APRIL 1978 (36 YEARS AGO) Steely Dan: “Deacon Blues” b/w “Home At Last” (ABC AB-12355) 45 single is released in the US. Deacon Blues is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja. It was Steely Dans fifth Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, where it peaked at #19 in 1978. The song remained in the Top 40 for eight weeks. The song, while contrasting winning and losing in life, does so by taking as an image the contrast between the perennial powerhouse, Crimson Tide football team, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. In the five years before the song was written, the Crimson Tide had lost only 8 games total, while Wake Forest had a losing record every season. Group member Donald Fagen said, Walter (Becker) and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, You mean its like, they call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and Im this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues? And I said, Yeah! He said, Cool! Lets finish it! In a 1994 AOL chat interview with Becker, someone asked him about the inspiration for Deacon Blues. He answered, It was an outgrowth of a specific mood that pertained at a given time, and later added, ...I remember the night that we mixed that one thinking that it was really good and wanting to hear it over and over which is never the case. Steely Dan #SteelyDan
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:31:11 +0000
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