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8/15/2007

Leo Kottke plays Pamela Brown

By Kenneth Rainey. Filed under: TweedBlog, video.

There’s some very nice 12-string slide playing in this 1982 clip of Leo Kottke. Also, for a guy who once described his voice as sounding like ‘goose farts on a muggy day’, he sings pretty well, too.

1 Comment »

  1. Nice post, Kip. Reminds me of a nice little story: Mike Gordon, the bass player from Vermont jam-band Phish, was a big Leo Kottke fan. In the wake of Phish’s retirement a few years ago, Mike recorded a bunch of basslines onto a Leo Kottke solo album and mailed it to Leo courtesy of his label, along with a letter saying what a big fan he was. Kottke is famous for playing alone and not really wanting to deal with partners/bandmates, so Gordon never expected to hear back. Then Leo got hold of the tape, liked what Gordon had done, invited him down to do a little pickin’, and lo and behold they made a record together and have done a few tours.

    Info on the record is here:

    http://www.leokottke.com/cgi-bin/recs/discinfo.cgi?performer=Leo+Kottke&rectitle=Sixty+Six+Steps

    Comment by Scott Judd — 8/16/2007 @ 12:15 pm

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