Author: Press Release

For over 50 years Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, has brought a wealth of emotions to their music through deep perceptions and tremendous talent.  Jorma and Jack are always injecting fresh energy into their sound with constant improvisation taking their musical horizons further.  Listen on Saturday night for the music and the joy of life!  Jorma Kaukonen’s third free live stream concert is coming to you through the excellent acoustics at the Fur Peace Station Concert Hall. It will start at 8 p.m. EDT Saturday, April 18. There will be a Q&A and some Fur Peace Ranch memorabilia…

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Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over and Through is a 20-song collection, compiled from the vast holdings of the Alan Lomax Archives relating to trouble and adversity and ways and means of enduring and transcending them. The selection reflects an enormous range of geographical and stylistic diversity across 50 years of Lomax recordings. Artists range from legends of American vernacular music — Bessie Jones, Skip James, and Dock Boggs among them — to rural Italian, Spanish, and Scottish singers. Six of its 20 tracks are previously unreleased. This album is exclusively available as a download or stream via Bandcamp. The Archives is also responsible for “Trouble…

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In a career that has already spanned a half-century, guitarist and vocalist, Jorma Kaukonen has been one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana, and at the forefront of popular rock-and-roll. A member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a Grammy recipient, he is a founding member of two legendary bands, Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna. Jorma Kaukonen’s repertoire goes far beyond his involvement creating psychedelic rock; he is a legend and one of the finest singer-songwriters and master instrumentalist in music today. Jorma tours the world bringing his…

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