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Deacon Blues
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This Source"Deacon Blues" is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja.
The song contains the lines:
- They've got a name for the winners in the world
- I want a name when I lose
- They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
- Call me Deacon Blues
It was originally speculated that the song was written about the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, but in a Rolling Stone interview, Donald Fagen said "Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, "You mean it's like, 'They call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' " And I said, "Yeah!" He said, "Cool! Let's finish it!"
The title of the song is the inspiration for the name of Scottish pop band Deacon Blue.
Personnel
- Walter Becker - bass
- Donald Fagen - synthesizer, vocals, whistle
- Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour - guitar, electric guitar
- Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone
- Victor Feldman - percussion, piano, keyboards, electric piano, vibraphone
- Venetta Field - vocals, background vocals
- Clydie King - vocals, background vocals
- Shirley Matthews - vocals, background vocals
- Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - drums
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