I’ve always loved the vintage aesthetic to this recording. It gives me a good sense of what it might have been like to live in San Francisco during the sixties and bear witness to all sorts of spontaneous musical events. Janis‘ heart wrenching voice is accompanied by the fingerstyle sounds of Jorma Kaukonen on the guitar.
Recorded on June 30, 1964, they call it The Typewriter Tape because you can hear a typewriter in the background played by Margareta Kaukonen (Jorma’s wife at the time) as a percussion instrument. Check it out:
1. Trouble In Mind
2. Long Black Train
3. Kansas City Blues (false start)
4. Kansas City Blues
5. Hesitation Blues
6. (strumming)
7. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
8. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
This rules!! two of the greatest bands of the sixties, Janis and the Jeff, i never knew Jorma jammed with Janis before the Airplane was flying high. Great Site.