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12 String Blues

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Released
  
1969

Release date
  
1969

Genres
  
Blues, Folk music

Artist
  
Leo Kottke

Label
  
Oblivion

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Recorded
  
The Scholar Coffeehouse, Minneapolis, MN

12-String Blues (1969)
  
6- and 12-String Guitar (1969)

Similar
  
Leo Kottke albums, Blues albums

12-String Blues (sub-titled Live at the Scholar), is the first album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1969.

Contents

History

The majority of the album was recorded live at the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a Minneapolis coffee house that had also featured Bob Dylan, Spider John Koerner and Simon & Garfunkel early in their careers. Three of the instrumentals were recorded in a studio. The LP record was a limited edition of 1000 copies, on the Minneapolis West Bank-based Oblivion Records (apparently this is their only album), and it has not been reprinted and/or re-issued on CD. Publishing for the songs was by Symposium Music, same as the publishing and record label for Kottke's third LP. The Oblivion catalog number, "obl-s1," also indicates a possible connection with Symposium.

Most of these songs were re-recorded for Kottke's album, Circle Round The Sun.

Personnel

  • Leo Kottke – 6 & 12-string guitars, vocals
  • Annie Elliott – cover design
  • Copyright Symposium Music, BMI 1969

    Songs

    1If Mama Knew2:00
    2So Cold in China4:05
    3Furry Jane2:00

    References

    12-String Blues Wikipedia