“Barrytown” by Steely Dan

"Barrytown" sits on Pretzel Logic, the third Steely Dan album, which ABC Records put out in 1974, and like the rest of that record it was cut at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles, with Gary Katz producing and Roger Nichols engineering. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen wrote it, and Fagen sings and plays keyboards.

The credits tell the story of a band thinning out. Four of the five members play on it, Becker on guitar and bass, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter on guitar and pedal steel, Denny Dias on guitar, while Jim Gordon, not Jim Hodder, takes the drums. No track on the album used all five, and it was the last record the quintet made while Steely Dan was still a touring band; the grind of the road that followed finished that off for good.

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