Patrick Verbeke - Echos d'Acadie (2004)

> The album

 From the coasts of Acadia to the bayous of Acadiana

Acadia must not be mistaken with Quebec although they have in common  their French origin and language. A colony of New France, this largely maritime territory on the south-east side of the Saint-Laurent river, included parts of New Brunswick, the Gaspe peninsula, Nova Scotia, Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island), Isle Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island) (all being united in what are now the Maritime provinces of Canada), and the north part of Maine in the US.

Acadia in 1755. ►

The musical folklore of Acadia finds its origin in that of the old French western provinces along the Atlantic ocean and Manche channel, before encountering other influences like English and Celtic music (Welsh, Scottish and Irish), but also blues, especially for the Acadians of Louisiana (Cajuns) after the Great Upheaval of the 1750s-60s.

This album-tribute to Acadia's folk and history was a nice idea. First, because apart from a few musicians from Louisiana like Zachary Richard or French Canadians like Félix Leclerc or Robert Charlebois, not many artists have sung about its culture and musical folklore. Secondly because it comes from a French "cousin" from across the Atlantic (where Acadians have their original cultural and linguistic roots) who purposely sing in French. An authentic Gaulish like me couldn't but appreciate this homage to "francophonie". ;-)

Many people know zydeco and Cajun music, but fewer are familiar with the Acadian history and culture. So Patrick Verbeke, an active member of the French blues scene, has contributed to fill this unfortunate gap in a great musical and quite poetic album after several visits to Acadian regions in Canada and Louisiana. Moreover he was from Normandy, a French province that exported many settlers to New France as soon as 1604.
Technically, this album is even with the best productions from across the Atlantic. The number of musicians who took part to the recordings is amazing, and the sound is great. The album is woven with unusually rich guitar threads : acoustic or electric, plain or vibrato, slide, pedal steel, dobro…, and great keyboard work too. Special mention to the impressive multi-instrumentist Denys Lable, excellent on anything with strings.

Musically, if blues constitutes the foundation of Verbeke's work, the Acadian specific color is rather found in his lyrics, summoning images from either sides of Acadia : Eastern Canada and Louisiana.
The nice rocking "Coeurs Solidaires" builds a bridge between Old and New France . The excellent country blues "Bluesy City" evokes the geographical distance from the country of the blues, Mississippi (although it's not really an Acadian area), calling memories of Robert and Tommy Johnson, Charley Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson. The nostalgic soul ballad "Joe Leblanc" tells of a lonesome Louisiana fiddler, and "Orage" (Thunderstorm), a heavy blues noticeable for its great slide guitar work, is premonitory of 2005 major hurricane Katrina that devastated coastal Louisiana.

Back to the birth of Acadia in 1604 with the ballad "L'Ordre Du Bon Temps" devoted to the first settlement by French explorers-adventurers. The funky "Evangelina", probably the high light of the album, recalls a famous (fictional) figure of the Cajun history (again, read below), while "Acadiana" is a declaration of love to a cultural identity split between Canada and Louisiana. Finally, this poetic and idealistic musical voyage would be biased without a tribute to the natives inhabitants of Acadia, the Mic-Mac Amerindians : that's the excellent "Henry Membertou (Blues des Indiens Mic Mac)".
A really nice album from Patrick Verbeke, who was one of the most prominent and gifted musician of the French blues scene, but unfortunately died last August 2021... ■

Evangeline, the cultural icon of the Cajuns

The Great Upheaval of Acadians occurred between 1755 and 1764, during the war between the French and the British, known as the French and Indian War. The British who finally got hold of the Eastern coastal provinces of New France (Canada) known as Acadia, decided to deport the Acadians, those rebel French-speaking and catholic population who fought to keep their cultural identity. They were sent south to the British colonies which would later become the embryo of the United States after the Independence War, to Great-Britain, to France or the French West Indies.
Many of these deportees decided to return to the New World and embarked for the then Spanish colony of Louisiana where they settled in an isolated region of swamps and bayous. Their descendants are known as Cajuns, a distorted pronunciation of the French word  "acadien" : acadian > cadian > cajun.

