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Live in Japan (Hot Tuna album)

Live in Japan
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Live album by Hot Tuna
Released 1997 (original)
2004 (re-release)
Recorded February 20th, 1997 at Stove's, Yokohama, Japan
Genre Blues-rock
Label Relix Records (original)
Eagle Records (re-release)
Producer Michael Falzarano
Jorma Kaukonen (exec.)
Hot Tuna chronology
Splashdown Two (1997) Live in Japan (1997) The Best of Hot Tuna
(1998)
Alternative cover
Cover art of 2004 remastered release
Cover art of 2004 remastered release

Live in Japan is a live album by Hot Tuna recorded in 1997 in Yokohama, Japan. 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 suggested to Jorma Kaukonen that the recording was good enough for a new live album. Michael Falzarano 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'"


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