The Best of Hot Tuna


The Best of Hot Tuna is a Hot Tuna compilation album released in 1998. It covers songs from all the Hot Tuna albums released on Grunt Records. Bill Thompson, former manager of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna helped select the songs for inclusion. The artwork on the cover is a painting of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady made by Grace Slick. The album was released as a double CD.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Hesitation Blues" – 5:05
  2. "Know You Rider" – 4:07
  3. "Winin' Boy Blues" – 5:31
  4. "Mann's Fate" – 5:20
  5. "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" – 8:15
  6. "Candy Man" – 5:48
  7. "Been So Long" – 3:45
  8. "Keep On Truckin'" – 3:40
  9. "99 Year Blues" – 3:57
  10. "Ode for Billy Dean" – 4:50
  11. "Sea Child" – 5:00
  12. "Water Song" – 5:15
  13. "I See the Light" – 4:15
  14. "Living Just for You" – 3:18
  15. "Easy Now" – 5:10
  16. "Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From" – 2:56

Disc two

  1. "Hit Single #1" – 5:13
  2. "Serpent of Dreams" – 6:51
  3. "Sleep Song" – 4:23
  4. "Funky #7" – 5:47
  5. "Hot Jelly Roll Blues" – 4:21
  6. "Sunrise Dance with the Devil" – 4:28
  7. "Bar Room Crystal Ball" – 6:52
  8. "I Wish You Would" – 3:10
  9. "Watch the North Wind Rise" – 4:39
  10. "It's So Easy" – 2:35
  11. "Song from the Stainless Cymbal" – 4:02
  12. "Genesis" – 4:27
  13. "Rock Me Baby" – 7:36
  14. "Extrication Love Song" – 5:20

Personnel

Production

  • Paul Williams – producer, compilation, tape research
  • Bill Thompson – compilation, assistant
  • Ray Loughren – assistant, sequencer
  • Jim Cooperman – assistant
  • Brian Mayer – assistant
  • Bill Lacey – audio restoration
  • Mike Harty – digital transfer
  • Michael Drexler – digital transfer
  • Dalita Keumurian – project director
  • Dave Cohen – essay
  • Tori Larkey – vault research
  • Jack Rovner – creative director
  • Henry Marquez – art direction
  • Grace Slick – illustrations
  • Mike Diehl – design