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	Leo Kottke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is a legendary acoustic guitar virtuoso who has developed a cult following of fellow guitarists and fans over the span of a 30-year career of recording and performing.
		Kottke has overcome a series of personal obstacles including partial deafness and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage to emerge as a widely-recognized master of his instrument.
		Kottke's guitars are often tuned unconventionally; early in his career he heavily utilized open tunings, while in recent years he has used more traditional voicings but often detunes his guitars as many as two full steps below standard tuning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leo_Kottke (744 words)

	Leo Kottke Interview - 1994
		Kottke: I'm probably unique in that when I was a little boy of five or six instead of having a ball-player or ninja-turtle as a hero it was an announcer, a guy named Martin Agronski.
		Kottke: That one was unique because it was literally an experience that I had and I did embellish it a bit but I did kick the wall and I did fall down.
		Kottke: Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
	www.solidairrecords.com /AMR_interviews/kottke.html (4402 words)

	Leo Kottke Connection \| Capitol Years
		Kottke was always known in the music business as a serious student of voice, often seeking tips from singers he worked with, from Lyle Lovett and Emmy Lou Harris to Rickie Lee Jones and Linda Ronstadt.
		Kottke was listed first so record stores would stock the record in the Kottke bins, a good move as the record sold well.
		Leo and Bruce had been to Nudie's, where all the "cosmic cowboys" got their wild get-ups a la The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Kottke bought the red shirt with flowers that's on the cover.
	www.leokottkeconnection.bravehost.com /capitol.html (2775 words)

	Rolling Stone : Leo Kottke
		For his performance at St. Louis' Sheldon Concert Hall, Kottke dipped deep into his old repertoire for audience favorites like "Vaseline Machine Gun" and "Pamela Brown," auditioned a few new numbers for an album he'll be recording in Minnesota in the coming months, and kept the crowd amused in-between songs with his mordant wit.
		Kottke doesn't, but he takes it seriously enough, performing a dazzling array of instrumental numbers, defying genre boundaries between blues, folk and jazz, and making music that is extraordinarily percussive -- there's not enough space left open for you to miss a rhythm section -- yet wonderfully lyrical.
		Unbeknownst to his family, who figured him for dead, he was held captive across the street from their apartment, and sustained his spirit by peering out a high slit of a window, catching occasional glimpses of his daughters as they played on their balcony.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5922880/leo_kottke (496 words)

	Leo Kottke Followup
		Furthermore, he announced Heptunes would be producing Leo Kottke's fortieth (eek!) anniversary as a performer with a concert in Cambridge Massachusetts.
		At one point Kottke explained how he determined early in his performing career that, for him, having a carefully planned and rehearsed set list meant he felt himself locked in concrete after five minutes on stage.
		Kottke is a walking oxymoron, a man so laid back he speaks of himself as having a "thyroid the size of a comma" yet he exudes manic energy in his super- fast and technically outstanding playing.
	www.greenmanreview.com /live/live_Kottke_11_20.html (692 words)

	The Leo Kottke Connection \| Looking Back
		Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia on the morning of September 11, 1867.
		Kottke isn't a new addition to the Page-Beck school of grating, hypertensive guitarists, as if you were expecting that.
		Add Kottke's creative use of the bottleneck on four of the tracks, and it can be seen that he is a further extension of the Fahey school.
	www.leokottkeconnection.bravehost.com /6and12.html (1849 words)

	Robert's Review of Leo Kottke at Rialto Thearter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leo Kottke, played a benefit for the local Hospice at the Rialto Theater in Raleigh in November.
		Leo Leo's playing is so unique I think i'll start with the tuning dadgad Tyler () on Wednesday, March 31, 1999 at 17:23:49 ----- Hi Leo Fan's Leo's cool cosmic playing came to Perth Australia Nov:12 1998.
		Kottke casually took the stage and proceded to amaze the crowd with demonstrations of the fingerpicking style many have tried to imitate.
	www.rasman.com /reviews/lkottke.html (3929 words)

	Leo Kottke MP3 Downloads - Leo Kottke Music Downloads - Leo Kottke Music Videos
		Innovative acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke was born September 11, 1945 in Athens, Georgia.
		After developing a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt, Kottke lost much of the hearing in his left ear as a result of a mishap with a firecracker; during a later tenure in the Naval Reserve, his right ear suffered permanent damage during firing practice.
		Kottke's powerful technique, combined with his prolific output and extensive touring schedule, resulted in a lingering pain in his hands which began to hamper his playing in the middle of the 1980s.
	www.mp3.com /Leo-Kottke/artists/1710/biography.html (605 words)

	Leo Kottke: Getting to mouth off
		Leo took a bit of shit for that record from critics and fans because of his use of six string bass.
		Leo Kottke was 24 in 1969 when his first major recording, 6 and 12 String Guitar, was released.
		Leo Kottke's music captures a broad variety of idiomatic sounds from the fullness of American life.
	www.innerviews.org /inner/kottke2.html (8632 words)

