Jorma Kaukonen Trio Live is a live album taken from performances from 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:...

's 1999 solo tour, and his last album for Relix Records. Performing with Kaukonen were 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 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...

 who had both been present on his previous solo album, Too Many Years

Too Many Years

Too Many Years is a Jorma Kaukonen studio album released in August, 1998. It was his last studio album on Relix Records. Michael Falzarano returned to play guitar and to help produce as he did on the previous Kaukonen solo album...

, and had performed with 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 :...

 on their last release, And Furthurmore...

And Furthurmore...

And Furthurmore... is a live album by the American rock band Hot Tuna. It was recorded on the 1998 Furthur Festival tour. It was released on October 12, 1999.And Furthurmore... was released in HDCD format...

. After release of this album, Kaukonen and 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...

 began to perform as "Jack & Jorma, The Original Acoustic Hot Tuna" and Falzarano and Sears performed much less with Hot Tuna and Kaukonen's solo act, with Sears finally leaving in 2001 and Falzarano leaving in 2002.

Track listing

1. "True Religion" (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:...
   
   ) – 4:54
2. "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr
   Leroy Carr
   Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.-Life and...
   
   ) – 4:02
3. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 5:47
4. "Do Not Go Gentle" (Kaukonen) – 3:44
5. "I See the Light" (Kaukonen) – 6:05
6. "Embryonic Journey
   Embryonic Journey (instrumental)
   The acoustic instrumental Embryonic Journey composed by Jefferson Airplane / Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen originally appeared as the ninth track on Jefferson Airplane's second album Surrealistic Pillow but has been often anthologized, and multiple takes were released as an album also entitled...
   
   " (Kaukonen) – 2:11
7. "Good Shepherd
   Good Shepherd (song)
   "Good Shepherd" is a traditional song, most known as recorded by Jefferson Airplane on their 1969 album Volunteers. It was arranged and sung by the group's guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, who described their interpretation of it as psychedelic folk-rock....
   
   " (Traditional) – 6:31
8. "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:...
   
   ) – 3:48
9. "I Know You Rider" (Traditional) – 5:07
10. "Just My Way" (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...
    
    ) – 9:12
11. "Friend of the Devil" (Jerry Garcia
    Jerry Garcia
    Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
    
    , Robert Hunter
    Robert Hunter (lyricist)
    Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
    
    , John Dawson) – 6:03

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:...
  
   – guitars, vocals
• 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, vocals
• 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

Production

• Michael Falzarano – producer
• Ralph Marsella – engineer
• Robert Minkin – cover photo
• Recorded live during 1999