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6- & 12-String Guitar (CD)

By: Leo Kottke (Artist)
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DISC 1 for 6- & 12-String Guitar (CD) Album By Leo Kottke (Artist)
1   Driving Of The Year Nail, The
2   Last Of The Arkansas Greyhounds, The
3   Ojo
4   Crow River Waltz
5   Sailor's Grave On The Prairie, The
6   Vaseline Machine Gun
7   Jack Fig
8   Watermelon
9   Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
10   Fisherman, The
11   Tennessee Toad, The
12   Busted Bicycle
13   Brain Of The Purple Mountain, The
14   Coolidge Rising
 
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Rolling Stone (10/29/70, p.46) - "...any hardships you must endure to obtain a copy are well worth the pure enjoyment this album provides..."
Down Beat (11/96, p.61) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "Masterpiece. Period...."

Title Note

Solo performer: Leo Kottke (acoustic 6 & 12-string guitars).

Recorded in 1969. Originally released on Takoma (1024). Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey and original release liner notes by Leo Kottke.

With the 1969 release of 6-AND 12 STRING GUITAR, Leo Kottke established his pre-eminence as a guitar virtuoso and composer of quirky, pop-inflected pieces. Harmonically adventurous and technically dazzling, this album showcases Kottke's penchant for infusing traditional elements of folk guitar with more modern, even impressionistic harmony and tonality. Kottke inspired a revolution in acoustic guitar playing, and this record provided the opening volley.

"The Driving of the Year Nail" starts things off with a relentless fingerpicked chug, featuring splashes of open harmonics executed with the delicacy of a ballerina. Kottke proceeds to combine the familiar with the strange--each of these brief pieces (around three minutes and under) has the effect of being simultaneously charming, and a little twisted. For example, "Vaseline Machine Gun" starts with "Taps" played with a bottleneck slide, then morphs into a thumb-and-slide frenzy. Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is the exception, given a straight and loving reading on six-string guitar. This is pure steel-string joy, with liberal doses of irony and ecstasy.

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