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Released
  
1971

Mudlark (1971)
  
Greenhouse (1972)

Release date
  
1971

Label
  
Capitol Records

Length
  
35:28

Artist
  
Leo Kottke

Producer
  
Denny Bruce

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Recorded
  
Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN

Genres
  
Folk music, American Primitive Guitar, New Acoustic Music

Similar
  
Ice Water, My Feet Are Smiling, Chewing Pine, A Shout Toward Noon, Regards from Chuck Pink

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Mudlark is American guitarist Leo Kottke's fourth album, his first on a major label (Capitol) and his first to feature other musicians. It reached #168 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

Contents

History

Recording started in Los Angeles and later moved to Nashville. Four of the cuts were recorded in Wayne Moss's garage studio in Nashville. The song "Room 8" is titled after a neighborhood cat named Room 8 who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California and lived at the school each winter, leaving in the summer.

It was re-issued by BGO Records (CD101) in 1990 and by One Way Records in 1995.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Jim Esch wrote of the album "A landmark early album, Mudlark increased Kottke's visibility and helped establish his reputation as a homegrown American original."

Track listing

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

Side one

  1. "Cripple Creek" ★ (Traditional; arranged by Leo Kottke) – 1:59
  2. "Eight Miles High" (Gene Clark, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby) – 3:35
  3. "June Bug" – 2:15
  4. "The Ice Miner" – 2:00
  5. "Bumblebee" ★ – 3:40
  6. "Stealing" – 1:38
  7. "Monkey Lust" (Kottke, Kim Fowley) – 1:49

Side two

  1. "Poor Boy" (Bukka White, John Fahey) – 2:06
  2. "Lullaby" – 3:20
  3. "Machine #2" ★ – 3:01
  4. "Hear the Wind Howl" – 2:59
  5. "Bourée" (J. S. Bach) – 1:26
  6. "Room 8" – 2:59
  7. "Standing in My Shoes" ★ (Leo Kottke, Denny Bruce) – 3:11

Personnel

  • Leo Kottke—6 & 12-string acoustic guitar, bottleneck National steel guitar, vocals
  • Roy Estrada—bass (on track 2)
  • Paul “Fast Foot” Lagos—drums (on tracks 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, and 11)
  • Larry Taylor—bass (on tracks 3, 7, and 9)
  • Kenneth Buttrey—drums, percussion, cowbell (on tracks 1, 5, 10, and 14)
  • John Harris—piano (on tracks 1, 5, and 14)
  • Juke Box Phantom (actually Kim Fowley)—guest vocalist extraordinaire (on track 7)
  • Pat Smith—bass (on track 11)
  • Jeffrey Kaplan—piano (on tracks 8 and 11)
  • Wayne Moss—bass (on tracks 1, 5, 10, and 14)

    • Songs

    1Cripple Creek2:01
    2Eight Miles High3:38
    3June Bug2:17

    References

    Mudlark (album) Wikipedia
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