Steely Dan - The Lost Gaucho (1980)

This bootleg of out-takes from the 'Gaucho' sessions is fairly freely available online, but I was listening to it again recently, and though that it was just so good that I had to post it here for Steely Dan fans who haven't yet heard these songs. When the band went into the studio to record tracks for 1980's 'Gaucho' they laid down enough songs to almost make a double album, but it was trimmed down to a single record, and the left-over songs were filed away. They eventually leaked online, and a 2 CD set soon appeared, with a mixture of completed new and unheard songs, alongside demos of other tracks, some of which eventually made the album. The completed songs are superb sound quality, and included an early version of 'Third World Man' with different lyrics called 'Were You Blind That Day', and a lovely instrumental take of the title track. The demos weren't quite as good sound-wise, so I've taken all of the new songs and added just two of the demos, as 'I Can't Write Home About You' was another new song, unavailable elsewhere, and 'The Second Arrangement II' is a full band version of one of the earlier songs. This makes a nice 47 minute companion album to the original 'Gaucho', and if there are any Dan fans out there who haven't heard this yet then you're in for a treat.    

Track listing

01 Kind Spirit
02 Were You Blind That Day
03 If You Got The Bear
04 The Second Arrangement
05 Talkin' About My Home
06 I Can't Write Home About You
07 Kulee Baba
08 Time Out Of Mind
09 Gaucho
10 The Second Arrangement II