#jorma kaukonen’s fur peace ranch

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Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch to Close Doors

- “We are ready for it,” Jorma and Vanessa Kaukonen say

After 35 years, Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch is closing its doors.

The property in Meigs County, Ohio, has been sold to a new owner, who will reopen the site as Lavender Ranch.

There was no word on when the transition will occur or what it means for Fur Peace concerts currently on the books.

“Passing the property to the new owner … and seeing our daughter embark on her college journey marks a significant paradigm shift in our lives,” Jorma and Vanessa Kaukonen said in a statement.

“We are ready for it. The universe has guided us to where we stand now, and we embrace the exciting prospects ahead.”

Opened in 1989 as an on-site guitar camp and 200-seat concert venue, Fur Peace has played host to such acts as David Lindley, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Funky Feat, Sierra Hull, Bettye LaVette, Kaukonen’s own Hot Tuna and countless others. It’s also hosted exhibits featuring Jerry Garcia’s artwork and photos of the Jefferson Airplane.

The Kaukonens plan to continue with the Athens County-based Fur Peace Productions and On the Road workshops for aspiring guitarists.

The new owners plan to offer concerts “that celebrate the spirt of Fur Peace” while adding a restaurant and spa “designed to enhance your experience and offer new ways to relax, rejuvenate and reconnect” at the rebranded Lavender Ranch.

6/18/24

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Jorma Kaukonen - Genesis - Live at Fur Peace Ranch

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David Lindley | Little Sadie | Live at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch (2013)

I went down a bit of a David Lindley rabbit hole tonight, and near the bottom of that rabbit hole I found the man himself playing the oud at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. You might recognize the tune, it's a traditional folk ballad about a horrible man and it has been covered by a huge number of people on recordings—including Daniel Lanois (from whom I first heard it), Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Doc Watson, Jerry Garcia, and Woody Guthrie. I'm willing to bet Lindley is the first one to play it on an Oud though; if it had strings, the guy could play it.

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ALMOST LIVESTREAM: ACOUSTIC HOT TUNA, FUR PEACE STATION, 13 JULY 2024

I’m actually rather glad this turned into an almost livestream. I was there for the 3 pm live start, but it was during a window to talk to Sam. So when the technical issues meant that we were all going to get links, I got to converse at length with the sole heir.

And I got to spend the evening the Jorma and Jack while he was out at his event.

I’d seen JORMA KAUKONEN in May at the local branch of City Winery, but, ahead of a HOT TUNA tour, JACK CASADY came to southeast Ohio for some dress rehearsals. Though the Kaukonens sold Fur Peace Ranch to Vanessa K’s sister, they still have the stage for the rest of the scheduled 2024 shows. So this was a treat.

Given the camera angles, Casady was prominent and it was he who had my attention. I’ve made very modest progress picking up the bass during this wonderfully different summer and have a rudimentary idea of what needs to be done to play root notes and chord/scale elements for the chord changes. With the concurrent Terrapin Clubhouse videos, I also am transfixed by how Phil Lesh accomplishes the same thing. While Lesh may well have lost a step or at least become subtler, Casady is undiminished. If anything, he is more swooping and melodic than Lesh. My sense is that root notes should generally be played with the middle finger of the left hand, but Casady often uses his index finger. In any case, he and Lesh and everybody relies on the little finger to get to fifths and octaves and that’s a lesson for a newbie getting used to the heavy strings.

While there were plenty of blues favorites—Dime for Beer (cut from the posted video and only heard in buffered fragments in real time), Hesitation Blues, Come Back Baby, Let’s Get Together Right Down Here, How Long Blues (also partial in the second set video), Death Don’t Have No Mercy, Good Shepherd, and Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning—it felt like there were many more “Jorma” songs (relative rarity and the first one to grab me, New Song for the Morning, was in there) with interesting minor chords and progressions for Casady to illuminate. While I don’t know those particular changes, they gave me a way to appreciate the art of the bass.

Having seen Jorma recently, I felt at liberty to not watch his hands like a hawk as I often do. I am developing a framework to watch Casady, Lesh, and other bassists like a different hawk.

There is Hot Tuna merch with the slogan, “If you don’t know Jorma, you don’t know Jack.” But, equally, musically, if you don’t know Jack, you don’t know Jorma.

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Help please. There was an excellent guitar picker on Live from Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch withing the last year or two. They played his version of Eleanor Rigby and it was amazing. I cannot remember his name and my attempts to search have failed me.

