![]() Yet another understatement for the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. but it all worked with the guitar for me.” I wanted what the piano has, but without a piano. I played trombone, and then I tried to play piano. “I started out with the violin when I was very young,” he said. It’s been all about the guitar for Kottke, but it could have been very different, since it wasn’t his first choice of instruments. But we keep trying to get what we get when we’re face-to-face in a room.” “It’s friendship,” Kottke said when asked about his relationship with Gordon. The latter is a wonderfully idiosyncratic and funky album that features Kottke’s entertaining picking patterns and Gordon’s dexterity. The amusing Kottke, adept at engaging the crowd, also has collaborated with Phish bassist Mike Gordon on three albums: 2002’s “Clone,” 2005’s “Sixty Six Steps” and 2020’s “Noon.” So just enjoy it or you’ll start writing notes to yourself.” Rickie can take your head off, without a note. ![]() Rickie has musical instincts that can take your head off, musically speaking. Cover of SAIL AWAY LADY in 1969 Cover of EIGHT MILES HIGH in 1971 Cover of CRIPPLE CREEK in 1971. “Rickie Lee Jones added terror and inspiration. ![]() “I like that album, myself,” Kottke said. The album, produced by Rickee Lee Jones, features Kottke on the 12-string guitar, and the songs are humorous and haunting. ![]() His 1988 collection, “Regards from Chuck Pink,” is filled with clever folk and inventive guitar play.Īnd 1994’s aptly titled “Peculiaroso” is a masterpiece. His version of the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” is gorgeous. His 1971 album, “Mudlark,” is a jaw-dropping display of his virtuosity. “It always had my back, so I paid attention.”Īnd Kottke has always been an adventurous player. “The guitar took me over for a long time,” he said. You will begin to receive our weekly Hoopla Events updates. During his early days, each song was filled with his vocals but he realized that his instrumentals were crowd pleasers. “If they haven’t heard me before, there’s a lot of guitar.”Ī typical understatement from Kottke, a guitar monster who at times sounds like a one-man band. A welcome mix of Kottke originals, Gordon staples and covers, including another take on Eight Miles High, Noon’s roots actually date back to the pair’s last tour together a decade-and. “I never know (what will be played), except for the guitar and voice,” Kottke said. Who knows what Kottke’s set list will encompass, since the energetic bard has endless songs, thanks to his 23 album canon. Kottke, who will perform March 2, 2023, at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, connects via his unconventional fingerpicking style, while easily veering from folk to blues to jazz. The Athens, Ga., native is an uncompromising original, from a city that also birthed such quirky and seminal artists as R.E.M., the B-52s and Vic Chestnutt. Kottke, 77, doesn’t let anything stand in his way. When I was little, I could follow one grain of sand in a wheel well. “But I remember what it was like when I could hear well. “I just keep moving on,” Kottke said from Minneapolis. Kottke can’t hear as well as he once did, but he doesn’t let that bother him. The initial commercial profits began to shrink, but Kottke’s work continued to improve, with the releases of ‘Live In Europe’ (1980), ‘Guitar Music’ (1981) and ‘Time Step’ (1983) track listing: Machine No.That’s considerable wear and tear, but Kottke continues on after battling tendinitis and tinnitus. His first, ‘Mudlark’, came out in 1972, and was critically praised for his prowess at eking varied sounds from the acoustic guitar, from furious 12-string riffs to the lingering chords of slow balladsKottke and Capitol parted ways in 1976, and the musician signed with Chrysalis. Early on, he developed a love for country-blues and began experimenting with the genre in his spare time, and, although without much of his hearing in his left ear due to a firecracker accident, he released several folk-touched albums for obscure US labelsBy 1971 Kottke had signed to Capitol Records, where he produced several exceptional albums. Born in 1945 in Athens, Georgia, Kottke tried his hand at everything from the violin to the trombone. This double CD comprises the very best of Leo’s Capitol recordings from 1971 to 1976Acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke has a small but devoted fan base who has elevated him and his six- and 12-string acoustic guitar playing to cult-level. It has been allocated its old catalogue number (BGOCD277) as many of you may still have it on yourcomputer systems under this number. DOUBLE CD SET Originally re-released back in June 1995 by BGO, this release was possibly one of our all-time biggest sellers and will hopefully continue being so. Leo Kottke / Peter Lang / John Fahey (Leo Kottke / Peter Lang / John Fahey), Takoma, 1974.
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