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    Kottke Oeuvre Skookum
    Kottke Oeuvre Skookum
    Kottke Oeuvre Skookum
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    Kottke Oeuvre Skookum

    By Steven Mooney

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    These sketches are part memoir and part riffing on the tunes, a syllabic approach to a singular aural genre. Past association intersects a Minnesota childhood with that of red dirt adolescence in the vicissitudes of time inherent in music.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteven Mooney
    Release dateFeb 16, 2019
    ISBN9780463377765
    Kottke Oeuvre Skookum
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    Steven Mooney

    After graduating high school, other than a brief stint at Naropa Institute to study poetry with luminaries of the Age, Steven Mooney was for twenty years an unskilled laborer at construction sites and factories, and as custodian, garbageman, groundskeeper, seasonal firefighter, taxi/truck driver, earning just enough money for the books he devoured across the breadth of English and American literature. Tiring at forty of the shanty life he ventured to college and earned a Bachelor of Art in English, University of North Carolina, and a Master’s in Education from East Carolina University where he first encountered ESL. For the next twenty years he taught English in Central America, The Far East, and the Middle East, then retired to the Pacific Northwest, USA, where he lives with his wife. He is the author of In Cellophane of Time, Poems 1973-1987; Kottke Ouevre Skookum, 6 and 12-string ears, Vignettes 1970-2019; and the comic literary novels: Cutlass Wonders, The Ageless of Aquarius, and Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict published under the series title: A Measure of Poe & Three Quarters.

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      Kottke Oeuvre Skookum - Steven Mooney

      Kottke Ouevre Skookum

      6 and 12-string ears

      Vignettes 1970 – 2019

      Steven Mooney

      Copyright 2019

      Steven Mooney

      Smashwords Edition

      Photo Credits: Rich Zimmermann Photography

      Cover and formatting by Caligraphics

      For Dina, Mike, Mo, Peter

      Foreword

      The bop prosody of Jack Kerouac inspired by the horn of Charlie Parker planted the idea for a similar approach with an artist whose guitars have rearranged joy since the summer of 1970 when his instrumentals filled the rooms of an antebellum mansion as though the songbirds of North America had arrived. I would listen to the Armadillo LP and each subsequent record repeatedly.

      While not every song in the thirty-album repertoire prompted a response, over time, Kottke’s music revealed an extended memoir, vignettes of a childhood lost in Minnesota, a land departed after my family’s move to southern states that severed ties forever. It went as far as it got, roadside soliloquy, unbroken of its desire but out of breath.

      Guitar in every hand the virtuoso takes the stage

      as wild applause greets him abundantly; he

      settles in the chair, lifts and tunes the 12 string,

      surveys the overhead lighting, and says,

      more amber.

      Introduction

      The summer after my sophomore year in high school my National Merit Scholarship brother Mike invited me to spend a month in Columbia, South Carolina at the house his Duke frat pals had rented, and I hopped at the chance.

      It was to be the best 1970 of my life.

      These folks were ever bringing in something new; the original paper or plastic – choose between blotter or window pane -- they had top of the line, and that went for music too. One sultry morning with doves yawning, I was drawn downstairs as though by a Siren to music that launched an aural love affair that has lasted forty-nine years and counting.

      As the liner notes state: tens of thousands of fans remember ‘the Armadillo Album’ as their first exposure to solo steel-string guitar fingerpicking and the modern concept of the guitarist/composer (Fantasy 1974). It was the rock era but folk and bluegrass and the Delta and Piedmont blues had already tuned me in; but here was something that shared all of it yet was none of it.

      Ten years later I stored my Kottke

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