Chewing Pine is the last album on the Capitol label by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1975.

It peaked at #114 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

"Power Failure" was originally recorded by Procol Harum, a band Kottke toured with in Europe in the 1970s.

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the album "a dazzling amalgam of sounds and styles — there's a surprising emphasis on vocal numbers here...

There are enough good moments, and even a few transcendent ones, to justify owning this album.