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Leo Kottke
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Blending folk, jazz, and blues influences into a signature finger-picked style of syncopated, polyphonic music, Kottke’s work pre-dated and predicted much of the New Age instrumental music movement, and is often considered part of the American Primitivism movement, partly because he was signed to John Fahey’s Takoma Records label.
Kottke has collaborated on his records with his mentor John Fahey, Chet Atkins, Lyle Lovett, Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies, and Rickie Lee Jones. He has recorded tunes by Tom T. Hall, Johnny Cash, Carla Bley, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, Jorma Kaukonen, Kris Kristofferson, Randall Hylton and many others. He is also a frequent guest on the radio variety program A Prairie Home Companion.
Kottke has recently joined up with Phish bassist Mike Gordon to produce two new albums, clone and sixty six steps. This duo created a new tone resembling what can be described almost like island music.
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Ojo
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Busted Bicycle
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The Fisherman
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Cripple Creek
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The Driving of the Year Nail
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Watermelon
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Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
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Jack Fig
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Crow River Waltz
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The Last of the Arkansas Greyhounds
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The Sailor's Grave on the Prairie
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Coolidge Rising
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The Brain of the Purple Mountain
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WastedYouth1 wrote:
sardonicus13 i'm with you there, but youre talking to a girl with spice girls in her top played haha! anyways this dude is one of the most incredible guitarists i've ever heard.
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tonofbricks wrote:
Best musical talent ever to emerge from Athens Georgia?
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wphockey wrote:
haha i like the phrase "musically retarded"
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ferniczer wrote:
poor guy
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Sardonicus13 wrote:
You obviously underestimate the joy I receive from laying typewritten smackdowns on the musically retarded...
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peach-chulip wrote:
Haha! I'll listen to what I want thankyou very much, just as you will. Theres no use throwing a hissyfit over one opinion if I'm just gonna laugh it off ;)
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Sardonicus13 wrote:
Hey Peach, go back to listening to Gwen Stefani and put a fucking cork in it. Your grasp of musical talent is embarrassing to say the least.
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peach-chulip wrote:
I noticed that today, when I was looking at Ayumi Hamasaki O.o I expected him to be dead famous, or at least slightly good. But he's neither..
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THEMARioSVOLTA wrote:
thats exactly what i was wondering
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incluso wrote:
Does anyone know why does this guy keep popping on every 'Listeners also bought' list on iTunes, no matter the artist?
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Toopato wrote:
amazing artist, anyone know some similar artists like Peter Lang or something
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honeybeeman wrote:
whoah! ths sound is so fat and vibrating
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margybee wrote:
brilliant playing!
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Big_Dip wrote:
Leo Kottke is one of the godfathers of acoustic guitar playing.
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fahrrad26 wrote:
music is melting ....
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KaiBailey wrote:
Some fantastic American music.
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juantag wrote:
I've been a great fan since the 1970s, when I never missed a tour date near Omaha. Always a distinctive, original sound--even since courageously recreating his sound when his wrists went bad a few years back.
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YOMOTHAINLAW wrote:
Stumbled upon him by chance lurking youtube...wow!
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brob wrote:
6- and 12- string guitar is a lovely album
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fvgazi wrote:
damn, he has an incredible voice.
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27
Leo Kottke
Clowes Hall, Indianapolis, United States
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Loudon Wainwright III
McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Chicago, United States
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