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Hot Tuna

Blues
Blues

Hot Tuna is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Jelly Roll Morton, After Bathing at Baxter's, Jesse Fuller, Reverend Gary Davis and Maggie's Farm. Those roots explain a lot about how Hot Tuna arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia Band, Traffic, David Bromberg and The Allman Brothers Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jefferson Starship, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Hot Tuna, reaching back through Jelly Roll Morton and forward to Jefferson Starship. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Hot TunaJelly Roll MortonAfter Bathing at Bax…Jesse FullerReverend Gary DavisMaggie's FarmAsleep at the WheelLive in JapanBlind BlakeJefferson StarshipJefferson StarshipJerry Garcia BandTrafficDavid BrombergThe Allman Brothers …Humble PieTen Years AfterGrateful Dead

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Hot Tuna connections

Hot Tuna grew out of Jelly Roll Morton, After Bathing at Baxter's, Jesse Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis, shares an orbit with Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia Band, Traffic and David Bromberg, went on to shape Jefferson Starship. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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