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Steve-in-PA
Dec-19-2007, 7:00am
I recently picked up Levon Helm's new disc and it is really good. You may also want to check out Jorma's last two releases. Blue Country Heart and Stars in My Crown. Both CD's are filled with tastey mandolin playing (Bush and Mitteroff)and other incredible acoustic musicians. Stars in My Crown was produced by Byron House. Worth checking out!!!
Blue Country Heart is just a plain great record - Jorma, Jack and Barry played a lot off of it at a BG festival a few years back - great stuff -
Hot Tuna is coming to town this winter - I think I will try to make that show.
There's a show floating around from a west coast bluegrass festival workshop (Sierra?) where it's Jorma; Sam and Byron House jamming on various tunes including a few Tuna chestnuts like Mann's Fate. Sam rips it up. It's a great little set and I think may have been a pre-cursor to Jorma using Sam & Byron on Blue Country Heart? Sam mentions he was a big Jorma fan in high school http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
It's great to hear two of your musical idols who you thought were worlds apart jam together. Sam is the man.
Quote: mentions he was a big Jorma fan in hugh school
..So much he used to tell people his middle name was Jorma (Not). But when he got his high school ring the initials were SJB http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Steve-in-PA
Dec-19-2007, 8:32am
Yes!! I picked up that show a few years ago and it still is one of my favorites. Awesome playing and bantor from Sam and Jorma. Love the version of Hesitation Blues!!
Snakebeard Jackson
Dec-19-2007, 11:11am
he was alwasy the best part of jefferson airplane
Peter Hackman
Dec-19-2007, 11:28am
There's a show floating around from a west coast bluegrass festival workshop (Sierra?) where it's Jorma; Sam and Byron House jamming on various tunes including a few Tuna chestnuts like Mann's Fate. Sam rips it up. It's a great little set and I think may have been a pre-cursor to Jorma using Sam & Byron on Blue Country Heart? Sam mentions he was a big Jorma fan in high school http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
It's great to hear two of your musical idols who you thought were worlds apart jam together. Sam is the man.
I suppose they have a natural meeting ground in the repertoire of Blue
Country Heart.
I've heard tapes of Jorma and his brother Peter recorded in '63, or possibly earlier, where they do songs like "Katie Dear" together.
Of course, both of them were also into the Rev. Gary Davis and similar stuff.
Wonder what Jorma did to his voice over the years
- it's very smooth on these old recordings.
No doubt, JA was truly greater than the sum of their parts.
Back in the late 80's Jorma, Jack, and Paul Kantner toured together as Hot Tuna w/Paul Kanter. Largely acoustic. Wonderful show.
woodysny
Dec-19-2007, 12:41pm
If you are anywhere near Wilmington Delaware, you can catch Jorma and Dave Bromberg at the Grand Opera House on Jan. 20th. They played there last year with Barry Mitterhof and it was a musical extravaganza for sure.
maynard g. krebs
Dec-19-2007, 2:34pm
If you are anywhere near Wilmington Delaware, you can catch Jorma and Dave Bromberg at the Grand Opera House on Jan. 20th. They played there last year with Barry Mitterhof and it was a musical extravaganza for sure.
don't miss it, i had the treat of catching jorma and dave in the '80s, a real treat, and they really seemed to enjoy it too!
Back in the late 80's Jorma, Jack, and Paul Kantner toured together as Hot Tuna w/Paul Kanter. Largely acoustic. Wonderful show.
I saw that tour at Radio City though there was lots of electric guitars even a few "studio" musicians on stage for some odd reason; Jorma's bro Peter was in the band too.
The thing that stands out most about that show was how everyone went nuts when the Airplane left the stage and Jorma and Jack did their Hot Tuna bit http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
ahem...
don't miss it, i had the treat of catching jorma and dave in the '80s, a real treat, and they really seemed to enjoy it too!
I saw this too in the 80's; it was great. Bromberg
is the best he never puts on a bad show. (seen him at least 40 or 50 times) Just saw him at the Town Hall it was fantastic. He's as good as ever. Maybe his flatpicking is bit rusty but he makes up for it.
Bromberg did a solo "Takes a lot to Laugh" that was killer.
Mando player (Bobby Tangrea)was good too.
SternART
Dec-19-2007, 5:12pm
Sammy once told me when he was coming up he learned all of Jorma's guitar licks from that first Acoustic Hot Tuna album.
Pretty cool that he eventually got to record with one of his heros on Blue Country Heart. Tuna w/ Mitterhoff is
definitely worth seeing if you get a chance.
Patrick Sylvest
Dec-19-2007, 6:24pm
Let's not forget that 'BELA' played the banjo on Blue Country Heart.
Treblemaker
Dec-19-2007, 7:21pm
I have been a lifelong Jorma Fanatic since I first saw him in the early 80's during his residency in the NYC area. He frequently played the Lone Star Cafe in Greenwhich Village and about once a month at a bar called the Circus in Bergenfield, NJ near my home town of Tenafly. (I have lived in San Francisco since '87.)
Anyway - Jorma's move from psychedelic blues and straight afro-american influenced blues toward 2nd gen artists like the Louvins, Delmore's, Doc Watson and others was a natural progression and one I warmly welcomed as a fan of all Americana, from the blues of Lightnin' Hopkins, Bo Carter and the Reverend Gary Davis to the fully realized psychelic renderings of the Grateful Dead.
Anway, I digress. Here is a tip for all of you who love Blue Country Heart: Run, don't walk and go buy Roy Bookbinder's awesome 1988 CD "Bookeroo." It was produced by Jerry Douglas and features sidemen like Russ Barenburg, Stuart Duncan, Mark Hembree and Edgar Meyer. Note: Stuart Duncan plays Mandolin...
This is one of my Desert Island Favorites:
http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg....qegldje (http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:0pfoxqegldje)
-Treblemaker
SF, CA
Rick Schmidlin
Dec-19-2007, 7:51pm
I got to see Hot Tuna with papa John Creach in Wilkebarrie Pa, opening for the Jefferson Airaplane ,I think in the fall of 70. (Grace was eight months pregnent I think) Pappa John looked as old as the hills to me with the stilted vision because of the sunstances of the evening. (Great light show!)When I saw Jorma and Jack at Merlefest a few years back Joma said it was strange now to older then Pappa John when he joined Hot Tuna