Photo By Vanessa Kaukonen
Every now and the Nessa and I get to take a morning walk together with our pals. All the pretty leaves are on the ground now… well, most of them but that’s OK.
Last night Jack and I drove up to Columbus for a two show night at the new Natalie’s. Lovely venue… our first time there. Many thanks to Natalie, her dad and Alec Whiteman for making a safe evening most enjoyable!
A two show night, of course!
Hot Tuna 24, 2020
The Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Early Show
Natalie’s
Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- True Religion
- Second Chances
- Broken Highway
- Hesitation Blues
- Letter To The North Star
- Parchman Farm
- In The Kingdom
- Trial By Fire
- Great Divide Revisited
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Candy Man
- How Long Blues
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Encore: Embryonic Journey
Hot Tuna 25, 2020
The Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Late Show
Natalie’s
Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- Dime For Beer
- Whining Boy Blues
- Let us Get Together Right Down Here
- Been So Long
- Barbeque King
- West Coast Blues
- Highway Song
- Sleep Song
- Watch The North Wind Rise
- Good Shepherd
- Song For The Stainless Cymbal
- Another Man Done Gone
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Come Back Baby
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Waiting For A Train
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
Indeed it is Veteran’s Day 2020 and so as I honor all of our veteran’s I think of my dad and his two brothers.
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While dad was getting ready to leave San Francisco for the Far East, Uncle Tarmo was in Sicily.
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For Tarmo, a relaxing moment out of the line of fire. North Aftrica, Sicily, Italy… those were his venues. He made it through all those campaigns to die in a VA hospital in Memphis in 1945 from lung cancer.
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen Sr.
So my uncle Pen… he was army… South Pacific. Carried a flame thrower… went into tunnels. He would have been a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He came up through Leyte. After the Philippines were liberated he would run into his brother, my dad, outside of Manila. The only thing he ever said to me about the war was, ‘Your dad never had to pull the trigger himself.’ I’m not a vet so I’m unequipped to really speak about hidden truths here. There are no pictures that I have of Pen in the service. I only know that something happened to him out there in the Pacific that could never be fixed. He died in a VA hospital back in the 70’s when he was a quarter of a century younger than I am today. I think he died of a broken heart.
He was my friend.
Not much more for me to say today on this.
I honor them all… all those who served and are serving!
Thank you!
HUA Captain.
Hey Jorma – love your thoughts and universal truths – miss you guys –
Thanks to all who have served!
Jorma and friends’ generosity of spirit in the youtube shows has been a shining beacon through the darkness of this terrible year. Thank you all.
Indeed! I wonder if a Rev. Gary Davis tune shows up 😉
Is it me or is Jorma looking more like ST. Nick lately?????
@JB
Some of the coolest historical fiction I’ve ever watched. Kind of like McCullough meets Tarantino. Soundtrack’s fantastic.
Any one watching Good Lord Bird on Showtime? Pretty interesting soundtrack.
Here in Italy we don’t have such a Veterans Day to celebrate the end of WW1, we have the Day of the Fallen, and we have the Veterans, me ma and pa. She was a surgeon’s assistant and he was the surgeon, back in the early days of WW2 on board of those white hospital ships with the huge red cross painted alongside and ploughing through the waves of the Med, coasting North Africa. His tiger glance looked around for ma’s sour black cherry sweet eyes popping out of the mask and the fruit of their love gave birth to my brother (1941) and yours truly (1946). Dad was made prisoner by the army of The British Empire down in India thus gaining him an O.B.E. from the then Queen for saving the lives of the British wounded soldiers back from the front, Sir Leopoldo Pagliano Candiani. May G-d give peace and solace to the heart of all those people who saw and died in that terrible terror.
Always Thanks Jorma!
Thank you for the pictures and the fine (as always) words. The Greatest Generation indeed!!!
Thank you for your moving tributes on this Memorial Day. ✌&💙
https://theconversation.com/first-world-war-poet-wilfred-owen-treated-for-shell-shock-carried-readers-into-the-horror-of-war-148060
It is only fairly recent that we have come to recognize and treat PTSD and count the suicides. Thanks for your moving words.
Love your uncle on the bike
Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
Thank you for that moving testimonial, Jorma.
Just came from a small memorial at our Village Green..Some 1940s Jeeps on display and Color Guard,Boy Scouts,VFW men and women,firetrucks and some politicians..A few speaches,PLedge of Allegiance ..Felt good to be an American again…I needed that too..
May the good Lord continue to richly bless you and your family.