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 In the same
year 1974 in which the Jefferson Airplane closed their activity as group, Grace
Slick proposed her ambitious work
Manhole, the guitarist of the band
Jorma Kaukonen recorded a
wonderful solo work, completely acoustic, unplugged, as we can say now, together
with a musician and a friend, interested as him in tradition and blues.
An album very
far from the directions choosen by his former partners, that he wouldn't join in
their new spatial adventures.
He will start a
new itinerary, together with his bassist
Jack Casady, with his new goup
Hot Tuna.
About Tom Hobson
and
Margareta Kaukonen we reproduce in the followings the brief notes, written by Pete Rain,
previously present on the guitarist's web site.
«Back in the folk
music days (early 60s) in San Francisco, when Jorma would back a young Janis
Joplin on guitar in coffeehouse gigs, Tom Hobson was a fellow folk musician who
had both a house available to congregate in, and a wife who made good coffee, so
many musicians would inevitably wind up at the Hobsons' house for jam sessions.
Jorma said that Hobson was a fairly prolific writer but had never recorded any
of his material, so when this album project came about (around the time of Jorma
and Jack permanently leaving the Airplane), Tom was invited to do some songs
with him. Jorma describes Hobson as being "thin as a rail", a chain smoker, and
having "about one lung". He left us by way of a brain aneurism. An old friend of
Tom's named Eric Van der Wyk (banjo player for Ragged But Right) has put up a
site in honor of Tom: http://tomhobson.com
Some of Margareta Kaukonen's works are on display at a coffee shop called
Donkey's in Athens, Ohio, not far from where Jorma and Vanessa Kaukonen
currently reside. Margareta actually gave Vanessa all of her works to do with as
she pleased, sometime before she died in 1997. Vanessa resurrected some of these
and had them put on display. (This info comes from the personal musings of Jorma
at the jormakaukonen.com website.) The original artwork for "Quah" hangs on the
wall in the library of the Fur Peace Ranch.»
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