Celebrating Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945), an acoustic guitarist from Minneapolis, MN, known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music. He often intersperses humorous and bizarre monologues between his 6- and 12-string compositions.
I'm an expatriate Memphis musician and an instructor at a private music college in Minnesota. I find a greater clarity in my appreciation for music from Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region, now that I've lived away from it for decades, than when I was growing up in the midst of it.
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