Magic is a live 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:...

 album containing performances of acoustic songs from Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....

 and 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 :...

 albums recorded during his solo tour of 1984. After a brief reunion tour in 1983 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 :...

, Jorma had continued to play solo and eventually landed a contract with Relix Records. In addition to releasing Kaukonen's new solo recordings, Relix also released live Hot Tuna recordings from the 70s, with the albums Splashdown

Splashdown (album)

Splashdown is a Hot Tuna album released in 1984 containing the tracks from a previously unreleased live acoustic performance that had been played on the short-lived radio station WQIV in the mid-1970s...

and Historic Live Tuna

Historic Live Tuna

Historic Live Tuna is a Hot Tuna album released in 1985 with side A containing some previously unreleased tracks from a live acoustic performance played on KSAN radio in 1971 and with side B containing some previously unreleased live material from a live electric performance in 1971 recorded at the...

. In 1995, 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...

 remastered the album and produced a new version that Relix released as the CD Magic Two

Magic Two

Magic Two is an expanded re-release of the live Jorma Kaukonen album, Magic, containing performances of acoustic songs recorded during his solo tour of 1984...

.

Side A

1. "Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 4:03
2. "Winin' Boy Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton
   Jelly Roll Morton
   Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....
   
   ) – 5:49
3. "I'll Be Alright" (Traditional) – 3:35
4. "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...
   
   " (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:...
   
   ) – 2:11

Side B

1. "Candy Man" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 3:13
2. "Roads and Roads &" (Kaukonen) – 5:09
3. "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) – 4:25
4. "Mann's Fate" (Kaukonen) – 6:16

Production

• Leslie D. Kippel – producer
• Toni Brown – liner notes
• Maureen Hunter – artwork