Hot Tuna (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Hot Tuna
Type = live
Artist = Hot Tuna


Released = May 1970
Recorded = September, 1969 at New Orleans House, Berkeley
Genre = Acoustic blues
Length =
Label = RCA
Producer = Al Schmitt
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifwxq85ldae Link]
*Robert Christgau [B+] [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=7035 Link]
*Rolling Stone [not rated] [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/322432/review/5943859 —Link]
Last album =
This album = "Hot Tuna" (1970)
Next album = "First Pull Up, Then Pull Down" (1971)

"Hot Tuna" is the self-titled first album by the blues-rock band Hot Tuna. Released in 1970, it was recorded live at the New Orleans House in Berkeley, California. The album rose to #30 on the Billboard charts.

Hot Tuna would later become a blues influenced hard rock band, but they started out playing traditional "country" blues. The group was formed by Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady as a side project when they were in Jefferson Airplane. On their first album, Kaukonen plays acoustic guitar. With Casady on electric bass and Will Scarlett on harmonica, the early Hot Tuna played the old time acoustic blues that had been a predecessor of rock music.

In 1996, RCA released the CD box set "Hot Tuna in a Can" which included a remastered version of this album with five bonus tracks, along with remasters of the albums "First Pull Up, Then Pull Down", "Burgers", "America's Choice" and "Hoppkorv".

Track listing

ide One

#"Hesitation Blues" (traditional, arranged by Kaukonen / Casady) – 5:05
#"How Long Blues" (Carr) – 3:24
#"Uncle Sam Blues" (traditional, arranged by Kaukonen / Casady) – 5:04
#"Don't You Leave Me Here" (Morton) – 2:50
#"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) – 6:10

ide Two

#"I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Kaukonen / Casady) – 3:59
#"Oh Lord, Search My Heart" (Davis) – 3:47
#"Winin' Boy Blues" (Morton) – 5:25
#"New Song (For the Morning)" (Kaukonen) – 4:55
#"Mann's Fate" (Kaukonen) – 5:20

CD bonus tracks

#"Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning" (Davis) – 3:48
#"Candy Man" (Davis) – 3:35
#"True Religion" (traditional, arranged by Kaukonen / Casady) – 5:23
#"Belly Shadow" (Kaukonen) – 2:59
#"Come Back Baby" (Hopkins) – 6:07

Personnel

*Jorma Kaukonen — acoustic guitar, vocals
*Jack Casady — bass
*Will Scarlett — harmonica

Production

*Al Schmitt — producer
*Allen Zentz — engineer
*Pat Ieraci — master of the machines
*Margareta Kaukonen — painting
*Mike Frankel — photography
*Gut — art direction

References

* [http://www.dead.net/cavenweb/furthur/hottunabio.html Hot Tuna Bio, Dead.net]
* [http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/04/30/loc_w_fur_kaukonens_music.html Nager, Larry. "Kaukonen's Music Flowed from Yellow Springs", The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 30, 2000]
* [http://starling.rinet.ru/music/hottuna.htm#Tuna Starostin, George. Review of "Hot Tuna", The Tower of Babel]

External links

* [http://www.hottuna.com/ Official Hot Tuna web site]