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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Leo Kottke |
| Record Label: |
Takoma |
| Genre: |
Folk |
| Release Date: |
April 02, 1996 |
| Album Duration: |
37m:28s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Driving of the Year Nail
2. Last of the Arkansas Greyhounds
3. Ojo
4. Crow River Waltz
5. Sailor's Grave on the Prairie
6. Vaseline Machine Gun
7. Jack Fig
8. Watermelon
9. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
10. Fisherman
11. Tennessee Toad
12. Busted Bicycle
13. Brain of the Purple Mountain
14. Coolidge Rising |
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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 b... |
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