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SUMMARY:Leo Kottke
DESCRIPTION:Acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens\, Georgia\, 
 but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states\, h
 e absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child\, flirting with bo
 th violin and trombone\, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at 
 age 11. After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hu
 rt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps\, Kottke joined t
 he Navy underage\, to be underwater\, and eventually lost some hearing s
 hooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak\
 , a diesel submarine. Kottke had previously entered college at the U of 
 Missouri\, dropping out after a year to hitchhike across the country to 
 South Carolina\, then to New London and into the Navy\, with his twelve 
 string. “The trip was not something I enjoyed\,” he has said\, “I was br
 oke and met too many interesting people.” Discharged in 1964\, he settle
 d in the Twin Cities area and became a fixture at Minneapolis’ Scholar C
 offeehouse\, which had been home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He issue
 d his 1968 recording debut LP Twelve String Blues\, recorded on a Viking
  quarter-inch tape recorder\, for the Scholar’s tiny Oblivion label. (Th
 e label released one other LP by The Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic J
 azz Band.) After sending tapes to guitarist John Fahey\, Kottke was sign
 ed to Fahey’s Takoma label\, releasing what has come to be called the Ar
 madillo record. Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce soon secured a product
 ion deal for Kottke with Capitol Records. Kottke’s 1971 major-label debu
 t\, “Mudlark\,” positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwrite
 r vein\, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Sti
 ll\, despite arguments with label heads as well as with Bruce\, Kottke f
 lourished during his tenure on Capitol\, as records like 1972’s “Greenho
 use” and 1973’s live “My Feet Are Smiling” and “Ice Water” found him bra
 nching out with guest musicians and honing his guitar technique. With 19
 75’s Chewing Pine\, Kottke reached the U.S. Top 30 for the second time\;
  he also gained an international following thanks to his continuing tour
 s in Europe and Australia. His collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gor
 don\, “Clone\,” caught audiences’ attention in 2002. Kottke and Gordon f
 ollowed with a recording in the Bahamas called “Sixty Six Steps\,” produ
 ced by Leo’s old friend and Prince producer David Z. Kottke has been awa
 rded two Grammy nominations\; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Pe
 ck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee\; and a Certificate
  of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Te
 xas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College.\n\nTickets: https://www
 .ticketmaster.com/leo-kottke-charleston-south-carolina-01-21-2026/event/
 2D006342EF7FA811\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/ef5d540d-ffd7-4fdd
 -8868-b8b1f0fe433b
LOCATION:Charleston Music Hall\, Charleston\, SC
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/ef5d540d-ffd7-4fdd-8868-b8b1f0fe433
 b
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