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Hot Tuna - The Phosphorescent Rat

Track listing:
  1. I See The Light 4:16
  2. Letter To The North Star 2:32
  3. Easy Now 5:11
  4. Corners Without Exits 3:38
  5. Day To Day Out The Window Blues 3:28
  6. In The Kingdom 5:27
  7. Seeweed Strut 3:26
  8. Living Just For You 3:20
  9. Soliloquy For 2 3:43
  10. Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From? 2:56

Notes


Hot Tuna's first album made after the breakup of Jefferson Airplane found Jorma Kaukonen taking a firm hand: he's the author of nine out of ten songs. The walking tempos and familiar soaring, psychedelic guitar solos are in place, but much of the music is given over to Kaukonen's reflective lyrics, sung in his matter-of-fact voice, and there are strings on a couple of tracks. The group's fans, devoted as they were to its extended versions of blues standards, seem to have been unimpressed: the album was Hot Tuna's lowest-charting among those released during their 1970-1978 heyday. Probably a lack of enthusiasm at RCA, due to the demise of Jefferson Airplane, didn't help in the album's promotion, either.