Evangeline is the central character of the famous epic poem of 19th century writer Henry W. Longfellow set during the Great Upheaval, "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie" published in 1847. It tells the tragic romantic story of a young Acadian woman, Evangeline Bellefontaine, desperately searching for her beloved Gabriel Lajeunesse, after they were separated during the deportation. Both characters were inspired to Longfellow by a supposedly true story he heard of, that of Emmeline Labiche and Louis Arceneaux.

▲The statue of Evangeline and the famous oaktree in St Martinville. ▼

For Acadians, both in Canada and Louisiana, Evangeline became the iconic symbol of their tribulations and of their cultural identity.  In St Martinville, a little town on the bayou Teche in the heart of the Cajun country (Acadiana), can be found a statue of the famous young woman and the old "Evangeline Oak" under which she used to seat and cry in despair in the Longfellow poem. Like other famous literary fictional character, she became and is revered as a real historical figure in the popular Acadian/Cajun culture.
Further up north in Louisiana, can also be found the Evangeline Parish, and west of Lafayette, in the Acadia Parish, the village of Evangeline. ■

Movie

► "Autour du Blues", a documentary movie featuring Patrick Verbeke among the cream of French bluesmen : https://youtu.be/WzDdRHnQkkg

Live videos

► Patrick Verbeke YT channel and his Blues PV Shows : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ0IXZKdxyZ4gzTdcqHIGxA/videos

► Short interview during his second visit in Montreal : https://youtu.be/BHKDL7h7C3k

► Verbeke father (Patrick) & son (Steve) :

→ "See that my grave is kept clean" in 2009 : https://youtu.be/p3mzvTOdSVs

→ at the Volcanic Blues Festival, Le Mont Dore, in 2010 : https://youtu.be/hHAqb5Bi2lQ

→ and both with Bernard Allison : https://youtu.be/hYiDxoObV8E

► With Pascal "Bako" Michaelian in 2020 : https://youtu.be/E6a9erApqWg & https://youtu.be/pY0AcxjF7sw

► With the Witch Doctors at the Portobello Rock Club in 2019 : https://youtu.be/uUySXtaNQGs

► With Ahmed Mouici, David Locatelli & Pascal "Bako" Michaelian in 2019 : https://youtu.be/gtaPLvyJqYA

► At the "Melting Potes" (Les Lilas) in 2019 :

→ with Pascal "Bako" Michaelian (harmonica) : https://youtu.be/Ao7FnndW3E4

→ with Philippe Poitevin (harmonica), Jeannot Cirillo (drums) & Emmanuel Chabbey (bass) : https://youtu.be/-led4DX5zXo

► With Vincent "Butch" Bucher, Pascal Lasnier & Christophe Gaillot in 2019 : https://youtu.be/yZ58DG77whc

► "St James Infirmary" in 2001 : https://youtu.be/TlArQsB-nDc

► Jam with Roland Tchakounté, Xavier Pillac, Maria Popkiewicz, Lance Harrison, Simon "Shuffle" Boyer… at the Blues sur Seine Fest. in 2000 : https://youtu.be/uBlxwq5GCM8

► With Stan Noubard Pacha (guitar), Cédric Lesouquet (bass), Fabrice Millérioux (drums) & Ghyslin Di Sacco (piano) in Caen (Steve Verbeke's home town) in 1999 : https://youtu.be/msxYicP8mIo

► At the Issoudun Guitar Festival :

→ in 1997 : https://youtu.be/u8WEmT20l38

→ in 2005 : https://youtu.be/BOQiMlbU2Tw

► With Benoit Blue Boy in 1986 : https://youtu.be/W3eRLn9gAQU

► With Paul Personne & Benoit Blue Boy at L'Utopia (Paris) in 1980 : https://youtu.be/b3QDP9A29Gs

+ interview of the trio : https://youtu.be/fvh9D30YikU

With Paul Personne (center) and Benoit Blue Boy (right). ▲

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Texas Johnny Brown - Nothin' But the Truth (1997)

