Dreams And All That Stuff
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Dreams and All That Stuff is the eighth album by guitarist Leo Kottke
. It is the only completely instrumental album Kottke released on Capitol. It peaked at #45 on the Billboard
Pop Albums charts, his highest position achieved on the Pop Albums charts.
It was re-issued on CD by BGO (CD132) in 1992 and One Way Records (S21-18462) in 1996.
Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...
. It is the only completely instrumental album Kottke released on Capitol. It peaked at #45 on the Billboard
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
Pop Albums charts, his highest position achieved on the Pop Albums charts.
It was re-issued on CD by BGO (CD132) in 1992 and One Way Records (S21-18462) in 1996.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the album "The shifting moods make this album, appropriately enough, a rather dreamlike experience... Kottke's own tunes are reasonably memorable, though the virtuosity tends to overshadow the music itself at times."Side one
- "Mona Ray" (Leo Kottke/Michael JohnsonMichael Johnson (singer)Michael Johnson , is an American pop, country and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue". To date, he has charted four hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and nine more on the Hot Country Songs charts, including two Number One country hits...
) – 3:40 - "When Shrimps Learn to Whistle" – 3:28
- "Twilight Property" – 3:11
- "Bill Cheatham" (trad.) – 1:45
- "Vertical Trees" – 2:34
Side two
- "Medley: San Antonio Rose/America the BeautifulAmerica the Beautiful"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward....
" – 2:00 - "Constant Traveler" – 3:50
- "Why Ask Why?" (Norman GimbelNorman GimbelNorman Gimbel is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly With His Song", "Meditation" and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for...
/Ken Lauber) – 2:09 - "Taking a Sandwich to a Feast" – 2:45
- "Hole in the Day" – 2:50
- "Mona Roy" – 1:48
Personnel
- Leo Kottke - 6 & 12-string guitar
- Bill BergBill Berg (musician)Bill Berg is a noted drummer in jazz and fusion music, best known for his work with the group Flim & the BB's, as well as guitarist Wayne Johnson. He also served as the drummer for fellow Hibbing, Minnesota native Bob Dylan's notable record Blood on the Tracks.Berg has also recorded and worked...
- drums, percussion - Bill Peterson - bass
- Bill BarberBilly Barber (musician)Billy Barber is a keyboardist and composer. He is the son of pianist and William C. Barber, also known as Bill Barber Sr.He is most noted for the theme song for All My Children in the 1990s as well as keyboardist for the jazz group Flim & the BB's with Jimmy Johnson and Bill Berg...
- piano - Cal Hand - dobro, pedal steel guitar
- Herb Pilhofer - piano on "Why Ask Why"
- Jack Smith - piano on "Mona Roy"
- Michael JohnsonMichael Johnson (singer)Michael Johnson , is an American pop, country and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue". To date, he has charted four hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and nine more on the Hot Country Songs charts, including two Number One country hits...
- guitar on "Mona Ray"
Production notes
- Produced by Denny BruceDenny BruceDenny Bruce is an American record producer and artist manager. He was born in Lancaster, PA on October 4, 1944.In the early 60s, he was a drummer for Frank Zappa but suffered a six-month illness with mononucleosis which cost him his job prior to the recording of Zappa's first album with The Mothers...
- Engineered by Paul Martinson
- Album design and photography by John Van HamersveldJohn Van HamersveldJohn Van Hamersveld is an American graphic artist and illustrator who designed record jackets for pop and psychedelic bands, since the 1960s...