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Leo Kottke
"Guitar Music"
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A classic 1981 release, "Guitar Music" is a self-explanatorily-titled instrumental album by one of the most wide-ranging guitarists of his era. Leo Kottke is influenced by a huge variety of musics, as evidenced by the covers of "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds", "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and a glorious country-blues version of Santo and Johnny's classic "Sleepwalk."
"Part Two" and "Available Space" are watery, jazz-tinged melodies, but the six-part "Some Birds" suite is one of Kottke's most impressive compositions ever. Varied yet subtly linked, these six pieces are small gems. The new age aspects of Kottke's mid-'80s releases have their roots in this extended work, but there's nothing amorphous or muzak-like about this album.
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01:41 |
Part Two
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Instrumental
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01:34 |
Available Space
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Instrumental
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00:59 |
Side One Suite: Some Birds
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Instrumental
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01:28 |
Side One Suite: Sounds Like
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Instrumental
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02:42 |
Side One Suite: Slang
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Instrumental
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02:05 |
Side One Suite: My Double
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Instrumental
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02:13 |
Side One Suite: Three Walls and Bars
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Instrumental
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00:59 |
Side One Suite: Reprise:Some Birds
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Instrumental
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02:44 |
Perforated Sleep
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Instrumental
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02:31 |
Strange
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Instrumental
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01:32 |
Little Shoes
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Instrumental
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02:15 |
Jib's Hat
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Instrumental
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02:41 |
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
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Instrumental
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01:49 |
Agile N.
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Instrumental
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03:06 |
A Song For 'The Night Of The Hunter'
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Instrumental
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01:42 |
All I Have To Do Is Dream
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Instrumental
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02:20 |
Sleep Walk
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Instrumental
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Leo Kottke |
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Guitar, Production |
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Scott Rivard |
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Engineering |
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Paul Martinson |
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Engineering |
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John Van Hamersveld |
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Art Director |
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Nick Rozsa |
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Photography |
Recorded in Minneapolis at Sound 80, October and December, 1980.
Guitar solos on Gibson J-45, Lundberg-Martin 12-String.
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
