Classic Hot Tuna Acoustic

Hot Tuna | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 1996)
• Original Release Date: April 16, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relix
• ASIN: B000000SUO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,488 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Never Happen No More

2. Candy Man

3. New Song (For the Morning)

4. Hesitation Blues

5. Been So Long

6. Search My Heart

7. Uncle Sam Blues

8. True Religion

9. Death Don't Have No Mercy

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING ACOUSTIC MUSIC from the MASTERS, October 26, 2000

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Jo-Ann Lucchese "John Lucchese" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Hot Tuna Acoustic (Audio CD)

This compilation is so vital to any Tuna fan's collection, it is understood why this disc is entitled "Classic". Amazing early acoustic material that would have never seen the light of day it wasn't for the amazing Relix label. There is a "Classic Electric" companion disc to this release and it is also essential for true fans. If you love the sound of a guitar - you MUST turned on to Jorma sometime soon. These albums will do it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Lost Tuna, March 29, 2002

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Charles A Galupi "music snob" (Euless, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Hot Tuna Acoustic (Audio CD)

The set list is familiar to fans, with most of the songs having appeared on the first two Tuna releases (except "Search My Heart" and uncredited number (no writer listed) that feels like Jorma's distilation of the Rev Gary Davis' fingerpicking style that colors ALL of Hot Tuna's blues numbers). Recorded in studio at KSAN in 1971, this set gives a good feel for where Tuna was at the time. The addition of Papa John Creech's funky violin of the numbers that appeared on the first Tuna adds a sense of fun to the numbers. My problem with Creech on "First Pull Up, Then Pull Down" is that he overplays and forces himself on the listener, but on this set, he appears content to lay back in the pocket a little more, making his accents more meaningful. The uncredited percussionist also adds to the devolopment of the songs by giving a solid rythymic base for the always tasty Jack Cassidy to play off of. Especially good are the closers "True Religion" and "Death Don't Have No Mercy."

For someone just approaching Hot Tuna, I'd recommend the first or Burgers to start, but if you're familiar with the basics of Tuna, this is a good set to explore their acoustic side, along with the first side of "Double Dose," their 1978 double live album.

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece. Hot Tuna hotter than ever, August 4, 2010

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Leonardo Mirenda "keoleomire" (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Classic Hot Tuna Acoustic (Audio CD)

This album is beautiful in all aspects: the line-up is inusual as beautiful, the music is outstanding, all band formers are in perfect fit: they play hotter than ever.

If you are a Tuna fan this is a "MUST"!!!


Line-up: Jorma Kaukonen -acoustic guitar, vocals.
Jack Cassady -acoustic bass.
Papa John Creach -fiddle (electric violin).
Sammy Piazza -drums.

The best track on it is "Been so long", with the beautiful violin by Papa John Creach, that makes (with absurd Jorma's finger picking and Jack's powerful bass playing) the Tuna sound psychedelic, unique, original.
All supported well by the jazz-blues drumming of Sammy Piazza, this is a great "bootleg" HOt TUna album.
IMPORTANT: NOTICE THAT THE CD HAS NO BACK INSERT