Great Big Boy

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Great Big Boy
Great Big Boy cover
Studio album by Leo Kottke
Released 1991
Label Private Music
Producer(s) Steve Berlin
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Leo Kottke chronology
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Great Big Boy is a 1991 album by guitarist Leo Kottke.

Kottke's fifth album on the Private Music label, Great Big Boy is unique in the later Kottke canon in that every song includes a vocal part. The disc consists of nine Kottke originals and a cover version of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone". Complementing the often-oblique song lyrics is a strange short story included in the liner notes.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Leo Kottke except "I Still Miss Someone" by Johnny Cash & Roy Cash, Jr.

  1. "Running Up the Stairs" – 3:16
  2. "The Other Day (near Santa Cruz)" – 2:55
  3. "Great Big Boy" – 3:40
  4. "Driver" – 3:34
  5. "Pepe Hush" – 4:43
  6. "Big Mob on the Hill" – 2:42
  7. "Ice Cream" – 4:36
  8. "Nothin' Works" – 2:54
  9. "Summer's Growing Old" – 2:53
  10. "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash & Roy Cash, Jr.) – 3:28

[edit] Personnel

  • Leo Kottke - guitar, vocals
  • Margo Timmons - backing vocals
  • Lyle Lovett - backing vocals
  • John Leftwich - bass
  • Alejandro "Alex" Acuna - drums, percussion
  • Bobby Martin - keyboards, bass
  • Victor Bisetti - drums, percussion
  • Steve Kujala - flute

[edit] Production notes

  • Produced by Steve Berlin
  • Recordeding Engineer: Paul duGre
  • Other engineers: Bob Schaper, Scott Stillman, Peter Moore
  • Mastered by Doug Sax & Alan Yoshida