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Track Listing
1. Peg Leg
2. Poor Boy
3. Parade
4. Wonderland by Night
5. World Made to Order
6. Room Service (At the Tahiti Motel)
7. Turning Into Randolph Scott (Humid Child)
8. Porky and Pale
9. Arms of Mary
10. Room at the Top of the Stairs, The
11. Big Situation
12. Twilight Time
Album Notes
Personnel: Leo Kottke (vocals, guitar); Dean Parks (guitar); Van Dyke Parks (accordion); John Leftwich (bass); Bill Berg (drums); Brad Dutz (percussion); Rickie Lee Jones, Syd Straw, Teresa Tudury (background vocals).
Recorded at Hudson/Forester, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Ocean Way Recording and Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California.
An aptly titled release, 1994's PECULIAROSO is a sometimes difficult blend of several different musical styles. It's possibly the most complex and eclectic record of Leo Kottke's career. Produced by singer and longtime Kottke fan Rickie Lee Jones, and featuring appearances by Van Dyke Parks on accordion, Dean Parks on guitar, and Syd Straw on vocals, PECULIAROSO is pop- and jazz-oriented, but with Kottke's usual growly vocals and folk/blues acoustic and electric guitar playing.
The arrangements are less slick and rockier than on his late-'80s new age-oriented albums. Overall, this album sounds like the sonic experiments of earlier releases like THAT'S WHAT and GREAT BIG BOY taken to their logical conclusion. Purist fans of Kottke's solo guitar instrumental albums may be disappointed, however.
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