Michael Falzarano
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Guitarist, singer, songwriter Michael Falzarano has been a working musician for the past 35 years, most notably in Hot Tuna, the famed offspring of Jefferson Airplane, and in The Memphis Pilgrims, a Memphis-style rock ‘n’ roll/blues band that he founded in 1986.
Having signed with Blues Planet Records, Falzarano released a solo project entitled The King James Sessions in 2005. A re-released version of the song "Last Train Out," which he wrote in memory of The Allman Brothers’ and Gov’t Mule’s well-known bass player Allen Woody, appears on the record. Blues Planet re-released Mecca, an album that Falzarano and The Memphis Pilgrims originally released in 1996 on Relix Records with guests Jorma Kaukonen, Pete Sears and Harvey Sorgen of Hot Tuna and Danny Lewis of Gov’t Mule. When not performing with his own band, Falzarano can be seen with Hot Tuna, The Jorma Kaukonen Trio and New Riders of the Purple Sage, Falzarano also produces other artists and teaches guitar workshops at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch.