Guitar Music is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1981. The album is all solo guitar played on a Gibson J-45 and a Lundberg-Martin 12-string.

Guitar Music
Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedOctober and December 1980
StudioSound 80, Minneapolis, MN
GenreFolk, New Acoustic, American Primitive Guitar
Length34:18
LabelChrysalis (CHR 1328)
ProducerLeo Kottke
Leo Kottke chronology
Live in Europe
(1980)
Guitar Music
(1981)
Time Step
(1983)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic      [1]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Chip Renner called the album "Twelve solid guitar instrumentals."[1]

Track listing edit

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

Side one edit

  1. "Part Two" – 1:41
  2. "Available Space" (Ry Cooder) – 1:34
  3. "Side One Suite":
    1. "Some Birds" – 0:59
    2. "Sounds Like..." – 1:28
    3. "Slang" – 2:42
    4. "My Double" – 2:05
    5. "Three Walls and Bars" – 2:13
    6. "Reprise: Some Birds" [Note: the CD cover is in error here]
  4. "Perforated Sleep" – 2:44

Side two edit

  1. "Strange" – 2:31
  2. "Little Shoes" – 1:32
  3. "Jib's Hat" – 2:15
  4. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Bob Nolan) – 2:41
  5. "Agile N." – 1:49
  6. "A Song for 'The Night of the Hunter'" – 3:06
  7. "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant) – 1:42
  8. "Sleep Walk" (Johnny Farina, Santo Farina, Ann Farina) – 2:20

Personnel edit

  • Leo Kottke - Acoustic 6- and 12-String Guitars

Production notes:

  • Produced by Leo Kottke.
  • Recorded in Minneapolis at Sound 80, October and December 1980.
  • Engineers: Scott Rivard, Paul Martinson.
  • Thanks to Jeff Roberts and Tom Mudge.
  • Art Director: John Van Hamersveld
  • Photo: Nick Rozsa.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Renner, Chip. "Guitar Music > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.

External links edit