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The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio (they’re awesome!) with Jorma Kaukonen at Fur Peace Ranch

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Jorma Kaukonen Set to Perform 5th Solo Quarantine Concert Live From Fur Peace Ranch Jorma Kaukonen performs his 5th solo Quarantine Concert from the Fur Peace Ranch in Meigs County, Ohio spreading the message to Stay in Peace!

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Jorma Kaukonen and Trey Hensley and Rob Ickes | Live at Fur Peace Ranch Jorma Kaukonen and Trey Hensley and Rob Ickes | Live at Fur Peace Ranch

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Electric Hot Tuna to End; Acoustic Hot Tuna to Continue

- “We are not retiring from touring,” Jorma Kaukonen says of himself and Jack Casady

Electric Hot Tuna is unplugging for good. But Acoustic Hot Tuna will continue.

“Friends, this is the year to catch us as ‘Electric Tuna,’” Jorma Kaukonen said in a statement. “We will be inviting companions old and new to join us and we hope that you will, too.”

The band’s Going Fishing tour runs Sept. 15 to Oct. 7. From then on, Kaukonen and Jack Casady, who first played together as teenagers in 1958 and spun Hot Tuna off from Jefferson Airplane, will focus on their acoustic duo.

Kaukonen, 82, reckons he and Casady, 79, have “probably played around 15,000 gigs” over the past 65 years.

Acoustic Hot Tuna perform at Fur Peace Ranch, April 22, 2023. Read Sound Bites’ review here.

“We’re not done counting yet … we are not retiring from touring, but the Electric lineup of this long-lived incarnation is going fishing for a while,” Kaukonen said. “The road may not go on forever, but the destination is still beyond the horizon.”

5/1/23

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Marty Balin/Comin' Back to Me

Marty Balin/Comin’ Back to Me

A beautiful rendition of the Jefferson Airplane folk rock song, “Comin’ Back to Me” from the Surrealistic Pillow album, written by the late Marty Balin.

Marty with his band at Jorma’s place in Pomeroy, Ohio in 2014 performing this endearing version.

  He goes to prepare a place for us.

Comin’ Back to Me

The summer…

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Jorma Kaukonen and Ruthie Foster - Long Time Gone - Live at Fur Peace Ranch

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RETURN TO RADIO DREAM STREAM LAND!

COUCH TOUR: LARRY CAMPBELL/TERESA WILLIAMS with JORMA KAUKONEN, FUR PEACE STATION, 11 SEPTEMBER 2021

Jorma Kaukonen’s Quarantine Concerts were a fixture of 2020 (which ran from April 2020 to mid 2021). It was perfectly easy and indeed welcome to turn on YouTube and watch a guitar role model show his craft and humanity with songs and stories and family every single week.

He has gotten back on the road some and there have been students at the guitar camp. But with the Delta spike, what would have been a regular concert for students and season ticket holders became another visit to “radio dream stream land.” That’s what FPR Manager and Jorma collaborator John Hurlbut described in wonder the magic of the series, a series on which he would usually do a couple of songs with his pal playing acoustic lead guitar which resulted in two albums.

The way to get a live, in real time link was to write Hurlbut and then actually talk to him to give a credit card number. The hominess of FPR continued and it was fun to talk to someone whose fame is simply that he’s a good guy whose best friend and boss’s husband is a very unpretentious rock star.

This wasn’t a Quarantine Concert as there weren’t questions and stories, but the community was there in the chat and Jorma maintains his down to earth-ness. He had to get up and walk to his guitar case to get a capo for Broken Highway, the second song.

He played a crisp 45 minute/8 song set which skewed toward the early days. Trouble in Mind to open with That’ll Never Happen No More, Whinin’ Boy Blues, Death Don’t Have No Mercy, and a Been So Long closer. I take stabs at all of those but Whinin’ Boy so it was, as always, a bit of a lesson though his playing, always beyond me, gets richer and richer. His singing benefited from being off the road for a year but performing once a week for a year and I observed a bit of a step back last night. But what a gift to have Jorma again.

This was a Larry Campbell/Teresa Williams show and they delivered a properly roots/Americana show. Campbell synthesized all those skills in extended gigs in the bands of Bob Dylan, Phil Lesh, and Levon Helm. That’s quite a pedigree. I also treasure his album Rooftops, solo instrumental guitar of trad tunes he worked out on the Dylan Never Ending Tour bus. He did O’Carolan’s Blind Mary from that album last night; it was a little rusty but still great.

