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Title: Hot Tuna - Burgers
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1972 / Blues Rock / Folk Blues / San Francisco
Matrix #: BXL1-2591
Condition: VG+ (LM)
Cultural Facts:
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Band Drama Burgers came from the same Bay Area world as Jefferson Airplane, but Hot Tuna increasingly felt like Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady’s way of slipping out of the bigger band’s chaos.
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Studio Lore This album mattered because it pushed Hot Tuna further from their early acoustic identity into a fuller electric sound without losing the old-country-blues core.
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Personal Struggle Kaukonen’s playing always carried a searching quality, and Hot Tuna often felt like an escape hatch from the fame, politics, and internal strain surrounding the late Airplane years.
4/11/26 LM
4/11/24sc