> The album

Texas Brown, Texas groove

Tough based in Houston and considered as a Texas blues musician, as his nickname claims, John Reilly or Riley (like B.B. King !) Brown was born in 1928 in Mississippi. He moved to his father in Louisiana in 1937. At that time, according to Brown, his father, who was a blind street singer and acoustic guitarist, had a guide dog that played guitar too ! His father was holding the guitar on his knee and make the chords while the dog pawed the strings. Johnny was accompanying them on tambourine and vocals, and later on guitar... Father, son and dog rambled from town to town, playing street corners and small clubs for tips. Finally in 1946 Brown moved to Houston where he really began his professional career.

Amos Milburn ►

In particular, he played and toured with Amos Milburn and his Aladdin Chicken Shackers band, with Junior Parker, Ruth Brown (another Brown !), and Bobby "Blue" Bland for whom he wrote the hit "Two Steps From The Blues" (featured in a new version on this album), and as a session musician for Houston's Duke/Peacock record label working with people like Wayne Bennett, Joe Hinton, Buddy Ace or Clarence Hollimon...
In 1970 Johnny packed up his guitar to take care of his family, working "normal" jobs, and playing only occasionally. In 1991, once his kids grown, he finally fell back to the call of his guitar. For a couple of years he played with old friends like the excellent Joe "Guitar" Hughes, like Grady Gaines, Trudy Lynn, Teddy "Cry Cry" Reynolds...

In 1993 Johnny set up his own group, The Quality Blues Band, and by 1995 they started to record some of the tracks featured on this first album. These recording sessions, interrupted by tours (including in Europe) and festival performances, extended for over two years cursed by two successive defections : his old friend keyboardist Teddy Reynolds left due to health problems, then Charles Rhinehart, who had taken his place, died unexpectedly, finally replaced by Alvin King.
Finally the album was ready to be released and it was, in 1998 by Choctaw Creek Records. Brown was then 70,  but the result is full of the energy of a younger man. A great album proving that talent is like good wine, it's getting better and better with age.

Yet, when the first track, "Cheatin' and Stealin'", started, I got skeptical. A name immediately crossed my mind : Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown ! Same name, same kind of jumping swing, same kind of horn riffs, same kind of guitar sound ! I really love "Gatemouth" and I thought "that Brown's gonna have a hard time doing as well !" Fortunately the next track, "There Goes the Blues" and its followers, broomed off my reservation : I discovered a man with his own musical identity, and a rich one too. Fortunately because a "Gatemouth" copycat would have caused an annoying deja-vu feeling. There's only one "Gatemouth" !

Anyway, it must be difficult for a musician who's been a sideman for so long to come out with something original and not a collection of imitations of one's former leaders. The nice surprise is that Brown's first album shows his multi-faceted creative and imaginative musical talent as a song writer, composer, arranger, singer and, of course, excellent guitar player. He doesn't imitate, he creates ! As a band leader he has a gift to make the best of his sidemen, especially his successive keyboardists, despite the misfortunes that perturbed the sessions.
Brown, who cited jazz guitarist Charlie Christian as an influence, plays a quite liquid guitar style, and sings with a warm soul voice that must have seduced a whole lot of women ! The album features :

- brassy numbers like the jumpy above-mentioned "Cheatin' and Stealin'" and the horn-driven "Your House, Your Home",
- great moving blues like the wonderful "There Goes The Blues", like "Strange Situation", and the final rolling "Nothin' but the Truth, so Help Me John",
- the excellent swinging rhythm and blues "No Part-Time Lover" backed by killing horn and rhythm guitar riffs, one of the high-light of the album in my opinion,
- romantic soul slows like "Tender age, Gentle Woman", "Stand the Pain" (even featuring a flute-like part), "Two Steps From the Blues" (specially re-cut for the album), "Blue and Lonesome", the magnificent melodic ballad "Once Was" and the no less magnificent guitar-led instrumental version of Aretha Franklin’s "Ain't no Way".

