Song · Hot Tuna
“Water Song” by Hot Tuna
From the album Burgers (1972)
“Water Song” by Hot Tuna appears on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2004 and 2020. It was first released in 1972 on the album Burgers. Its best result is #597 on the WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,308 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Water Song" is one of the instrumentals written for Burgers, the 1972 Grunt album from Hot Tuna, the folk-rock splinter group of Jefferson Airplane's Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Papa John Creach; "Sunny Day Strut" is another. Kaukonen composed it, and the album, the band's third, was their first made in a studio after a pair of live records.
No singer here, just the players doing the talking: Kaukonen on guitar, Casady on bass, Creach sawing away on violin and Sammy Piazza on percussion. RCA later folded a remastered Burgers into the 1996 box set Hot Tuna in a Can, and Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums found room for it at 748 in 2000.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 597 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2009 | 849 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2020 | 1043 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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