''Ice Water'' is the seventh album by guitarist

Leo Kottke Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is an American acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He has overcome a series of personal obstacles, i ...

. It contains Kottke's only charting single, the

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composition "Pamela Brown". ''Ice Water'' peaked at #69 on the

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Pop Albums charts. It was re-issued on CD by BGO (CD146) in 1992 and

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in 1996. Kottke has stated that he recorded the vocals for the entire album while lying on his back after being told by an Air Force sergeant that this position helps open the diaphragm and could improve one's singing voice (Kottke amusingly admits that "it didn't work")."

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" with

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. '' TNN''. 1992.

Reception

Writing for

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, music critic Bruce Eder noted that the album was more directed to country flavored vocals and wrote of the album "This is a good record, though not the Leo Kottke album to start with, as it is not representative of his usual work... Among the instrumentals, "A Good Egg" is just the kind of light-fingered, light-textured virtuoso piece that one buys a Leo Kottke album expecting to find, and much of the rest shows off his talents in some unexpected directions."

Track listing

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

Side one

# "Morning is the Long Way Home" – 6:26 # "Pamela Brown" (

) – 4:03 # "A Good Egg" – 3:10 # "Tilt Billings and the Student Prince" (Leo Kottke, Ron Nagle) – 4:56 # "All Through the Night" (Traditional; arranged by Kottke) – 1:30

Side two

# "Short Stories" (Leo Kottke, Cal Hand) – 3:01 # " You Tell Me Why" ( Ron Elliott) – 3:58 # "You Know I Know You Know" – 4:08 # " Born to Be With You" ( Don Robertson) – 3:02 # "A Child Should Be a Fish" – 3:45

Charts

Personnel

*Leo Kottke — 6- & 12-string guitar, vocals * Bill Berg — drums, percussion *

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— bass *

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- piano, synthesizer *Cal Hand — dobro, steel guitar

Production notes

*Album Design & Illustration Concept—

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*Produced By Denny Bruce (Takoma Productions, Inc.) *Recorded, Mixed & Mastered—Sound 80, Minneapolis, Minnesota *Engineer—Paul “Don't Call Me Slater Martin” Martinson

References

External links

Leo Kottke's official siteUnofficial Leo Kottke web site
(fan site)

{{Authority control 1974 albums Leo Kottke albums Capitol Records albums Albums produced by Denny Bruce