Leo Kottke - Last Steam Engine Train

[banjersam1]

This is GREAT"""""""""""""""""""

[hipadubreymccready]

hey I love this guys soundz nice and easy listening

[huntingvuk]

THANKS

[huntingvuk]

very cool! i wish I could play something like this!

[19551960]

In the 70's. I saw him at Texas Hall, on the

U.T. Arlington campus. He backed up Loggins and messina, when they first started out. Had never heard of either one, man was I blown away. This guy was amazing than and still is. So unless you can play like that, I wouldn't open my mouth to much.

[danielnradu]

wow. So apparently there;s more than one way to spice up E-A-B.

[janter101087]

Ah Heck with three maybe four lessons anyone could play like that :)

[namnoiz]

Nice !!!

[mrwhisperify]

His right hand chugs like a bitch. Amazing

[Sailgoat]

I think God uses Leo for beta testing :-)

[VanDoodah]

This guy is a freak (in a good way.)

[martinaxman]

DANG! That's only a 6 string! Man that guy can pull sounds out!

[squeek73]

I was lucky enough to work at the Armadillo, and saw this show. Leo's awesome.

[jay55also]

He knows how to make his guitar sing....

[gerbozak]

pure butter. loovely.

[tommie997]

Justin Bieber should watch this and quit after realizing how much he sucks.

[bradsab1]

@tommie997 I wish I could thumb up this forever. That little pre-pubecent cookie cutter is what's wrong with music today.

[2951cch]

He is just the best.

[sal39di]

i just love his socks...

[PicnicHikeMusic]

Holy shit. The Hendrix of Acoustic.

[mikef1955]

Thanks jpiir for posting this - superb fingerpicking, with which Leo manages to create a real blues and bottle-neck slide sound. Fantastic syncopation. I agree with the comment below, good ol' John Hurt shines out of this piece. If you like this, be sure to see Deep River Blues by Doc Watson (my mentor since the 70's!). Best regards - Mike F.

[Mmmyess]

He doesn't miss a note.

[MNX58]

Boring!

[drekecdrekecadrekecu]

ur mother...

[143601]

That person has X Factor videos listed under their favourites. I don't think that their "boring" opinion really matters!

[martinaxman]

The best thing about Leo is following his albums. I've been watching since the 70s and each one is more hilarious and amazing than the last. I love Leo. He's an amazing performer and stage presence. Oddly, I've never been able to get to one of his live shows! Don't you miss out.

[sweetelesue]

I saw him once about ten years ago. Hearing that guitar just soar to the ceiling and thrill around the room sent shivers down my spine!!

[Dukabor]

as a guitar player...I'm a science teacher in high school....Leo is an alien....

[jsipflatpickd28]

@Dukabor

True on many levels, but like anything else, you have to put time into it like Leo. Unfortunately most of us get caught up in life...

[frankiezap]

i used to think i was a guitar player...now i realize i'm just a guitar owner

[Dukabor]

heh...now i realize i just own 4 guitars! ahh frankie just keep playing as best ya can...and get better every day...they set the bar...if you can't reach try to get close!

[frankiezap]

you owe it to yourself to pull up the youtube vid entitled "Dylan meets Kottke"... it's a scream

[HotRodHarley93]

@frankiezap I'll bet Leo wouldn't agree. Play on.

[PietvdW]

@frankiezap  Don't let it bring you down, I heard this the first time in Holland on local TV, it sure helped me to start playing guitar. Look at the challenge, if you get halfway you are OK in my book. Keep it up!

[acousticguitarfinger]

@frankiezap Don't berate yourself. This is one of the hardest tunes to br played well. Yet every version, that I have heard, is laden with errors. Any tune that is not in Dorian or Phryggian scale is wron. After I will have perfected and upladen "Bubble Gum Music Medley With Fingers' Pickin Accompaniment" I'll upload a Dorian version of this Tune. Look for it in August, probably. You will like. Also, the many covers online should be labeled "John Fahey Cover", not "Leo Kottke Cover".

