Leo storytelling…

Leo Kottke. Photo by Andrew Talbert

Leo starts his show by saying very little as he blazes through several songs. He then moves the single microphone back towards him with the drag of a foot. Soon he starts talking and explaining that “By the end of the show the audience will be pining for him to quit.”
Well I never did. He had me laughing for two hours at his songs and sitting on the edge of my seat watching his hands move a eye-blurring speeds across the fretboard of his guitars.
Leo talked for what must have been five minutes about ants. He made the whole thing a comedy routine by discussing several genera of the creatures. After I wiped the tears from my eyes he launched into the music he wrote, one called “Ants.”