Leo Kottke - Best
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Artist: Leo KottkeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-11-11
Music Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Acoustic: Machine No. 2
- Acoustic: Cripple Creek
- Acoustic: Bourree
- Acoustic: When Shrimps Learn To Whistle
- Acoustic: Bill Cheatham
- Acoustic: The Song Of The Swamp
- Acoustic: Last Steam Engine Train
- Electric: Bean Time
- Electric: The Spanish Entomologist
- Electric: Short Stories
- Electric: Hole In The Day
- Electric: Mona Roy
- Electric: Venezuela, There You Go
- Electric: Monkey Lust
- Live: Busted Bicycle
- Live: June Bug
- Live: Eggtooth
- Live: Stealing
- Live: Living In The Country
- Live: Medley: A.) Crow River Waltz /B.) Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
- Singing: Standing In My Shoes
- Singing: Bumblebee
- Singing: Eight Miles High
- Singing: Tilt Billings And The Student Prince
- Singing: Pamela Brown
- Singing: Standin On The Outside
- Singing: Power Failure
Music reviews of Best
Music Review: Old Capitol tracks from the 70's worth revisiting!
Rating: 5 Stars
My Uncle from the Minneapolis area turned me on to Leo when I visited him in the late 80's. People there told me to get this album, as well as "6 & 12 string". Not having much cash at the time, I had to choose, and I got this one. I grew up with disc one as a permanent resident on my turntable in my bedroom.
I went to college, and the turntable back home ended up getting thrown out. I saw Kottke play live two or three times, where I somehow still couldn't believe, even with visual confirmation, that it was one guy making all that sound with one instrument.
A year or two ago, I finally ended up getting "6 & 12 string" on CD, but couldn't find this album, my old friend, anywhere. And just now, here it is!
Although 6 and 12 string is, and rightly should be, the centerpiece of the Kottke recording universe, I'm still not unhappy with the choice I made as a teenager. The main reason is disc one, where his styles are all over the map, delving into his bluegrass roots with songs like Cripple Creek and Bill Cheatham, jamming with a band on Machine #2, Short Stories, and Monkey Lust, and getting just plain wacky with the loopy hula dancing Spanish Entomologist and the brooding Whistling Shrimps.
The combination is never boring, and through it all his capricious and upbeat style, as well as his undisputed mastery of the instrument, will always leave you with a smile on your face.
Description of Best
Reissue of long-deleted 1976 set compiling the best of the guitarist's Capitol label recordings from the 1970s. BGO Records. 2002.Blues CDs
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