All of these, written by Brown except "Ain't no Way", are standing on a groovy bass-drums rhythm section, and are masterly arranged, with excellent groovy rhythm guitar and gliding solos by Brown, great keyboard work (piano and especially magnificent organ lines) and effective R'n'B horns backing. As a first album, it was a master-strike, rightly honored by a nomination as Comeback Album of the Year at the 1999 W.C. Handy Blues Award.

Brown put out a second and last album in 2001 : the equally tasty and swinging "Blues Defender". He died from a double cancer twelve years later at the age of 85. Why do bluesmen have to get old and sick ?! 😢 ■

Videos
Unfortunately many of the videos found on YT are rather poor quality, image and/or sound, and do not make justice to TJB's talent…

► Promo clip with the Quality Blues Band (William Hollis on keyboards,  Larry Evans on bass and Kerry "KC" Cartwright on drums) around 2009 : https://youtu.be/jmb_9auTylI
► Celebrating his 85th birthday at The Big Easy Club in Houston in February 2013, just a few months before his death : https://youtu.be/TArsobPz3DE
► At the "Blues on the Hill" Fest in 2012 (?) :
→ Pt 1 : https://youtu.be/OL_zENl_HyM
→ Pt 2 : https://youtu.be/8wrSfJpUNfI
► At The Big Easy in Houston in 2012 : https://youtu.be/MNCzEyDPLvg
► A "guitar montage" of TJB from 2011 : https://youtu.be/PidR4_01vZQ

► At the Houston Blues Society show at Discovery Green, Houston, in 2011 : https://youtu.be/zIBdSMaVFJI
► At The Big Easy in 2010 :
→  with William Hollis on keyboards : https://youtu.be/hc8kaU-fQeI
→  with Bobby Mack (Jimmy Pate on drums, Larry Evans on bass) :
- https://youtu.be/pzYS45crctI
- https://youtu.be/i9E6X3uurbY
► Jam at The Big Easy with young Eric Hoovestol : https://youtu.be/O91HyiAA2JE

► At the Blues on the Hill festival in Harlingen, TX, in 2010 : https://youtu.be/0XBVvzCJVKA
► At "Blues To Bop" in Lugano (Italy) in 2009 (with William Hollis on keyboards, Larry Evans on bass and Kerry "KC" Cartwright on drums) : https://youtu.be/aD3zJdV3e2M
► At The Big Easy (unknown date) : https://youtu.be/YKfKhnB8F90
► At a Dallas Blues Society show in 1992 : https://youtu.be/FibWGtJtQPg

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Doc & Richard Watson - Third Generation Blues (1999)

> The album

 Guitars from the High Country

The Watson clan is from Deep Gap, a small town up in the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains (called the High Country), in the northwest corner of North Carolina. The High Country overlooks the Piedmont foothills region famous for its finger-picking guitar style, a detail which has to be considered when acoustic folk music is concerned.
Arthel Lane Watson aka "Doc", born in 1923, played both flat-picking and finger-picking styles, but is best known for his outstanding flat-pick technique. He also built a vast repertoire of mountain ballads learned via the oral tradition of his Deep Gap home area. He died in May 2012. His grandson Richard followed him three years later, in June 2015.

Doc was already 76 when this album was recorded, while Richard was around 33. The latter had all genetic cards in hands (rather in DNA) to become a talented guitar picker : in his veins flowed not only the blood of his grandfather but also of his father Merle Watson, who was also a gifted and famous guitar player but untimely died in 1985 at only 36.

The album's title might mislead a bit orthodox blues purists : these third generation blues are closer to folk, and by certain aspects to Piedmont style. Nevertheless, it features a good number of classics of the country, folk and blues traditional repertoire, from the opening track, Big Joe Williams' "Turn The Lamps Down Low" (titled "Honey Please Don't Go" on the other release, but it's the same song anyway) to Gershwin's "Summertime" (in a nice version) and the popular "If I Were A Carpenter" to the over-covered "House Of The Rising Sun" and "St. James Infirmary" (with an unusual new intro though), and to "Milk Cow Blues" featuring Doc's harmonica.

