05-10-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com

Anthony Robustelli – The Steely Dan Songbook: Interpretations of Unrealized Classics review

Shady Bear ProductionsThroughout the 1970s, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker wrote dozens of songs that were sketched out as crude piano-and-vocal demos but never completed with a band. Brooklyn-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and Steely Dan biographer Anthony Robustelli has gone through the bootlegs and painstakingly arranged 10 of them as if they were tracks from Gaucho. Alongside a four-piece horn section and two guitarists, Robustelli multitasks impressively on drums, bass and piano, singi
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