Splashdown

Hot Tuna

Relix 2004

Release of archive session recorded live for radio in 1975.

• Death Don't Have No Mercy (Rev. Gary Davis)
• I Am The Light Of This World (Rev. Gary Davis)
• Embryonic Journey (Kaukonen)
• Police Dog Blues (Blind Blake)
• Splash Down
• Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (Rev. Gary Davis)
• I Know You Rider (Traditional arr. Kaukonen)
• Keep On Truckin' (Rev. Gary Davis)
• Candy Man (Rev. Gary Davis)

• Jorma Kaukonen - guitar, vocals
• Jack Casady - bass

• Album Concept. Producer - Leslie D. Kippel
• Liner Notes - Toni Brown
• Artwork - Maureen Hunter

• Recorded live on WQIV-FM, New York, NY on July 25, 1975
  

The music on this release was recorded live on radio on July 25, 1975. At the same time an Apollo spacecraft was returning to earth after the first USA / USSR space rendezvous. Rather than leaving the performance to broadcast the splashdown the two were merged - the splashdown commentary was mixed with Police Dog Blues and can be heard on this release.

Related releases

The tracks on this album were subsequently remastered and repackaged with additional tracks as;

• Splashdown Two, Hot Tuna, 1995, Relix 2080

• Relix Bay Rock Shop, Vol. 6 - Hot Tuna Special No. 1, Hot Tuna, 1994, Relix RBRS0006

• Relix Bay Rock Shop, Vol. 8 - Hot Tuna Special No. 3, Hot Tuna, 1994, Relix RBRS0008