"Kid Charlemagne" әні және Ларри Карлтонның керемет гитара солосы

"Kid Charlemagne" is a song by the rock group Steely Dan, which was released as a single from their 1976 album The Royal Scam as its opening track and reached number 82 in the Billboard charts. It is a fusion of a funk rhythm and jazz harmonies with rock and roll instrumentals and lyrical style. The guitar solo by jazz fusion guitarist Larry Carlton was ranked #80 in the list of the 100 greatest guitar solos by Rolling Stone.

Carlton's guitar solo starts at 2'18" into the song and ends at 3'08". It was described, by Pete Prown and HP Newquist, as "twisted single note phrases, bends, and vibrant melody lines"; they called this, and the solo in the fade out, "breathtaking." According to Rolling Stone, which ranked "Kid Charlemagne" at #80 in the list of the 100 greatest guitar songs, "In the late seventies, Steely Dan made records by using a revolving crew of great session musicians through take after take, which yielded endless jaw dropping guitar solos. Larry Carlton's multi sectioned, cosmic jazz lead in this cut may be the best of all: It's so complex it's a song in its own right." Far Out Magazine, in 2022, listed it as #4 in a list of the six greatest Steely Dan guitar solos, saying the "lead lines of 'Kid Charlemagne' are intense, fluid, and frequently on the brink of spinning out of control". Nick Hornby, in Songbook, spoke of the solo's "extraordinary and dexterous exuberance", though he questioned the relationship between the solo and the "dry ironies of the song's lyrics". Prown and Newquist described the solo during the fade out as a "joyous, off the cuff break".</blockquote>

The tap on the fretboard, at the end of the solo, was cited by Adrian Belew as an early example of what he and fellow guitarist Rob Fetters were trying to accomplish, at the time when Eddie van Halen was experimenting with the technique. Carlton called his solo on "Kid Charlemagne" the high point of his career at the time, saying, "I can't think of anything else that I still like to listen to as strongly as that."

Cash Box said that "the melody and arrangement are complicated, but accessible" and "every note is necessary."

Kanye West sampled the song on "Champion", from his 2007 album Graduation. Becker and Fagen initially refused West's request to use the song. They changed their minds after receiving a personal letter from West explaining the song's importance.