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RHR217 - River Of Time - Jorma Kaukonen
Returning to his blues and rock roots, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jorma Kaukonen mixes some of the funky innovation of his early Jefferson Airplane days with the clean acoustic riffs of his Grammy-nominated Blue Country Heart album. Featuring Levon Helm and produced by Larry Campbell!
"Front-porch folk music doesn't get much better." - Washington Post
While America was in the throes of rock & roll's dawn, his ears were elsewhere as a devotee of acoustic bluesmen of the past. After relocation to San Francisco, he was one of the first to back another recent arrival (from Texas) named Janis Joplin. As founding member of Jefferson Airplane, he became pioneering architect of the guitar sound that became the genre Psychedelic Rock. His music became the soundtrack of the Counterculture and the Woodstock Generation, it's accompanying lifestyle / philosophy influenced millions. At the height of Airplane's fame as the most successful American rock band of the 1960s, he walked away to play roots music in Hot Tuna. The following decades he forged his own solo career and continued with Hot Tuna, was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and founded the Fur Peace Guitar Ranch.
RIVER OF TIME is the perfect distillation of the journey, some 50 years after he bought his first guitar.
Produced by Larry Campbell (Dylan Band) at Levon Helm's Woodstock studio, RIVER features Levon on drums and a cast of stellar musicians including mandolin virtuoso Barry Mitterhoff. Campbell also plays and his wife Teresa Williams lends her outstanding vocal prowess.
Six of it's thirteen songs are Jorma originals, a prolific showcase with themes of family, friends and inspired memory throughout.
The album also revisits the blues and country music that Jorma first fell in love with in his youth, featuring bright new interpretations of Mississippi John Hurt, Merle Haggard and Rev. Gary Davis...and pays tribute to old friend "Pigpen" Ron McKernan on the Grateful Dead's "Operator." Whether reinterpreting classics or crafting new originals and shimmering instrumentals, RIVER OF TIME finds Jorma at the top of his game with inventive arrangements and his strongest songwriting to date.
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Track Listing
01 - Been So Long
02 - There's A Bright Side Somewhere
03 - Cracks In The Finish
04 - Another Man Done A Full Go Round
05 - Trouble In Mind
06 - Izze's Lullaby
07 - More Than My Old Guitar
08 - Nashville Blues
09 - A Walk With Friends
10 - Operator
11 - Preachin' On The Old Camp Ground
12 - River Of Time
13 - Simpler Than I Thought
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