The Land Of Heroes
''The Land of Heroes'' is a Jorma Kaukonen studio album recorded and released in 1995. It was his first new solo album since the mid-1980s. The album incorporated the work of several other musicians, including Michael Falzarano, who had joined Hot Tuna and produced remastered versions of Kaukonen's older Relix Records vinyl releases. Falzarano also produced the new album, and co-wrote some tracks. Track listing #"Re-Enlisment Blues" (James Jones, Robert Wells, Fred Karger) – 4:09 #"Trial by Fire" (Jorma Kaukonen) – 4:02 #"Do Not Go Gentle" (Kaukonen) – 3:31 #"From the Land of Heroes" (Kaukonen) – 2:52 #"It's a God Almighty World" (Michael Falzarano) – 3:36 #"Follow the Drinking Gourd" (Traditional) – 4:52 #"Banks of the River" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 3:33 #"Judge, I'm Not Sorry" (Falzarano) – 4:03 #"Dark Train" (Kaukonen, Falzarano) – 5:06 #"Have More Faith in Jesus" (Davis) – 2:47 Personnel *Jorma Kaukonen – guitars, vocals, dobro, lap steel guitar *Michael Fa ...
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Jorma Kaukonen
Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr. (; ; born December 23, 1940) is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist. Kaukonen performed with Jefferson Airplane and still performs regularly on tour with Hot Tuna, which started as a side project with bassist Jack Casady, and as of early 2019 has continued for 50 years. '' Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked him No. 54 on its list of 100 Greatest Guitarists. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane. Biography Jorma Kaukonen was born in Washington, D.C. to Beatrice Love (née Levine) and Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Sr. He had Finnish paternal grandparents and Russian Jewish ancestry on his mother's side. He is the older brother of Peter Kaukonen, who is also a musician. During his childhood, the Kaukonen family lived in Pakistan, the Philippines, and other locales as they followed his father's State Department career from assignment to assignment before returning to the place of his birth. ...
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