Rock'n'Roll. Traditional Music. Blues. World Music. Jazz. Eclectic Music. Bluegrass. Songs in the Key of Life. Music. Musica Lists. A guide to the music of Joni Mitchell | Music | Primer. The Official Website of Joni Mitchell. Lyrics | Official Steely Dan | Alphabetically by Song. Jimi Hendrix | The Official Jimi Hendrix Site. Hot Tuna History - Hot Tuna. A Musical Odyssey From their days playing together as teenagers to their current acoustic and electric blues, probably no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years — yes! — than Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, the founders and continuing core members of Hot Tuna. The pair began playing together while growing up in the Washington D.C. area, where Jack’s father was a dentist and Jorma’s father a State Department official. Four years younger, Jack continued in junior high, then high school — while playing professional gigs as lead guitarist at night before he was old enough to drive — while Jorma (who had played rhythm guitar to Jack’s lead) started college in Ohio, accompanied his family overseas, then returned to college, this time in California.
Along the way, Jorma became enamored of, then committed to, the finger-picking guitar style exemplified by the now-legendary Rev. Thus was created the unique (then and now) sound that was The Jefferson Airplane. Singles.