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Six & Twelve String Guitar
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Six & Twelve String Guitar
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Solo performer: Leo Kottke (acoustic 6 & 12-string guitars).
Recorded in 1969. Originally released on Takoma (1024). Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey and original release liner notes by Leo Kottke.
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Solo performer: Leo Kottke (acoustic 6 & 12-string guitars).
Recorded in 1969. Originally released on Takoma (1024).
With the 1969 release of 6-AND 12 STRING GUITAR, Leo Kottke established his pre-eminence as a guitar virtuoso and composer of quirky, pop-inflected pieces. Harmonically adventurous and technically dazzling, this album showcases Kottke's penchant for infusing traditional elements of folk guitar with more modern, even impressionistic harmony and tonality. Kottke inspired a revolution in acoustic guitar playing, and this record provided the opening volley.
"The Driving of the Year Nail" starts things off with a relentless fingerpicked chug, featuring splashes of open harmonics executed with the delicacy of a ballerina. Kottke proceeds to combine the familiar with the strange--each of these brief pieces (around three minutes and under) has the effect of being simultaneously charming, and a little twisted. For example, "Vaseline Machine Gun" starts with "Taps" played with a bottleneck slide, then morphs into a thumb-and-slide frenzy. Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is the exception, given a straight and loving reading on six-string guitar. This is pure steel-string joy, with liberal doses of irony and ecstasy.
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Rolling Stone (10/29/70, p.46) - "...any hardships you must endure to obtain a copy are well worth the pure enjoyment this album provides..."
Down Beat (11/96, p.61) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "Masterpiece. Period...."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.106) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Combining a pent-up energy with gentle arpeggios, his sound always locates itself around a powerfully eddying undercurrent."
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 | The "Armadillo Album": Leo Kottke's Fantastic Debut!
by Ironcladd, 4/25/2001 |
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Pros: Incredible technique, fantastic original songs, good feeling music.
Cons: None.
The Bottom Line: Kottke plays it all on this fantastic "Armadillo Album!
Review: Leo Kottke's "6 and 12 String Guitar" was his debut album way back in 1969. Better known as the "ar
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