◄ The grandson was the eyes of his blind grandfather.

Apart from these standards, the other songs fully deserve their presence, and maybe even more : Woody Guthrie's ballad "Gypsy Davey", the tender "Uncloudy Day", the story-telling folk "South Coast", Jimmie Rodgers' "Train Whistle Blues" (Doc once confessed that Rodgers was his first idol), the sad but beautifully melodic "Moody River", the catchy "Columbus Stockade Blues" and "Walk On Boy", and finally the nostalgic gospel "Precious Lord Take My Hand".

These fourteen songs are all delivered in a neat, highly skillful guitar picking virtuosity and gently swinging tempo, with Doc's immediately identifiable voice, that of a man who has decades of practice, performances and recordings behind him. It is difficult to distinguish Doc's guitar from his grandson Richard's, except that the "third generation" is apparently in charge of most of the solo lines, and nicely too.
Just underlined by the bass of T. Michael Coleman, the sound of their acoustic guitars is deep and warm, perfectly balanced and recorded, a treat for the ear.

Both play a special Gallagher guitar model designed for and baptized "Doc Watson", a type of guitar whose Martin-like sound is generally favored by folk, bluegrass and country players, contrary to Gibson-like models generally more appreciated by blues musicians. But this in no way means that the Watsons' blues songs are at a lower level of performance. Both artists master their music with eyes closed (which actually was the case for Doc who was blind !) and were able to play any genre. This pleasing grandfather-grandson collaboration is the best proof of this. ■


◄Two Gallagher guitar models.

Documents
► Deciphering Doc Watson, A look at his life and influences : https://youtu.be/P1LRSrihy00
► Audio interview of Doc Watson in 2002 : https://youtu.be/WEQwTCp9ZX4

Doc Watson at 18. ►

Doc Watson
► At the Wayne Henderson Festival in Grayson County, Virginia, in 2004 : https://youtu.be/neud2Ai5t_A & https://youtu.be/1U_aLhIgzH8
► At Papa Joe's "Banjo-B-Que" Music Festival in 2011 : https://youtu.be/R8VXgxKWPmg

► With fiddler Bill Monroe at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival in 1990 : https://youtu.be/eg9nh3K1_HA
► Live with the younger generation in 1978 : https://youtu.be/-4SAkCv6ri4
► Live with son Merle in 1983 : https://youtu.be/5xaHl5ryeJ0

◄ Merle and Doc

Doc Watson with grandson Richard

► At the Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte, NC, in 1999 (2h16) : https://youtu.be/vkZdLfiUsEs
► "Walk On Boy" : https://youtu.be/5tnYNtLSSkE
► "Train Whistle Blues" : https://youtu.be/ZZpqGjo9V8s
► "Trouble in Mind" : https://youtu.be/JZPat3DpTa4
► "Deep River Blues" (with Charles Welch) in 2009 : https://youtu.be/kB3mxonkgS0

► "Precious Lord Take My Hand" at the MerleFest 2008 : https://youtu.be/ITJ54wcbgxE
► "Milk Cow Blues" at the MerleFest. : https://youtu.be/TXYycvVKJlA
► "Nine Pound Hammer" at the Sugar Grove Music Fest., NC, in 2011 : https://youtu.be/pAiBfXYMnJo
► "Working Man Blues"
→ at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, NC, in 2010 : https://youtu.be/xChQ_hN6lNk
→ at the Sugar Grove Music Fest. in 2009 : https://youtu.be/j17F0XcVoVM

► "The Cat Came Back"  at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival 2005 : https://youtu.be/2TjUZ1MbUQ4
► "I'm Gonna Buy Me A Pistol" at the Sugar Grove Music Fest. in in 2009 : https://youtu.be/F2RKHsUx6M8
► "Summertime"
→ at BB King's, NYC, in 2007 : https://youtu.be/n29S4fq5Nfg
→ at the Romp Bluegrass Festival 2010 in Owensboro, KY : https://youtu.be/M9-dSjgXy9A

