Results for "Hot Tuna"

Hot Tuna

The name Hot Tuna invokes as many different moods and reactions as there are Hot Tuna fans — millions of them. To some, Hot Tuna is a reminder of some wild and happy times. To others, that name will forever be linked to their own discovery of the power and depth of American blues and roots music. To newer fans, Hot Tuna is a tight, masterful duo that is on the cutting edge of great music. All of those things are correct, and more. For more than four decades, Hot Tuna has played, toured, and recorded some of the best and most memorable acoustic and electric music ever. And Hot Tuna is still going strong — some would say stronger than ever. The two kids from 1950s Washington, D.C

Michael Falzarano: Sunrise Over The Unknown

by Doug Collette
August 9, 2026

With various and sundry activities spanning the continental United States, from Woodstock to San Francisco and in between, guitarist-songwriter Michael Falzarano is something of a master of space and time.  Such rarefied status thus renders the title of Sunrise Over The Unknown perfectly appropriate. The album is as full of promise as accomplishment, a ...

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties

by Doug Collette
July 20, 2025

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties Dennis McNally 432 Pages ISBN: #978-0306835667 Da Capo 2025 Dennis McNally knows whereof and whenof he speaks. On The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties, the author of books about beat ...

Davy Knowles and Jorma Kaukonen at The Essex Experience Summer Concert Series

by Doug Collette
August 31, 2024

As serendipitous as was the confluence of circumstances that brought Davy Knowles and Jorma Kaukonen to The Essex Experience Summer Music Series, it was all the more providential that both men gave solo performances on two late summer night dates so close to each other. For the former, this first stop in Vermont since just prior ...

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

By Hot Tuna

Label: Mercury Studios
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: January 27, 1992: Whinin’ Boy Blues; Great Change; Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out; I Know You Rider; Embryonic Journey; Trouble In Mind; Bank Robber; I See The Light; I’ll Be There For You; True Religion; I Belong To The Band; Maggie’s Farm; That’s All Right Mama; Been So Long; Genesis; Ice Age; Praise The Lord And Pass The Snake. CD 2: January 28, 1992: Hesitation Blues; Dime For Beer; Trial By Fire; Death Don’t Have No Mercy; 99 Year Blues; San Francisco Bay Blues; Too Many Years; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Ain’t Got No Home; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl; Walkin’ Blues; Third Week In The Chelsea; My AK-47; Parchman Farm; Folsom Prison Blues. CD 3: Walkin’ Blues; Parchman Farm; True Religion; Been So Long; Uncle Sam Blues; Vampire Woman; Follow The Drinking Gourd; Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning; Let Us Get Together; Third Week In The Chelsea; 99 Year Blues; Ice Age; San Francisco Bay Blues; Folsom Prison Blues; Mann’s Fate.

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 ...

Jorma Kaukonen: Live At The Bottom Line

by Doug Collette
June 3, 2023

Live at the Bottom Line represents a significant turning point in the history of guitarist, composer and vocalist Jorma Kaukonen. Occurring roughly a year after the release of his solo album, Blue Country Heart (Columbia Records, 2002), the concerts marked the advent of a new career phase for the co-founder of Hot Tuna, including regular touring ...

ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper

by Doug Collette
April 24, 2023

ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper 280 Pages ISBN: # 979-8-21809624-3 Higher Ground 2023 In honor of Higher Ground's 25th anniversary, the South Burlington Vermont music venue has collaborated in the curation of ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and ...

Son House and Reverend Gary Davis: The Perpetual Appeal Of The Blues

by Doug Collette
May 6, 2022

Perfectly complementary in their earthy simplicity, the archive titles by Son House and Reverend Gary Davis offer an antidote to the antiseptic ephemera that is contemporary pop. None other than Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys curated the former's Forever On My Mind (and released it on his own Easy Eye Sound label) while the latter's ...

Spring 2020

by Doug Collette
May 17, 2020

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. David Clayton-Thomas Say Somethin' Linus Entertainment 2020 Circa “Spinnin' Wheel" plus “And When I Die," ...