Mike Gordon & Keo Kottke 'Sixty Six Steps' August 24, 2005- New York Post By Dan Aquilante Album Review - Sixty Six Steps Long before Phish fried and disbanded, the jam band's bassist Mike Gordon was fiddling around with guitar master Leo Kottke for kicks. Kottke's an acoustic six-string wizard whose forte is syncopated finger-picking. Gordon's bass attack is equally unusual, as much about melody as it is about rhythm. Together on "Sixty Six Steps," they dazzle with original songs and covers such as Peter Green's "Oh Well" and folk legend Pete Seeger's "Living in the Country." The ease with which they appear to pull off tricky instrumentals is impressive. Neither man is a dynamic singer, but it's their fingerwork you listen to, especially when they twist jazz into bluegrass on Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion." Review © 2005 New York Post