Platinum & Gold Collection

Performer: Hot Tuna
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Producers include: Al Schmitt, Jorma Kaukonen, Harry Maslin, Hot Tuna, Malory Earl. Compilation producers: Rob Santos, Gretchen Brennison. Includes liner notes by Jeff Tamarkin. This is part of Arista's Platinum & Gold Collection. Liner Note Author: Jeff Tamarkin. RCA's single-disc collection of Hot Tuna's early output isn't as expansive as their two-CD compilation, The Best of Hot Tuna, but provides a nice springboard for those looking to find out what they were all about. The majority of the focus is on the albums First Pull Up, Then Pull Down and Burgers, when leaders Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy joined up with fiddler Papa John Creach and drummer Sammy Piazza for electrified readings of classic blues numbers, but Platinum & Gold Collection also contains four tracks from Hot Tuna's heavy period and one from their early acoustic beginnings. ~ Gregory McIntosh

Hot Tuna began in 1970 as a side project of Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, who wanted to put aside psychedelia to explore their blues roots. Their format has frequently changed over the years (shifting back and forth from acoustic to electric), as has their personnel (the version of the band featuring fiddler Papa John Creach is beloved to fans), but their blues-rock sound remains consistent.

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