Deacon Blues

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"Deacon Blues"
"Deacon Blues" cover
Single by Steely Dan
Released January, 1978
Format Single
Recorded 1977
Genre Jazz-Rock
Length 7:36
Label ABC
Producer(s) Gary Katz
Steely Dan singles chronology
The Royal Scam
(1976)
Aja
(1977)
Gaucho
(1980)

"Deacon Blues" is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja.

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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[1]

According to urban legend, the song was actually 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 Scottish pop band Deacon Blue got their name from this song.

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  1. ^ Aja CD insert.

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