Photo by Phil Jacobs
I’ve been here several times and I love the Venue. Jack now loves it too!
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
Hot Tuna 6, 2023
The Original Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Stoughton Opera House
Stoughton, Wisconsin
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
First Set:
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- Second Chances
- Ice Age
- Hesitation Blues
- Barbeque King
- How Long Blues
- Great Divide Revisited
- Sleep Song
- Trial By Fire
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Bar Room Crystal Ball
Second Set:
- Been So Long
- Come Back Baby
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
- Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Sea Child
- Good Shepherd
- Song For The Stainless Cymbal
- I Am The Light Of This World
- True Religion
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Water Song
Then on down the road to Riverfront in Cincinnati
Photo by Phil Jacobs
An old school rockin’ joint for sure!
Hot Tuna 7, 2023
The Original Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Riverfront Live
Cincinnati, Ohio
Thursday, April 20, 2023
First Set:
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- Another Man Done Gone
- Ice Age
- Hesitation Blues
- Barbeque King
- Great Divide Revisited
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Full Go Round
- Sea Child
- Trial By Fire
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- How Long Blues
Second Set:
- Blue Railroad Train
- Highway Song
- Come Back Baby
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Been So Long
- Letter To The North Star
- 99 Year Blues
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Song For The Stainless Cymbal
- Hamar Promenade
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- I Know You Rider
- Encore: Water Song
Then up the road to the Kent Stage… a venue we love!
Hot Tuna 8, 2023
The Original Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Kent Stage
Kent, Ohio
Friday, April 21, 2023
First Set:
- Dime For Beer
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Blue Railroad Train
- Great Divide Revisited
- Sn Francisco Bay Blues
- How Long Blues
- Ice Age
- Sea Child
- Trial By Fire
- Brother Can You Spare A Dime
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
Second Set:
- Hesitation Blues
- Barbeque King
- Letter To The North Star
- Second Chances
- Another Man Done Gone
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Living In The Moment
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Bar Room Crystal Ball
A short night in Kent then back down the road to Pomeroy and the scenic Fur Peace Ranch and an afternoon with Hot Tuna!
Hot Tuna 9, 2023
The Original Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Fur Peace Station
Pomeroy, Ohio
Saturday, April 22, 2023
First Set:
- Dime For Beer
- Hesitation Blues
- Barbeque King
- Great Divide Revisited
- Letter To The North Star
- Ice Age
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Sea Child
- Brother Can You Spare A Dime
- San Francisco Bay Blues
Second Set:
- Trouble In Mind
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- Take Your Time
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Whining Boy Blues
- Come Back Baby
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
- I Know You Rider
- Encore: Water Song
It was great to spend the afternoon at ‘home’ with Vanessa and the dogs as well as our fabulous guests at the Fur Peace Station!
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
After show a drive up to Pittsburgh where we play yes… Carnegie Hall!
Good times…
Photo by Phil Jacobs
My blather had purpose, formeanyway. I was brought back to early ’90s, when I first met a long admired Times reporter, a genial Buckeye who shared my admiration for Thurber, a mentor and friend of his. Hank was humbly pleased I had read him since ’70’s and quoted his column from that day. We had some good meetings at Bedford Hills.
Guess this is my week for new words. Today’s: quisling. Both new words this week were learned whilst reading different articles on the same subject. I shall now make a sentence using both.
“The quisling was defenestrated first thing Monday morning”.
That’s all.
Patchouli comes to mind
@Hogan
Hey, Carey
Welcome back to Brendan’s blog via Jorma’s hijacked site.
Day to Day Out the Window Blues, of course. But yesterday I had a moment after realizing that, as a young boy over 50 years ago, I read of Thurbur’s aforementioned Jack Smurch in ‘The Greatest Man in the World’, now re-imagined as history. This after having last week reminded Biden-bashers that Ronnie Reagan recounted stories from films he starred in this same way. Offsetting this sign of Mitty-esque early onset dementia is my having been inspired back then to sometimes imagine reality as Thurbur stories. My world, and welcome to it.
Ended up driving 2 hours on Guy Schuster’s highways to last night’s show, which was worth it. Those Tuna guys are great, man. Can’t beat it. There appeared to be a few hundred kids waiting outside to get in, but it was Western night at a bar for PSU grads. Caused me to wonder if scented candles wouldn’t help move some stock at the Tuna goods table. Gwyn-Pal sells vagina scented. I’m thinking that, and maybe the scent hippie chicks used to wear, but I never got name of.
Hey Jorma,
Awesome set lists…
Hoping to see all of you soon.
Safe travels..
Hogan
🙂
Nahhhh, man. You didn’t just think it, you wrote down that you thought it. Spill it. Even the uberest of Tuna nerds have nothing to be embarrassed about.
Jack Smurch was protagonist of a story written by Ohio’s own James Thurber, my first favorite author. Maybe man who plummeted to his death had a different name, or the tv movie was fiction and Dad was having me on, or some combination thereof.
Apologies for going on.
There’s a Tuna song tie-in with defenestrate Careman, but I’m embarrassed in an uber nerd-like way for even thinking of it. I’m reminded of a pioneer aviator I remember as being named Max Smerch, but am not finding by way of search. There was a TV movie depicting his defenestration in lower Manhattan. He completed an historic, spectacular flight while fueling himself with gin, which was his staple diet. He was to get a canyon of heroes parade, but was in it for money and broads, which he told press and government. Dad, who was in aviation from ’50’s on, laughed and said story of his being helped out of an office window thought to be true. Then there’s my brother, who defenestrated a knife wielding skell from a Bronx diner back in the day.
I have one good seat for tonight’s show in State College, if a reader here can use it. There was a good chance I would be in area when purchased, but am not.
@BrendanC
I’ve seen that story of Edison’s shenanigans documented in other books/articles. Deathpicable.
And, I learned a new word today I don’t recall having seen before: defenestrate.
Jorma’s post is a veritable travelogue this time. Keep on playin’ that music!
That was quite an experience, right up there with seeing you at Fur Peace. Even the sound check was AWESOME!
I like Phil’s ‘Poised in Pittsburgh’ composition. That building is pre-AC, then? I vaguely remember something along line of Carnegie backing Edison over Tesla, but Tesla bio was too technical for me, so I put it down. I recall author positing that first electric chair execution, at Sing Sing Prison, was purposefully prolonged, causing considerable added distress to the object. Supposedly Edison’s investors arranged this as a propaganda tool to scare public away from Tesla A.C. and toward Edison D.C.
Jorma- Repeating this post in case you didn’t catch it-apologize for the duplication. Electric Hot Tuna actually played at Wildwood Springs Lodge on September 23 and 24 of 2005. We were there, great show and had fun talking to you and Jack. You’re so friendly, he’s kind of shy until he gets going. The merch folks brought out a stack of older show posters and we got two signed by you guys-Jack was stunned to see several that he didn’t have in his collection. Sorry we missed you this time, not able to travel right now.
I stand corrected… thanks Tom!