Saturday, August 17, 2024

Hot Tuna (Jefferson Airplane) - Hot Tuna [Live] (1970)

Year: May 1970 (CD ????)
Label: RCA Records (US), 3864-2-R
Style: Rock, Blues Rock, Country Blues
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 47:28
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 285 Mb

It was recorded live at the New Orleans House in Berkeley, California in September 1969. It peaked at #30 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It peaked at #30 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Hot Tuna began as a means of relaxation for Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady while on tour with Jefferson Airplane, eventually becoming a separate entity within that band to the point of performing as its opening act. In the beginning, Hot Tuna would play in the style of electric Chicago blues often augmented by Airplane members, such represented by a cover of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" on the live Airplane album Bless Its Pointed Little Head. For their first album, Kaukonen and Casady decided on a semi-acoustic set rooted in the country blues of the pre-World War II era.
The Reverend Gary Davis had been an early influence on Kaukonen, and two of his songs were included on the album, with an additional pair included on the 1996 reissue. Casady and Kaukonen demonstrated their familiarity with Dixieland and ragtime as well as blues by the inclusion of "Hesitation Blues," recorded by the Victor Military Band in 1916, and the inclusion of two numbers attributed to Jelly Roll Morton. They also ignored any purist notions of the Delta blues with their cover of "How Long Blues" by Leroy Carr, who not only was not from the Mississippi Delta and did not play guitar, but was also one of the commercial urban blues successes of the 1930s.
In 1996, RCA reissued the album on compact disc with five bonus tracks recorded at the same time. The box set Hot Tuna in a Can included this version along with remasters of the band's subsequent four albums First Pull Up Then Pull Down, Burgers, America's Choice and Hoppkorv. The box set is also out of print.
In 2012, Iconoclassic Records remastered and reissued the album with a bonus disc of 13 more tracks - the entire set that was performed on the evening of September 19, 1969 - from the same September period in 1969 as the original disc. This set was mastered by Vic Anesini, and includes an essay from Airplane biographer Jeff Tamarkin.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tuna_(album))

01. Hesitation Blues (05:08)
02. How Long Blues (04:00)
03. Uncle Sam Blues (04:57)
04. Don't You Leave Me Here (03:02)
05. Death Don't Have No Mercy (06:13)
06. Know You Rider (04:08)
07. Oh Lord, Search My Heart (03:54)
08. Winin' Boy Blues (05:32)
09. New Song (For The Morning) (05:02)
10. Mann's Fate (05:26)

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