Yellow Fever (album)

Yellow Fever
Studio album by Hot Tuna
Released	November 1975
Recorded	June – August 1975 at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
Genre	Blues rock, hard rock
Length	39:36
Label	Grunt
Producer	Hot Tuna Mallory Earl
Hot Tuna chronology
America's Choice (1975) Yellow Fever (1975) Hoppkorv (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Christgau's Record Guide	B−
Rolling Stone	(not rated)

Yellow Fever is the sixth album by the American blues rock band Hot Tuna, recorded and released in 1975 as Grunt BFL1-1238. The album was also released in Quadraphonic as Grunt BFD1-1238. The album rose to #97 on the Billboard charts.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Baby What You Want Me to Do"	Jimmy Reed	6:42
2.	"Hot Jelly Roll Blues"	George Carter	4:21
3.	"Free Rein"	Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Ziegler	4:14
4.	"Sunrise Dance with the Devil"	Kaukonen	4:28

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Song for the Fire Maiden"	Kaukonen, Greg Douglass	4:16
2.	"Bar Room Crystal Ball"	Kaukonen	6:52
3.	"Half/Time Saturation"	Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Bob Steeler	4:45
4.	"Surphase Tension"	Kaukonen	3:58

Personnel

• Jorma Kaukonen – vocals, guitars
• Jack Casady – bass
• Bob Steeler – drums

Additional Personnel

• Nick Buck – synthesizer on "Bar Room Crystal Ball"
• John Sherman – 2nd guitar on "Baby What You Want Me to Do"

Production

• Hot Tuna – producer
• Mallory Earl – producer, engineer
• Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator
• Steve Malcolm – assistant engineer
• Michael Casady – equipment
• Bill Thompson – manager
• Acy Lehman – art direction
• Gribbitt – design
• Mick Haggerty – illustration
• Recorded and Mixed at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
• Mastered by Rick Collins, Kendun Recorders, Burbank