Williams is awfully good with a strong Nashville voice brought to bear on their own songs, blues songs, and oldies like Ophelia (done every night with Helm but given a Piedmont rag arrangement) and Darlin’ Be Home Soon (with a story about how John Sebastian and his wife brought Campbell soup when he had COVID early on and Williams wasn’t able to be with him). She pinned the Nashville angle by talking about being with her folks as a caregiver for her father’s Alzheimer’s. Saturday night is once again to watch the Opry country stars of our shared youth now in reruns.

Their last tune in common was Rev. Gary Davis’s Samson and Delilah and then Jorma came out for another song the Grateful Dead etc covered, Johnny Cash’s Big River with swapped guitar solos. They also did Davis’s Let’s Get Together Right Down Here and Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (another one of Jorma’s repertoire I manage). Those three from Davis and Jorma’s Death Don’t Have No Mercy are an appropriate tribute to that giant.

They closed the night with Doc and Rosa Lee Watson’s Your Long Journey. I don’t know it, but it’s a good way to end things both thematically and because it’s Doc. The FPR hominess was there as a guitar camp student in the audience loaned him a flat pick.

Campbell who can play everything, just played guitar (and accept for a blond Martin, probably in DADGAD, for the O’Carolan) and a smaller Orchestra model type Flammang at that. No fiddle, cittern, nor pedal steel. He’s brilliant and, like Jorma, a treasure. So is Williams, but I remain always a guitar geek about the playing.

And that’s what the Fur Peace Ranch offers. It was good to be back.

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Been thinking a lot about Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch free Youtube shows every Saturday night during the pandemic. How amazing and wonderful of Jorma & Vanessa and their friends and family to invite us all into their home, their lives and share stories and music with us every week? I know that for me personally, it’s been something to look forward to every weekend during a rather bleak and lonely time. I’ve taken the social distancing and isolating thing somewhat seriously and have barely had any social interaction outside of work, so Jorma and Vanessa have come to feel like friends or fam to me. There’s a warmth and generosity about what they’re doing that you don’t get to experience much these days. I love Jorma’s stories and the Q&A aspect of these shows. So amazing to hear a legendary musician open up and interact with fans. In years to come, when things get back to normal, I think I’ll always remember these shows as the bright spot in 2020.

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    Acoustic Hot Tuna returns

to the Colonial Theatre

  By Rob Nagy

  Pivotal members of the legendary Jefferson Airplane, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady return to the concert stage with acoustic Hot Tuna.

  “It’s just going to be me and Jack,” says Kaukonen while on tour in the southwest.

“I think an acoustic show is a little more internalized which is satisfying. I’m not sure each of us knows what the other is going to do. We listen really well and we’re willing to go wherever the other person is leading.”

  “We want to give people the best possible experience that we can,” adds Kaukonen. “We’ve got a great team that helps us do that in terms of sound and all that stuff, the palate to express ourselves. In terms of the show, to let people hear the stories and in some way be part of the conversation.”

  “Jack is my oldest friend,” says Kaukonen. “If you talk to him you know that he and I are really different people but we’ve always tolerated (laughs) and respected each other personally and artistically. I think that just makes it easier to get together and have fun.”

  Relocating from the east coast to San Francisco in the early ‘60s, Kaukonen befriended fellow guitarist Paul Kantner who he joined along with vocalist Marty Balin and later, bassist Jack Casady, to form the Jefferson Airplane.

  Signed to RCA Records, and following the release of their unsuccessful debut “Jefferson Airplane Takes Off” (1966), vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden joined the band. It was their follow-up album, “Surrealistic Pillow” (1967), featuring the singles “Somebody to Love” and " White Rabbit” that would be the break the band needed. Both songs were instant classics and remain a part of the soundtrack of the ‘60s generation. The band released five more albums, “After Bathing at Baxter’s” (1967), “Crown of Creation” (1968), “Volunteers” (1969), “Bark” (1971) and “Long John Silver” (1972).

  “When you go back and listen to the freshness of that music, when it was new for all of us, it’s hard to recreate that sort excitement or newness.,” recalls Kaukonen. “At the same time, I think I have a deeper appreciation of what we were able to do.”

