Home at Last: The Purdie Shuffle and Homeric Wandering
How Bernard Purdie's legendary groove meets Odyssean longing in Steely Dan's meditation on restless return—a song about arrival that never quite settles.
• Matt Dennis
How Bernard Purdie's legendary groove meets Odyssean longing in Steely Dan's meditation on restless return—a song about arrival that never quite settles.
How the opening track of Gaucho signals the end of the 70s party, featuring a mechanically perfected Purdie Shuffle and the cold dawn of the digital era.