
Bigger than life...
Some wintry mix falling and outside the window of the bus we see the Tootsie Roll eighteen wheeler. I’m not much of a candy eater but Trick Or Treating always brings out the Tootsie Roll in me.

The facade of the Orpheum
Foto by Phil Jacobs
I had been looking forward to this gig with Susan and Derek for some time and as always, it was a treat!

Good times
Foto by Phil Jacobs
What a beautiful theater the Orpheum is!

Gotta love a ceiling like this!
Jorma Kaukonen 32, 2016
Jorma Solo
Opening For Tedeschi/Trucks
The Orpheum Theater
Boston, Mass.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
1. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
2. Come back Baby
3. Hesitation Blues
4. Watch The North Wind Rise
5. Sea Child
6. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
7. San Francisco Bay Blues
8. How Long Blues
9. River Of Time
10. I Am The Light Of This World
11. Good Shepherd
12. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
13. Water Song

Like a night at the opera
Susan had a beautiful new Alessandro Amp!

Amp bling!
Then I got to strap on the Bird and play Keys To The Highway with Susan, Derek an the gang!

How good does it have to get?
Foto by Joe FitzPatrick
What a joy and an honor to hang with folks where everyone is a superstar!
Then from Boston to Woodstock, N.Y. and a Midnight Ramble at Levon’s place.

May his memory be a blessing!
Foto by Phil Jacobs
I haven’t been to Lee’s place since he passed. I worked on two projects there, River Of Time and Steady As She Goes. Lee played on two songs for me on River and he and Muddy and I just hung out during Tuna’s Steady As She Goes.

Lee and his bud Muddy
Time flies… really flies. It seems like Levon Helm should still be here but he’s been gone for almost half a decade… and that’s just the way it is. I missed him at his Woodstock manse, but I could feel him looking over my shoulder.
Jorma Kaukonen 33, 2016
Jorma Solo
Midnight Ramble
Levon Helm’s Barn
Woodstock, New York
Friday, December 2, 2016
First Set:
1. Ain’t In No Hurry
2. Second Chances
3. Hesitation Blues
4. Been So Long
5. How Long Blues
6. Sleep Song
7. Watch The North Wind Rise
8. Living In The Moment
9. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
10. Barbeque King
11. Candy Man
12. Whining Boy Blues
13. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
Second Set:
1. Too Many Years
2. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
3. Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
4. Serpent Of Dreams
5. Come Back Baby
6. I’ll Be All Right Some Day
7. The Terrible Operation
8. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
9. River Of Time
10. Sea Child
11. Good Shepherd
12. Bar Room Crystal Ball
13. Water Song
14. I Know You Rider
15. Encore: Genesis

Me on stage and Levon... somewhere in the rafters!
Foto by Phil Jacobs
Then we breezed up to Cazenovia where I played for the first time at the Catherine Cummings Theater.

This is one great room!
Jorma Kaukonen 34, 2016
Jorma Solo
Catherine Cummings Theater
Cazenovia, New York
Saturday, December 3, 2016
First Set:
1. Ain’t In No Hurry
2. Too Many Years
3. Hesitation Blues
4. Been So Long
5. Come Back Baby
6. Sleep Song
7. Flying clouds
8. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
9. Candy Man
10. In My Dreams
11. Nobody Knows You When Your Down & Out
12. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
Second Set:
1. I See The Light
2. Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
3. The Terrible Operation
4. Barbeque King
5. San Francisco Bay Blues
6. Sleep Song
7. In The Kingdom
8. Good Shepherd
9. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
10. Bar Room Crystal ball
11. Water Song
12. In My Dreams
13. I Know You Rider
14. Embryonic Journey
Then today a quick drive to Rochester where tomorrow I will be at the Wolk Community Jewish Center.
I’m not slowing down yet… that’s for sure! It’s dark and winter up here in Upstate New York. There’s something peace about the early darkness in the northern latitudes. Time for a nice night’s sleep.
Bon nuit…