  Kaukonen recalls performing at the decade’s most significant musical and social gatherings.

  “Both Jack and myself and a lot of my contemporaries have been so fortunate,” recalls Kaukonen. “A lot of it has to do with being in the right time and the right place with the right people. And to leave footprints on the pages of history like that, it just doesn’t happen to everybody. People say, ‘You were at the big three: Monterey, Woodstock and Altamont’ - we had no idea what was going to happen. Woodstock was an oddity because there were a number of festivals that summer, but there was only one Woodstock. You just couldn’t script that but there it was and there we were.”

  “Time marches on, nothing stands still,” adds Kaukonen. “I think there is a lot of truth in that one of the things that I think made the music so important to all of us, not just the creativity that was happening at the time, but the relevance to the social fabric at the time. I just don’t hear that today.”

  In an effort to expand their creativity outside the band, Kaukonen and Casady formed Hot Tuna in 1969, which initially included Marty Balin. Featuring Kaukonen’s blues finger picking and Casady’s powerful bass licks, Hot Tuna released their self-titled debut live album in 1970.

  “Jack is one of the best bass players in the world, ever! says Kaukonen. “He has the ability to play groove, which he is so good at as well as extremely inventive improvisational and crafted solos. You would think that people would know about him. I guess maybe the reason is that he isn’t a front guy and he has played with other people and so people don’t hear about him as much. It is a shame because he is so good!” 

  With the disbanding of the Jefferson Airplane in 1972, Kaukonen and Casady concentrated their efforts on Hot Tuna. Initially an acoustic act, they evolved into an electric band as well. Their third and first studio album “Burgers,” yielded the hit “Ja Da (Keep on Truckin').” Kaukonen launched his solo career with the release of his debut album “Quah” (1974). Hot Tuna broke up in 1978 reforming again in the late ‘80s. He has spent the last three decades performing and recording with Hot Tuna as well as his own solo career.

  “I’m at a point in my life that I’m not self conscious at all (laughs),” says Kaukonen. “I don’t now if that’s a good or bad thing but that’s how it is. You give what you’ve got to give and if the people like it, great but if not, oh well.”

  “I can truthfully say that I never phone my parts in. I’m always there in the moment,” adds Kaukoen. “Sometimes your ability to be able to communicate on that primal level, to me, the music is storytelling. Success is when I’m telling the story and people are getting what I’m saying.”

  “Our fans tend to be people of a certain age that have made the journey with us,” says Kaukonen. “I would just like to thank them for being part of our life as we’ve been part of theirs.”

  Kaukonen and his wife Vanessa own and operate the Fur Peace Ranch, a 119 acre stretch of land in the hills of southeast Ohio, near Pomeroy, which includes a recording studio. The ranch offers music camps to aspiring musicians, both young and old, as well as live concerts.

  “We are starting our 21st season at Fur Peace Ranch,” says Kaukonen. “We’ve got great teachers. We’ve got great shows and we’ve got great food. The teaching thing for me has always been important. You try to believe that you have to make the world a better place. But on a more personal level, in some way to be able to give back the access to the music that was given to me. I’ve been teaching on and off since before Jefferson Airplane. It’s so enjoyable to me because I enjoy the process so much it’s just a gift to be able to do it.”

  Hot Tuna performs at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460, Monday April 2, 2018 at 7:30 P.M. For tickets and further info call 610-917-1228 or visit www.thecolonialtheatre.com

  To stay up to date with Hot Tuna visit www.hottuna.com

www.jormakaukonen.com

www.jackcasady.com

        http://www.dailylocal.com/article/DL/20180328/ENTERTAINMENT/180329773

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Quarantine Concert #12 – Hot Tuna for the 4th of July!

Quarantine Concert #12 – Hot Tuna for the 4th of July!

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Jack Casady has driven safely across the country and will join in the fun as Jorma Kaukonen holds his 12th FREE Quarantine Concert from the Fur Peace Ranch this coming Saturday, July 4 at 8 p.m. EDT.  Due to the high quality video setup at the Fur Peace Station concert hall and the excellent sound system these livestream concerts are a delight to watch and a pleasure to hear!

“Guitarist…

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Jorma Kaukonen Quarantine Concert #6 - Live from Fur Peace Ranch - Saturday, May 9, 2020

Jorma Kaukonen Quarantine Concert #6 – Live from Fur Peace Ranch – Saturday, May 9, 2020

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