| Chewing Pine | ||||
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| Released | 1975 | |||
| Studio | Sound 80 (Minneapolis, Minnesota) | |||
| Genre | Folk, new acoustic, American primitive guitar | |||
| Length | 33:26 | |||
| Label | Capitol (ST-11446) | |||
| Producer | Denny Bruce | |||
| Leo Kottke chronology | ||||
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Chewing Pine is the last album on the Capitol label by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1975. It peaked at #114 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. "Power Failure" was originally recorded by Procol Harum, a band Kottke toured with in Europe in the 1970s.
It was re-issued on CD by BGO (CD148) in 1992 and One Way Records (18461) in 1996.
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| Allmusic | |
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the album "a dazzling amalgam of sounds and styles — there's a surprising emphasis on vocal numbers here... The obvious attempt on Chewing Pine to sell Kottke as more of a mainstream artist and a sometime singer obviously didn't work... There are enough good moments, and even a few transcendent ones, to justify owning this album." [1]
All songs by Leo Kottke unless noted.