Gaucho

Author: Steely Dan

Release Date: 04-10-2024

Details: Gaucho – Steely Dan’s Grammy-winning seventh studio album reissueHybrid Stereo SACD release from Analogue Productions!Mastered by Bernie Grundman from a 1980 analog tape copy originally EQ’d by Bob LudwigPlays in all CD and SACD playersIn their review of Gaucho, Rolling Stone proclaims, ‘Steely Dan have perfected the aesthetic of the tease. Their sound is as slippery as their (lyrical) irony.’Gaucho – the seventh studio album by Steely Dan released in November 1980 – and Grammy-winner for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording, was also nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.The sessions for Gaucho represented the band’s typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded the or