The Best (Leo Kottke album)

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The Best
Compilation album by Leo Kottke
Released	1976
Genre	Folk
Label	Capitol (11867)
Producer	Denny Bruce
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Leo Kottke chronology
Leo Kottke (1976) The Best (1976) Burnt Lips (1978)

The Best is a compilation double album of American guitarist Leo Kottke's releases on the Capitol label. The liner notes were written by Dr. Demento.

The Rhino box set release Anthology covers the first 15 years of Kottke's career and includes selections from the Takoma, Capitol, and Chrysalis releases along with extensive liner notes. Capitol later released another compilation package titled The Best of Leo Kottke. Chrysalis released Essential Leo Kottke covering Kottke's mid-career releases on that label. Blue Note Records also released two compilations, The Best of the Capitol Years and The Best of the Chrysalis Years on CD in 2003.

The Best was re-issued on CD by BGO (CD277) in 1996.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 1.3 Side three 1.4 Side four 2 Personnel 3 External links

[edit] Track listing

• All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.
• The four original records were labeled, in order, Acoustic, Electric, Live, and Singing
• All songs taken from Mudlark, Greenhouse, Ice Water, My Feet are Smiling, Dreams and All That Stuff, and Chewing Pine
• The 1996 CD release included two discs.

[edit] Side one

1. "Machine No. 2" – 3:00
2. "Cripple Creek" (Traditional) – 3:07
3. "Bouree" (J. S. Bach) – 1:26
4. "When Shrimps Learn to Whistle" – 3:28
5. "Bill Cheatham" (Traditional) – 1:45
6. "The Song of the Swamp" – 3:00
7. "Last Steam Engine Train" (John Fahey) – 3:02

[edit] Side two

1. "Bean Time" – 2:32
2. "The Spanish Entomologist" – 2:19
3. "Short Stories" (Leo Kottke, Cal Hand) – 3:01
4. "Hole in the Day" – 2:50
5. "Mona Roy" – 1:48
6. "Venezuela, There You Go" – 3:08

[edit] Side three

1. "Monkey Lust" (Kottke, Fowley) – 1:48
2. "Busted Bicycle" – 2:37
3. "June Bug" – 2:06
4. "Eggtooth" (Kottke, Johnson) – 5:15
5. "Stealing" – 1:34
6. "Living in the Country" (Pete Seeger) – 1:36
7. "Medley Crow River Waltz/Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring/Jack Fig" – 7:20

[edit] Side four

1. "Standing in My Shoes" (Kottke, Bruce) – 4:01
2. "Bumblebee" – 3:39
3. "Eight Miles High" (McGuinn, Crosby, Clark) – 3:33
4. "Tilt Billings and the Student Prince" (Leo Kottke, Ron Nagle) – 4:56
5. "Pamela Brown" (Tom T. Hall) – 4:02
6. "Standing on the Outside" (Leo Kottke, Mary Kottke) – 2:29
7. "Power Failure" (Brooker, Reid) – 2:20

[edit] Personnel

• Leo Kottke - 6 & 12-string guitar, vocals
• Bill Barber - piano
• Bill Berg - drums
• Kenny Buttrey - drums
• Roy Estrada - bass
• Kim Fowley - vocals
• Cal Hand - pedal steel guitar
• Paul Lagos - drums
• Wayne Moss - bass
• Larry Taylor - bass

[edit] External links

• The Best liner notes
• Leo Kottke's official site
• Unofficial Leo Kottke web site (fan site)
• The Capitol Years