[MainelyLove]

@frankiezap hey he was a beginner once, too. Koettke is good, real good because he found his style early in the game. Plus he really really loves to play the guitar. I used to be guitar owner, once, btw, but I'd rather be a player.

[acebodine]

I once heard Fahey say something to the effect of: I've just written a new song. I can't play it, but Kottke can.

[billb0925]

This is an old John Fahey song, but since Leo recorded it back in the early 70's it's become his most copied tune. It's not hard to play, but it's hard to play well.

[pureloveracing]

I play guitar, but this is something different... This man could crush bricks with his fingers...

[RobiNredBreasT101]

thumb pick with muted picking?

[Tenntoad]

RobiNredBreasT101;

Nope, no thumbpick. Leo just has a hell of a right-hand technique. That's why he's Leo.....and everyone else is not!  ;-)

Rgds,

Joe Carpenter

[daf827]

Amazing technique. Speed + syncopation = swing. No one sounds like Leo.

[omkaratube]

Fantasic guitar player!

[gnutcreative]

Amazing, effortless playing. You almost forget how difficult the song is when you listen to him play it.

[guitarslim56]

He makes it look easy. . . becasue for him it IS easy.

[yangbaka]

lol~~~~~~~nice~~~so cool

[kris242]

wow! Who knew I'd ever like this style of guitar playing. Lately it's become one of my favorites which is odd because I'm the bassist of a metal band^^ lol

[ValsHere]

Can he play or what???

He is one of the most enjoyable people to see in concert too.

That was just fantastic. Thank you!

[drekecdrekecadrekecu]

i love this song and this interpreatation

[guitartec]

Wow, he plays an Olson like JT

[SUNNYD3322]

Incredible.

[Danole7]

Saw this man live in Sydney Australia incredible who cares who come first enjoy the music because i know Kottke is the best hands down.This song is a masterpiece written by a brillant musician/composer Fahey played perfectly by Kottke.

[fridrikur]

Easy to see Doc Watson influence. Great to see a fingerpicker without a thumbpick 'these days'

[blurredlogic]

Actually, he does use a thumbpick sometimes.  He's also amazing to see live.

[Tenntoad]

Leo hasn't used a thumbpick in approx 20 years.

[j3ohnny]

do you know why he ditched the thumbpick?

[Tenntoad]

He ditched the thumbpick very shortly after ditching the fingerpicks. Reason was right arm/elbow damage from his hard playing style back then. He changed his attack (but an unplugged guitar still booms in his hands today).

[gutjoe]

WHOO WHOO!!

[ManganeseMan]

Great tune, great jam,  thanks.

[DictionRedaction]

Virtuousity. If that doesn't make you tap your toes nothin' will.

[alxc90]

Does anyone know what guitar he's playing here? Great performance.

[jpiir]

Olson guitar, olsonguitars(dot)com

[Tman4000]

I always wondered what that guitar was. He seems to always have it with him.

[porpoisefathom]

@jpiir r u sure--looks like a taylor...?

[ergastule]

@porpoisefathom See the big "O" on the headstock. Olson.

[porpoisefathom]

@ergastule I stand corrected...

[k4jdp]

What happened to the video of Leo and Doc Watson playing this song from a Prairie Home Companion? That was the most incredible version I've heard.

[miasm]

more of a faheyesque version than his earlier cover

[buellerplyr]

After a long time I learned this song to the last and it always puts a smile on people's faces. The hardest part of learning this was to apply that old fashioned joy and passion in it, but after years I finally got it! Kottke is the MASTER!!!!

[89kids]

He's the best; no disrespect to Fahey, but Leo plays with more soul, picks cleaner, and stays in tune!

[gardd98105]

Without Fahey, there wouldn't have been a Kottke - Fahey paved the way.He understood that the spaces between the notes are as important as the notes.

[susita33]

written by the wonderful"late"John Fahey,i reckon Leo could play this one in his sleep,thumbs up for youtube and posting

[Tenntoad]

With a big assist from Sam McGee.

Joe

[adamlaxmusic]

Leo is so great.