Guitar Music Explained

Guitar Music
Type:	Album
Artist:	Leo Kottke
Cover:	Leo_Kottke_Guitar_Music.jpg
Released:	1981
Recorded:	October and December 1980
Studio:	Sound 80, Minneapolis, MN
Genre:	Folk, new acoustic, American primitive guitar
Length:	34:18
Label:	Chrysalis (CHR 1328)
Producer:	Leo Kottke
Prev Title:	Live in Europe
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Time Step
Next Year:	1983

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.

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.

External links

• Leo Kottke's official site
• Unofficial Leo Kottke web site (fan site)