Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
15 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: schlitz, steely dan
(via American Songwriter) By Tina Benitez-Eves
Somewhere in between Steely Dan‘s debut, Can’t Buy a Thrill, and the 1973 follow-up, Countdown to Ecstasy, the band recorded a jingle for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based brewing company Schlitz Beer.
The untitled song was recorded during an eight-month break between the band’s first and second albums. “It was soon after ‘Reelin’ in the Years’ that someone called and asked if the guys would write a song for the Schlitz commercial,” shared Gary Katz, the band’s longtime producer. “And as I remember it, Donald [Fagen] said, ‘OK, but we’re gonna write it.’ By which he meant, they didn’t want to do a commercial somebody else wrote.”
Co-founding guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, added “The band was still pretty young in its career, so everybody was reaching out for whatever opportunities there were.”
Read more: https://americansongwriter.com/listen-steely-dan-once-wrote-a-jingle-for-schlitz-beer-in-the-1970s/
12 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: follow me, rory gallagher
Rory Gallagher: “Follow Me” (1979)
After the previous year’s Photo Finish LP and the successful US tour that followed, Chrysalis Records pushed Rory Gallagher to get a follow-up out quickly, telling him they’d make it a top priority to promote it.
Hence the title of his next album in 1979, a relentless blast of sweaty rock pretty much from start to finish, with the record’s first track “Follow Me” setting the tone.
Every Moment Has A Song 