Cracks in the Finish

Photo taken from Hot Tuna Facebook

Indeed, lots of talk about the electric version of our little world taking a break and going fishing for, well… maybe a long time. Of course we have quite a nice electric run starting in September. Check our tour page here at this link. Now, on this subject I guarantee more will be revealed, so stay tuned.

As for the Great South Bay Music ...
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Photo by Jorma Kaukonen

Yeah, so I got to open a show for my old comrade in arms Tommy Emmanuel up in Columbus at the Southern Theater. I was thrilled that I got to do this with Tommy. Except for Natalie’s in Grandview I rarely get to play up here. Some years ago Vanessa got to se Pete Seeger, Holly Near and Harry Belafonte at the Southern… and illustrious venue.

Selfie by Vanessa Kaukonen

We love our animals, of course. Over the years we have been blessed with many four footed companions. Zammy, the cat in Vanessa’s arms has been gone for a while. Blackie, the big guy in mine just left us today. Blackie taught us so much about love. He first surfaced as a feral cat intimidating the other cats at the Fur Peace Ranch and eating their food. We kept trying to shoo him away but he ...
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Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen

David Wolff, our cohort, guide and friend here on the Vineyard guided us to the Red Cat Kitchen in Oak Bluffs where Ben DeForest, a music lover like myself and chef nonpareil treated us to a dinner that was off the charts. If you’re ever on the Vineyard a trip into Oak Bluffs is in order for a killer dinner.

I recommend the ...
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I’ve procrastinated long enough waiting to get pictures together for this blog… Enough already. I’ll add them when I get them… Onward!

Both Hurl and I had been looking forward to this gig for some time. We love to play together so that’s a given but the Ohio With Love component upped the ante for us. (See previous entry) Good stuff and we raised a bunch of money.

We also had more than a gaggle of friends staying over on the ...
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I just finished the third of my shows with David Bromberg and his wonderful band. David and I have been friends for a very long time and has been a pleasure and an honor to call him friend. We really started to get to know each other in the mid 80’s. I had just separated from Margareta, my wife of 20 some years and was starting to navigate the treacherous waters of single life in the 80’s. I have ...
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Photo by Joy Kinzie

There is never a time for news good or bad that is better than another. Time just is, well time… and it is up to us to make the most of it. In my time these days it seems like walking through a room filled with obituaries. Some I care about profoundly and some I pass by with a simple, ‘Oh well…’

I got up this ...
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Photo by Jorma Kaukonen

Indeed, it is that time of life when I find my contemporaries shuffling off the mortal coil at an alarming rate. I don’t like it a bit, but to be completely selfish, it beats the alternatives.

David and I had been friends since the early 60’s when we were just a bunch of young folkies.  Kantner met him when he moved from San Jose ...
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Photo by Phil Jacobs

A wonderful venue in Florence, Mass. My first time here but I hope not my last.

Jorma Kaukonen 15, 2022

Bombyx,

Florence, Massachusetts

Monday, December 12, 2022

Photo by Phil Jacobs

Plus…

Photo by Jorma ...
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Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen

It has been four days since our final in person camp weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch. I have waited this long to write about it because well, it just needed a lot of processing. We have been open for twenty-four years and much has changed in that quarter century. In ’91 or ’92 we built the A Frame on the trail down to the Shade. I had a studio down there ...
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