Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Kaukonen's country heart beats blue (Jul 2002)

Jorma Kaukonen is happy about his new album, "Blue Country Heart," and his enthusiasm for the project is clearly apparent even through the phone line. "I'm thrilled with it myself," says a barely contained Kaukonen. "I told one of the guys from Columbia the other night that if we'd done the session, and they'd burned one CD-R (CD-rom) and gave it to me, I'd have been happy. But it's even better that other people can hear it. Although Kaukonen's primary area of passion and expertise has always been the blues, he's never minded going a little further afield in the interest of experimentation and growth.  ...