Live in Japan is a live acoustic album by Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. It plays acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs.- Jefferson Airplane side project :...

 recorded in 1997 in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. Originally the band planned to play an electric set as part of their Japanese tour, but the venue in Yokohama was quite small (only holding fifty people) and there wasn't any room for an electric setup. The band played acoustic, and afterwards Jack Casady

Jack Casady

Jack Casady , is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C...

 suggested to Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...

 that the recording was good enough for a new live album. Michael Falzarano

Michael Falzarano

Michael Falzarano is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has been working as a professional musician since the 1970s, most notably in Hot Tuna, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Memphis Pilgrims, a Memphis-style rock and roll/blues band that he founded in 1986.Having signed...

 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" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 5:33
2. "Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 5:01
3. "True Religion" (Traditional, arranged by Jorma Kaukonen
   Jorma Kaukonen
   Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 5:43
4. "Been So Long" (Kaukonen) – 3:51
5. "Uncle Sam Blues" (Traditional, arranged by Kaukonen) – 5:42
6. "Vampire Woman" (Funny Papa Smith) – 2:54
7. "Candy Man" (Davis) – 7:57
8. "Let Us Get Together" (Davis) – 2:59
9. "Third Week in the Chelsea" (Kaukonen) – 5:05
10. "99 Year Blues" (Julius Daniels
    Julius Daniels
    Julius Daniels was an American Piedmont blues musician. His song "99 Year Blues" appeared on the box set Anthology of American Folk Music and has been covered by Jim Kweskin, Chris Smither, Johnny Winter, Charlie Parr and Hot Tuna on their album Burgers...
    
    ) – 7:02
11. "Ice Age" (Kaukonen) – 6:38
12. "San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".-Early life:...
    
    ) – 4:24
13. "Mann's Fate" (Kaukonen) – 6:08
14. "Keep On Truckin'" (Traditional, arranged by B. Carleton) – 4:29

2004 Eagle Records Track Listing

1. "Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 5:16
2. "Parchman Farm" (Mose Allison
   Mose Allison
   Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist and singer.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 5:36
3. "True Religion" (Traditional, arranged by Jorma Kaukonen
   Jorma Kaukonen
   Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 5:19
4. "Been So Long" (Kaukonen) – 3:52
5. "Uncle Sam Blues" (Traditional, arranged by Kaukonen) – 5:11
6. "Vampire Woman" (Funny Papa Smith) – 2:58
7. "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (Traditional, arranged by Kaukonen) – 5:05
8. "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 4:19
9. "Let Us Get Together" (Davis) – 2:59
10. "Third Week in the Chelsea" (Kaukonen) – 5:05
11. "99 Year Blues" (Julius Daniels
    Julius Daniels
    Julius Daniels was an American Piedmont blues musician. His song "99 Year Blues" appeared on the box set Anthology of American Folk Music and has been covered by Jim Kweskin, Chris Smither, Johnny Winter, Charlie Parr and Hot Tuna on their album Burgers...
    
    ) – 6:23
12. "Ice Age" (Kaukonen) – 6:38
13. "San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".-Early life:...
    
    ) – 4:25
14. "Folsom Prison" (Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash
    John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
    
    ) – 4:03
15. "Mann's Fate" (Kaukonen) – 6:08

Personnel

• Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...
  
   – lead guitar, vocals
• Jack Casady
  Jack Casady
  Jack Casady , is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C...
  
   – bass
• Michael Falzarano
  Michael Falzarano
  Michael Falzarano is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has been working as a professional musician since the 1970s, most notably in Hot Tuna, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Memphis Pilgrims, a Memphis-style rock and roll/blues band that he founded in 1986.Having signed...
  
   – rhythm guitar
• Pete Sears
  Pete Sears
  Peter 'Pete' Sears is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than four decades he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues...
  
   – keyboards
• Harvey Sorgen – drums, percussion

Production

• Rick Sanchez – live mix & recordist
• Jon Smith – editor, engineer
• Michael Falzarano
  Michael Falzarano
  Michael Falzarano is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has been working as a professional musician since the 1970s, most notably in Hot Tuna, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Memphis Pilgrims, a Memphis-style rock and roll/blues band that he founded in 1986.Having signed...
  
   – producer
• Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...
  
   – executive producer, liner notes
• Post Production done at Jorma's Hillside Farms Studio at the Fur Peace Ranch, Darwin, Ohio
  Darwin, Ohio
  Darwin is a small unincorporated community in central Bedford Township, Meigs County, Ohio, in the United States. It is located along U.S. Route 33 between Athens and Pomeroy, at its intersection with State Route 681.-Education:...
  
  
• Ian R. Brand at Disc Makers
  Disc Makers
  Disc Makers is primarily a CD and DVD manufacturer that caters to independent musicians, filmmakers, and small businesses. Disc Makers competes with many established CD and DVD replicators in North America including , , , , , and ....
  
  – design
• GABRA Management– management
• Steve Martin, The Agency Group – booking agent