★★★★★
Originally issued in 1978 ondouble-vinyl (hence thename), Double Dose wasJefferson Airplane spinoff bandHot Tuna's third live album ineight years. It wasn't quiteFrampton Comes Alive!, butnevertheless dentedBillboard's Hot 100 albums;the band then went on hiatusuntil 1983, and remain activetoday with founder membersJorma Kaukonen and JackCasady still at the helm.
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-11-07
★★★★★
Strange, the twists and turns that rock legacies take. Jefferson Airplane, who had the most varied and creative original songs of any of the San Francisco hippie bands, as well as an awe-inspiring arsenal of vocal and instrumental talent, is viewed today as something of a dated guilty pleasure. That probably has a lot to do with the band's slow, painful transformation into Starship, purveyors of 1980s Top 40 schlock like "We Built This City," but also that - as history has defined rock - the...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Red House For the first new Hot Tuna album in 20 years, band co-founders Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady hunkered down at Levon Helm's Woodstock, NY studio to work with veteran musician/producer Larry Campbell. The result, Steady as She Goes, showcases the bluesy rock sounds its two legendary leaders are known for while finding a few ways to kick some fresh ass...
- www.relix.com
2011-06-20
★★★★★
Hot Tuna Steady As She Goes Red House 2011 Singer and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen's last solo album, River Of Time (Red House, 2009), sounded more than a little like a vintage Hot Tuna album, so it's little surprise the group's first studio album in 20 years has come along in such short order. Like its predecessor, it was recorded at Levon Helm's Barn in Woodstock New York, and also produced by Larry Campbell, the ex-Band drummer's aide-de-camp for a number of years...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2011-05-03
★★★★★
After four albums, or is it five, this spin-off also sounds tired and like themselves, more consistent than their sister, and why does anyone care when they don't seem to? At least when they were doing country blues the material justified the music's indolence.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2011-03-14
★★★★★
When this band went pro--and electric--my initial reaction was annoyance. I figured that at least when they were going country blues the material justified their deliberate pace. But that soon passed, and for years now I've been shelving their records without comment not out of anger or even dislike but in the simple absence of anything interesting to say. When a group maintains such a level for five years, however, its uninterestingness becomes noteworthy in itself...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
Didn't figure I'd ever put on this country blues extrapolation by Jorma and Jack's Airplane spinoff while John Hurt and Gary Davis were at hand. But the shameful fact is that between the delicate guitar play and Jorma's unpretentious vocals and unexceptionable taste, I do.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Jefferson Airplane have been a subject of some contention ever since they abandoned their Summer of Love posture for music that aspired at once to both topicality and a degree of experimentation. If you love them, you know that they are one of the four or five most consistently vital American bands. If you hate them you're at least partially justified on any rational man's terms, given the rather squishy politics and pretentiously inane sense of humor...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08