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Jorma Kaukonen releases a new LP, Ain't In No Hurry, on Red House Records in the USA.Full article:
Jorma Kaukonen : You just canʼt go backward. The arrow of time only goes in one direction. At this point in my life perhaps I should be in more of a hurry, but for me it's more important that each piece fits in the right place at the right time. The songs you hear in this album cover a lot of ground for me. Some are very old, and some quite new. From where I came from to where I am today... it is all here. Music does not happen in a vacuum. The orbit of my life is constantly tangential to others and I am richer for it. I am surrounded by friends who help give voice to my dream.
(Source : Press release statement with LP)
Johnny Black : Here’s a truly extraordinary thing - a venerable psychedelic era ax hero successfully re-inventing himself as a folksy septuagenarian singer-songwriter. Admittedly, Kaukonen’s first major band was the psychedelic folk-rockin’ Jefferson Airplane, and he did reinvent himself in the 1970s as a nimble-fingered acoustic picker in his ragtimey duo Hot Tuna, but to do it again in 2015 on an album of delightful original songs and imaginative re-interpretations of well-loved folk-blues standards is one heck of an achievement. Impeccably recorded in his home studio, this is a must for any devotee of understated folksy picking and the wisdom only achieved with years.
(Source : review in Hi Fi News, May 2015)
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(Source : Press release statement with LP)
Johnny Black : Here’s a truly extraordinary thing - a venerable psychedelic era ax hero successfully re-inventing himself as a folksy septuagenarian singer-songwriter. Admittedly, Kaukonen’s first major band was the psychedelic folk-rockin’ Jefferson Airplane, and he did reinvent himself in the 1970s as a nimble-fingered acoustic picker in his ragtimey duo Hot Tuna, but to do it again in 2015 on an album of delightful original songs and imaginative re-interpretations of well-loved folk-blues standards is one heck of an achievement. Impeccably recorded in his home studio, this is a must for any devotee of understated folksy picking and the wisdom only achieved with years.
(Source : review in Hi Fi News, May 2015)