My Feet Are Smiling is American

United States

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 guitarist Leo Kottke

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...

's sixth album, and his second album recorded live. It reached #108 on the Billboard

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 Pop Albums charts.

History

The songs were recorded December 19th and 20th, 1972 at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre

Guthrie Theater

The Guthrie Theater is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the result of the desire of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea, and Peter Zeisler to create a resident acting company that would produce and perform the classics in...

 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

, the majority of the album′s content being from the second night. "Blue Dot" was written three days before the concert.

The album was re-issued on CD in 1994 by BGO and in 1996 by One Way Records.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Allen wrote of the album "The prodigious technique, deadpan sense of humor, and infamous singing are all evident less than a minute into the opening tune. Performing solo and playing more slide guitar than usual, Kottke wows a supportive hometown audience in Minneapolis with some of the finest playing of his career."

Side one

1. "Hear the Wind Howl" – 3:10
2. "Busted Bicycle" – 2:40
3. "Easter" – 3:19
4. "Louise" (Paul Siebel
   Paul Siebel
   Paul Siebel is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born on September 19, 1937 in Buffalo, NY. He is best known for other artist's cover versions of his songs, most notably "Louise"...
   
   ) – 4:26
5. "Blue Dot" – 2:58
6. "Stealing" – 3:03

Side two

1. "Living in the Country" (Pete Seeger
   Pete Seeger
   Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
   
   ) – 1:38
2. "June Bug" – 2:06
3. "Standing in My Shoes" (Leo Kottke/Denny Bruce) – 2:50
4. "The Fisherman" – 2:43
5. "Bean Time" – 2:15
6. "Eggtooth" (Leo Kottke/Michael Johnson
   Michael 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...
   
   ) – 5:15
7. "Medley: Crow River Waltz,/Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
   Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
   Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the most common English title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. A transcription by the English pianist Myra Hess was published in 1926 for piano solo and in 1934 for piano duet...
   
   /Jack Fig" ("Jesu…" composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
   Johann Sebastian Bach
   Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
   
   ) – 7:20

External links

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