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Great job covering this compelling (but somewhat obscure) Kottke tune! Impressive tone and technique. It's especially nice considering it's your first posting! I look forward to more of your postings in the future.

Love that minor key stuff... There's a dark, brooding tube hidden in there waiting to be fully developed. As always, your touch, tone and technique are impeccable. Excellent work!

Chris....Thanks much for taking the time to record and post these instructional videos. I agree 100% with Chad (fngrstyl)...These videos should be available to the hundreds of guitarists out there who could benefit from them. This is the best description of applying acrylic for guitarists that ...

Great original tune. You coax a real sweet tone out of that Collings. I noticed you're using the thumbpick this time.... Nice crisp and clean bass notes. And the tune has a nice structure. It's real easy to fall into the classic (and ubiquitous) I-IV-V structure when writing music, but you've man...

This one's been incubating quite a while now...... Glad to see it's ready to be born! As I expected, it sounds great. And you've apparently perfected the setup for getting good quality audio (and video) uploaded to YouTube. Anxious to see your next upload.

Great cover.... It's nice to hear your 6-string!

Sounds Great! Looks like it was fun to play. The syncopation and the "thumpy" bass notes definitely give it the Kottke "feel". I think I heard a touch of "Airproofing" buried in there somewhere. There are probably the seeds of several new tunes swimming around in there... The hard part is tryin...

@fngrstyl I did notice. I'm amazed that you can play as well with or without the pick. I believe playing without the pick allows for more tonal variation and more accuracy (not to mention the nice "thump" you get when stopping the string with your thumb)! I've tried more than once to ditch the p...

Excellent work on an outstanding original piece, Chad! I especially like the dark and moody sound of the minor key. BTW...When it's your own tune, there are no mistakes...... Just "variations"!

@fngrstyl Thanks Chad. It's a simple tune, but fun to play. Basically the same tune as "Freight Train", with just some minor variations.

Best cover of this tune on YouTube that I've heard. As with many of Leo's tunes, this sounds much easier to play than it actually is. Great job!

Great tone and technique. And a fine composition too!

I like it. Sounds like something Leo himself would write. All the pieces are there....... The last step (and it's a big one) is to assemble the various pieces together into a complete tune that makes sense musically. You've obviously got the technical side of playing the guitar nailed. Music com...

Thanks for posting this. I love listening to Leo's music live, and I especially like that you've added the captions since it's often hard to understand his ramblings.

That riff is begging to evolve into a great tune.... Ya gotta capture those riffs when they come (like you did with your flip), because you never seem to remember them the next day (at least that's the way it works for me). I'm anxious to hear the final version of the tune born from this riff.

I like it too....Hope to see many more of your postings in 2012!

Well done! Love the sound of that Taylor 12-string........ sounds just like Leo himself. The voice and slide work is superb also.

Thanks for posting this early Leo Kottke tune. "12 String Blues" (released in 1969) was his first album, and only 1000 copies were produced. It's never been re-printed or re-released since, and is nearly impossible to find, so it's a real treat to hear anything from this album!

@manfreadstraw Thanks for listening!

Sounds good, Chris. There's a great new tune lurking in those chords.... Keep fishing and you'll find it!

Excellent!

@manfreadstraw Thanks for posting one of my favorite Leo Kottke tunes. This tune is a fine example of his uncanny ability to take a relatively simple chord progression and turn it into beautiful music. I'm surprised that nobody has yet covered this tune on YT. It may be because it's one of his ...