Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974) [Full Album]

Pretzel Logic is the third studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released on February 20, 1974, by ABC Records. It was recorded at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles, California, with producer Gary Katz. The album was Steely Dan's last to be made and released while the group was still an active touring band, as well as the final album to feature the band's full quintet-lineup of Becker, Fagen, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (who subsequently left to join The Doobie Brothers), though it also features significant contributions from many prominent Los Angeles-based studio musicians.

A commercial and critical success, the album's hit single, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", helped restore Steely Dan's radio presence after the disappointing performance of their previous album. Pretzel Logic was reissued on CD in 1987, and remastered in 1999, to retrospective critical acclaim.

Tracklist:
1. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" 0:00
2. "Night by Night" 4:31
3. "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" 8:10
4. "Barrytown" 11:20
5. "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley) 14:41
6. "Parker's Band" 17:32
7. "Through with Buzz" 20:17
8. "Pretzel Logic"
9. "With a Gun"
10. "Charlie Freak"
11. "Monkey in Your Soul" 31:28

Steely Dan
Donald Fagen – keyboards, saxophone, lead vocals, backing vocals
Walter Becker – electric bass guitar, guitar, (talk box guitar on 5), backing vocals
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – lead guitar, pedal steel guitar
Denny Dias – guitar
Jim Hodder – backing vocals (6)

Additional musicians
Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals (1,4,8)
Michael Omartian – piano, keyboards
David Paich – piano, keyboards
Ben Benay – guitar
Dean Parks – guitar, banjo (5)
Wilton Felder – bass
Chuck Rainey – bass
Plas Johnson, Jerome Richardson, Ernie Watts – saxophone
Ollie Mitchell – trumpet
Lew McCreary – trombone
Jim Gordon – drums (all except 2)
Jeff Porcaro – drums (2, 6)
Victor Feldman – flapamba (1), percussion
Roger Nichols – gong (5)

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