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| 1. | Door Number Two
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| 2. | Downtown Canon
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| 3. | Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore
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| 4. | Upside Looking Down
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| 5. | Paging Audrey
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| 6. | Circus Money
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| 7. | Selfish Gene
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| 8. | Do You Remember the Name
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| 9. | Somebody's Saturday Night
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| 10. | Darkling Down
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| 11. | God's Eye View
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| 12. | Three Picture Deal
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Jazz / Jazz-Rock / Pop / Rock / Rock / Soft Rock
Carmen Carter - Vocals (Background)
Carol Bobolts
Cindy Mizelle - Vocals (Background)
Dean Parks - Guitar, Soloist
Gordon Gottlieb - Percussion
Henry Hey - Keyboards
Kate Markowitz - Vocals (Background)
Keith Carlock - Drums, Percussion
Larry Goldings - Organ, Organ (Hammond)
Larry Klein - Bass, Producer
Luciana Souza - Pandeiro, Soloist, Vocals (Background)
Roger Rosenberg - Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone)
Sharon Bryant - Vocals (Background)
Sir Harry Bowens - Vocals (Background)
Sweet Pea Atkinson - Vocals (Background)
Tawatha Agee - Vocals (Background)
Ted Baker - Keyboards, Piano, Piano (Electric)
Terry Dexter - Vocals (Background)
Windy Wagner - Vocals (Background)
* Andrew Rathbun - Transcription
* Bernie Grundman - Mastering
* Brian Montgomery - Engineer
* Chad Lupo - Assistant Engineer
* Cindi Peters - Production Coordination
* Elliot Scheiner - Engineer
* Helix Hadar - Engineer, Mixing
* Irving Azoff - Management
* Jay Messina - Engineer
* Jill Dell'Abate - Production Coordination
* Justin Gerrish - Assistant Engineer
* Sandy Roberton - Management
Walter Becker's second solo album, Circus Money, arrives 14 years after his first, 1994's 11 Tracks of Whack -- which just happens to be the span of time separating 11 Tracks and Steely Dan's Gaucho, the last album Becker cut before going solo. Apart from producing credits, he was quiet during that first 14 years but during the second Steely Dan became a going concern again, as Becker's reunion with Donald Fagen -- first broached when the former produced the latter's 1993 record, Kamakiriad, a favor Fagen returned for 11 Tracks -- turned into something permanent, a base that they could pivot from and release solo projects. Circus Money is about as solo as it gets for Becker, as it represents the first time he's recorded an album without the collaboration of Fagen, choosing to work with producer/writer Larry Klein instead. Not that you could tell any of this from the sound of the album, as this shares the same impeccable production and soft jazz grooves that have been the duo's stock in trade since Gaucho. Sonically speaking, this is a close blood relative to Everything Must Go, just as Fagen's 2006 solo album Morph the Cat was, but Circus Money is thematically the opposite of Morph, as it's not a concept album and it's ever so slightly less reliant on jazzy, keyboard-driven rhythms, feeling more like the work of a small-scale combo -- a combo that happens to have a penchant for really relaxed reggae rhythms, a new development that is the only new wrinkle in Becker's sound and one that fits in easily with the mellow, immaculately soulful grooves. At its heart, Circus Money is a groove album -- a pristine, precise groove album to be sure, but this is an album where feel is paramount, so much so that it takes a few listens to dig into the sardonic dirty jokes, satire, and vignettes that Becker serves up in each of the 12 songs. Again, this is nothing new but that doesn't mean it's unwelcome, as Becker continues to live up to his high self-imposed standards with this very fine album. Plus, hearing him here on his own, completely separate from his running partner, makes it easier to appreciate that dry wit and sly guitar, two things that have always been his calling card but resonate strongly when heard outside of Steely Dan.
--- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Walter Becker
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Feb 20, 1950 in New York, NY
Genre: Rock
Styles: Soft Rock, Pop/Rock, Jazz-Rock
Guitarist/bassist/songwriter/producer Walter Becker hooked up with his partner Donald Fagen when both were attending Bard College in upstate New York in the late '60s. They became members of Jay and the Americans, then signed a songwriting contract with ABC Records in the early '70s. At ABC, they formed the group Steely Dan, who gradually dwindled down to just the two of them while they sold millions of records during the '70s. They split up in 1981, with Becker turning to a part-time producing career (China Crisis, Rickie Lee Jones) and moving to Hawaii. Becker produced Fagen's Kamakiriad album in 1993, and the duo toured as Steely Dan again in 1993 and 1994. Becker belatedly launched a solo career with the release of his debut album, 11 Tracks of Whack, in 1994, although it was 14 years before a second solo album, Circus Money, appeared in 2008.
---William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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