Released 1975 | Length 33:26 Release date 1975 | |
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Chewing Pine(1975) 1971-1976 (Did You Hear Me?)(1976) Similar Ice Water, My Feet Are Smiling, Mudlark, Sixty Six Steps, Dreams and All That Stuff | ||
Chewing Pine is the last album on the Capitol label by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1975. It peaked at #114 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. "Power Failure" was originally recorded by Procol Harum, a band Kottke toured with in Europe in the 1970s.
Contents
It was re-issued on CD by BGO (CD148) in 1992 and One Way Records (18461) in 1996.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the album "a dazzling amalgam of sounds and styles — there's a surprising emphasis on vocal numbers here... The obvious attempt on Chewing Pine to sell Kottke as more of a mainstream artist and a sometime singer obviously didn't work... There are enough good moments, and even a few transcendent ones, to justify owning this album."
Track listing
All songs by Leo Kottke unless noted.
Side One
- "Standing on the Outside" (Leo Kottke, Mary Kottke) – 2:35
- "Power Failure" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid) – 2:24
- "Venezuela, There You Go" – 3:08
- "Don't You Think" (Marty Robbins) – 3:34
- "Regards From Chuck Pink" – 2:56
Side Two
- "Monkey Money" – 1:45
- "The Scarlatti Rip-Off" – 3:33
- "Wheels" (Norman Petty) – 1:47
- "Grim to the Brim" – 3:13
- "Rebecca" (Richard Crandell) – 2:48
- "Trombone" – 2:12
- "Can't Quite Put it Into Words" – 3:21
Personnel
Songs
1Standing on the Outside2:36
2Power Failure2:25
3Venezuela - There You Go3:09