There comes a day when any major dude will tell you that… you’re off the tour. Aimee Mann revealed Wednesday that she’s been dropped from a Steely Dan tour that she had been annou…
tour that she had been announced to join this summer. “No one is entirely sure why,” she wrote, “but it seems they thought their audience wouldn’t like a female singer-songwriter?”
The alleged dismissal took Mann particularly aback because, she wrote in the illustration, “As it happens, Steely Dan is the one band that I 100% love, with no reservations, so it really sucks.” When the tour was first announced, Steve Winwood was billed as a hear-co-headliner, but on Feb. 1, the news went out that Winwood was off the tour and Mann and Snarky Puppy would be Steely Dan’s opening acts in his stead. Snarky Puppy was — and presumably still is — booked for the first part of the tour, from May 20 through June 19, and then Mann was to have opened June 21 through July 3.
Mann hasn’t lost her sense of humor about the situation, as she tweeted, “All is forgiven if Donald just tells me what Brooklyn is about,” referring to the not entirely self-explanatory song “Brooklyn .”