Leo Kottke began on the trombone and wanted to be a "jazzer" to play in clubs and hotel lounges. He also wanted to be a radio announcer. When he was six he wanted to be Martin Agronsky, the journalist and commentator. When he was twelve, he came down with mononucleosis and his mother bought him "one of those little guitars with the cowboy on it," Leo recalls, to entertain him while he was sick. The guitar lasted about two weeks before the bridge came off, buy that guitar cured him and headed him toward a career as a guitarist and composer. Leo has written scores for movies and television, and for a children's album of the story of Paul Bunyan narrated by Jonathan Winters, and has released more than two dozen recordings.

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