Any big Leo Kottke fans?

[Darth_Ole]

I love Leo Kottke so much. One of the best guitarists ever.

I actually got to meet him this year at a concert. I hung around after the show a while and he came out and signed some old vinyl album covers of his... He's an extremely nice guy, too.

[48pan]

1. I Love His Version of...

The Stars and Stripes Forever. He plays all of the parts at the same time.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Great to know he is a nice person

He is an absolute wizard on the guitar, and it is fun to watch him do super human impossible runs that would be a show piece for anyone else, but he just casts them off like they were nothing.

[Trajan]

3. Leo Kottke ...

AMAZING 12 string guitarist ...

Awful voice ...

One afficiando defined it thusly: 'geese farts on a hot and humid afternoon'

[hickman1937]

5. I used to love him

Did he have a song, a long time ago, called Louise?

[Darth_Ole]

6. Yes, Louise...

It was one of his earlier tunes. It's a good one.

[hickman1937]

9. I played that song to death.

If you can remember the album I will be in your debt. Was it Icewater?

[frogbison]

10. It's on "Greenhouse"

and also on "The Leo Kottke Anthology." I've been listening to Kottke since I was in college at St. Cloud State in the early 70s and he would come to play there. Last time I saw him was in October when he appeared on Mountain Stage, recorded in Athens, Ohio.

Just a master!

[NNadir]

7. He and lots of others recorded it, including Bonnie Raitt.

I love Kottke's versions, I have one live and one studio version.

My favorite Kottke tune of all time is the wonderfully named, "A Child Should Be a Fish."

BTW, I happen to love Kottke's voice. It's eccentric, but it fits him well. I particularly love his singing on the Tom T. Hall song, "Pamela Brown." I spent years learning to cover that version.

[SmokingJacket]

4. Medium sized Kottke fan here.

Great musician -- a true original. He sounds like no one else.

[LifeDuringWartime]

8. hes damn good

i heard/saw him for the first time at moe.down this summer. i was right down front against the rail (like i was for most of the weekend). for the last song, mike gordon came out and they played one of the songs from the cd they did together. awesome!

[maveric]

11. Leo backed up John McGlauthlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 73.

Two great guitarists plus Billy Cobham and Jan Hamner. What a show.
U of Lowell MA, nov 1973.

[Trajan]

14. Wow .... John McGlaughlin ...

Havent heard that name in years ....

The Mahavishnu Orchestra ....

The mind spins back back ....

[NNadir]

15. I have Miles Davis/McLaughlin's "Tribute to Jack Johnson" stuck in

my CD player. It comes up at least once a day.

I'm a big fan of McLaughlin's outside of Mahavishnu, not so much in it.

BTW, McLaughlin recorded lots of (unused) tracks in Mitchell's "Mingus." I have to think it would have been a better album with him.

[fluffernutter]

12. you lucky dawg! i love him too.

i love the way he can play a guitar, and i love his very deeeep voice. i went to a concert of him many moons ago :)

[welshTerrier2]

13. Pamela Brown

I’m the guy who didn’t marry pretty pamela brown
Educated, well-intentioned, good girl in our town
I wonder where I’d be today if she had loved me too
Probably be driving kids to school

(chorus)
I guess I owe it all to pamela brown
All of my good times and all my roamin’ around
One of these days I might be in your town
And I guess I owe it all to pamela brown

I’ve seen the lights of cities and I’ve been inside their doors
I’ve sailed to foreign countries and I’ve walked upon their shores
I guess the guy she married was the best part of my luck
She dug him ’cause he drove a pick-up truck

(chorus)

I don’t have to tell you just how beautiful she was
Everything it takes to get a guy like me in love
Lord, I hope she’s happy ’cause she sure deserves to be
Especially for what she did for me

(chorus)