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Yellow Fever

 
Album Review: Yellow Fever

  • Artist: Hot Tuna
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1975
  • Genre: Rock

Review

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. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Baby, What You Want Me to Do Jimmy Reed, Aillene Bullock Hot Tuna (6:38)
Hot Jelly Roll Blues (Lyrics) Bo Carter Hot Tuna (4:18)
Free Rein Jorma Kaukonen Hot Tuna (4:12)
Sunrise Dance With the Devil Jorma Kaukonen Hot Tuna (4:27)
Song for the Fire Maiden Jorma Kaukonen Hot Tuna (4:19)
Bar Room Crystal Ball Jorma Kaukonen Hot Tuna (6:47)
Half/Time Saturation Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady Hot Tuna (4:45)
Surphase Tension Jorma Kaukonen Hot Tuna (3:59)

Credits

Hot Tuna (Producer), Hot Tuna (Main Performer), Jorma Kaukonen (Guitar), Jorma Kaukonen (Vocals), Nick Buck (Synthesizer), Nick Buck (Keyboards), Jack Casady (Bass), Jack Casady (Vocals), Mallory Earl (Producer), Mallory Earl (Engineer), John Sherman (Guitar), Bob Steeler (Drums), Acy Lehman (Art Direction), Mick Haggerty (Illustrations), Rick Collins (Mastering), Gribbitt! (Design), Steve Malcolm (Assistant Engineer)
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Yellow Fever
Studio album by Hot Tuna
Released November, 1975
Recorded June - August, 1975 at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
Genre Blues-rock
Label Grunt/RCA
Producer Hot Tuna
Mallory Earl
Professional reviews
Hot Tuna chronology
America's Choice (1975) Yellow Fever (1975) Hoppkorv
(1976)

Yellow Fever was the sixth album by the American blues rock band Hot Tuna, recorded in 1975. The album rose to #97 on the Billboard charts.

Contents

Track listing

Side A
# Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Baby What You Want Me to Do"   Jimmy Reed 6:42
2. "Hot Jelly Roll Blues"   Bo Carter 4:21
3. "Free Rein"   Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Ziegler 4:14
4. "Sunrise Dance with the Devil"   Kaukonen 4:28
Side B
# Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Song for the Fire Maiden"   Kaukonen, Greg Douglass 4:16
2. "Bar Room Crystal Ball"   Kaukonen 6:52
3. "Half/Time Saturation"   Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Bob Steeler 4:45
4. "Surphase Tension"   Kaukonen 3:58

Personnel

Additional Personnel

  • Nick Buck – synthesizer on "Bar Room Crystal Ball"
  • John Sherman – 2nd guitar on "Baby What You Want Me to Do"

Production

  • Hot Tuna – producer
  • Mallory Earl – producer, engineer
  • Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator
  • Steve Malcolm – assistant engineer
  • Michael Casady – equipment
  • Bill Thompson – manager
  • Acy Lehman – art direction
  • Gribbitt – design
  • Mick Haggerty – illustration
  • Recorded and Mixed at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
  • Mastered by Rick Collins, Kendun Recorders, Burbank

 
 

 

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