	Taylor Guitars \| Leo Kottke
		In 1990, Kottke and Bob Taylor developed the Leo Kottke Signature Model 12-string, which renewed Kottke's interest in the instrument and precipitated the 12-string's popular resurgence.
		In addition to his masterful musicianship, Kottke is beloved for a droll perspective on life that puts a tilt on his material and keeps concert audiences highly amused.
		Although Kottke does not conduct Taylor workshops, as a Signature Artist he is an important member of the Taylor family.
	www.taylorguitars.com /artists/signature/kottke.asp (178 words)

	Leo Kottke - PopMatters Concert Review
		And during his career, Kottke has incorporated nearly every style into his music, including the unlikely influences of hip-hop and funk, making him required study for any up-and-comer and a crucial element in the development of the guitar-master genre.
		Kottke switched back and forth between his 6- and 12-string guitars, which required a great deal of tuning and retuning throughout the night.
		Kottke's rough-edged baritone, made a little rougher and more baritone by his cold, lent a somewhat sinister and somber mood to the lyrics.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/k/kottke-leo.shtml (690 words)

	Tim Reynolds - Message Board - Two-Timing-Tim>Leo Kottke
		Funny that Tim and Leo are close in age (maybe 10 or 15 years apart), but their music (considering Tim's sampling and all) is mostly vastly different.
		Kottke, I was wondering if I could bother you for an autograph?" He said, "come over here" and so I followed him to the entrance to the place.
		Posted - 09/20/2001 : 09:36:32 AM This Leo Kottke fellow is comming to a small venue in Madison (where i live) in November with Leon Redbone (I think).
	www.timreynolds.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=87 (2626 words)

	Leo Kottke: Blowing the saddletank
		Kottke is also unafraid of tangents and disinterested in public relations posturing.
		Kottke says it's too early for him to come up with a real opinion of the record.
		Although Kottke is consistently complimented for his guitarwork, he hasn't been so lucky with his throaty vocals.
	www.innerviews.org /inner/kottke.html (2525 words)

	Amazon.com: 6 & 12 String Guitar: Music: Leo Kottke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		Kottke is the undisputed master of the 12 string guitar and blends a wide variety of blues, folk, and rock to keep the listener riveted, as well as entertained.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003Z91?v=glance (1056 words)

	Leo Kottke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The album is his eighth in a decade-long association with Private Music, and it’s the first album Kottke – who regards recording as a somewhat necessary evil – actually found rather painless.
		The two had threatened to produce an album together for a long time, and Kottke goes so far as to say the producer was the record’s inspiration.
		Kottke wanted it to be a rhythm record, something that would make his feet happy – music that moved.
	www.berkshire.net /~cosmo/susan/music/kottke.html (957 words)

	Folkstuff: Leo Kottke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Those familiar with Leo and his career - spanning some 33 years and more than 25 albums understand that this is a can't miss event.
		A master of both the 6- and 12-string acoustic guitar, Kottke is the standard bearer by which many of the world's finest finger pickers are measured.
		"Kottke's simply terrific," says the Baltimore City Newspaper, "His fingers unleash a flurry of notes that evoke a quirky world of wonder: part bluegrass breakdown, part folk ballad, part Delta blues, part nursery rhyme.
	www.tedcrane.com /folkstuff/200311_Kottke.htp (217 words)

	Leo Kottke : Mudlark - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		This was Kottke's Capitol Records debut, and his solo instrumental sound is augmented with the addition of studio sidemen (bass, drums, piano).
		Kottke's sound was too raucous and unpredictable to guarantee commercial success on a major label.
		Stylistically, Kottke is all over the map (as usual), blending traditional folk, bluegrass, blues, singer/songwriter, and classical into his own brand of high-octane eclecticism.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,116319,00.html (366 words)

	Leo Kottke / Mike Gordon: Sixty Six Steps - PopMatters Music Review
		Seeger has already acknowledged his adoration for Kottke's 1968 version of the piece (it's appeared on several Kottke recordings since), and this new reworking eviscerates the flute-y, flowing-river ambience of Seeger's original and Kottke's speedier cover.
		On his "Balloon" and "Twice", Kottke does his thing as only he can do it, spinning the simplest of images to represent the peaks and troughs of everyday existence.
		Kottke delivers his message with oddly hopeful phrases like: "When your friends tell you you're not the same / Grapefruit skies allow", and this, "When the raccoon steals the cheese behind Pandora's other box / Or the one you love is shopping for a helmet made of rocks / Balloon".
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/k/kottkeleo-sixtysix.shtml (920 words)

	Leo Kottke
		Leo showed up with his 2 Taylor guitars; one 12 string and one 6 string.
		Leo chose not to use any stage monitor at all, preferring to hear the sound reflected from the house system.
		Due to scheduling conflicts, I have only been able to do sound for Leo Kottke twice out of the past 4 or 5 times that he has been in the area.
	www.fishnose.com /lkottke.htm (405 words)

