A blog by Jorma Kaukonen

A New Decade Comes

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Well, as the year draws to a close, there’s news and there’s good news. The news is that one of our Fur Peace Ranch students who was going to come to Maui for the week is unable to make the trip no longer making this a sold out workshop. The good news is that we now have space for another student. What a bonanza for some guitar loving soul who would love to do some picking in the paradise ...
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Back In The Buckeye

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A week ago today in Jerusalem:

Like so many other people, the big blizzard of 2010 hit us as got off our plane in Newark… 75 degrees in Tel Aviv and well, you all know what it was like in the North East United States. The good news for us is that it was merely and inconvenience and not a tragedy. Our Israeli experience was unbelievable and my last memories of the Ben-Gurion Airport was the beautiful vintage poster bidding ...
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In The Garden State, The Blizzard Of The Millenium

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Just a quick note about our return to the States. 75 degrees in Tel Aviv as we boarded the plane. 18 degrees in Newark, New Jersey as we were one of the very last planes to land. The rental car places were closed, the Air Train was shut down and we were in the midst of a serious winter storm. Fate held our hand, however, and we managed to find a car and driver willing to take us to ...
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A Day In The Middle East

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Now I realize that I am only a tourist… here for a little less than a week and that as a tourist one only sees what a tourist would see. One has to wonder why three of the major religions in the world call this tiny speck of land indispensable… ground zero so to speak. Of course I have only been in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem but at least in this part of the Jewish State, peaceful coexistence seemed ...
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More Than Antiquities In The Holy Land

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Two nights ago, good old fun loving Hot Tuna played the Reading 3 in Tel Aviv, Israel. First of all… Jack Casady got delayed in Frankfort, Germany to to the huge snowstorms in Europe. When He finally got To Israel, the airlines had lost his luggage AND his bass guitar. Myron, our guitar doctor and Skoota our drummer got held up in security in Barcelona, Spain and when they finally got here, they came right from the airport to ...
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Back To The Garden State

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We left White River Junction and didn’t stop until we got to New Jersey, where we stopped for breakfast at the Scotchwood Diner where, just like it says on their website, the menu is ridiculously huge. We dropped Barry off at his house with the bus. Hope we didn’t wake the neighbors up.

The mandolinist ponders in an introspective way…

The remaining gang and I headed to Newark where we will try to rest up a little before our flight to ...
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A Trip To White River

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Busy, busy day… no hotel tonight but a beautiful gig at the Tupelo Music Hall where it is indeed, ‘All about the music!’ Here is our set list:

Jorma Kaukonen & Barry Mitterhoff 18, 2010
Tupelo Music Hall
White River Junction, Vermont
Saturday, December 18, 2010

First Set:
1. Been So Long
2. Candy Man
3. Izze’s Lullaby
4. I Know You Rider
5. Second Chances
6. Hesitation Blues
7. River Of Time
8. Come Back Baby
9. Bread Line Blues
10. Parchman Farm
11. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
Second Set:
1. I See The Light
2. How Long Blues
3. Day To Day Out The Window Blues
4. Things That Might Have Been
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Half The Sky… All The Support!

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The show at the Regent Theater last night was so great. Izze’s China Sisters from Upstate New York were here… and well, it was all great and we raised some money for the Half The Sky Foundation. Here is our set list… sort of:

Jorma Kaukonen & Barry Mitterhoff 17, 2010
Half The Sky Foundation Benefit
With Patty Larkin & Chris Smither
Regent Theater
Arlington, Massachusetts
Friday, December 17, 2010

1. Step It Up And Go with Chris Smither…
2. Izze’s Lullaby
3. Come Back Baby
4. Second Chances
5. Hesitation Blues

1. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
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In The Shadow Of The Rhode Island… I mean Massachusetts

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Last night we were in Fall River and played almost in the shadow of the Battleship Rhode Island.

I stand corrected… Massachusetts…
One of these days I hope a get to make some time to tour that historic ship as well as the others near her. In any case, the Narrow Center For The Arts is always lots of fun. It was my buddy Phil Jacobs 50th birthday and they had cake and song for him. Happy birthday Phil… many ...
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A Day In Portland, Maine

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Well, last night Barry Mitterhof and I were at One Longfellow Square in Portland and what a beautiful little venue it was. Joel Eckhaus stopped by and lent Barry a 30’s something National Resophonic tenor guitar which he played on Bread Line Blues… beautiful, just beautiful. Here is our set list:

Jorma Kaukonen & Barry Mitterhoff 14, 2010
One Longfellow Square
Portland, Maine
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

First Set:
1. Trouble In Mind
2. Hesitation Blues
3. River Of Time
4. Come Back Baby
5. I Know You Rider
6. Second Chances
7. More Than My Old Guitar
8. Parchman Farm
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