PositivePopMatters\"Tweedy\'s childhood and time in Uncle Tupelo takes up the book\'s first half, and its second is packed with more activity than he can fully do justice to. It\'s a whiz of a read, and it\'s where he finds his footing as a writer. He drops the occasionally jokey approach that inserts a sometimes uncomfortable distance into the book\'s first 100 pages and settles into a more direct approach for telling the story of his adult life and the creation of the band that brought him wider success ... Far from a typical rock memoir, Let\'s Go (So We Can Get Back) is an engaging story of personal and artistic collaborations that sometimes fail and that sometimes succeed beyond his wildest dreams. And more often than not, manage to do both at the same time.\
Barney Hoskyns
PositivePopMattersIn the interviews Hoskyns collects...the two [members of Steely Dan] can be frankly self-effacing about their lives and their work in ways they hadn\'t done previously ... Hoskyns arranges Major Dudes to bring attention to some of the more talented writers who have tangled with the notoriously prickly duo, as well as to act as a companion to the band\'s music. It succeeds on both fronts ... That set-up puts some welcome attention on their later work, both as solo artists and as a group ... Jumping around in the text is recommended, and none of the selections feel like a throwaway. The book\'s finest accomplishment is to bring Fagen and Becker into focus as friends and partners who spent more than half of their lives in a creative partnership.