 

► At the Springfest in 2002 : https://youtu.be/GvFbtAYyiT0

► An Evening with Doc & Richard Watson around 1997 : https://youtu.be/6mh_PuYjBjc

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Hot Tuna - Live at Sweetwater One & Two (1992 & 1993)

> Album One / Album Two

Hot Tuna's acid folk blues

Ex-Jefferson Airplane inseparable pals Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady formed Hot Tuna more than 50 years ago, in 1969, first as an acoustic spin-off of their mother group, before it became a full-time affair when the J.A. was disbanded as such to become the Jefferson Starship in 1974.

Hot Tuna is a flexible group built around the core formed by the two above-mentioned pair and rather turned towards old roots music material (blues, ragtime, gospel, bluegrass, hillbilly, folk...) adapted to contemporary folk-rock sound standards.

Twenty years after their 1972 emblematic third album "Burgers", they celebrated with two live nights at the Sweetwater Saloon in the Californian town of Mill Valley, in the San Francisco Bay area, in the end of January 1992, with guests popping in such as Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, blues-jazz singer Maria Muldaur, keyboardist Pete Sears, and guitar master Happy Traum. These two concerts were recorded and released in two albums in 1992 and 1993.

Hot Tuna has always swimmed between the streams of electric folk-rock and acoustic finger-picking blues and folk. In either style, the two cornerstones of the band are top instrumentists.

Jorma Kaukonen, today 81, has always remained an acoustic rural and gospel blues practitioner and never stopped playing the genre, even during the Jefferson Airplane years.
Later, in 1989, feeling a need to transmit his art, he and wife Vanessa opened the Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp near Pomeroy in southeast Ohio.

Jack Casady, 77, is an innovative musician who transformed the use of bass in rock music with the Jefferson Airplane, playing his instrument in a melodic approach rather than as a simple rhythmical tool, inspired by the instrumental improvisation concept of jazz. He is the one who played the bass line on Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Chile" (on the "Electric Ladyland" album), and performed live on stage with him during most of 1968. He and Kaukonen met in their home upper-class neighborhood in Washington D.C. and have been linked by a solid friendship since their high school years.

This double live treat is a musical voyage through a quarter of a century of Hot Tuna's history. Their repertoire features different folk music genres but the "Hot Tuna sound" is recognizable miles away. These two memorable sets offer :
- early '70s emblematic songs like "True Religion" and "99 Year Blues";
- neo-country ballads like "Bank Robber" or "I See the Light" (a revival  of the genre initiated by West Coast groups as The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Flying Burrito Bros. or New Riders of the Purple Sage and of course Hot Tuna), and West Coast folk-rock bluesy ballads that bring back memories of the Jefferson Airplane, like "Embryonic Journey", "Genesis", "Ice Age", "Third Week in the Chelsea" or the real blues "My AK-47";

- covers of Jelly Roll Morton's "Winin' Boy Blues" and "Dime for Beer", Rev. Gary Davis' "Great Change", "I Belong to the Band" and "Death Don't Have No Mercy", Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm", Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues", Woody Guthrie's "Ain't Got No Home", or Mose Allison's "Parchman Farm", in a great psychedelic version with Pete Sears' crazy organ !;
- traditional pieces like "Trouble in Mind", "Hesitation Blues", "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl";
- oddly, the final track, "Endless Sleep", is a studio recording featuring a drummer, Harvey Sorgen.
From West Coast style folk-rock tracks to roots acoustic blues, folk, gospel and even bluegrass (Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky"), the large but always perfectly interpreted spectrum of Hot Tuna is all here, musically more eclectic on the 1992 first album, more turned towards blues in the 1993 one.
Kaukonen immediately identifiable voice is a Hot Tuna trademark, and his expert guitar technique, electric or acoustic, is that of a great guitar finger-picker.

