Hot Tuna

by Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:21
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Will Scarlett, Al Schmitt, Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Formed as a side project by Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, this debut album was recorded live at the New Orleans House in Berkeley. Eschewing psychedelia entirely, the virtuosic acoustic fingerpicking pays deep, respectful homage to traditional American Piedmont and ragtime blues.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Hesitation Blues
  2. How Long Blues
  3. Uncle Sam Blues
  4. Don't You Leave Me Here
  5. Death Don't Have No Mercy
  6. Know You Rider
  7. Oh Lord Search My Heart
  8. Winin' Boy Blues
  9. New Song (For the Morning)
  10. Mann's Fate

Credits

  • Hot Tuna - primary artist
  • Jorma Kaukonen - acoustic guitar, arranged by, written-by
  • Jack Casady - bass, arranged by
  • Will Scarlett - harmonica
  • Margareta Kaukonen - painting
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Leroy Carr - written-by
  • Jelly Roll Morton - written-by

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