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'Alive in America' turns 30
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'Alive in America' turns 30

A look back at Steely Dan's first live album, with a 1995 interview with Donald Fagen

When Steely Dan released their first live album in October 1995, there could not have been a more fitting title than Alive in America. For most of the ’80s, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen’s jazz-rock colossus was presumed dead and buried. But in 1993, the concertgoing public paid witness to a kind of miraculous resurrection. In the mode of Dr. Frankenst…

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