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Live At Sweetwater / Live At Sweetwater Two / Live In Japan

by Doug Collette
July 15, 2023

Hot Tuna's Live at Sweetwater/Live at Sweetwater 2/Live in Japan (Mercury Studios, 2004) reaffirms the fluidity of personnel that's marked the veteran ensemble throughout its over fifty-year career. Comprised of titles originally issued on the Relix Records label in the mid-to-late Nineties, then re-released in modified form in 2004, this Mercury Studios compendium may represent the definitive versions of those titles (though the lack of notes providing historical perspective, as appeared on previous editions, leaves that a moot point).

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Hot Tuna: Steady As She Goes

by Doug Collette
April 23, 2011

Hot TunaSteady As She GoesRed House 2011 Singer and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen's last solo album, River Of Time (Red House, 2009), sounded more than a little like a vintage Hot Tuna album, so it's little surprise the group's first studio album in 20 years has come along in such short order. Like its predecessor, it was recorded at Levon Helm's Barn in Woodstock New York, and also produced by Larry Campbell, ...