The Royal Scam
I haven't recently seen a What Five Albums Would You Want on a Desert Island list floating around my social networks, which is just fine. If I was taking some cruise to a remote part of the world, I'd have to be carrying a solar powered computer or music player. Five wouldn't cut it for someone with 35,000 purchased songs on hard drives. For all of us though there is a dominant period between 13 and 24 that becomes the music of our life, and for many, one particular artist that we carry with us. For me that will always be Steely Dan . I own every album, which by the way I miss over digital audio but that's a different story. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker wrote stories that speak to the heart, mind and spirit with some of the finest musicians ever assembled in the studio for many years. At least to mine, and they still do. The chord changes, horn sections, and craftsmanship of weaving mus...