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Scores of guitarists and 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. Leo Kottke’s close-miked, crisp, aggressive, and inventive steady-bass fingerpicking on this 1969 LP for John Fahey’s Takoma Records redefined the market for this genre, which had been invented and nurtured by Fahey and Robbie Basho in the early and middle 1960s. 6- and 12-String Guitar remains one of the top five sellers in the history of solo steel-string guitar recordings. Tracklist A1 The Driving Of The Year Nail A2 The Last Of The Arkansas Greyhounds A3 Ojo A4 Crow River Waltz A5 The Sailor's Grave On The Prairie A6 Vaseline Machine Gun A7 Jack Fig B1 Watermelon B2 Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring B3 The Fisherman B4 The Tennessee Toad B5 Busted Bicycle B6 The Brain Of The Purple Mountain B7 Coolidge Rising