Live in Japan (Hot Tuna album)


Live in Japan is a live album by Hot Tuna recorded in 1997 in Yokohama, Japan. Originally the band planned to play an electric set as part of their Japanese tour, but the venue in Yokohama was too small and there wasn't any room for an electric setup. The band played acoustic, and afterwards Jack Casady suggested to Jorma Kaukonen that the recording was good enough for a new live album. Michael Falzarano and Kaukonen listened to the tape and decided that Casady was right, and a new album was released. The album was Hot Tuna's last release on Relix Records. In 2004 Eagle Records remastered the album and re-released it with previously unreleased performances of "Parchman Farm", "Follow the Drinking Gourd", "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning" and "Folsom Prison." Three of the tracks from the initial release were dropped from the remaster: "Hesitation Blues", "Candy Man" and "Keep on Truckin'".

1997 Relix Records track listing

  1. "Hesitation Blues" – 5:33
  2. "Walkin' Blues" – 5:01
  3. "True Religion" – 5:43
  4. "Been So Long" – 3:51
  5. "Uncle Sam Blues" – 5:42
  6. "Vampire Woman" – 2:54
  7. "Candy Man" – 7:57
  8. "Let Us Get Together Right Down Here" – 2:59
  9. "Third Week in the Chelsea" – 5:05
  10. "99 Year Blues" – 7:02
  11. "Ice Age" – 6:38
  12. "San Francisco Bay Blues" – 4:24
  13. "Mann's Fate" – 6:08
  14. "Keep On Truckin'" – 4:29

    2004 Eagle Records track listing

  15. "Walkin' Blues" – 5:16
  16. "Parchman Farm" – 5:36
  17. "True Religion" – 5:19
  18. "Been So Long" – 3:52
  19. "Uncle Sam Blues" – 5:11
  20. "Vampire Woman" – 2:58
  21. "Follow the Drinking Gourd" – 5:05
  22. "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning" – 4:19
  23. "Let Us Get Together Right Down Here" – 2:59
  24. "Third Week in the Chelsea" – 5:05
  25. "99 Year Blues" – 6:23
  26. "Ice Age" – 6:38
  27. "San Francisco Bay Blues" – 4:25
  28. "Folsom Prison Blues" – 4:03
  29. "Mann's Fate" – 6:08

    Personnel