Eagles – Desperado (1973 LP Canadian Asylum / WEA Pressing on Cloud Labels) - EX/NM Vintage Vinyl (SD 5068)

Catalog a classic 1970s country-rock concept album for your archival inventory: Desperado by Eagles. Manufactured and distributed in Canada by WEA Music of Canada, Ltd. (Scarborough, Ontario) on blue-and-yellow cloud Asylum Records labels (SD 5068; SIDE ONE / SIDE TWO), this 12-inch stereo vinyl LP was produced and engineered by Glyn Johns at Island Studios in London (assistant engineer Howard Kilgour), mastered at The Mastering Lab in Hollywood, and features string arrangements by Jim Ed Norman. Performed by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner, and Bernie Leadon, the tracklist spans Side One ("Doolin-Dalton", "Twenty-One", "Out Of Control", "Tequila Sunrise", "Desperado") and Side Two ("Certain Kind Of Fool", "Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental)", "Outlaw Man", "Saturday Night", "Bitter Creek", "Doolin-Dalton/Desperado (Reprise)"). Housed in its original textured-print Shorepak outer sleeve (SD 5068; Shorepak Can. Pat. No. 758888, 1967) featuring Gary Burden's art direction and Henry Diltz's Western outlaw group photography, the vinyl disc is preserved in an archival Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MoFi) Original Master anti-static inner sleeve.

Structural & Visual Inspection

• Vinyl Surface & Labels Condition - EXCELLENT / NEAR MINT (EX / NM): Glossy black vinyl retains deep groove luster with crisp micro-groove definition, showing only faint, non-feelable hairline sleeve marks and minor surface dust flecks under angled macro inspection. Both Side One and Side Two blue-and-yellow cloud Asylum labels (SD 5068) remain bright, clean, and legible with sharp black typography, minimal spindle marks, and clean center holes.

• Jacket & Inner Sleeve Integrity - VERY GOOD (VG): Original textured-finish outer sleeve exhibits full outlaw group photography across front and back with red decorative border graphics on the rear, showing moderate ring wear, edge/corner rubbing, a handwritten green marker name ("PAYNE") vertically down the front center-left, a small black marker line at the lower-right back edge, and an intact spine with no seam splits. Includes a clean Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MoFi) Original Master anti-static archival inner sleeve.

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