Label: RCA Records (Spain), 74321835012
Style: Rock, Blues Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 39:28
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 256 Mb
Hot
Tuna is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson
Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist/vocals) and Jack Casady
(bassist). Although it has always been a fluid aggregation, with
musicians coming and going over the years, the band's center has always
been Kaukonen and Casady's ongoing collaboration.
Hot Tuna began as a
side project to Jefferson Airplane, intended to mark time while Grace
Slick recovered from vocal cord nodule surgery that had left her unable
to perform. The band's name came from someone Jorma Kaukonen referred to
as a "witty wag" who called out "hot tuna" after hearing the line
"What's that smell like fish, oh baby", from the song "Keep On Truckin'
". Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Paul Kantner and new drummer Joey Covington
played several shows around San Francisco, including the Airplane's
original club, The Matrix, before Jefferson Airplane resumed performing
to support Volunteers. (Although Covington had been hired by Jefferson
Airplane, he only performed at select engagements, with Spencer Dryden
continuing to perform as the band's principal drummer until his 1970
dismissal). Once the Airplane had resumed touring, Tuna found itself
opening for the Airplane. Their early repertoire derived mainly from
Kaukonen's Airplane material and covers of American country and blues
artists such as Reverend Gary Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Bo Carter and
Blind Blake.
In September 1969, Kaukonen and Casady employed the
moniker for a week of acoustic-based concerts at the New Orleans House
in Berkeley, California; recordings culled from this engagement were
released as the band's eponymous debut album in 1970. This album has
become affectionately known by the group's fans as the "breaking glass
album", because of the sound of breaking beer glasses during the
recording of "Uncle Sam Blues". Some tracks included Will Scarlett on
harmonica. After the album was recorded, Jorma's brother Peter Kaukonen
soon replaced Kantner on rhythm guitar and Jefferson Airplane co-lead
vocalist Marty Balin joined on vocals for the electric songs. In 1970,
the younger Kaukonen was replaced by Paul Ziegler.
(wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tuna)
01. Baby What You Want Me To Do (06:38)
02. Hot Jelly Roll Blues (04:18)
03. Free Rein (04:12)
04. Sunrise Dance With the Devil (04:27)
05. Song For the Fire Maiden (04:19)
06. Bar Room Crystal Ball (06:47)
07. Half-Time Saturation (04:45)
08. Surphase Tension (03:59)
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