Since its release, a lot has been made of the tropical breezes blowing through Sixty Six Steps, the second collaboration between guitar guru Leo Kottke and enigmatic ex-Phish bassist Mike Gordon, but the duo’s ability to inject their own eccentricities into one of the most bastardized musical traditions on Earth is even more impressive. While a distinctly Caribbean pulse beats throughout much of the album, there is much more to this than a few grains of sand on a beach in the Bahamas.
