#Leo Kottke

[jt1674]

[arinewman7]

Leo Kottke

[singeratlarge]

SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “Frontiers of Love” (live)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxQiamHKnPQ -- This song imagines walking through the night-time across a dark, windy landscape, drawn by the promise of a warmly lit window glimmering on the horizon. The music emerged from when I was in a Celtic/Irish/Scottish music phase, and it blooms from a holy heart-place. It has been a staple of my live set for many years. I made a "full band" demo of it, then it found new life solo-acoustic, played on a detuned 12-string in an open C tuning. A couple people have detected a Yes influence in this, which I won’t deny, but (truth being specific) it was largely inspired by "A Sort of Homecoming” by U2.  

#Celtic #Scottish #Irish #12stringguitar #Yes #U2 #BigCountry #Waterboys #MikeScott #Moon #Homecoming #JohnnyJBlair #SingeratLarge #singersongwriter#recording #LeoKottke #opentuning #Frontiers #love #acoustic #night #windy #landscape

[mudwerks]

(via Crow River Waltz - Leo Kottke (1969)

[upperswampmonkey]

Leo Kottke - Bean Time

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Yasmin Williams and Tarta Relena at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, March 28, 2023

Yasmin Williams is the reason why the term see a concert - rather than hear a concert - remains in use.

For while it’s temping to close one’s eyes and float down the cascading river of Williams’ solo-instrumental music, to do so puts one at peril of missing the fascinating visuals of the 26-year-old musician at work.

Williams made her Columbus, Ohio, debut before some 70 hard-listening fans March 28 at Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts - “It’s weird - why do they call it THE Ohio State?,” she asked - on a double bill with Catalan vocal duo Tarta Relena, whose choral voices washed over a church-mouse audience.

On their first U.S. tour, Helena Ros and Marta Torrella were mesmerizing, filling the small Wexner space with an admixture of Gregorian, new-age and operatic, often a cappella, music accompanied by ambient, computer-generated sounds; a mic’d metal urn; clapping hands and stomping feet; and phasers on their microphones. Their 55-minute set in Catalan, Spanish and English drew from the sixth-century B.C. through to Bjork, eliciting a standing ovation and a sense of wonder among the listeners who were left as intrigued as entertained.

Then came Williams, who spent 65 dizzying minutes hypnotizing the audience with still-untitled songs from her forthcoming third album - including one that will feature the “angelic” Aoife O’Donovan on wordless vocals - plus samplings from 2018’s Unwind and 2021’s Urban Driftwood across a 10-song playlist that found “I Wonder” dedicated to the victims of the March 27 school shooting in Nashville.

Like her predecessors, Williams earned a standing-O and played no encore.

Akin to Leo Kottke and Tommy Emmanuel in that she sounds like several musicians at once, Williams is an entirely singular musician.

Deep in concentration, with her guitar across her lap and a mic pointed at her tap-shoed feet as they clicked and clacked on a piece of wood on her guitar case, Williams employed a capo, a guitar hammer, thumb and finger picks and a kalimba Velcro’d to the top of her axe to create the soundscapes that range from the contemplative “On a Friday Night” to the more rambunctious “Guitka.”

She knocked on the guitar’s body and used her index fingers on its neck to create rhythm and melody inside unorthodox, open tunings.

Engaging and talkative, Williams introduced each song with a story about its origins; explained how her musical path had taken her from “Guitar Hero” to Nirvana (“easy to learn”) to Jimi Hendrix (“not easy to learn”) to where she is now.

And where she is now is a musical space inhabited by one. When a fan asked how Williams manages to do what she does, the musician happily revealed her technique.

“I don’t know,” Williams said as everyone shared a laugh.

