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...gifts to the mainstream. His early-70s image as the acoustic guitar’s fresh young face gave way to a late-70s foray into that of the “singer-songwriter,” though to little success. The 80s brought a more experimental flavor to Kottke??s music, as he incorporated an even wider variety of sounds into his acoustic tableau. In the early 1980s, after sustaining chronic injuries to his hands due to an aggressive playing style and taking a brief hiatus, Kottke reinvented his technique and returned to the guitar. Since then...
...such health. Mike Gordon, having attended the very same show a year ago when Kottke played solo for a diverse audience now joked about how he had found a better seat closer to Kottke: on stage. Gordon’s playing on his five-string bass fused much of Kottke??s first position finger-picking with his walking and generous bass finger styling. Gordon’s ability to as, Kottke quipped, “transpose on-the-go,” gave the tunes they had worked up together a sort of carefree ambling. Gordon?...
...Racist!” There were difficulties for the pair in transitions and in achieving the complicated structure of their tunes live. Often in the earlier songs, especially “Same Left-Foot Freckle” Gordon’s voice was out of harmony with Kottke??s deep tremolo. Kottke appeared to get lost three times in his playing out of time with Gordon’s playful bass in the earlier goings. But, by the seventh song of the set, “Car Carrier Blues,” (a song, Gordon explained, had been...
Fans who had traveled in the rain and cold to see their weary-voiced troubadour and his new sidekick were enthusiastic at further collaboration. There was a buzz about the first such pairing in Kottke??s career. “I came all the way from Washington state to visit my friend at Harvard and see the show. The way the music hits you its like he’s having a party on the guitar. All I can say is whew, what a p-a-r-t-y,” said one fan, Sarah Whippet, after...
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