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Released
  
1981

Label
  
Chrysalis (CHR 1328)

Length
  
34:18

Producer
  
Leo Kottke

Recorded
  
Oct and Dec 1980 at Sound 80, Minneapolis, MN

Genre
  
Folk, New Acoustic, American Primitive Guitar

Guitar Music is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1981. The album is all solo guitar played on a Gibson J-45 and a Lundberg-Martin 12-string.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Chip Renner called the album "Twelve solid guitar instrumentals."

Track listing

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

Side one

  1. "Part Two" – 1:41
  2. "Available Space" (Ry Cooder) – 1:34
  3. "Side One Suite":
    1. "Some Birds" – 0:59
    2. "Sounds Like..." – 1:28
    3. "Slang" – 2:42
    4. "My Double" – 2:05
    5. "Three Walls and Bars" – 2:13
    6. "Reprise: Some Birds" [Note: the CD cover is in error here]
  4. "Perforated Sleep" – 2:44

Side two

  1. "Strange" – 2:31
  2. "Little Shoes" – 1:32
  3. "Jib's Hat" – 2:15
  4. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Bob Nolan) – 2:41
  5. "Agile N." – 1:49
  6. "A Song for 'The Night of the Hunter'" – 3:06
  7. "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant) – 1:42
  8. "Sleep Walk" (Johnny Farina, Santo Farina, Ann Farina) – 2:20

Personnel

  • Leo Kottke: Acoustic 6- and 12-String Guitars

    • Production notes:

  • Produced by Leo Kottke.
  • Recorded in Minneapolis at Sound 80, October and December, 1980.
  • Engineers: Scott Rivard, Paul Martinson.
  • Thanks to Jeff Roberts and Tom Mudge.
  • Art Director: John Van Hamersveld
  • Photo: Nick Rozsa.

    • References

    Guitar Music Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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