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In 2005, Becker co-produced and played bass guitar on the album All One by Krishna Das and played guitar on the album Tough on Crime by Rebecca Pidgeon. He co-wrote "I'm All Right" from the album Half the Perfect World (2006) by Madeleine Peyroux, and "You Can't Do Me" and the title track from her album Bare Bones (2009).
She released the album The Raven in 1994, followed by The New York Girls' Club (1996), and The Four Marys (1998), a collection of traditional Celtic folk songs. Tough on Crime (2005) featured Walter Becker of Steely Dan on guitar and Billy Preston on keyboards.
One of the album's definite highlights is the title track Tough on Crime, which expound on the drawbacks of having an affair with a comic book superhero. Walter Becker of Steely Dan makes his appearance on guitar, in this clever tune with a kind of seductively slinky rhythm. <<>>
Throwing Away the Key: The Unintended Consequences of “Tough-on-Crime” Laws. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2021. Frank R. Baumgartner , Tamira Daniely , Kalley Huang , Sydney Johnson , Alexander Love , Lyle May , Patrice Mcgloin , Allison Swagert , Niharika Vattikonda and. Kamryn Washington. Article.
18 de jul. de 2022 · Becker’s work came as the United States was experiencing a massive crime wave, with violent crime in particular rising 126 percent in just one decade. The theory of the rational criminal suggested a solution, and helped to spur the “tough on crime” policies of the 1970s and 1980s that spawned a dramatic increase in the number ...
22 de sept. de 2017 · Friends and collaborators of the late Walter Becker discuss how his troubled life and musical genius fed into the dark sophistication of Steely Dan.
4 de sept. de 2017 · Fallece Walter Becker, guitarrista y fundador de Steely Dan. El grupo estadounidense Steely Dan pierde uno de sus dos fuertes pilares: Walter Becker, quien fundó el grupo junto a Donald Fagen, ha fallecido recientemente a los 67 años de edad. El comunicado de su página web informa de esta triste noticia, aunque no da ninguna clase de ...
