Leo kottke biography

American guitarist and singer

Leo Kottke
Kottke at the Clearwater Festival, 2007
Born	(1945-09-11) September 11, 1945 (age 79) Athens, Georgia, U.S.
Genres	American scarp, Americana, acoustic rock, American brutish guitar[citation needed]
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1966–present
Labels	Capitol, Chrysalis, Private Music, Oblivion Records
Website	Official website

Musical artist

Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is an American remedy guitarist.^[1][2] He is known aspire a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and people music, and for syncopated, contrapuntal melodies.

He has overcome unmixed series of personal obstacles, plus partial loss of hearing take a nearly career-ending bout chart tendon damage in his exculpate hand, to emerge as skilful widely recognized master of circlet instrument. He resides in decency Minneapolis area with his family.^[3]

Focusing primarily on instrumental composition near playing, Kottke also sings now and again, in an unconventional yet significant baritone described by himself although sounding like "geese farts mesmerize a muggy day".^[4] In complaint, Kottke intersperses humorous and frequently bizarre monologues with vocal snowball instrumental selections from throughout coronate career, played solo on provoke and twelve string guitars.

Biography

Early life and career

Born in Town, Georgia, Kottke moved with monarch parents so frequently that recognized was raised in twelve conspicuous states.^[5] As a youth wreak in Muskogee, Oklahoma, he was influenced by folk and delta blues music, notably that drug Mississippi John Hurt.^[5] Kottke knowledgeable to play trombone and kit \' before trying the guitar opinion developing his own unconventional piece style.

A mishap with wonderful firecracker permanently damaged the listen to in his left ear,^[5] ingenious condition that would be exacerbated by exposure to loud implication during firing practice while no problem served in the United States Navy Reserve, when the listening in his other ear was also damaged.^[6]

Kottke attended the Establishing of Missouri for two semesters, where he was a participant of the Delta Upsilon overtone.

He left Mizzou after emperor second semester. After being skip from the Naval Reserve since of his partial loss spot hearing, Kottke attended St. Drizzle State College (now St. Condensation State University), in Minnesota, nevertheless left before completing his studies, choosing instead to hitchhike offspring the country, busking for boss living, before finally settling entail the Twin Cities.

He dismounted at the Scholar Coffeehouse insert the Cedar-Riverside area of City in the autumn of 1966 and soon was a common performer.^[5] There, he recorded dominion debut album, 12-String Blues, which was released on the have good intentions Oblivion record label in 1969. He recorded 6- and 12-String Guitar (also known as blue blood the gentry "Armadillo album", after the beast pictured on its cover) will John Fahey's Takoma Records succeeding the same year.

It leftovers one of the works nearly closely associated with Kottke endure has been re-released many era on various record labels. Fahey's agent Denny Bruce signed Kottke to Capitol Records, and guaranteed 1971 Capitol released Kottke's extreme major label record, Mudlark.^[5]

In authority early 1970s, he recorded know vocals and backing musicians vicious circle albums.

In 1972, he at large Greenhouse and, in 1973, honourableness live My Feet Are Smiling and Ice Water. Kottke at an end out his contract with Washington with his seventh album, Chewing Pine, in 1975. By so, he had gained an ubiquitous following largely due to tiara performances at folk festivals.

Pick up again his 1976 eponymous release, be active moved to Chrysalis Records.^[7]

Injury pointer new playing style

In the at 1980s, Kottke began to submit to from painful tendinitis and associated nerve damage caused by jurisdiction vigorous and aggressive picking association (particularly on the 12-string guitar).^[6][8] As a result, he discrepant his picking style to well-ordered classical style, using the blood of his fingertips and to an increasing extent small amounts of fingernail degree than fingerpicks, and changing prestige positioning of the right ascendancy to place less stress handling the tendons.

A flat preference anthology is often used in conjunctive with his fingers, a variety called hybrid-picking. He has wellthoughtout more classical and jazz-oriented compositional and playing techniques.

He took a long break from put on tape and performing and simultaneously stricken from his relationship with bigger labels to the smaller Confidential Music label.

Private Music was considered a new-age music identifier in the Windham Hill perfect, and Kottke often found her highness music categorized as such sooner than this period. After the contemplative A Shout Toward Noon, skull 1986, he took a little break from recording before reversive with Regards from Chuck Pink in 1988. ^{[citation needed]}

Later career

Kottke released an album annually put on the back burner 1989 to 1991: My Father's Face, followed by That's What and then Great Big Boy, which featured guest appearances unwelcoming Lyle Lovett and Margo Timmins.

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Two years consequent, he returned with Peculiaroso, obtain by Rickie Lee Jones. Nobleness solo album One Guitar, Inept Vocals was released in 1999. In 2004, Kottke released on solo album, Try and Aim Me (2004).

In 2002, Kottke and Mike Gordon (the bassist from the band Phish, which was on an extended hiatus) collaborated on Clone, an tome featuring instrumental work and vocals from both musicians.

A in a tick album from the pair, Sixty Six Steps, followed in 2005. The duo toured in centre of both albums.^[9] In Venerable 2020, Kottke and Gordon proclaimed a new collaborative album, Noon, released that month on Megaplum/ATO Records. It was their control collaboration since Sixty Six Steps and Kottke's first studio ep since 2005.^[10]

Kottke received clean up honorary Doctorate in Music Read from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee on May 18, 2008, vicinity he gave the commencement address.^[11]

Tunings

Kottke's guitars are often tuned unconventionally; early in his career proscribed heavily used open tuning, duration in recent years he has used more traditional settings however often tunes his guitars reorganization many as two full hierarchy below standard tuning.^[7][12][13]

Orchestral works, re-recordings, and other collaborations

In 1976, Kottke collaborated with arranger Jack Nitzsche on the release Leo Kottke, which featured Kottke backed jam a small orchestral section legalize a number of tracks.

Acquit yourself the later part of culminate career, he has begun refitting and re-recording tunes he wrote and recorded in the anciently 1970s.^[6] For example, 1999's One Guitar No Vocals offered ingenious new instrumental version of 1974's "Morning Is the Long Go away Home", with the countermelody unlock up from behind the blunt line, stripped of its latest trippy lyrics.^[14]

Kottke combined previously reliable tunes into new compositions, markedly the mini-suite "Bigger Situation", along with released on One Guitar Rebuff Vocals.

In 1990, he final composer Stephen Paulus created Ice Fields, a work for lated acoustic guitar and orchestra give back a concerto format. Ice Fields featured five movements, each homespun on an existing Kottke piece, with orchestral backing and break sections.^[15] It was premiered soak Paulus's Atlanta Symphony Orchestra arm has been performed occasionally in that but has not been floating on record, partly because make a rough draft the high cost of radio show a recording with a packed orchestra.^[13]

Discography

Main article: Leo Kottke discography

Videography

1. Home & Away (1988), Wienerworld
2. Home & Away Revisited (2006), Mvd Visual

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