6 and 12 String Guitar
6 and 12 String Guitar
Artist: Leo
Kottke
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Unbelievable1If you like your blues guitar played with feeling, I challenge you to sit still listening to this1 Although ‘Vaseline Machine Gun’ is the better known track, ‘Jack Fig’ and ‘Coolidge Rising’ are up there with it. It’s never off the CD.
DANGER - BRILLIANT!!
Absolutely brilliant virtuoso guitar playing, will send shivers!! This album will have you running off to you nearest music store to buy a guitar! If I grow to play guitar half as good as this I’ll die happy. I can hardly believe the sound quality is so good if recorded thirty years ago, it sounds so live! Essential purchase for any collection!
Beautiful and raw
I’m not familiar with any of Kottke’s other work, but that will soon change. This album features some delicious guitar finger-picking, beautiful rhythms and melodies, all delivered with pace and obvious joy. The recording of the music is great too; it’s filled with incidental noises: the rattle of the slide against the frets, mis-plucked strings, all the stuff that makes a guitar recording come alive. This isn’t about ponderous precision, it’s about the guitar as an expressive instrument. The music feels predominantly American in influence, smacking of blue-grass and folk, although Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” allows Kottke to demonstrate his technical prowess when he isn’t hammering the strings for all he’s worth. Stand out tracks for me are “Watermelon” and “Vaseline Machine Gun”. There are a couple of over-sweet moments, but this music is a great experience, especially if you’re a guitar player.