Too Many Years is a 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:...

 studio album released in August, 1998. It was his last studio album on Relix Records. 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...

 returned to play guitar and to help produce as he did on the previous Kaukonen solo album. Falzarano was the only returning performer, and the keyboard work was now handled by former Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band formed in the early 1970s. The group is a spin-off from the iconic 1960s psychedelic/folk group Jefferson Airplane. The band has undergone several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name...

 keyboardist 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 been playing 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 :...

 and the Jorma Kaukonen Trio since 1992. The three together called themselves the "Jorma Kaukonen Trio" and began to perform live together, recording a live album for Relix in 1999 and releasing it in 2001, Jorma Kaukonen Trio Live

Jorma Kaukonen Trio Live

Jorma Kaukonen Trio Live is a live album taken from performances from Jorma Kaukonen's 1999 solo tour, and his last album for Relix Records. Performing with Kaukonen were Michael Falzarano and Pete Sears who had both been present on his previous solo album, Too Many Years, and had performed with...

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Track listing

1. "Fools Blues" (Funny Papa Smith) – 4:36
2. "Big Town" (Ronnie Self
   Ronnie Self
   Ronnie Self was a United States rockabilly singer and songwriter. His solo career was unsuccessful, despite being signed to contracts with Columbia and then Decca from the late 1950s through the early 1960s. His only charted single was "Bop-A-Lena"; recorded in 1957 and released in 1958, it...
   
   ) – 5:12
3. "Too Many Years" (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:...
   
   ) – 4:00
4. "Home of the Blues" (Johnny Cash
   Johnny Cash
   John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
   
   , Glen Douglas, Lily McAlpin) – 3:14
5. "Nine Pound Hammer" (Traditional) – 3:45
6. "Gypsy Fire" (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...
   
   ) – 5:46
7. "You Got to Move" (Fred McDowell
   Fred McDowell
   Fred McDowell known by his stage name; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.-Career:...
   
   ) – 5:22
8. "Larue Larue" (Falzarano) – 3:29
9. "Man for All Seasons" (Kaukonen) – 7:40
10. "Heaven on Earth" (Kaukonen, Falzarano) – 3:23
11. "Say No to the Devil" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 4:53
12. "Hypnotation Blues" (Kaukonen, Falzarano) – 10:59
13. "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) – 6:04

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:...
  
   – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, lap steel guitar, 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, mandolin, 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...
  
  – accordion, organ, piano

Production

• Jorma Kaukonen – producer, arranger
• Michael Falzarano – producer, arranger
• Jon Smith – mixing