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Jorma Kaukonen

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 ...

How John Coltrane Changed Rock Music: The Grateful Dead

by Kyle Simpler
June 24, 2026

The Grateful Dead, probably more than any other rock band that emerged from the 1960s, tapped into the full scope of American musical tradition. From their earliest days, they were an eclectic rock band, blending elements of blues, r&b, country, bluegrass, and jazz. But rather than trying to replicate particular genres exactly, the band's goal was ...

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 ...

The Blues According To Rory Block

by C. Michael Bailey
October 20, 2024

Being a household name depends as much on the household as it does the name. Not all reading this will know who Rory Block is, but in the households with fans of the rural blues, slide guitar and innovative women in music, to not know would be criminal. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Block grew up ...

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 The Bottom Line

By Jorma Kaukonen

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Blue Railroad Train; Waiting For A Train; Re-enlistment Blues; Death Don’t Have No Mercy; Do Not Go Gentle; I’m Free From The Chain Gang Now; Blues Stay Away From Me; I’ll Let You Know Before I Leave; Red River Blues; Living in the Moment. CD 2: Good Shepherd; Uncle Sam Blues; Prohibition Blues; I Am The Light of This World; Just Because; Hesitation Blues

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 ...