Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
More on this later… but first.
Yeah it was 9/11 but having honored the moment, it was time to move on. Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams were in town to share the joy of their music with us here at the Fur Peace Ranch. My good friend Tom Feldmann made the trek down from the far reaches of Minnesota to help me illuminate some guitar pieces. Always a pleasure to see and play with these guys!
Because of the rising Covid numbers in the area where we live the only live folks in the audience were those students here at the Ranch. We sent the show out streaming for the folks who had hard tickets. Obviously we’re hoping we won’t have to do this for the next show which is a G.E. Smith show but we’re taking it one day at a time. Anyway, I opened the show for Larry and Teresa and, joy of joys, got to sit in with them for three songs!
Jorma Kaukonen 38, 2021
Opening For Larry Campbell
And Teresa Williams
The Fur Peace Station
Darwin, Ohio
- Trouble In Mind
- Broken Highway
- Too Many Years
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Whining Boy Blues
- Hamar Promenade
- Been So Long
With Larry And Teresa
- Big River
- Let Us Get Together
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
Always a treat to be with these folks!
This morning was a beautiful winding down for a great weekend! Tom Feldmann played a forty minute set for our Coffee Break Concert Show before class.
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
It’s been a while since I had the distinct pleasure of seeing and hearing Tom. It was an awesome set of moments!
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
After Tom’s show, my class, Tom and I adjourned to the theater for the weekend’s final session.
Photo by Stephanie Layton
Everyone scattered to the four corners of the earth and I drove into town to pick up Izze at school while I started thinking about my set at the PawPaw Festival this weekend.
John Hurlbut will be with me too. Maybe we’ll see you there!
Hey,Jorma, when I did the google on Tony Joe the other day, I noticed the song spelled Polk Salad Annie, then sure enough you spelled it the same way. Then I looked at a couple other places, all spelling it “Polk”. Well, being the southern boy I am, I have always assumed since I first heard it as a teenager (I guess I’d never seen it spelled) that it was referring to “poke salad”, an eclectic southern dish made from the pokeweed. I thought, what the hell? Well, a little more sleuthing has led me to the conclusion that both spellings are correct. I’m gonna find some this spring. I’m close enough to Louisiana that it grows around where I live. I’ll cook me some up, and if it don’t kill me, I ‘ll let you know how it tastes. I love songs. Peace.
How very cool!
BTW saw a preview of Black Friday record store day, looks like Jorma’s Christmas is on the list. Christmas tree Colored vinyl too !!!
Wow. O’l Tony Joe wrote “Rainy Night in Georgia”. I did not know that.
Check out Five Summers For Jimmy as well as The Gospel Singer on The Train I’m On album. He wrote Polk Salad Annie for Elvis as well as countless others. He was a favorite of Creedence. I got to see him at the Boarding House in San Francisco in the late 70’s and was on some festival dates with him a decade or so ago. He was awesome!
Anyone remember Tony Joe White? I just heard the only song by him other than Poke Salad Annie. A mighty fine tune called Boot Money. On Sirius Bluesville.
@mikie
That is a great version. The violin expands on the whistling in the original for me. Still, I like Haywire Mac His name alone sells it for me! I think I first heard the song as a kid done by Burl Ives.
Best version EVER! m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjNfmKwBEMY
I keep hearing “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” in a Chevy commercial. Such a great song from the perspective of a hobo. I thought Tom Waits sang a bit of it in Ironweed but I saw it long ago.
“Where they hung the jerk that invented work” Gotta laugh
I ain’t been able to get my mind off Big River Saturday night. Since there’s no public archive, if you didn’t see it, damn. When Jorma and Larry cut loose, it was like a year and a half’s worth of isolation was instantly annihilated. The passion displayed in their performance and the happiness permeating the whole vibe was something to see. And hear. Huzzah!!!!!
Yea Jorma is diggin’ it Far Out ! I just love to hear the Old Language spoken once again. Bring it all back . All the best to all of you
Good afternoon, I attended the Jorma, Larry and Teresa evening of soul full music. I was so glad to be a part of that experience.
I hope that you had tremendous success and that this will open up future opportunities for more shows.
I was especially taken with the fact that that was the first show Teresa and Larry had performed together in well over a year. What a great place to start back on the road. Stay safe wear a mask get vax and love this country. Slan’.
I was moved by a letter to the Athens News by 9 CEO’s of local area hospitals, asking folks to PLEASE band together: wear a mask and get the shots. I would appreciate sharing a link to this letter with your readers. thanks and stay well. m
https://www.athensnews.com/news/regional/regional-hospital-leaders-ask-communities-to-join-the-fight-against-covid/article_7bb8f28e-f740-5a79-9461-3a270358f61e.html
Came a pretty good blow here last night, but oh how fortunate we are that it was only a Cat 1. Looks like it’s moving on out. Hope it doesn’t bring any rain where it’s not needed.
Rock on.
Not your first time in that chair, my guess.