Grade card: Yasmin Williams and Tarta Relena at Wexner Center for the Arts - 3/28/23 - A/B+

3/29/23

[cbjustmusic]

Leo Kottke performing “Pamela Brown”. _____________________ Pamela Brown Songwriter: Tom T. Hall

I'm the guy who didn't marry pretty Pamela Brown Educated, well-intentioned good girl in our town I wonder where I'd be today if she had loved me too Probably be driving kids to school

I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown All of my good times, all my roamin' around One of these days I might be in your town And I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown

Seen the lights of cities and I've been inside their doors Sailed to foreign countries and walked upon their shores I guess the guy she married was the best part of my luck She dug him cause he drove a pickup truck

I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown All of my good times, all my roamin' around One of these days I might be in your town And I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown

I don't have to tell you just how beautiful she was Everything it takes to get a guy like me in love Lord, I hope she's happy 'cause she sure deserves to be Especially for what she did for me.

I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown All of my good times, all my roamin' around One of these days I might be in your town And I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown

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Bijna iedere dag muziek: Tom Verlaine

Afgelopen maand is een einde gekomen aan het leven van wat nog een legende moet worden: Tom Verlaine (1949-2023, USA), wiens echte naam minder poëtisch klinkt: Thomas Miller. Tom Verlaine was mijn gitaarheld in het volgende rijtje: Eric Clapton, Gregg Allman, Leo Kottke en uiteraard Jimi Hendrix. Waar Jimi Hendrix ver uitsteeg boven al het andere gitaargespuis, had dat te maken met fabelachtige…

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Lyle Lovett Announces Fall 2023 Tour Dates With Leo Kottke

[peaceandnature]

this is first rate stuff <3

[jt1674]

[music-crush]

Leo Kottke

Happy birthday, Leo Kottke!

[singeratlarge]

SONG OF THE WEEK: “Green On Red/Frontiers Of Love” (acoustic version)* https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/prelude-green-on-red-frontiers-of-love  —Imagine walking through a night-time snowstorm across a dark, windy landscape, drawn by the promise of a warm glimmer on the horizon in a safe sheltering place. This song emerged while I was in a Celtic/Irish/Scottish music phase. I made a "full band" demo of it, then it found new life solo-acoustic, played on a 12-string detuned to open C tuning. It’s been a staple of my concert set for years, with an added mash-up of “The Whole of The Moon” (Waterboys). A couple people have detected a Yes influence in this, which I won’t deny (didn’t Jon Anderson write “Roundabout” by a Scottish lake?). However, (truth being exact), I was largely inspired from the music by the Scottish band Big Country and the U2 song "A Sort of Homecoming.”

*produced by Mark Doyon. Recorded in Winchester VA.

#Celtic #Scottish #Irish #12stringguitar #Yes #U2 #BigCountry #Waterboys #MikeScott #Moon #Homecoming #Winchester #Virginia #JohnnyJBlair #SingeratLarge #singersongwriter #recording #LeoKottke #opentuning #Frontiers #love #acoustic #night #windy #landscape

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one thing i really dont like in tv shows is when a scene carrying important or emotional dialogue gets a musical score with lyrics that are noticeable, because then i get too distracted by the song and it undercuts the drama too much for me to really appreciate it like i’d like to

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Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 1983

"Rebel Yell" is a song by English-American rock musician Billy Idol. It is the title track of his second studio album, and was released as the lead single in October 1983. Although it charted outside the UK Top 40, a 1985 re-issue peaked at number 6, and it reached number 46 in the US. The song received wide critical acclaim and in 2009 was named the 79th best hard rock song of all time by VH1 based on a public vote. It appears in a cassette tape in the video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and can be heard during gameplay.

The song was co-written by guitarist Steve Stevens. The instrumental introduction, which sounds like a combination of electric guitar and electronic keyboard, is performed by Stevens on guitar alone, who intended it to sound this way. Stevens states that he was inspired by acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke's style.

"Rebel Yell" has been covered by many different bands such as Children of Bodom, HIM, Drowning Pool, Dope, Black Veil Brides, Adrenaline Mob, Bullets and Octane, Otherwise, Blue Stahli, and Queensrÿche.

"Rebel Yell" received a total of 85,3% yes votes!