A blog by Jorma Kaukonen

Brewer & Shipley and Jonathan Edwards Come To The FPR

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Foto by Jorma, poster by Kevin Morgan

Another fine weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch with Spencer Bohren, Doug Macleod, and of course, me with a song writing class.

I so love spending all my home time here at the Ranch…It’s something I always dreamed of!

Reference the great Russian Epic, Siberiade… and the highway to anywhere.

Saturday night came and Michael Brewer and Tom Shipley descended upon with their wonderful music. What a moment of beautiful old time folkiness came with them.

Then ...
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Enjoying The Dog Days Of Summer

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Being home… always a blessing. It’s been comfortably cool at night and hot during the day. Very nice for August. I’ll take it.

Foto by Vanessa Kaukonen

Izze is not fond of competition… and that’s OK. Boy is she good with a compound bow though. The sound of that arrow piercing the target is like a rifle shot!

Foto by Vanessa Kaukonen

Barbecues and cook outs… the bounty of Summer.

Then my pal Jerry and I got furloughed to map out our route for ...
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Three More On The Way Home

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Wisdom from the Midwest!

The Englert Theater in Iowa City… we don’t get here often enough, but we love it!

Phil and I dined at Hamburger Inn #2.

Foto by Phil Jacobs

And at the Gig:

Foto by Phil Jacobs

Hot Tuna 21, 2016
The Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
The Englert Theater
Iowa City, Iowa
Friday, August 12, 2016

First Set:
1. Too Many Years
2. I See The Light
3. Hesitation Blues
4. Things That Might Have Been
5. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
6. Sea Child
7. Barbeque King
8. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
9. Brother Can You ...
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Kent To Ann Arbor…

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Quite a haul from Boston to Kent in Ohio… but that’s why they pay us the moderate bucks.

Foto by Phil Jacobs

I have been to the Kent Stage a bunch of times… both solo and with good old Jack Casady. It’s always a good time here… plus, I was back in my home state for 20 seconds!

Hot Tuna 19, 2016
The Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
The Kent Stage
Kent, Ohio
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

First Set:
1. Ain’t In No Hurry
2. Hesitation Blues
3. I See The Light
4. Nobody ...
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Six Days On The Road… And We’re Not Done Yet

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So a week ago tomorrow we started out on this little odyssey… Seems like a lifetime, or is it a minute? Hard to say. Anyway, we loaded up at the Fur Peace Ranch.

Vanessa and I got a Jeep Gran Cherokee for my son Zach, and I needed to drive it to Hagerstown to drop it off with him on the way to New Jersey.

Youth takes over the wheel as it should be. The bus picked me up at the ...
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Couples Weekend At The Fur Peace Ranch!!!!

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Foto by Jorma & Vanessa Kaukonen

Every weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch is special…but if you’re going to grade ‘special,’ Couples Weekend is high on the list of specialness! For teachers there myself, (of course), Verlon Thompson, and Kai Eckhardt. Verlon and I opened the Saturday night concert for Roger MacNamee, Jason Crosby, Pete Sears and Jay Lane. Yup… The Doobie Decibel System.

Foto by Rusty Smith

Jorma Kaukonen 28, 2016
With Verlon Thompson

1. Back Up & Turn Around, Verlon with Jorma
2. In ...
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