Bouree

Kottke played this Bach bourree about the same time Ian Anderson gave it a back beat on Jethro Tull's Stand Up. Both are still great, contemporary tributes to J. S. Bach. But does anybody know which bourree this is? Bach wrote dozens, if not hundreds (I think a bourree was a kind of dance, like a minuet). The rest of the album is phenomenal, also, even though I still like hearing the hissing and scratching of my old vinyl version, too.

Superb playing

I agree with the great enthusiasm of the others here on Kottke's wonderful playing. His recently replayed "Phishy" appearance on Mountain Stage was a delight. To answer the previous reviewer, though, the "Bourree" punched up by Ian Anderson, et al. is from Bach's Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (5th movement). For another guitar version, see Julian Bream's CD, J. S. Bach on EMI Classics, which also includes the popular Chaconne.

Transcendence

This was my second Kottke album. I bought it when I was in high school some thirty years ago and I will always treasure it. He doesn't need the accompaniment and, as other have remarked, his singing won't blow you away, but the guitar wizardry he displays, puts him among the elite whoever tried the instrument.

There just aren't enough words to describe how this mans' talent is so effortlessly expressed on the guitar.