Friday, October 25, 2024

Hot Tuna (Jefferson Airplane) - Phosphorescent Rat (1974)

Year: January 3, 1974 (CD 1998)
Label: RCA Records (US), 07863, 67564-2
Style: Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 38:02
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 233 Mb

The Phosphorescent Rat is the fourth album by the blues rock group Hot Tuna, released in early 1974 as Grunt BFL1-0348. This was the first Hot Tuna album recorded after guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bass player Jack Casady had left Jefferson Airplane. They were joined as before by drummer Sammy Piazza, though Papa John Creach had left the band for Jefferson Starship. The band's playing was moving away from the softer, more acoustic sound of their first three albums, and towards a hard rock sound that would be explored on their next three albums.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phosphorescent_Rat)
Hot Tuna's first album made after the breakup of Jefferson Airplane found Jorma Kaukonen taking a firm hand: he's the author of nine out of 10 songs. The walking tempos and familiar soaring, psychedelic guitar solos are in place, but much of the music is given over to Kaukonen's reflective lyrics, sung in his matter-of-fact voice, and there are strings on a couple of tracks. Although the approach would produce Kaukonen's most impressive record the following year when he made the acoustic solo album, and although critics have pointed to The Phosphorescent Rat as among Hot Tuna's better efforts, the group's fans, devoted as they were to its extended versions of blues standards, seem to have been unimpressed: the album was Hot Tuna's lowest charting among those released during its 1970-1978 heyday. Probably a lack of enthusiasm at RCA, due to the demise of Jefferson Airplane, didn't help in the album's promotion, either.
(allmusic.com/album/the-phosphorescent-rat-mw0000198746)

01. I See The Light (04:16)
02. Letter To The North Star (02:32)
03. Easy Now (05:11)
04. Corners Without Exits (03:38)
05. Day To Day Out The Window Blues (03:28)
06. In The Kingdom (05:27)
07. Seeweed Strut (03:26)
08. Living Just For You (03:20)
09. Soliloquy For 2 (03:43)
10. Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From? (02:56)

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