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Sure, they're all sitting down playing acoustic guitars. But there's not much that's otherwise laid back about this particular get-together with Hot Tuna, a long-running offshoot of the Jefferson Airplane. Between performances, the DVD offers bar-side conversations with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Cassidy, who discuss how they created the band while on the road with Jefferson Airplane as an outlet for the kind of blues--country and otherwise-- they had started out playing before turning to rock & roll. The performances at the Sweetwater, a long-time landmark club in Mill Valley, California, include low-key ruminations on classics like "Hesitation Blues," as well as an acoustic rave-up on Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," featuring former
Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and singer Maria Muldaur on vocals. Weir turns up on energetic bonus video tracks for the DVD, including "Walkin' Blues" and "Good Mornin', Little Schoolgirl." Production values are minimal; it was obviously shot with a limited number of cameras. But the playing is consistently inventive, with an additional 40 minutes of audio performance highlights on the DVD.
--Marshall Fine
From the Back Cover
Acoustic Hot Tuna - Live at Sweetwater, Mill Valley, California, January 27, 28, 29th 1992
VIDEO PROGRAM - 25 YEARS AND RUNNIN'
1. San Francisco Bay Blues
2. Trial by Fire
3. Let Us Get Together
4. Pass the Snakes
5. Hesitation Blues
6. Embryonic Journey
7. I Know You Rider
8. I Was the One
9. 99 Year Blues
10. Maggie's Farm (with Bob Weir and Maria Muldaur)
11. Folsom Prison Blues
BONUS VIDEO TRACKS
1. Walkin' Blues (with Bob Weir)
2. Good Mornin' Little School Girl (with Bob Weir)
3. I See the Light
4. Ice Age
5. Genesis
6. Good Shepherd
7. Parchman Farm
AUDIO PROGRAM
1. I'll Be Alright Someday
2. Sea Child
3. Too Many Years
4. Hard Lesson
5. Candy Man
6. Been So Long
7. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
8. True Religion
9. Judge, I'm Not Sorry
