BARRYTOWN

Created on 30/11/2005
Latest update on 01/11/2023

Artist: Donald Fagen
Author: Walter Becker/Donald Fagen
Label: Thunderbolt/MCA
Year: 1968

About the little town upstate New York, in a triangle with Woodstock and Saugerties. Solo piano. That's when he and Walter Becker were part of Jay & The Americans, desperately in search of a recording contract all their own. Out on unofficial release Catalyst, along with early versions of Brooklyn (slower than on Can't Buy A Thrill), Parker's Band and Charlie Freak (both later on Pretzel Logic), Any World That I'm Welcome To (from Katy Lied) and even a prehistoric Caves Of Altamira (entombed on The Royal Scam).

Covers:

1974:

Steely Dan [on Pretzel Logic]

2000:

Ben Folds Five [in film Me, Myself & Irene]

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