Circus Money

Circus Money
Studio album by Walter Becker
Released	10 June 2008
Studio	Avatar Studios and BC Studio (New York City, New York) Market Street (Santa Monica, California)
Length	59:59
Label	5 Over 12 Mailboat Sonic360
Producer	Larry Klein
Walter Becker chronology
11 Tracks of Whack (1994) Circus Money (2008)

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Allmusic	[1]
BBC Music	(positive)[2]
The Guardian	[3]
The Independent	[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
Mojo	[6]
MusicOMH.com	[7]
PopMatters	[8]
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Record Collector	[9]
Rolling Stone	[10]
Uncut	[11]

Circus Money is the second and final solo album by Walter Becker released on June 10, 2008 through the 5 Over 12 label (an imprint of Mailboat Records) both in CD and digital download formats and July 14, 2008 through Sonic360 for the rest of the world outside North America. Unlike Becker's previous solo release, this album does not have the participation of Becker's fellow Steely Dan founder and bandmate Donald Fagen.

The cover artwork features graphic work inspired by a photograph of a Yup'ik mask, reproduced in Ann Fienup-Riordan's The Living Tradition of Yup'Ik Masks. Becker wrote that after obtaining the rights to re-use the photograph (from Fienup-Riordan as well as the book's publisher and the original photographer), the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (where the mask is held) was notified of the intended use of the photograph. The museum attempted to block the use of the photograph, citing cultural sensitivity and the sacred nature of the mask. Following legal advice, it was deemed the museum had no legal basis for blocking the photograph's use.^[12][13]