Name: Platinum & Gold Collection
Brand: Sony Legacy
SKU: 1189863
Price: 12.51 USD
Availability: InStock

Tracks

1. Hesitation Blues

2. Candy Man

3. Come Back Baby

4. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning

5. John's Other

6. 99 Year Blues

7. Sea Child

8. Water Song

9. Funky #7

10. Hit Single #1

11. I Wish You Would

12. Bowlegged Woman

13. Knock Kneed Man

Performer 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