This is FRESH AIR. Rock critic Ken Tucker has noticed that there are a number of significant albums that are celebrating their 50th anniversary. And he's decided to devote a summer series to ...

20 years ago today, Steely Dan—the godfathers of yacht rock and ancestors of sleaze—released Everything Must Go, a project that would become their ninth and final album. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker ...

This essay is adapted from Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay’s “Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan. A few months after Steely Dan co-founder ...