Showing posts with label Leo Kottke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leo Kottke. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

The Tennessee toad (Leo Kottke) (LP 590)

Leo Kottke 6- and 12- String Guitar (CD, Takoma Records, 1974) ***** 

GenreFolk 

Places I remember: Marbecks Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Watermelon

Gear costume: The Driving Of The Year Nail

Active compensatory factors: I can listen to this album over and over again without ever getting bored with it, and I can always tune into little things that I've never heard before.

It's as pure as Leo Kottke got - his vocals on subsequent albums, which also added other instrumentation, presented a different Leo Kottke. Sure - he didn't want to repeat himself. So this album is like lightning in a bottle!

Here he's presented as a solo steel-string fingerpicking guitarist. Pure and simple.

Where do they all belong? Back to the vinyl next (can't wait!)