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Gaucho - Steely Dan's Grammy-winning seventh studio album reissueHybrid Stereo SACD 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 original monetary advance given by the record tag.During the two-year span in which the album was recorded, the band was plagued by a number of creative, personal and professional problems. MCA, Warner Bros. And Steely Dan had a three-way legal battle over the rights to the album. After it was released, jazz musician Keith Jarrett was given a co-writing credit on the title track after threatening legal action over plagiarism of Jarrett's song 'Long As You Know You're Living Yours.'Gaucho marked a significant stylistic change for the band, introducing a more minimal, groove- and atmosphere-based . The harmonically complex chord changes that were a distinctive mark of earlier Steely Dan songs are less prominent on Gaucho, with the record's songs tending to revolve around a single rhythm or mood, although complex chord progressions were still present particularly in 'Babylon Sisters' and 'Glamour Profession.' Gaucho proved to be Steely Dan's final studio album that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker would make togethe
