Jorma Kaukonen is an American musician who became famous in the 1960s as a
member of the rock band Jefferson Airplane and later played with the group Hot
Tuna. Regarded as one of the great rock and roll guitar players, he has had a
successful solo career with a series of albums including 'Blue Country Heart',
which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2002,
and 'Ain't in No Hurry' which went to number 15 on Billboard's Americana/Folk
Albums Chart in 2015.
Born in Washington D.C. he began to play music there and moved to San Francisco
where he p...