| Blue Country Heart | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 29 reviews)
Sales Rank: 26604
Category: Music
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen
Publisher: Sbme Special Mkts.
Studio: Sbme Special Mkts.
Manufacturer: Sbme Special Mkts.
Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 723663
UPC: 886972366326
EAN: 0886972366326
ASIN: B0012GMV94
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Blue Railroad Train - Jorma Kaukonen, Delmore, A. | | • | Just Because - Jorma Kaukonen, Nelson, H. A. | | • | Blues Stay Away from Me - Jorma Kaukonen, Delmore, Alton | | • | Red River Blues - Jorma Kaukonen, Davis, J. | | • | Bread Line Blues - Jorma Kaukonen, Smith, B. | | • | Waiting for a Train - Jorma Kaukonen, Rodgers, Jimmie [1] | | • | Those Gambler's Blues - Jorma Kaukonen, Rodgers, J. | | • | Tom Cat Blues - Jorma Kaukonen, | | • | Big River Blues - Jorma Kaukonen, Alton, D. | | • | Prohibition Blues - Jorma Kaukonen, McMichen, C. | | • | I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now - Jorma Kaukonen, Herscher, Lou | | • | You and My Old Guitar - Jorma Kaukonen, Rodgers, J. | | • | What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? - Jorma Kaukonen, Traditional |
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Amazon.com
Singer and guitarist extraordinaire Jorma Kaukonen was a devoted aficionado of early-20th-century rural music long before he cofounded Jefferson Airplane in 1965 and Hot Tuna some years later. On his new solo album, Kaukonen has found an imaginative setting to remind listeners how a fusion of styles and influences from both black and white musicians defined American country music in its formative decades. Included here are gems, both familiar and obscure, by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers, the Delmore Brothers, Jimmie Davis, Cliff Carlisle, and other country musicians who were clearly inspired by their blues cousins. Backed by the Nashville All-Stars, a supersonic string band comprising bluegrass masters Sam Bush (mandolin), Jerry Douglas (Dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), and Byron House (stand-up bass), all playing on vintage 1920s and '30s acoustic instruments, Kaukonen revives and vividly reinterprets these blues-drenched country classics for a new generation of listeners. --Bob Allen
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
Acoustic Gold October 11, 2008
Great All Star Band. Great Old tunes. Jorma, what more can I say best $6.99 you will ever spend, buy some for Xmas gifts for all your musical friends. Sounds like a buncha friends sittin on the front porch sippin wine and having fun. 5 STARS isn't enough sometimes. This should be required listening in all college music classes. Jorma needs to do an album with Alison Krauss next then I can just listen to it forever. The one she did with Rob Plant pretty much sucked, just no meeting of styles.
 Chosen by chance! July 26, 2008
CD. I was very pleased with this purchase. both my husband and I enjoy listening to it
Blue Country Heart January 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best, if not the best country blues album in existence. I highly recommend both the singing and playing of all the artists involved. By this one!!
hall of fame stuff April 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i found this jewel by accident thanks universe he's been with hot tuna i found out from a friend he was originally with jefferson airplane what more do we need? he has some real silky riffs great stuff buy 12
Jorma's best and most unaffected work August 16, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Jorma Kaukonen has said in interviews that this was the kind of music that got him started on guitar--that in fact, his father made a deal with him that if he learned to play 2 songs, the elder Kaukonen would buy his son a guitar. Both the songs Jorma learned were old-timey country songs (I recall one of them as being "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy"), so it would appear he has come full-circle.
And how beautifully so--this album so moved me that, by the time I got to "Free From the Chain Gang Now," I had tears in my eyes. Nothing flashy, nothing showy--just Jorma and a few of his best professional friends (including Sam Bush and Bela Fleck) having a Sunday-afternoon jam on the porch. It could be rural Tennessee, a house in the Catskills of upstate New York (where I'm now writing this from), the Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio, even a suburban bungalow in Topanga Canyon, California; whatever the setting, you fully expect to look out on your porch and see Jorma and the boys out there, jamming away and inviting you to come listen and maybe even sing a few songs with them...real easy-like, friendly smiles all round.
I, for one, would happily accept that invitation. So will you.
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