Mudlark (album)

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Mudlark
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Cover photo taken from the Mt. Wilson Observatory Parking Lot—southwest view above Los Angeles, January 10, 1971.
Studio album by
Leo Kottke
Released1971
Recorded Los Angeles and Nashville, TN
Studio
Genre Folk, new acoustic, American primitive guitar
Length35:28
Label Capitol (ST-682)
Producer Denny Bruce
Leo Kottke chronology
Circle Round the Sun
(1970)		Mudlark
(1971)		 Greenhouse
(1972)

Mudlark is American guitarist Leo Kottke's fourth album, his first on a major label (Capitol) and his first to feature other musicians. It reached #168 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

Contents

History

Recording started in Los Angeles and later moved to Nashville. Four of the cuts were recorded at Cinderella Sound, Wayne Moss' garage studio in Nashville. The song "Room 8" is titled after a neighborhood cat named Room 8 who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California and lived at the school each winter, leaving in the summer. [1]

It was re-issued by BGO Records (CD101) in 1990 and by One Way Records in 1995.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Jim Esch wrote of the album "A landmark early album, Mudlark increased Kottke's visibility and helped establish his reputation as a homegrown American original." [2]

Track listing

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

Side one

  1. "Cripple Creek" ★(Traditional; arranged by Leo Kottke) – 1:59
  2. "Eight Miles High" (Gene Clark, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby) – 3:35
  3. "June Bug" – 2:15
  4. "The Ice Miner" – 2:00
  5. "Bumblebee" ★ – 3:40
  6. "Stealing" – 1:38
  7. "Monkey Lust" (Kottke, Kim Fowley) – 1:49

Side two

  1. "Poor Boy" (Bukka White, John Fahey) – 2:06
  2. "Lullaby" – 3:20
  3. "Machine #2" ★ – 3:01
  4. "Hear the Wind Howl" – 2:59
  5. "Bourée" (J. S. Bach) – 1:26
  6. "Room 8" – 2:59
  7. "Standing in My Shoes" ★(Leo Kottke, Denny Bruce) – 3:11

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. ↑ Vargo, Roger (May 2008). "Room 8, The Most Famous Cat in Los Angeles, Page 2". Explore Historic California. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Esch, Jim. "Mudlark > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.
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