The New York Rock and Soul R
The New York Rock and Soul Revue that played Poplar Creek over the weekend brought together a passel of familiar voices who tried to dust off some oldies without embarrassing themselves. The program was hit and miss: Boz Scaggs and Phoebe Snow distinguished themselves in front of an excellent 10 piece band, while Chuck Jackson confirmed why he's a journeyman figure in soul annals and Michael McDonald sounded uninspired. Well, here's one: How did Becker and Fagen manage to reconvene Steely Dan after 20 years of inactivity and somehow still make music on par with its brilliantly idiosyncratic and subversive'70s albums?Steely Dan at Chicago Theatre. Interestingly, Hollywood's films on the subject all involve thwarting an asteroid strike, rather than living in the aftermath of one. That makes us think that a guide on surviving an actual planet killer impact would apparently be useless, unless it could be read by cockroaches. That's probably what the strangely cheerful