Hot Tuna’s second album of 1975 began with a cover of Jimmy Reed’s “Baby, What You Want Me to Do” rendered in the group’s characteristic noisy electric-guitar style, an approach that was typical of this more-of-the-same album. By this point, Jorma Kaukonen seemed to have found a balance between his songwriting ambitions and the need to provide springboards for the group’s boogie-all-night improvisations. Here, “Sunrise Dance with the Devil” and “Bar Room Crystal Ball” feature good lyrics and excellent hooks, yet still fit into Hot Tuna’s heavy approach.
Tracks
1 Baby, What You Want Me to Do (Bullock, Reed) 6:38
2 Hot Jelly Roll Blues (Carter) 4:18
3 Free Rein (Kaukonen, Zeigler) 4:12
4 Sunrise Dance With the Devil (Kaukonen) 4:27
5 Song for the Fire Maiden (Douglass, Kaukonen) 4:19
6 Bar Room Crystal Ball (Kaukonen) 6:47
7 Half/Time Saturation (Casady, Kaukonen, Steeler) 4:45
8 Surphase Tension (Kaukonen, Zeigler) 3:59