With big thanks to Michael Lynch at Shoehorse Sound, Dirty Work is back from Mastering.

We're releasing 3 versions - an instrumental, the full version and a radio edit with a shortened ending.

Ok, so what gives?

Well, the short answer is that we've reset the lyrics to Steely Dan's 'Dirty Work' from the 1972 album 'Can't buy a thrill' to a new rockier melody.

The music in this new version is ours but the words are theirs, and that can create a copyright nightmare that only lawyers can solve and I am given to understand that Mess'rs Fagen and Becker (love you guys) don't mess around..

I mean, look what they wrote when You Me & Dupree came out and they thought Owen Wilson was ripping them off - even worse, they wrote to his BROTHER. FFS.

Click here for the full text http://www.steelydan.com/heyluke.html

In our case, the best we could think of was to release the instrumental version under our copyright and then release the versions with lyrics as a 'cover'.

The last few tracks we have released in the Curious Assembly project have been up on this site for free ( go on search for'em, they're here if you know their names) but obv with a cover we can't do the same thing, except for the instrumental version.

Here's the version that shouldn't get us in trouble:

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and for comparison, here is the original