Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Leo Kottke Title: 6 & 12 String Guitar Members Wishing: 5 Total Copies: 0 Label: Takom Release Date: 11/21/1997 Album Type: Import Genre: Folk Style: Contemporary Folk Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 029667982429 |
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For decades, Leo Kottke would inspire generations of fingerpicking acoustic guitarists (and help pave the way for New Age and contemporary instrumental music), but this 1969 album is the one that started it all. Kottke's b... more » |
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Amazon.com essential recording For decades, Leo Kottke would inspire generations of fingerpicking acoustic guitarists (and help pave the way for New Age and contemporary instrumental music), but this 1969 album is the one that started it all. Kottke's brilliant debut was released, fittingly, on John Fahey's Takoma label. Showing the influence of Fahey himself (and Takoma labelmate Robbie Basho), Kottke performs impossibly difficult solo compositions that meld blues, bluegrass, and jazz techniques. Whether surefooted and quick ("The Driving of the Year Nail," "Jack Fig," "The Fisherman") or slow and reflective ("Ojo," "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"), Kottke's instrumental work is simply awe-inspiring. He'd forge an entire career out of this music and eventually incorporate singing onto his albums, but this gem is Kottke at his very best. Essential. --Jason Verlinde Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA True Classic djtal | Kalamazoo, MI United States | 11/25/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "I recently discovered that the only copy I have of this classic album is on LP. I was thrilled to find out it had been released on SACD. I appreciated the review by Ciro Trubiano. I was wondering if the SACD version of this might be in surround. But of course, that would be unlikely, since it is only one instrument being played. If you want to hear it in all speakers, Dolby PLIIx should do the trick nicely. RE: Ciro's question "what's the point of SACDs if you can't hear them in surround sound?" Answer: the improved sound quality. If you can't appreciate the difference, don't spend the extra money. Simple as that." Awesome! wynton smith | maine | 02/14/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "I have had this regular CD for several years, and it has always been one of my favorites. When I purchased the SACD version, it was like listening to a new albumn altogether. The engineering of this recording is superb. Even though it is only a two-channel recording, the sound difference between the regular CD and the SACD is amazing. Anybody interested in folk, bluegrass or country-type finger picking, must purchase this albumn."
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