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However, it's a disappointing addition to their catalog, particularly after such a long wait. There is plenty to enjoy about this unexpected return, and it's encouraging that the Casady/Kaukonen relationship - both musical and personal - has persevered for over 50 years. Making matters more frustrating is the choice of material, in particular the humorous yet repetitious by-the-numbers rocking of "If This Is Love." The closing instrumental, "Vicksburg Stomp," returns to the sharp pickin' approach of Hot Tuna's 1970 acoustic debut, perhaps a fitting reminder of the group's early times trying to make their name as something other than a Jefferson Airplane offshoot.
Kaukonen's patented electric solos evident on the opening "Angel of Darkness" are dramatic and typically blistering, but there aren't enough of those moments. Recording in Levon Helm's Woodstock studio provides an open, rootsy sound and Campbell keeps the proceedings clean and classy, if somewhat antiseptic compared to the shambling attack Hot Tuna fans remember. There are some quality songs, such as the melancholy musings of "Second Chances," but this is more like a Kaukonen solo album than a long-awaited return from a once powerful band that mixed acoustic and electric blues into a blistering, often explosive concoction. Tags: hot tuna album cover, hot tuna, hot, tuna, burgers, burgers album cover, first up then down album cover, first up then down, keep on truckin the very best of hot tuna album cover, keep on truckin the very best of hot tuna, live at new orleans house berkeley ca 0969 album cover, live at new orleans house berkeley ca 0969, live at sweetwater album cover, live at sweetwater, live in japan. Gary Davis covers are also reminiscent of days gone by, especially "Mama Let Me Lay It on You" with guest fiddle from producer Larry Campbell (filling in for the deceased Papa John Creach) that rolls through the "Keep on Truckin'" riff and melody.
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Casady's forcefully idiosyncratic, almost lead basslines of old are barely audible here, and even though there are flashes where the old intensity is evident, particularly on Kaukonen's "Mourning Interrupted," this is a well-intentioned, totally professional album that lacks bite. Where once Jack Casady's thunderous bass played tag with Jorma Kaukonen's blustery, psychedelic blues guitar lines, the duo - now fleshed out with mandolin player Barry Mitterhoff and drummer Skoota Warner - is now content to be a pretty decent but far less distinctive folk, blues, and singer/songwriter act. That's a mixed blessing, though, because the Tuna seem to have lost some of their fire during their long layoff from the studio.
After Jorma Kaukonen recorded his solo album in 2009 at Levon Helms studio in NY, he asked his new record company Red House if they would be interested in a Tuna album.
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Only the second Hot Tuna studio set in 30 years, and the band's first in two decades, the outfit circa 2011 is a decidedly older, wiser, and more laid-back unit than the amped-up boogie-ers responsible for a series of successful albums in the '70s. Steady as She Goes (Hot Tuna album) Steady as She Goes is a 2011 album by Hot Tuna, the bands first studio album since 1990.
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