In December 1969, “Takoma” label released “6 and 12-String Guitar”, the second Leo Kottke album. It was recorded in 1969, at “Empire Photo Sound” in Minneapolis.
Personnel:
- Leo Kotke – 6 and 12-string guitars, song notes
- Frank Hulbert – lacquer cut
- Annie Elliott – illustration, design
- Mark Humphrey – liner notes
Personnel:
All tracks by Leo Kottke, except where noted.
- The Driving of the Year Nail (from an old Etruscan drawing of a sperm cell)
- The Last of the Arkansas Greyhounds (a terror-filled escape on a bus from a man fired from Beaumont ranch)
- The Ojo (Ojo Caliente where the Zuni hid from Estaban, the Moor, and the Spaniards)
- Crow River Waltz (a prayer for the demise of the canoe and the radar trap without which Federal prisons will have to be rebuilt to accommodate prepubescence)
- The Sailor’s Grave on the Prairie (originally written to commemorate Nedicks and a Minneapolis musician’s contempt for the three A.M. cheeseburger with a nickel slice of raw
- Vaseline Machine Gun (1 for waking up nude in a sleeping bag on the shore of the Atlantic surrounded by a volleyball game at high noon, 2 for the end of the volleyball game)
- Jack Fig (a reluctant lament)
- Watermelon (while at Watermelon Park Music Festival I had the opportunity to play a banjo in the middle of the night for a wandering drunk. When I finished, he vomited—an astute comment on my playing. Made me feel very distinguished)
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (J.S. Bach – the engineer called this the ancient joy of man’s desire). (Bach had twenty children because his organ didn’t have any stops)
- The Fisherman (this is about the mad fishermen of the North whose ice fishing spots resemble national shrines)
- The Tennessee Toad (who made an epic journey from Ohio to Tennessee)
- Busted Bicycle (reluctance)
- The Brain of the Purple Mountain (from A. L. Tennyson)
- Coolidge Rising (while rising from the sink, cupboard doors opened and engulfed his head; while turning to the right to avoid the whole incident he walked into a refrigerator—which afforded a good chin rest for staring at some bananas in a basket)
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