I first heard Leo Kottke perform the appropriately titled Vaseline Machine Gun at a folk festival in St. Louis in 1971. It blew my mind... nobody was playing acoustic guitar with the amount of precision, finesse & blinding speed as Mr. Kottke. At the time he was recording with Takoma Records a tiny independent label founded by fellow folk guitarist John Fahey.
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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff.
Townes Van Zandt
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