Richmond Magazine: Q&A with Leo Kottke

The legendary Leo Kottke has been called one of the greatest guitarists of the modern age; a blues master, a country picker, a jazz explorer and someone who can take the oddest cover (like the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" or Buck Owens' "Buckaroo") and make it his own.

Even after five decades of music making, the self-taught virtuoso says that he "can't let go" of the guitar. "It isn't love," he says. "It's more like possession."

My recent Richmond Magazine interview with Kottke, slated to appear at the Tin Pan in September, has been posted to the magazine's web site.

Get it right here. 

For an expanded interview I conducted with Kottke a few years ago for Style Weekly, click here.

For more on the music of Leo Kottke, go here.

(Photo courtesy of the Tin Pan)