One Guitar No Vocals
Encyclopedia
One Guitar No Vocals is an instrumental album by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 guitarist Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...

, released in 1999.

History

"Morning is the Long Way Home" is a re-recorded version of the instrumental break that first appeared on Ice Water
Ice Water (album)
Ice Water is the seventh album by guitarist Leo Kottke. It contains Kottke's only charting single, the Tom T. Hall composition "Pamela Brown"...

. The shortened version first appeared on 1971-1976
1971-1976 (Did You Hear Me?)
Leo Kottke: 1971-1976 is a compilation album of songs released on Capitol during Kottke's tenure with that label. It is sometimes referred to as Did You Hear Me? due to the handwritten caption on the photo on the cover. It peaked at #153 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.-History:After the release...

. The song "Three Quarter North" is a slower version, done in 3/4 time, of "Four Four North" from the album A Shout Toward Noon
A Shout Toward Noon
A Shout Toward Noon is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1986.-History:A Shout Toward Noon is Kottke's first recording on the Private Music label after a three-year sabbatical, largely due to a difficult tendinitis injury in his hand...

. Originally recorded for the 1985 Tri-Star motion picture Little Treasure comes the piece "From 'Little Treasure'". A different version of "Accordion Bells" appears on Carols of Christmas II (1997) on BMG
BMG
Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

/Windham Hill where it was first recorded. The song "Bigger Situation" is a re-working and combining of "Big Situation", "I Yell at Traffic", and "Room Service (at the Tahiti Motel)". The song "Chamber of Commerce" was originally introduced at live performances as "Goddammit" and as written in response to the accidental death of Michael Hedges
Michael Hedges
Michael Alden Hedges was an American composer, Acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter.-Background:...

.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Stephen Erlewine wrote of the album "Kottke is at his most impressive at his most intimate, turning out alternately gentle and intense solo guitar pieces. No matter how complex the music is — and it is, at minimum, moderately complex — Kottke pulls it off with grace, making it all seem easy... while this album isn't as exciting or revelatory as his earliest records, it's still a joy to hear a master at the top of his form." In her review for The Weekly Wire, critic Mari Wadsworth wrote: "Fans of the guitarist's acoustic songwriting have nothing to fear on One Guitar, No Vocals, which shows off Kottke's playing at its best to date."

Track listing

All songs written by Leo Kottke.
  1. "Snorkel" – 3:24
  2. "Morning is the Long Way Home" – 4:25
  3. "Too Fast" – 5:10
  4. "Three Quarter North" – 3:19
  5. "Retrograde" – 3:07
  6. "Chamber of Commerce" – 3:38
  7. "From 'Little Treasure'" – 1:27
  8. "Bigger Situation" – 9:26
  9. "Accordion Bells" – 5:59
  10. "Peckerwood" – 2:21
  11. "Blimp" – 3:26
  12. "Even His Feet Look Sad" – 4:00

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK