The first time they were scheduled to play together about 20 years ago, guitar legend Leo Kottke and Phish’s Mike Gordon couldn’t even get the state where they were supposed to meet right. “I flew to ...

Lobero LIVE will present An Evening with Leo Kottke, solo acoustic guitarist, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7. Leo Kottke is known for his style of fingerpicking. (Jake Cudek) Kottke is known for a ...

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Thursday night, faces filled with pure admiration poured into the Barrymore Theatre as Leo Kottke finally took the stage in a serene manner. “As usual I feel like I should say something,” Kottke said ...

told the story of how his 5-year-old niece gave him a nickname. It was Eeyore, the name of Winnie the Pooh's gloomy donkey friend. "Of course it stuck," Kottke said. He was further annoyed by texts ...

Guitar Player, the preeminent magazine celebrating guitarists and guitar virtuosity, recently compared Leo Kottke’s influence on acoustic players to that of late guitar great Jimi Hendrix’s influence ...

Leo Kottke (due tonight at the Boulder Theater) is a legendary and beloved master of finger picking guitar and a gifted raconteur. He got his start with John Fahey’s Takoma Records in the late ’60s, ...

GRAMMY-nominated acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child ...

If you were to walk into a Leo Kottke concert blindfolded, you’d be likely to think there were three—possibly as many as six—guitarists on stage. But you’d want to take that thing off before the first ...

After teasing a collaboration with a video yesterday, bassist Mike Gordon and guitarist Leo Kottke have announced a new album together, titled Noon. The new record is set to be released on Aug. 28. In ...

In his nearly four decades of recording and performing, Leo Kottke has set the highest standard for acoustic finger-picked guitar. In his 10th appearance on Mountain Stage since 1990, Kottke still ...