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Leo Kottke - Best of Leo Kottke

Facts

Artist(s)Leo Kottke
StudioBgo - Beat Goes on
Release DateNovember 11, 2002
 

About Leo Kottke - Best of Leo Kottke

Reissue of long-deleted 1976 set compiling the best of the guitarist's Capitol label recordings from the 1970s. BGO Records. 2002. Album Description

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. Machine, No. 2
  2. Cripple Creek - Leo Kottke, Traditional
  3. Bouree - Leo Kottke, Bach
  4. When Shrimps Learn to Whistle
  5. Bill Cheatham - Leo Kottke, Traditional
  6. The Song of the Swamp
  7. Last Steam Engine Train - Leo Kottke, Fahey
  8. Bean Time
  9. The Spanish Entomologist
  10. Short Stories
  11. Hole in the Day
  12. Mona Roy
  13. Venezuela There You Go
  14. Monkey Lost
Disc 2
  1. Busted Bicycle - Leo Kottke, Kottke, Leo
  2. June Bug
  3. Eggtooth
  4. Stealing
  5. Living in the Country - Leo Kottke, Seeger
  6. Medley: Crow River Waltz/Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring/Jack Fig
  7. Standing in My Shoes
  8. Bumblebee
  9. Eight Miles High - Leo Kottke, McGuinn
  10. Tilt Billings and the Student Prince
  11. Pamela Brown - Leo Kottke, Hall
  12. Standing on the Outside
  13. Power Failure - Leo Kottke, Brooker

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User Reviews

Average user review: 5.0 (10 reviews)

rating: 5 QuoteBest of Leo KottkeQuote
The album covers all ranges of Leo Kottke and is extremely good, particularly the live recordings. January 28, 2008

rating: 5 QuoteLEO TRULY AT HIS BESTQuote
This one is short & to the point: I think this is the best Kottke CD out there, PERIOD. Only shortcoming- a personal favorite of mine, "Cradle to the Grave," is not a part of this one, but it's on Greenhouse, which is now available on CD. I'd recommend getting both CD's. June 27, 2007

rating: 5 QuoteFabulous!Quote
I like this album a lot and I love Kottke. It came to me without waiting and in good condition. Many people want to borrow this one too, just like DIVA, from Annie Lennox. Great Purchase. I truly believe in buying music, not burning it. It just works better that way. January 29, 2007

rating: 5 QuoteFast fingersQuote
He is very skilful guitarist! One of the best.
Over and above he is fine singer.
Very good comprehensive compilation.
Good booklet. March 14, 2006

rating: 5 QuoteOld Capitol tracks from the 70's worth revisiting!Quote
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.

December 24, 2005

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