Burgers (album)

Burgers

Studio album by Hot Tuna

Released

February 1972

Recorded

November - December, 1971 at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco

Genre

Folk rock

Length

37:21

Hot Tuna chronology

First Pull Up, Then Pull Down
(1971)

Burgers
(1972)

The Phosphorescent Rat
(1973)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Rolling Stone	(not rated)^[2]

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.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"True Religion"	Jorma Kaukonen	4:42
2.	"Highway Song"	Kaukonen	3:14
3.	"99 Year Blues"	Julius Daniels	3:58
4.	"Sea Child"	Kaukonen	5:00

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Keep On Truckin'"	Bob Carleton	3:40
2.	"Water Song" (instrumental)	Kaukonen	5:17
3.	"Ode for Billy Dean"	Kaukonen	4:49
4.	"Let Us Get Together Right Down Here"	Rev. Gary Davis	3:27
5.	"Sunny Day Strut" (instrumental)	Kaukonen	3:14

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

References

Burgers (Vinyl back cover). Hot Tuna. New York City: Grunt Records. 1972. FTR-1004.

↑ Ruhlmann, William (2011). "Burgers - Hot Tuna | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
↑ Edmonds, Ben (2011). "Hot Tuna: Burgers : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2011.

Hot Tuna

Jack Casady Jorma Kaukonen Barry Mitterhoff Joey Covington Paul Kantner Marty Balin Peter Kaukonen Paul Ziegler Papa John Creach Sammy Piazza Bob Steeler Michael Falzarano Shigemi Komiyama Joey Balin Joey Stefko Harvey Sorgen Galen Underwood Pete Sears Erik Diaz Skoota Warner

Studio and live albums	Hot Tuna First Pull Up, Then Pull Down Burgers The Phosphorescent Rat America's Choice Yellow Fever Hoppkorv Double Dose Pair a Dice Found Live at Sweetwater Live at Sweetwater Two Live in Japan And Furthurmore... Steady as She Goes

Archival live albums	Splashdown Historic Live Tuna Classic Hot Tuna Acoustic Classic Hot Tuna Electric Splashdown Two Live at New Orleans House: Berkeley, CA 09/69

Compilations	Flight Log Final Vinyl The Best of Hot Tuna

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