Burgers (album)

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Released February 1972 Artist Hot Tuna Producer Jorma Kaukonen Genre Folk rock		Length 37:21 Release date February 1972 Label Grunt Records

Recorded November - December, 1971 at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco Burgers(1972) The Phosphorescent Rat(1973) Similar Hot Tuna albums, Folk rock albums

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Burgers is the third album by Hot Tuna, the Folk rock offshoot of Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, and Papa John Creach, released in 1972 as Grunt FTR-1004. It was the band's first studio album, the previous two being live recordings. "Water Song" and "Sunny Day Strut" are instrumentals composed for this album. In 1996, RCA released the CD box set Hot Tuna in a Can which included a remastered version of this album, along with remasters of the albums Hot Tuna, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, America's Choice and Hoppkorv.

Personnel

Jorma Kaukonen – guitars, lead vocals

Jack Casady – bass, vocals, eyebrow

Papa John Creach – violin, vocals

Sammy Piazza – drums, tympani, other percussion, vocals

Additional personnel

Nick Buck – organ, piano on "True Religion" and "Keep On Truckin'"

Richmond Talbott – vocals, slide guitar on "99 Year Blues"

David Crosby – vocals on "Highway Song"

Production

The Unknown Engineer (Joe Lopes) – recording engineer

The Masked Mixer – mixer

Betty Cantor – mixer

Bruce Steinberg – design, photography

Allen Zentz – assistant engineer

The Mighty Maurice (Pat Ieraci) – assistant engineer

Recorded at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco

A Fishobaby Production

Reissue Liner Notes: William Ruhlmann

Songs

1True Religion4:47
2Highway Song3:18
399 Year Blues4:00

References

Burgers (album) Wikipedia

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