{"id":1176,"date":"2014-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2014\/2014\/12\/11\/the-egg-serves-up-tasty-hot-tuna-with-teresa-williams-and-donna-the-buffalo\/"},"modified":"2014-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T00:00:00","slug":"the-egg-serves-up-tasty-hot-tuna-with-teresa-williams-and-donna-the-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2014\/2014\/12\/11\/the-egg-serves-up-tasty-hot-tuna-with-teresa-williams-and-donna-the-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Egg Serves up Tasty Hot Tuna with Teresa Williams and Donna the Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Electric Sextet of Hot Tuna <\/a>returned to The Egg<\/a>, with Teresa Williams, almost seven years to the date of the last Hot Tuna performance, an acoustic duo, on Dec. 11, 2007. Hundreds of old hippies and couples with more than a touch of grey, excitedly attended the performance; some enthusiastic enough to cheer loudly for Jorma Kaukonen and knew every song and dove head first into every jam alongside the band. Donna the Buffalo opened the night with a very powerful set, garnering chatter in The Egg’s lobby, with a new fan, Susan, remarking ‘Oh they’re so much fun!’ in her first time seeing them.<\/p>\n

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With Hot Tuna taking the to stage, the audience roared with approval, seeing Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen and a nearly 50 year relationship playing music together. Alongside them stood Larry Campbell on guitar and fiddle, Barry Mitterhoff on mandolin and Justin Guip on drums, an all-star lineup that welcomed Teresa Williams for part of the set. The alt-country of “Mama Let me Lay it on You” featured Campbell’s fiddling, “Ode to Billy Dean” brought out Tuna’s blues origins and “Can’t Get Satisfied” had a hint of Freddie King’s “Going Down” and was far from radio play, as much of the night’s songs would be; Hot Tuna is an overlooked predecessor to the early jambands that developed in the 1970s and ’80s. \u00a0Jorma took a moment to respond to the continuous cries of “JORMA!” from an audience member, saying “That’s my name, don’t wear it out.”<\/p>\n

A progressive jam build from “Been so Long” when Campbell took to the mandolin, which led to Teresa Williams coming to the stage for the first song of the night, the enthusiastic traveling country blues of “Children of Zion” and “Wade in the Water” which was full of energy and had Williams dancing all over in a circle.<\/p>\n

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Wade in the Water – Hot Tuna at The Egg with Teresa Williams! #albany<\/a><\/p>\n

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