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Gaucho by Steely Dan Vinyl Record, 1980

Nearly flawless copy, still in original cellophane. Would be an NM across the board, but there is a single very light scratch as pictured (does not effect playback).

With Gaucho Steely Dan ended an astounding eight-album run of expertly crafted and idiosyncratic pop-rock. Like old masters, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker had refined every aspect of their art. The underlying theme of Gaucho is luxury, in all its putrid manifestations.

The sessions for Gaucho represent 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 label.

In 1982, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording and received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.