Mudlark (album) explained

Mudlark
Type:Album
Artist:Leo Kottke
Cover:Mudlark_(album).jpg
Caption:Cover photo taken from the Mt. Wilson Observatory Parking Lot—southwest view above Los Angeles, January 10, 1971.
Released:1971
Recorded:Los Angeles and Nashville, TN
Genre:Folk, new acoustic, American primitive guitar
Length:35:28
Label:Capitol (ST-682)
Producer:Denny Bruce
Prev Title:Circle Round the Sun
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:Greenhouse
Next Year:1972

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.

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.[1]

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

Production notes

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Room 8, The Most Famous Cat in Los Angeles, Page 2. Vargo. Roger. May 2008. Explore Historic California. March 9, 2016.