Leo Kottke Live

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Live
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Live album by
Leo Kottke
ReleasedOctober 1995
RecordedApril 1995
VenueFox Theater, Boulder, CO
Length60:02
Label On The Spot, Private Music (0100582132-2)
Producer Leo Kottke, Paul duGre
Leo Kottke chronology
Peculiaroso
(1994)		Live
(1995)		 The Leo Kottke Anthology
(1997)

Live is a live album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1995. It includes two of Kottke's signature monologues ("Combat", "Roy Autry"), giving a small taste of the complete concert experience. A previously unreleased song "Flattened Brain" is also included.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Murrday Fisher wrote of the album "... as is characteristic of his style, it's his instrumental work on cuts like "Peg Leg," "Little Martha," and a mellow version of the old classic "Twilight Time" that show the artist in peak form... Definitely recommended." [1]

Track listing

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

  1. "William Powell" – 5:32
  2. "The Room at the Top of the Stairs" (Randall Hylton) – 2:47
  3. "Airproofing" – 4:50
  4. "Jack Gets Up" – 4:49
  5. "Combat" - 6:05
  6. "Peg Leg" – 2:21
  7. "Twilight Time" (Buck Ram, Morty Nevins, Al Nevins) – 2:27
  8. "Bean Time" – 1:40
  9. "Roy Autry" – 6:25
  10. "Parade" – 4:11
  11. "I Yell at Traffic" – 5:40
  12. "Flattened Brain" – 3:45
  13. "Little Martha" (Duane Allman) – 2:04
  14. "Oddball" – 3:18
  15. "Arms of Mary" (Ian Sutherland) – 4:08

Many of the track timings are incorrect—here and on the actual album. The most egregious example is "Roy Autry," which is only 0:49, not 6:25. The total album time is 53:14, not 60:02. [3]

Personnel

Production notes:

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References

  1. 1 2 Fisher, Murrday. "Live > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. ↑ This information is gleaned from track timings on two different CD players.
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