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Two of the most unlikely touring partners have teamed up for a summer amphitheater run, with one bringing gritty, pop smarts and the other wry, jazz-rock yarns about Katy and Doctor Wu.
Steely Dan and Elvis Costello and the Imposters are playing the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion together on July 18.
The Dan duo – made up of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen – is also playing the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April, which threw some music industry watchers for a loop. Steely Dan has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and fans run the gamut from granddads to teens.
They last played Houston and the pavilion on Aug. 30, 2013.
The long-running jazz-rockers and classic-rock radio mainstays — Rikki tries to not lose that number at least every two hours, we’re reelin’ in the years over on the Eagle at a decent clip — are alternately your boomer dad’s favorite group or your hipster little brother’s dirty little secret.
Costello released an album with The Roots in late 2013, appeared on the “Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes” collection of discarded Bob Dylan cuts, and lent a hand to a Gov’t Mule track.
Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 20 at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.
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