'Twas a treat on January 8 for fans of legendary blues and roots outfit Hot Tuna and David Bromberg, as the two performed acoustically, alone and together at the Paradise Performing Arts Center in Paradise, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The show closed out a three-stop weekend that included a performance in Santa Barbara and a birthday tribute for the late Bill Graham in San Francisco.

Some fun observations:
1. During sound check, David, who was going to open the show with a solo set, said he wanted to invite onstage and feature the members of Hot Tuna one at a time. Jorma teased to David, with Jack within earshot, “You can invite Jack up and do a song he doesn’t know. He likes that.” Everyone laughed.
2. David, between songs: “I spoke to President Obama on the phone recently and to help do my part for the economy he told me to bring a lot of shit to sell. I brought as much as I could, so, if you love America, buy as much of this stuff as you can.”
3. “Hot Tuna performed “Parchman Farm," an old standard about the Mississippi State Penitentiary. After the lyric, “All I Did Was Shoot My Wife” Jorma said, “That’s poetry of the blues, folks.”

Fairly complete set lists
David Bromberg:
$50 Wig on a Five-Dollar Head, with the lyric, “Don’t let the door hit ya where the dog shoulda bit ya”
Lost Like Summer Wages
It Takes a Lot to Laugh (A Train to Cry) (Bob Dylan)
Bring it With You When You Come
-> Wooly Bully
If I stole Your Woman I Didn’t Mean No Harm
Come On Into My Kitchen (Robert Johnson, 1920s or ‘30s)
You Got To Mean Them Too
Midnight Owl Blues
How Long Blues (with Jorma)
Cocaine Blues (1927 Luke Jordan version)

Hot Tuna:
I See the Light
Hesitation Blues
Second Chances
Mama Let Me Lay It On You (Blind Boy Fuller/Rev. Gary Davis)
Come Back Baby
99 Year Blues
?
Goodbye to the Boulevard (Marshall Wilborn)
Nobody Knows When You’re Down & Out (W/Bromberg) (by Jimmy Cox, 1923)
Uncle Sam Blues (W/Bromberg)
Let’s All Get Together Right Down Here (W/Bromberg) (Rev. Gary Davis)
Things That Might’ve Been
Parchman Farm->
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning

E: Helpless Blues (W/Bromberg) (Robert Johnson, 1920s or ‘30s)

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