The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

Kottke has also combined previously-recorded tunes into new compositions notably the mini-suite "Bigger Situation" also released on One Guitar No Vocals. Two years later Kottke returned with Peculiaroso produced by Rickie Lee Jones. Leo Kottke (born September 11 1945 Athens Georgia U.

Kottke overcame a series of personal obstacles including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand to emerge as a widely-recognized master of his instrument. S. Focusing primarily on instrumental composition and playing Kottke also sings sporadically in an unconventional yet expressive baritone famously self-described as sounding like "geese farts on a muggy day".