Leo Kottke 12 String Blues

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12 String Blues ( Oblivion Records ) - Vinyl Transfer

Side One ( If Momma Knew, So Cold In China, Furry Jane, Circle' Round The Sun, Sweet Louise)

Track Listing
[with original notes by Leo Kottke]

SIDE ONE

IF MOMMA KNEW
One of the first songs I wrote. The second actually, around 1962. At the time I considered evil the only virtue worth cultivating.

SO COLD IN CHINA
The title lyric and, consequently, the idea for the song, were stolen from somebody who sang at the Ontario Place in Washington when John Hurt worked there.

FURRY JANE
There's not much to say about this one. Its origin was in a couple of nightmares, one of which nearly got me.

CIRCLE 'ROUND THE SUN
The majority of the lyrics are traditional. Another early song.

SWEET LOUISE

THE PRODIGAL GRAVE
This was written in a fit of terror while trying to calm down. It originally contained many more verses which later served only to confuse, so they were discarded. (missing)






Cover from 12 String Blues
Production Credits:
Cover design: Annie Elliott

Recorded live at The Scholar Coffeehouse, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
All songs excepting numbers 3, 4, and 5, side two, © Symposium Music, BMI 1969
Mastering by Sweet Jane Ltd. Dave and Sylvia Ray

Oblivion Recording Company, 247 Cedar Ave. Minneapolis, Minnesota (Obl-S1)
Liner notes:

Excluding three instrumentals, this performance was taped live at the Scholar Coffeehouse in Minneapolis, one of the oldest coffeehouses in the country and one of the very few to survive electricity and liquor licenses while maintaining a respectably burdensome debt. Many of the sounds that sometimes characterize performances in the place though are absent from the record-random hummings from the piano when it feels like it, the sound of one or two people who eschewed the door for the plate glass window, and in Kottke's case, bizarre speech noises from the stage between songs. (These may be released later in Paoli, Penn.) Despite these "artifacts", coffeehouses and auditoriums are the only places where a guitar player can expect a quiet audience. Still, as in its now distant past for a younger Robert Zimmerman [a.k.a Bob Dylan -- BH] or John Koerner, the Scholar audience is appreciative and quiet.