A blog by Jorma Kaukonen

A Day At Ash Cave With The Kids

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On Wednesday there was an outing in the Hocking Hills at Ash Cave for the kids involved in the Ohio Virtual Academy, so of course Nessa and Izze and my nephew Montana and Izze’s Learning Coach, Shannon and I drove up from Meigs County to the Hocking Hills for a lovely day in the woods and a chance to meet our online teachers in the flesh as well as some of the local kids that are in the program. ...
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50% Of An Airplane… Opening Day At The Ranch

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The weekend premiered the 17th year of our amazing Fur Peace Ranch. Aside from the great classes we offered, Verlon Thompson with a songwriting class, Jack Casady with a bass workshop and Marjorie Thompson and me with a fingerstyle guitar class, the theme of which was, ‘Love Is Strange, we also had two concert nights with the Marty Balin Band.

Here is Tuna’s set list from the first night:

Hot Tuna 33, 2014
The Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Fur Peace Station
Darwin, Ohio
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‘Gottcha Day! The Miracle Continues…

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Izze’s ‘Gottcha Day,’ Wednesday, March 19, 2014

In 2007, I was working in Italy when Vanessa and I got the call to go to China to bring our daughter, Israel Love, home to Ohio. You never know when these calls are going to come so families must be ready. Vanessa’s sister Robin, (Lady Robin to all of us) went in my stead and the ladies headed over halfway around the world to Nanning, China.

We knew even before we saw her ...
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From Spirited Away To The Wind Rises

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For those of you familiar with Hayao Miyazaki, this little entry needs no elucidation. I first became aware of his work when we took our much younger daughter to see Ponyo. As parents of an adopted child, this masterpiece really had some resonance with us as adults… and the little one liked it too. Last night we went to see his most recent American release, The Wind Rises. This anime feature was a historical drama, and the youngsters didn’t ...
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Wings Of Steel… Skating On Thin Ice

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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Skating On Thin Ice, But Smilin’ All The While

So Izze had a skating session at the Bird Arena at OU in Athens this afternoon. Vanessa was working at the Psylodelic Gallery getting ready for Grace Slick’s art show opening next week at the Fur Peace Ranch so I offered to take our girl to the rink. Now I got to thinking… it’s been three decades since I strapped the blades on, but I figured, what the ...
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All In A Day’s Work

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Back from Jamaica on Sunday last. Monday and Tuesday were warm… Tuesday was 75 degrees. I took the opportunity to take my Harley Ultra Classic to the shop for some Spring servicing. Just in the nick of time, I might add since yesterday the temperature started to drop and we had a dusting of snow last night. This morning, it was 16 degrees. Not quite Spring yet and a good thing he bike is not ready to be picked ...
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Jorma Plays Acoustic On The Beach

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Last night at the Ramble at the Grand Lido I kicked off the show with this set:

Ramble On The Island
Jorma’s Show
Negril, Jamaica
Friday, March 7, 2014

1. Trial By Fire
2. Living In The Moment
3. I See The Light
4. In My Dreams
5. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here with Larry Campbell
6. Barbeque King with Larry C
7. Children Of Zion with Larry C & Teresa W
8. Bar Room Crystal Ball with Larry C and Teresa W
9. Water Song with Larry Campbell

The night was beautiful… sound spectacular and more great music followed. ...
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Down The Way Where The Night’s Are Gay…

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Nessa and Izze and Myron and Mandy and I got down here Tuesday afternoon. It snowed Monday morning at Hillside Farm… we shoveled, plowed and went to the airport. The pace is quite different here in the Caribbean of course, but it is more than easy to adapt to.

In the evenings I got to play with Little Feat as well as David Bromberg and Larry Campbell and the Ramble Band. During the day, we did… well, a lot of ...
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Trail Of Years…

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Well, just about a week ago, Hot Tuna finished up what might be our longest tour with the most number of jobs… ever.

Now the following list brackets the two weeks that I was teaching at Fur Peace Ranch In San Diego so we’re really talking about stuffing all these gigs into about six weeks. Check it out!

Tuna Gigs 1 thru 32, 2014
2/28/2014

1. Hot Tuna 1, The Iron Horse, Northampton, Mass. Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014
2. Hot Tuna 2, The Westhampton Beach Performing ...
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