Writing for Allmusic, music critic Hal Horowitz wrote of the album "...having a compilation of Kottke's instrumental music — much of it totally solo — makes for a cohesive — some might say definitive — portrait of the guitarist's jaw-dropping skills... Although his approach would ultimately lead others to new age, there is nothing here that is atmospheric or merely background music. Beautiful, difficult, quirky, but never flashy for the sake of show, Kottke's singular style remains vital and influential to everyone who picks up an acoustic guitar... this is as good a place as any to start a Kottke collection."[1]
Track listing
All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.
All tracks are excerpted from Mudlark, Greenhouse, My Feet Are Smiling, Ice Water, Dreams and All That Stuff and Chewing Pine.
"Ice Miner" is the version from Mudlark, not the Takoma compilation release.
There are no bonus tracks or unreleased material here, unlike Instrumentals: The Best of the Chrysalis Years.