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

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