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6 and 12 String Guitar
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| Album: 6 and 12 String Guitar |
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Driving of the Year Nail, The |
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Last of the Arkansas Greyhounds, The |
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Ojo |
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Crow River Waltz |
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Sailor's Grave on the Prairie, The |
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Vaseline Machine Gun |
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Jack Fig |
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Watermelon |
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Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring |
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Fisherman, The |
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Tennessee Toad, The |
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Busted Bicycle |
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Brain of the Purple Mountain, The |
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Coolidge Rising |
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Performer Notes - 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.
- This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
- Solo performer: Leo Kottke (acoustic 6 & 12-string guitars).
- Recorded in 1969. Originally released on Takoma (1024).
- 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.
Professional Reviews 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...."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.106) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Combining a pent-up energy with gentle arpeggios, his sound always locates itself around a powerfully eddying undercurrent."
| Format: | CD | | Country: | USA | | UPC: | 0025218732062 | | Studio/Live: | Studio | | Release Date: | 13 January, 2004 |
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