Though he was born and fostered his earliest musical ambitions in Washington D.C. -- where his father worked for the U.S. State Department -- Jorma Kaukonen planted some of his strongest musical roots in Ohio .

It was at Antioch University during the late 50s where he was taught fingerstyle guitar playing by classmate Ian Buchanan, who also introduced him to Reverend Gary Davis and other American roots artists.

He was a coffee house and folk club denizen when he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area during the early 60s -- even accompanying an upstart Janis Joplin there -- but went electric with Jefferson Airplane in 1965. (Check out his “Wabash Avenue,” his Record Store Day Black Friday release from previously unreleased solo performances that same year.)

Kaukonen has nevertheless stay

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