Label: Geffen Records (Japan), UICY-93518
Style: Pop Rock, Jazz-Rock
Country: New York, U.S.
Time: 35:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 236 Mb
Charts: US #13, AUS #28, CAN #12, NZ #10, UK #13. UK: Silver; US: Platinum.
Katy
Lied was the first album the group made after they stopped touring, as
well as their first to feature backing vocals by Michael McDonald.
The
album was the first one recorded by Steely Dan after guitarist Jeff
"Skunk" Baxter and drummer Jim Hodder left the group as a result of
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's decision to stop touring and focus
solely on recording with various studio musicians. Guitarist Denny Dias,
a founding member of Steely Dan, contributed to the album as a session
musician, as did vocalist Michael McDonald and drummer Jeff Porcaro, who
were both members of Steely Dan's final touring band. Then only 20
years old, Porcaro played drums on every track on the album except "Any
World (That I'm Welcome To)", which features session drummer Hal Blaine.
Larry Carlton, who became a regular collaborator of the group, made his
first appearance on a Steely Dan album playing guitar on "Daddy Don't
Live in That New York City No More".
Band leaders Becker and Fagen
said they were dissatisfied with the album's sound quality because of an
equipment malfunction with the then-new dbx noise reduction system. The
damage was mostly repaired after consulting with the engineers at dbx,
but Becker and Fagen still refused to listen to the completed album.
The
album's title comes from the lyrics of "Doctor Wu" ("Katy lies / You
can see it in her eyes"), and the album cover is a picture of a katydid,
a "singing" (stridulating) insect related to crickets and grasshoppers,
as a pun on the title. Walter Becker told Rolling Stone, during the
band's 2009 tour: "It's about that uneasy relationship between the
patient and doctor. People put faith in doctors, yet they abuse their
power and become dangerous." The back cover photograph of Donald Fagen
(in reindeer sweater) and Denny Dias (in overalls and sombrero and
holding a tank of helium) was taken by Becker during the session
(sometime in 1972-73) for their Schlitz beer jingle.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied)
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