This is the last album I truly anticipated and bought the day it was released. I loved it immediately though there was a song or two I tended to skip. Now those songs I felt were lesser are some of my favorites. I remember checking the Steely Dan page daily and googling Don and Walt when I first got to work. When the news of this album came out I was thrilled. Walter has always been my favorite part of the Dan. I feel such a profound lost now that he’s not here. My life has been a series of disappointments and something about Walter’s lyrics (I feel I know which are his) always feel relatable.He has been the soundtrack to my life. He gave the sense that life may or may not get better but a little rhythm and blues makes it tolerable.