word. Jazz to me is anything unpredictable and I'm nothing if not contemporary. 
Rhythm playing is as much a part of my "game" as lead soloing. I love the Funk!
My main instrument is guitar. I play a 1973 Ovation Breadwinner, an Ibanez nylon stringed and a Yamaha keyboard loaded with Keyscape. Unless stated I play all the other instruments too (mostly Bass), and sequence MIDI and arrange/produce. 

MY JOURNEY
I was signed with Fresh Air records and EMI in the 1980's creating Jazz/funk dance tracks but things were just as challenging then as they are now for musicians so I got a 'proper job' for 20 years! During all that time my guitar was in the loft! I rediscovered music in 2010 and Soundcloud in 2014.


MY SOUNDCLOUD
I am grateful to Soundcloud listeners who take the time to press |>Play - and especially if you give me some feedback :-)
I hope what you hear will draw you in sufficiently to explore on my own website. Nearly all my original stuff (6 albums worth) are on www.BennySutton.com and all are downloadable.
Please don't follow me in hope of getting to get an automatic follow back. I don't do that because I only follow the smallest number of people I can keep track of. I'll have a look at your page but will only follow back if you are really of interest to me. See my follow list, you'll discover some very talented artistes, many of whom I have been lucky to Collab. Soundcloud really is the place to find the real innovators these days - not the music industry approved channels, especially MTV!
If you want to get my attention, send me a PM.

Steely Dan ---- Home At Last

Benny Sutton