Aimee Mann Says She’s Been Mysteriously Dropped From Steely Dan’s Summer Tour

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Chris Willman Music WriterThere 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 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?”Mann dropped the news within one of the four-panel cartoons she has recently ben posting on Instagram to document her life, and subsequently followed it up with a handful of Twitter replies about the unexpected severance.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.” Not surprisingly, given the overlap between their fan bases, expressions of distress over a mystery rift between Mann and Donald Fagen, two of the most revered singer-songwriters in modern pop history, quickly began appearing on social media.Among the fans of both weighing in with support for Mann was fellow artist Jason Isbell, who tweeted: “Aimee opened for us, and I’m so glad to say our audience loved that shit.

I was very much honored she’d do it. … My wife (Amanda Shires) hates Steely Dan. I have discussed that with Aimee Mann, who truly loves Steely Dan.

Now I’ll never again try to convince my wife that Steely Dan is good.”A post shared by Aimee Mann (@realaimeemann)In the final panel of her cartoon, Mann writes, “But you know what?

People are allowed to not like you, for whatever reason.” An additional thought bubble reads: “Good luck to all bands.”When the tour was first announced, Steve Winwood was billed as a hear-co-headliner, but on Feb.