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| Artist: Hot Tuna Title: First Pull Up, Then Pull Down Date: 1971 Label: RCA Records LSP-4550 Drawings By: Margareta Kaukonen
Notes: It doesn't matter if it's acoustic or electric...it's always Tuna. Jorma is a master of the guitar and Jack the bass. Together, and with their friends, they chug along and take us with them. I had always felt that they were the core of the Airplane and that they escaped all that Starship stuff relatively unscathed. The roots of this music can be found in old gospel songs and down home blues. The voice comes across as one that has talked through the night, through a haze of smoke and across vocal cords lubricated with a mighty brew. The soaring fiddle lines produced by Papa John still raise those little hairs at the back of the neck. Very interesting line work graces the cover and it came with a matching sleeve as well. If you enjoy Hot Tuna you may be interested in looking up some of the original songs by the Rev. Gary Davis to see where Jorma found his muse.
Line Up: Jack Casady: bass guitar
Track Listing Side 1
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