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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Monopoly | | | | 2 | | Stolen | | | | 3 | | Mockingbird Hill | | | | 4 | | Then | | | | 5 | | Mora Roa | | | | 6 | | Axolotl | | | | 7 | | Bristol Sloth | | |
See more tracks| 8 | | Unbar | | | | 9 | | Jesus Maria | | | | 10 | | Gewerbegebiet | | | | 11 | | The Banks Of Marble | | |
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Review
As the title would suggest, Leo Kottke's Try And Stop Me is a confident statement from the almost sixty-year-old finger-picking extraordinaire. On the heels of his acclaimed 2002 collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, Clone, Kottke assembles here another package of mesmerizing guitar work. Stop Me incorporates a tapestry of styles that has come to portray his thirty-five-year career, ranging from exploratory classical emulsions ("Monopoly" and "Mockingbird Hill") to his trademark folk/blues picking gallops ("Bristol Sloth"… Read More and "Stolen"). Kottke veers toward a kind of warped jazz with "Jesus Maria," and the record closes with a Los Lobos-featured country stomp, "The Banks of Marble," a tune written in the late Forties (recorded by both the Weavers and Pete Seeger) by a Northeastern farmer, which introduced Kottke to the wonders of the twelve-string guitar.
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