Kottke overcame a series of personal obstacles, including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand to emerge as a widely-recognized master of his instrument.

In concert, Kottke intersperses humorous and often bizarre monologues with vocal and instrumental selections from throughout his career, played solo on his signature 6-and 12-string guitars.

Born in Athens, Georgia, Kottke moved with his parents so frequently that he was raised in twelve different states.

It remains one of the works most associated with Kottke and has been re-released many times on various record labels.

Kottke released an album annually from 1989 to 1991, following My Father's Face with That's What, and finally Great Big Boy, which featured a guest appearance by Lyle Lovett.

Two years later, Kottke returned with Peculiaroso, produced by Rickie Lee Jones.

In 1976, Kottke collaborated with arranger Jack Nitzsche on the release Leo Kottke, which featured Kottke backed by a small orchestral section on a number of tracks.

Ice Fields featured five movements, each based on an existing Kottke composition, with orchestral backing and interlude sections.

Kottke has also collaborated on his records with his mentor John Fahey, as well as with Chet Atkins, Lyle Lovett, Margo Timmins, Mike Gordon, and Rickie Lee Jones.

He has paid significant attention to the evolution of guitar playing across genres, however, and is familiar with the playing of notables from the likes of rocker Eddie Van Halen to Leo Kottke.

The album was slightly more successful than its predecessor, reaching # 111 on the Billboard 200, and was notable for its collaboration with Leo Kottke, its musical diversity, and a cover of David Bowie's " Rebel Rebel ", which was slated to be the title track for the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry, when Bowie's publishing pulled the plug by asking for too much money from the little independent movie.

New Age music was influenced by a wide range of artists from a variety of genres — for example, folk instrumentalists John Fahey and Leo Kottke, classical minimalists Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, synthesizer performers Pink Floyd and Brian Eno, and impressionistic jazz artists Keith Jarrett, Paul Horn ( beginning with 1968's Inside ) and Pat Metheny.

In 2002, Gordon recorded the critically acclaimed Clone album with acoustic guitar master Leo Kottke.

* Clone ( with Leo Kottke ) ( October 8, 2002 )

* Sixty Six Steps ( with Leo Kottke ) ( August 23, 2005 )

** Clone ( 2002, with Leo Kottke )

After graduating with a degree in physics from Coe College in 1995, Kottke started work as a web designer in 1996, on projects for clients such as Charles Schwab.

Fahey's agent Denny Bruce signed Kottke to Capitol Records and in 1971, Capitol released Kottke's first major label record, Mudlark.

* Balance ( Leo Kottke album )

* Clone ( Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon album ), the first studio album from Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon.

* The Best ( Leo Kottke album )

In 2002, Kottke and Mike Gordon ( the bassist from the band Phish, which was on an extended hiatus ) collaborated on Clone, an album featuring instrumental work and vocals from both musicians.

In between these two duet albums, Kottke released a solo album, 2004's Try and Stop Me.

* " Buckaroo ", an instrumental piece by Leo Kottke from Leo Kottke ( album )

This guitar was made famous by Artists such as Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and Leo Kottke are famous 12 string players.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

A reminder of their earlier folk incarnation was Kaukonen's solo acoustic guitar tour de force, " Embryonic Journey " ( his first composition ), which referenced contemporary acoustic guitar masters such as John Fahey and helped to establish the popular genre exemplified by acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke.

Acts range from newer bands just emerging onto the scene ( such as Tea Leaf Green, Nellie McKay and Raq ) to big name acts and jam rock staples, such as Les Claypool, Blues Traveler, and Mike Gordon ( of Phish fame ), to pop rock icons, such as Leo Kottke, The Flaming Lips, The Violent Femmes, and most recently, Perry Farrell.

Leo Kottke ( born September 11, 1945, Athens, Georgia, U. S .) is an acoustic guitarist.

As a youth living in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Kottke was influenced by folk and delta blues music, notably that of Mississippi John Hurt.

Kottke learned to play trombone and violin before trying the guitar and developing his own unconventional picking style.

After being discharged from the Naval Reserve due to his partial loss of hearing, Kottke attended St.

These albums showed Kottke moving toward an eclectic mixture of musical genres, including folk, rock, jazz and bluegrass.

Private Music was considered a New Age music label in the Windham Hill style, and Kottke often found his music categorized as such during this period.

Leo Kottke received an honorary Doctorate in Music Performance from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee on May 18, 2008, where he gave the commencement address.

His mind closed on that prospect, as though fog had descended to blot out a valley.

She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.

It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

He dumped it into the back and made sure it wouldn't roll out, then returned to the porch and closed the front door, making sure it was unlocked.

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

They operate under a permanent threat of being closed down for violating various government regulations, such as misstating their corporate name on publications or operating out of an office not registered with the government ( in fact, this is the situation for all private enterprises in Belarus ).

He closed on the deal after 30 hours of talks with Hearst and newspaper unions — and five hours after Hearst had sent out notices to newsroom employees telling them they were terminated.

The old entrance to the park was closed in 1997 when a new entrance was created at the intersection of Highway 20 and Cornet Bay road, improving access into and out of the park.

As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors ; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.

The infamous penal colonies, including Devil's Island, were gradually phased out and then formally closed in 1951.

Lineker still helped out on the stall at the height of his playing career during the late 1980s and early 1990s, though usually only in the closed season.

Even Marconi staff only found out about this when it closed down.

The English stirrup ( or " iron ") has several design variations which are either shaped to allow the rider's foot to slip out easily or are closed with a very heavy rubber band.

Hoshino settled out of court in early 1978 and the case was officially closed on February 2, 1978.

An ellipse is a closed plane curve that resembles a stretched out circle ( see the figure to the right ).

Slowly the pilot closed to half that distance but the echo moved rapidly out of sonar range and disappeared.

Britain has closed its embassy ; ECOWAS has declared an embargo against Mali, aiming to squeeze out Malinese oil supplies ; closed Mali's assets in the ECOWAS regional bank and has prepared a potential intervention force of 3, 000 troops.

The Eatons catalogue division, CNR's locomotive shops facility and CFB Moncton were all closed during this time throwing thousands of citizens out of work.

In 2011 MusicDNS was purchased by Gracenote and the service is to be closed down over time, so MusicBrainz has started phasing it out in favour of the open source AcoustID.

He found an essential clue in a 1924 paper by Edmund C. Stoner which pointed out that for a given value of the principal quantum number ( n ), the number of energy levels of a single electron in the alkali metal spectra in an external magnetic field, where all degenerate energy levels are separated, is equal to the number of electrons in the closed shell of the noble gases for the same value of n. This led Pauli to realize that the complicated numbers of electrons in closed shells can be reduced to the simple rule of one per state, if the electron states are defined using four quantum numbers.