Citizen Steely Dan CD

CITIZEN STEELY DAN is a 4-CD box-set containing tracks from all 7 Steely Dan releases, including 2 B-sides and a previously unreleased demo track. It also includes a 40-page booklet with extensive liner notes and recording information as well as rare and unpublished photos.

Additional personnel includes: Elliot Randall, Dean Parks, Rick Derringer, Hiram Bullock, Steve Khan, Larry Carlton, Mark Knopfler, Lee Ritenour (guitar); Tom Scott (flute, saxophone, lyricon); Phil Woods, Wayne Shorter, Ernie Watts, Michael Brecker, John Klemmer, Plas Johnson, David Sanborn (saxophone); Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Victor Feldman (piano, vibraphone, marimba, percussion); Michael Omartian (piano); Joe Sample (Clavinet, electric piano); Don Grolnick (Clavinet), Ray Brown (acoustic bass); Chuck Rainey, Wilton Felder (electric bass); Hal Blaine, Rick Marotta, Jeff Porcaro, Jim Keltner, Steve Gadd (drums); Michael McDonald, Shirley Matthews, Myrna Matthews, Patti Austin, Valerie Simpson (background vocals).

Includes liner notes by Chris Willman, Walter Becker & Donald Fagen.

Digitally remastered by Glenn Meadows (Masterphonics, Nashville, Tennessee).

Steely Dan: Walter Becker (vocals, guitar, harmonica, bass); Donald Fagen (vocals, acoustic & electric pianos, organ, synthesizer); David Palmer (vocals); Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (pedal steel guitar, acoustic & electric guitars); Denny Dias (guitar, electric sitar); David Hodder (drums).

Personnel: Walter Becker (vocals, guitar, harmonica, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards, electric bass); Donald Fagen (vocals, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, background vocals); Michael McDonald (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Jim Hodder (vocals, drums, percussion); Royce Jones (vocals, percussion, background vocals); David Palmer (vocals, background vocals); Rick Derringer (guitar, slide guitar); Jeff Baxter (guitar, Spanish guitar); Denny Dias (guitar, electric sitar); Dean Parks, Elliot Randal, Hiram Bullock, Jay Graydon, Jeff Mironov, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour , Mark Knopfler, Steve Khan (guitar); Ben Benay (acoustic guitar); Tom Scott (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, lyricon); Plas Johnson (flute, saxophone, horns); Jackie Kelso, Jim Horn, Pete Christlieb, Wayne Shorter (flute, saxophone); Joe Sample (clarinet, electric piano); George Marge, Walter Kane (bass clarinet); Ernie Watts, John Rotella, Lanny Morgan, Bill Perkins (saxophone); David Sanborn (alto saxophone); Jerome Richardson (tenor saxophone); Ronnie Cuber (baritone saxophone); Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Snooky Young (flugelhorn); Wayne Andre (trombone); Chuck Findley, Slyde Hyde (brass, horns); Lew McCreary (brass); John Klemmer, Bob Findley (horns); Michael Omartian (piano); Paul Griffin (electric piano, keyboards, background vocals); Pat Rebillot (electric piano); Don Grolnick (Clavinet, keyboards); Rob Mounsey (synthesizer); Victor Feldman (vibraphone, marimba, percussion); Ray Brown (upright bass); Jim Keltner (drums, percussion); Ed Greene, Jeff Porcaro, Paul Humphrey , Rick Marotta, Steve Gadd , Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums); Nicky Marrero (timbales); Crusher Bennett, Gary Coleman (percussion); Roger Nichols (sound effects); Clydie King, Rebecca Louis, Diva Gray, Florence Warner, Casey Syszik, Patricia Hall, Michael Fennelly, Howard Kaylan, Gordon Grady, Leslie Miller, Sherlie Mathews, James Rolleston, Lani Groves, Mark Volman, Patti Austin, Timothy B. Schmit, Toni Wine, Valerie Simpson, Venetta Fields, Zachary Sanders, Myrna Matthews, Frank Floyd (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Barney Perkins.

Recording information: A & R Studios, NY; Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA; Cherokee studios; Producer's Workshop, Hollywood, CA; Sigma Sound Studi; Sound Labs, Hollywood, CA; Soundworks, New York, NY; Warner Bros. North Hollywood Recording Studios, CA.

Photographers: Ed Caraeff; Randall Kennedy; Henry Diltz.

Unknown Contributor Roles: David Paich; Jim Gordon ; Andy McKaie; Ollie Mitchell.

ArRolling Stone (3/10/94, p.67) - "...suggests that the group's greatest strength wasn't writing or playing but arranging..."
Q (2/94, p.109) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...Steely Dan is the closest pop has come to the acid wit of Wilde and Coward and Vidal...."
Melody Maker (1/8/94, p.29) - "...Steely Dan were no more nihilistic than The Stooges. It's just that, instead of Rolling Stones riffs and Chuck Berry solos, Becker and Fagen used East Coast Jazz, Latin rhythms, saccharine harmonies and choruses worthy of Burt Bacharach or Hollywood musicals..."