Identify Jorma Kaukonen
Greatest recognized for Founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Sizzling Tuna. And, husband and world traveler and normal thinker.
Present metropolis Athens, Ohio… Residence of Ohio College.
Actually wish to be in My dream metropolis is Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. I’d be ingesting espresso and having fun with the native seafood caught that day adopted by a wonderful dessert, then a stroll by the water on the pebble seashore.
Enthusiastic about My new album, 75 ½ Wabash Avenue out on Data Retailer Day/Black Friday. This can be a recording from 1965 that by no means noticed the sunshine of day till July of this 12 months.
My present music assortment has a whole lot of Americana. At present I can not get sufficient of Willie Watson, Gillian Welsh.
And a bit of little bit of At all times the blues. Dave Specter out of Chicago who’s a good friend…simply love his enjoying, T-Bone Walker w/ Dizzy Gillespie Jazz at The Philharmonic – Stay within the UK 1966.
Most popular format Streaming is so handy however there’s nothing like vinyl.
5 Albums I Can’t Stay With out:
1
Harlem Avenue Singer, Blind Gary Davis
In 1960 I used to be a pupil of Ian Buchanan who transliterated Rev. Davis’ guitar work to me in a manner I might perceive. When the album got here out, listening to it in my dorm room at Antioch School modified my life! A lot of my early profession rested on tunes I discovered off this album!
2
I Can Inform, John P. Hammond
“I Can Inform” and “I Want You Would” that includes Robbie Robertson on guitar and Invoice Wyman on bass. This was blues! This was rhythm and blues! This was greater than genuine, if there’s such a factor. I first heard these songs on a forty five rpm single on the Crimson Chook label. As quickly as Atlantic picked John up and launched these songs and extra on the I Can Informalbum, you already know I went proper out and acquired it!
3
The Filth and the Stars, Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter had been my Poet Laureate for a few years. I might have picked nearly any of her many albums however The Filth and the Stars is the newest one I’ve, therefore right here it’s.
4
King of the Delta Blues Singers, Robert Johnson
I used to be at Antioch School in 1961 when John Hammond introduced these Robert Johnson cuts to Campus on a reel-to-reel tape earlier than the album was launched. I’m not a Robert Johnson stylist, however these tunes had been definitely a paradigm shift from the blues I used to be conversant in at the moment!
5
The Tougher They Come, Jimmy Cliff
Soundtrack album from the film of the identical title. In 1972 Jerry Garcia stopped by my home on Yerba Buena Ave. in San Francisco with this album in hand. “You’ve gotta test this reggae stuff out! You’ve by no means heard something prefer it!” Jerry was proper on each accounts. The film, “The Tougher They Come” was enjoying at an area artwork theater on the time so I listened to the album and instantly went and noticed the film. That is elementary reggae at its greatest
