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Hot Tuna - Yellow Fever (1976)

Track listing:
  1. Baby What You Want Me To Do 6:44
  2. Hot Jelly Roll Blues 4:23
  3. Free Rein 4:17
  4. Sunrise Dance With the Devil 4:29
  5. Song For the Fire Maiden 4:23
  6. Bar Room Crystal Ball 6:54
  7. Half-Time Saturation 4:49
  8. Surphase Tension 4:00

Notes


Hot Tuna's second album of 1975 began with a cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby, What You Want Me to Do" rendered in the group's characteristic noisy electric-guitar style, an approach that was typical of this more-of-the-same album. By this point, Jorma Kaukonen seemed to have found a balance between his songwriting ambitions and the need to provide springboards for the group's boogie-all-night improvisations. Here, "Sunrise Dance With the Devil" and "Bar Room Crystal Ball" feature good lyrics and excellent hooks, yet still fit into Hot Tuna's heavy approach.