Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
Just back from a three gig five day run and a good time was had by all! The first show was at Seven Steps Up in Spring Lake, Michigan. It was obviously not spring up there but a good time was had in any case. Gary and Michelle hosted us up there and we felt right at home.
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
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Seven Steps Up
Silver Lake, Michigan
Thursday, January 6, 2022
- How Long Blues
- Dime For Beer
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- Letter To The North Star
- Broken Highway
- I Am The Light of This World
- River Of Time
- Barbeque King
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Hesitation Blues
- Take Your Time
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Come Back Baby
- True Religion
- Heart Temporary
- Day To Day Out The Window Blues
- Been So Long
- Genesis
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Embryonic Journey
I love Seven Steps Up and hope to get back there with Jack Casady!
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
Then we buzzed on down to Ann Arbor and the Ark. The Ark and I are old friends and it was great to be back and see live folks again.
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The Ark
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, January 7, 2022
First Set:
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- Broken Highway
- Candy Man
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Trouble In Mind
- Great Divide Revisited
- How. Long Blues
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
- Come Back Baby
- Sea Child
- Trial By Fire
- Whining Boy Blues
- San Francisco Bay Blues
Second Set:
- Hesitation Blues
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Letter To The North Star
- Things That Might Have Been
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Barbeque King
- Been So Long
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- I Am The Light Of This World
- River Of Time
- Search My Heart
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Embryonic Journey
Then a leisurely drove down to Columbus and a day off before my gig at Natalie’s Grandview. I feel at home at Natalie’s just like I do at our very own Fur Peace Station! Meatball and Pizza before the show… yeah!
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Natalie’s Grandview
Columbus, Ohio
Sunday, January 9, 2022
First Set:
- Too Many Years
- Ice Age
- Letter To The North Star
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- How Long Blues
- Serpent Of Dreams
- Ode To Billy Dean
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- Living In The Moment
- Sleep Song
- Trial By Fire
- Good Shepherd
- Angel island with John Hurlbut
- People Get Ready with John Hurlbut
- Kansas City Southern with John Hurlbut
- Travelin’ with John Hurlbut
- The River Flows with John Hurlbut
- All Along The Watchtower with John Hurlbut
- Encore: The Old Homestead with John Hurlbut
My good friend John Hurlbut came up from Meigs County to help me close the show and well… it was a blast! Speaking of John… a little reminder…
The Quarantine Concert Series rides again!
Be there or………….
@Willy
Yes, yes. Been doing the Bee for a couple years now. Wordle beats it as a game hands down, to me. Bing, bang, boom and it’s either drop the mike or slink back to the shadows.
@ carey georgas
Wordle has become part of my morning routine over tea the last 6 weeks or so…and if you like that, try the NYT Spelling Bee (though it requires a bit more time).
@ Ed I chuckled knowingly at your comment about How Long Blues…right there (listening) with you!
Wordle. If you like word puzzles, check it out.
Speaking of Acoustic Hot Tuna, a random observation:
I first heard “How Long Blues” when the first Hot Tuna album came out, and I’ve heard it (live and recorded) and played it about a billion times since then.
I just started on my second billion. That is one great, great song.
Hey Jorma,
Is San Francisco as close as Hot Tuna gets to Carson City Nevada? I would truly like to see Hot Tuna Acoustic live in concert someday.
Hope you get a chance to check out the game today. From what I remember you’re a Joe Burrow fan. A good SE Ohio fella.
The Ark – still there! I made the trip from Toronto in an early version of the Jefferson Campervan (VW Westfalia) just to see the Jorma Kaukonen Band at the Ark, I’m thinking around the ‘Land of Heroes’ time. That’s a great album, BTW.
Jorma, any thoughts or memories on this day in history. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/human-be-in/
Unfortunately, I can’t make the Carnegie Hall show. But I’ll be there the next night at the Narrows. Thanks, Jorma.
@Jorma
Thanks Jorma, I’m sure you’d enjoy it. Don’t forget!
Michael Lang, RIP
@Bret Ruby, PhD
Are you talking about The Moundbuilders of Ohio?
They were very prolific and were the most interesting Indians on the east coast. Heard about them in a anthropology class in college. If I’m not mistaken there’s a large Serpent Mound there. Very interesting group.
Dear Jorma,
I’m listening to you read “Been So Long.” I’ve enjoyed it all so far, and I was particularly interested to learn of your time in the Philippines studying anthropology. I’m an anthropologist (archaeologist, really) working for the National Park Service at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe, Ohio—right down the road from the Fur Peace Ranch. This place, marked by monumental mounds and earthen enclosures, was the spiritual capital of eastern North America 2000 years ago–the heart of an American Indian religious movement that swept over half the continent for almost 400 years. If you’re ever passing through and interested in a behind-the-scenes tour, drop me a line or call the park and ask for me. I think you’d get a kick out of it.
Best regards,
Bret
Hey Brett
That sounds awesome… perhaps when Spring is upon us…
Jorma
Hoyt Axton ,great songwriter ,in many movie’s.
Lightning bar blues
@Jorma
Thank you, Jorma. I’ll check out the movie. I know only his music; definitely comes across as a very likable guy.
Turns out there are two albums called “Folk ’66.”
This is the one I was listening to and yes, same song. The album is very much an artifact of its time, but aren’t we all…
https://www.discogs.com/release/8442820-Various-Folk-66-
Jorma,
It was a pleasure and an honor meeting you and chatting as well as John and Myron at Natalie’s!
We had an amazing evening of music and food? What a great intimate venue!!
See you Saturday in video stream land and at Carnagie Hall in April.
Thanks again Jorma!
Jim
WooHooo Quarantine concerts are back. I will be wearing my Quarantine Concerts long sleeve on the next one. The only ones who will see it is my wife, dog and me LOL
Hi Jorma,
I was just listening to an album called “Folk ’66” (which says STEREO across the top of the cover 8 times, so I guess it’s in stereo), and the first side ends with Hoyt Axton doing “Shepherd.”
Did you ever cross paths with him in the early days in San Francisco? And among the people who have done that song, is there any version you particularly like?
Yeah, I knew Hoyt in a casual way. Great guy. Check him out in the movie (1989) We’re No Angels. Awesome. I met Hoyt in LA in the late 80’s. Crosby introduced us. Now, I couldn’t find the album you referenced so I don’t even know if it’s the right song. I learned it from Roger Perkins in ’63.
Just a glimpse of the rock star lifestyle that most don’t see.
Just a glimpse of that glorious rock star lifestyle that most people don’t see!