Leo Kottke
Guitar Music
The Story
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.
The Music
| 01:41 | Part Two | Instrumental |
| 01:34 | Available Space | Instrumental |
| 00:59 | Side One Suite: Some Birds | Instrumental |
| 01:28 | Side One Suite: Sounds Like | Instrumental |
| 02:42 | Side One Suite: Slang | Instrumental |
| 02:05 | Side One Suite: My Double | Instrumental |
| 02:13 | Side One Suite: Three Walls and Bars | Instrumental |
| 00:59 | Side One Suite: Reprise:Some Birds | Instrumental |
| 02:44 | Perforated Sleep | Instrumental |
| 02:31 | Strange | Instrumental |
| 01:32 | Little Shoes | Instrumental |
| 02:15 | Jib's Hat | Instrumental |
| 02:41 | Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Instrumental |
| 01:49 | Agile N. | Instrumental |
| 03:06 | A Song For 'The Night Of The Hunter' | Instrumental |
| 01:42 | All I Have To Do Is Dream | Instrumental |
| 02:20 | Sleep Walk | Instrumental |
The Artists
| Leo Kottke | Guitar, Production |
| Scott Rivard | Engineering |
| Paul Martinson | Engineering |
| John Van Hamersveld | Art Director |
| Nick Rozsa | 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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