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Fur
Peace Ranch jams get radio time
Jorma Kaukonen’s life is fairly serene compared to his days
as a founding member of the 1960s rock band Jefferson Airplane.
His southeastern Ohio ranch provides a quiet location to teach guitar
and jam with fellow musicians.
 The only
folks who hear him perform these days are those who visit his Meigs
County homestead, the Fur Peace Ranch, to take lessons or attend
a performance in his concert hall — until now.
A new Ohio University Public Radio series, “Live From the Fur
Peace Ranch,” features Kaukonen in concert with talented blues,
folk, country and rock musicians. The show, broadcast at 8 p.m.
every other Sunday, is a pilot program that WOUB producers eventually
hope to distribute to a national audience. In the meantime, replays
of concerts can be heard on the Web at www.woub.org/furpeace/.
The Fur Peace Ranch, conceived in 1989 by Kaukonen and his wife,
Vanessa, offers an instructional facility, restaurant, concert hall
and conference center. Kaukonen and visiting musicians provide instruction
on guitar and other instruments.
Before helping to form Jefferson Airplane in 1965, Kaukonen had
performed with such rock icons as Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and
Jimi Hendrix. In 1970, while still with Jefferson Airplane, Kaukonen
and the group’s bass guitarist, Jack Casady, created the band
Hot Tuna, which continues to produce new work.
— Melissa Rake
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