long live tuna!

caught their gig last nite. check yer local listings!!!

(from Jorma’s site):

Wednesdau, May 07, 2008 0001 Tulsa, Oklahoma
Thirty four years since Jack and I played Cain’s Ballroom. Bob Wills and countless country cats and kittnes played western swing here over the years. What a vibe. Here is our set list:

Hot Tuna 10, 2008
The Quartet
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady
Barry Mitterhoff & Erik Diaz
Cain’s Ballroom
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tuesday, May 06, 2008

First Set:
1. Search My Heart
2. How Long Blues
3. Ode To Billy Dean
4. I Wish You Would
5. Sea Child
6. Living Just For You
7. 99 Year Blues
8. Bowlegged Woman
9. Late Breaking News

Second Set:
1. Trial By Fire
2. The Terrible Operation
3. Talkin’ ‘Bout You
4. Rock Me Baby
5. I Am The Light Of This World
6. I Know You Rider
7. Funky #7
8. Corners Without Exits
9. Hit Single #1
10. Encore: Water Song

We are just getting ready to leave the Ballroom and head for the hotel where we will have about three hours to sleep before we head on up to Colorado.

I’m down for now.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 0815 Little Rock, Arkansas
Well, let’s see. We left Atlanta yesterday morning at 0600 and in the course of the day we passed through Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and finally Arkansas. The face of America is still magnificent. Yeah, I know, there are wounds and blemishes but that’s just life on life’s terms. This is a grand country.

Since were working here and traveling in a bus that runs on diesel fuel, we are able to feel some of the pain of the trucking industry. G_d knows where this is all going, but we can and must survive!

We are in Little Rock right now getting ready to leave for Tulsa where we will play Cain’s Ballroom. Yeah, that’s right. Cain’s Ballroom where Bob Wills used to play. Hot Tuna played there in the seventies and we haven’t been back since to my recollection.

Well, my net time is up and it’s time to hit the road. Oklahoma, here we