Gaucho
by Steely Dan
- Type: Album
- Released: 21 November 1980
- Label: MCA
- Country: United States
- Length: 38:06
- Community rating: 3.99/5 from 11 ratings
Artists on this release: Chuck Rainey, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, Rick Derringer, Ronnie Cuber, Rick Marotta, Randy Brecker, Bernard Purdie, Anthony Jackson, George Marge, Walter Becker, Joe Sample, Nicky Marrero, Michael Brecker, Hugh McCracken, Pat Rebillot, Jeff Porcaro, Ralph MacDonald, Wayne Andre, Victor Feldman, Dave Tofani, Steve Gadd, Wally Kane, Mark Knopfler, Donald Fagen, 'Crusher' Bennett, Steve Khan, Tom Scott, Hiram Bullock
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Plagued by endless studio perfectionism and deep personal tragedy, Steely Dan's 'Gaucho' is arguably the most immaculately produced, highly complex yacht rock album ever recorded. Behind the incredibly lush, beautifully mellow jazz-pop arrangements lie deeply sarcastic, heavily misanthropic tales of Los Angeles excess, drug abuse, and deeply cynical satirical decay.
Genres
Descriptors: drugs, complex, satirical, sophisticated, mature
Tracklist
- Babylon Sisters (5:53)
- Hey Nineteen (5:09)
- Glamour Profession (7:28)
- Gaucho (5:31)
- Time Out Of Mind (4:13)
- My Rival (4:33)
- Third World Man (5:15)
Credits
- Steely Dan - primary artist, arranged by [rhythm]
- Don Grolnick - arranged by [rhythm], electric piano, clavinet
- Paul Griffin - arranged by [rhythm]
- Rob Mounsey - arranged by [rhythm], arranged by [horns], piano, synthesizer
- John Tom Cohoe - design [assistant], assistant design
- Susanne Walsh - design, art direction
- Barbara Issak - engineer [assistant]
- Carla Bandini - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Craig Goetsch - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Georgie Offrell - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Gerry Gabinelli - engineer [assistant]
- John Dougherty - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- John Potoker - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Linda Randazzo - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Marti Jane Robertson - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Rosa Howell - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Tom Greto - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Roger Nichols - engineer [executive], sequenced by [wendal], effects [wendal], tracking by [overdub]
- Bob Ludwig - lacquer cut by, mastered by, mastering
- Donald Fagen - lead vocals, music by, lyrics by, electric piano, synthesizer, organ, synthesizer
- Leonard Freedman - management [cash]
- Front Line Management - management [clout]
- Elliot Scheiner - mixed by, tracking by
- Walter Becker - music by, lyrics by, bass, guitar, lead guitar
- Ren茅 Burri - photography by, photography
- Gary Katz - producer
- Don Farrar - technician [piano technician]
- Bill Schnee - tracking by
- Jerry Garszva - tracking by [overdub]
- Victor Di Suvero - translated by [italian translation]
- Diva Gray - backing vocals [backup]
- Gordon Grody - backing vocals [backup]
- Lani Groves - backing vocals [backup]
- Leslie Miller - backing vocals [backup]
- Patti Austin - backing vocals [backup]
- Toni Wine - backing vocals [backup]
- Chuck Rainey - bass
- George Marge - bass clarinet
- Wally Kane - bass clarinet
- Bernard Purdie - drums
- Steve Khan - guitar, lead guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- 'Crusher' Bennett - percussion
- Tom Scott - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, arranged by [horns], tenor saxophone, lyricon
- Randy Brecker - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Frank Floyd - backing vocals [backup]
- Zachary Sanders - backing vocals [backup]
- Rick Marotta - drums
- Hugh McCracken - guitar
- Steve Gadd - percussion, drums
- Victor Feldman - percussion
- Valerie Simpson - backing vocals [backup]
- Anthony Jackson - bass
- Ralph MacDonald - percussion
- Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone
- Jeff Porcaro - drums
- David Sanborn - alto saxophone
- Michael McDonald - backing vocals [backup]
- Ronnie Cuber - baritone saxophone
- Mark Knopfler - lead guitar
- Dave Tofani - tenor saxophone