Ice Water (album)

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Ice Water
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Studio album by
Leo Kottke
Released1974
Recorded Sound 80, Minneapolis, MN
Genre Folk, new acoustic, American primitive guitar
Length38:11
Label Capitol (ST-11262)
Producer Denny Bruce
Leo Kottke chronology
My Feet Are Smiling
(1973)		Ice Water
(1974)		 Dreams and All That Stuff
(1974)

Ice Water is the seventh album by guitarist Leo Kottke. It contains Kottke's only charting single, the Tom T. Hall composition "Pamela Brown". Ice Water peaked at #69 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

Contents

It was re-issued on CD by BGO (CD146) in 1992 and One Way Records in 1996.

Kottke has stated that he recorded the vocals for the entire album while lying on his back after being told by an Air Force sergeant that this position helps open the diaphragm and could improve one's singing voice (Kottke amusingly admits that "it didn't work"). [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder noted that the album was more directed to country flavored vocals and wrote of the album "This is a good record, though not the Leo Kottke album to start with, as it is not representative of his usual work... Among the instrumentals, "A Good Egg" is just the kind of light-fingered, light-textured virtuoso piece that one buys a Leo Kottke album expecting to find, and much of the rest shows off his talents in some unexpected directions." [2]

Track listing

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

Side one

  1. "Morning is the Long Way Home" – 6:26
  2. "Pamela Brown" (Tom T. Hall) – 4:03
  3. "A Good Egg" – 3:10
  4. "Tilt Billings and the Student Prince" (Leo Kottke, Ron Nagle) – 4:56
  5. "All Through the Night" (Traditional; arranged by Kottke) – 1:30

Side two

  1. "Short Stories" (Leo Kottke, Cal Hand) – 3:01
  2. "You Tell Me Why" (Ron Elliott) – 3:58
  3. "You Know I Know You Know" – 4:08
  4. "Born to Be With You" (Don Robertson) – 3:02
  5. "A Child Should Be a Fish" – 3:45

Charts

Chart (1974)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [4] 94

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. ↑ "Nashville Now" with Ralph Emery. TNN . 1992.
  2. 1 2 Eder, Bruce. "Ice Water > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  4. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 170. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
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