	Leo Kottke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leo Kottke's 12-String guitar (pre-performance), and Leo carrying his 6 And 12 String Guitars he performed his show with.
		Leo was the first to autograph two custom surfboard signs on April 2, 2004, that will hopefully receive many more signatures from a variety of artists.
		Leo Kottke after his April 2, 2004 Smithsonian, Baird Auditorium, Washington, D.C. performance.
	www.tunefan.com /kottke.htm (438 words)

	The Leo Kottke connection
		Here is an excerpt from Machine Gun Kottke: Into the Myth Gap by Tom Murtha from Rolling Stone, August 29, 1974, with a piece about a Procol Harum concert in May 1974.
		In May, with 3500 people present at the Felt Forum with Procol Harum, Leo seemed again to be playing to those 30 hearties at Minneapolis's Scholar, even though proprietor Mike Justin was not on hand to frump at the high school kids to shaddup and listen to the music or get out.
		Here is Leo Kottke's Liner Notes from Live In Europe (1980) where he writes: 'I'd like to thank Procol Harum who made it possible for me to work in Europe'.
	www.procolharum.com /js_kottke.htm (818 words)

	GUITAR LEGEND LEO KOTTKE TAKES THE STAGE AT GPAC
		Kottke’s flair for musical story telling and his endearing, self-deprecating humor has captivated audiences world wide.
		Kottke reached the U.S. Top 50 for the first time and gained an international cult following thanks to his performances at folk festivals around the world with his 1975 Chewing Pine.
		Audiences at Kottke concerts are treated to dry autobiographical soliloquies, exercises in purposeful befuddlement laced with absurdity and insight.
	www.gpacweb.com /news_release.cfm?rsNewsKey=29 (447 words)

	Leo Kottke, March 29, 2003
		But, with nothing more a single vocal mic (his two acoustic guitars -- a six- and a twelve-string -- were run directly) and a folding chair on an old throw rug, Leo Kottke managed to convey nothing so much as an old pal casually entertaining the gang in his living room.
		Leo Kottke manages to combine jazz, classical, folk and blues elements into his playing style in such a seamless manner as to make it appear effortless...except you are constantly astounded by the underlying virtuosity.
		The number of musicians who could spend at least five minutes telling a shaggy dog story about the writings of John Aubrey (an aristocratic Seventeenth Century English diarist who was a contemporary of Samuel Pepys) while "noodling" on his guitar, and have the audience in the palm of his hand is slender indeed.
	www.greenmanreview.com /live/live_leokottke_0403.html (633 words)

	Amazon.ca: Leo Kottke Anthology [Import] [Best of] [Box set]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Whereas Fahey, Kottke's finger-style forefather, ventured into weird tape loops and effects as his career progressed (and distanced his personality from his playing), Kottke did the opposite.
		I just had the good fortune to see Leo Kottke live in Santa Barbara last weekend and the only fault I found was that the night was over all too soon.
		Kottke is on my short list of artists who I will go out and buy their new album without waiting to read reviews first.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033X4 (1006 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Phish bassist, Leo Kottke continue musical partnership
		Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon know they are a musical odd couple.
		The pairing is a departure for both Kottke, who turns 60 in September, and Gordon, 40.
		Kottke is well respected by other musicians and hardcore music fans.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050830-1616-music-kottke-gordon.html (734 words)

	Tim Reynolds - Message Board - Tim and Leo Kottke
		I never read that Tim was into Kottke, but I assume he is, as Kottke really rips the old 12'er.
		If you want more info on Leo Kottke do a search for topics in the Friends Aboard the Space Pod section, he's been discussed many times, and there are many ardent fans of his on the board.
		But if the question is have Leo and TIM ever played together or are directly influenced by each other, I'd give a hearty "no, I doubt it." However, it's obvious that Leo keeps his ear to the music scene (as evidenced by his playing with Cactus among others), so he's probably heard TIM.
	www.timreynolds.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5465 (533 words)

	The Leo Kottke Page
		My observation is that Leo is becoming more enamored with the "harmonics" of chords, and is incorporating what I label "hanging chords" (by that I mean a sustained chord, that just sails and hangs in the air like an eagle, soaring on a thermal).
		Skillful at finding correspondence where none had been found before, a listener might experience the sensation that Kottke has "lost it", only to discover that he's known where "it" was, all along.
		I could argue with the author's comment about Leo's "dumb luck", since I experience Leo as quite "cerebral", but the essence of their admiration for, and enjoyment of his humor is so clearly expressed, I just had to quote it!
	www.chiro.org /LINKS/Leo_Kottke.shtml (290 words)

	Amazon.com: Time Step: Music: Leo Kottke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon recommend their favorite CDs to Amazon customers.
		All the tunes are vintage Kottke but "Rings", written as sort of a joke by Alex Harvey and Ed Reeves, is fantastic.
		I never got this particular album when I was trying to get everything Leo recorded as soon as it came out but found a vinyl copy at Amoeba Records in LA last year.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000011NY?v=glance (617 words)

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