The other Hot Tuna trademark is undoubtedly Casady's  throbbing sound bass playing swinging melodic lines. The rhythm guitar, mandolin and/or harmonica of Michael Falzarano bring extra depth to the sound of the drumless trio.

Well known of West Coast psychedelic era music fans and though still very active today, Hot Tuna might not be so familiar to some other or younger music lovers. These two albums are certainly a superb way to fill this gap. ■

Note : the 2004 re-release of both albums by Eagle Records, features extra tracks :
→ On Live at Sweetwater One : "I Know You Rider" (Traditional, 4:41), "True Religion" (Jorma Kaukonen, 4:37), "That's Alright Mama" (Arthur Crudup, 2:26), "Been So Long" (Kaukonen, 3:46).
→ On Live at Sweetwater Two : "Trial by Fire" (Kaukonen, 4:30), "Too Many Years" (Kaukonen, 3:47), "Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson, 4:14), and "Folsom Prison Blues" (Johnny Cash,  6:10) in place of the final studio track "Endless Sleep" (Reynolds, 3:13) featured on LAS One.

►The Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp : https://www.furpeaceranch.com/, and its video YT channnel : https://www.youtube.com/user/FurPeaceRanch

Interviews

► Audio interviews of Jorma Kaukonen :
→ https://youtu.be/okk8zdr5irM
→ on LocalMotion on 91.3 WVKR in 2019 : https://youtu.be/bGb4Anpt1Fg


► Jorma Kaukonen shares about his book "Been So Long: My Life and Music" at Gramercy Books in Bexley, OH, in 2020 : https://youtu.be/i_ZFq3SJCMU
 

► Audio interview of Jack Casady
→ in 2004 : https://youtu.be/yp65qXM2vqg
→ in October 2020 : https://youtu.be/URYjKSEkuvw

► Audio interview of Jack Casady & Jorma Kaukonen on Hawaï Public Radio in 2019 : https://youtu.be/lal7BMAHS5g


Live concerts videos [all (very) long duration]
→ The Early Years

► Hot Tuna - Full Concert Recorded Live: 3/22/1973 - 46th Street Rock Palace (Brooklyn, NY) : https://youtu.be/Ucti8H6cCZk

► Hot Tuna - Full Concert Recorded Live: 11/20/1976 - Capitol Theatre (Passaic, NJ) : https://youtu.be/IiniZha6PQM 

→ The Middle Years

► Hot Tuna full Concert at the San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium in 1988 (2h44) : https://youtu.be/4UaDtS0raIg► Hot Tuna at the Paramount Theater in Springfield, MA, in 1990 : https://youtu.be/oR09OemRMWA
► Hot Tuna at the Carefree Theatre, West Palm Beach, FL, 1992 (complete show) : https://youtu.be/VPQriO_A-zM

→ The Recent Years

► Live at Wolfgang's Vault, San Francisco, CA, in 2011 : https://youtu.be/ogp8yIZU3jQ
► Jorma Kaukonen with Barry Mitterhoff (mandolin, guitar, banjo) at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, NY, in 2014 :
→ Part 1 : https://youtu.be/WLp5fipOpL4
→ Part 2 : https://youtu.be/4bjYLAq5gLY
→ Part 3 : https://youtu.be/PDHXxQJY1ok
→ Part 4 : https://youtu.be/GKnkemY3Ctc

► Hot Tuna at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 2015 : https://youtu.be/tsh3eZq-f4w
► Kaukonen & Casady at the Clive Davis Theater in Los Angeles in 2016 : https://youtu.be/zqH2-hwEp3g► Acoustic Hot Tuna live at Fur Peace Ranch in November 2018 : https://youtu.be/Xy5nJ0aACu4

► Kaukonen live from the Fur Peace Ranch in August 2020 : https://youtu.be/VnmDd9tfALc
► Kaukonen & Casady live from the Fur Peace Ranch in May 2021 : https://youtu.be/Ib8xpVLCsac
► Electric Hot Tuna Live at Fur Peace Ranch in November 2021 : https://youtu.be/00Y0AgDhWn0

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