Guitar Music

by Leo Kottke

Guitar Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1981
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:01
  • Community rating: 3.2/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A masterclass in acoustic fingerpicking, 'Guitar Music' returns the legendary guitarist to a strictly instrumental, unaccompanied format. The record highlights his unparalleled dexterity and rhythmic complexity, cementing his status as a leading figure in the American primitivism movement[cite: 1].

Genres

Descriptors: Folk

Tracklist

  1. Part Two (1:43)
  2. Available Space (1:36)
  3. Side One Suite: Some Birds (0:59)
  4. Side One Suite: Sounds Like...Slang (1:28)
  5. Side One Suite: Slang (2:43)
  6. Side One Suite: My Double (2:05)
  7. Side One Suite: Three Walls And Bars (2:13)
  8. Side One Suite: Reprise Some Birds (1:02)
  9. Perforated Sleep (2:45)
  10. Strange (2:34)
  11. Little Shoes (1:33)
  12. Jib's Hat (2:18)
  13. Tumbling Tumbleweeds (2:44)
  14. Agile N. (1:52)
  15. A Song For Night Of The Hunter (3:07)
  16. All I Have To Do Is Dream (1:45)
  17. Sleep Walk (2:27)

Credits

  • Bob Berglund - lacquer cut by
  • Ry Cooder - written-by
  • Bob Nolan - written-by
  • Boudleaux Bryant - written-by
  • Ann Farina - written-by
  • John Farina - written-by
  • Santo Farina - written-by

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