After writing and rehearsing an entirely new set of tunes, Boylan landed a recording contract with David Geffen’s Asylum Records, a famous stable of singer-songwriters that included Joni Mitchell, Warren Zevon, the Eagles, John David Souther and Tom Waits. Recording at LA’s Record Plant and Westlake Audio with members and musicians from both Steely Dan and the Eagles, Boylan merged different sensibilities into a stunning, lyrical, jazz-tinged rock album, with strong hooks and soaring harmonies, that went to number one on the Billboard National Breakout list the week it was released, and was the most added album at radio for five weeks straight. The level of writing and musicianship on Terence Boylan prompted a number of critics to hail it as "astonishingly brilliant", and the reviews were laudatory both in the US and abroad, winding up on a number of top ten lists at year’s end. British singer Ian Matthews picked up on two of Boylan’s tunes for his album Stealin’ home, and his version of Shake it quickly climbed to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The following year, Boylan won two BMI Awards for Best Songwriting.

Lukather: "Actually the very first album I ever played on was for a guy named Terence Boylan. It did nothing, but I was on a record with Donald Fagen, Dean Parks, Jeff Porcaro and all these famous session players. And with my name next to theirs I was like... wow."

1 Don't hang up those dancing shoes (Terence Boylan) 2 Shake it (Terence Boylan) 3 Sundown of fools (Terence Boylan) 4 The war was over (Terence Boylan) 5 Shame (Terence Boylan) 6 Hey papa (Terence Boylan) 7 Where are you hiding (Terence Boylan) 8 Rain king (Terence Boylan) 9 Trains (Terence Boylan) Musicians: Steve Lukather - guitar (4) (6) Donald Fagen - keyboards, vocals Don Henley - vocals Al Kooper - organ Victor Feldman - percussion Gary Foster - saxophone John Klemmer - saxophone Chuck Rainey - bass Terence Boylan - guitar, vocals Jim Gordon - drums Ben Benay - guitar Max Bennett - bass Don Evans - guitar Wilton Felder - bass Bob Glaub - bass John Guerin - drums David Jackson - bass Tom Kelly - vocals Russ Kunkel - drums Mickey McGee - drums David Paich - keyboards Jeff Porcaro - drums Dean Parks - guitar Dodie Petit - vocals Timothy B. Schmit - vocals Leland Sklar - bass Jai Winding - keyboards

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