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{{Infobox album
| name       = The Phosphorescent Rat
| type       = studio
| artist     = Hot Tuna
| cover      = PhosphorescentRat.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = January 3, 1974
| recorded   = May – October 1973 at [[Wally Heider Studios]], [[San Francisco]]
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Blues rock]], [[hard rock]]
| length     = 37:46
| label      = [[Grunt Records|Grunt]]
| producer   = Mallory Earl
| prev_title = [[Burgers (album)|Burgers]]
| prev_year  = 1972
| next_title = [[America's Choice]]
| next_year  = 1975
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r9531 |title=The Phosphorescent Rat - Hot Tuna &#124; AllMusic |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=17 August 2011}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2Score = C<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: H|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=H&bk=70|accessdate=February 26, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev3Score = (not rated)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/hottuna/albums/album/253009/review/5943690/phosphorescent_rat |title=Hot Tuna: Phosphorescent Rat : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |first=Jack |last=Breschard |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |year=2011 |accessdate=17 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007234741/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/hottuna/albums/album/253009/review/5943690/phosphorescent_rat |archivedate=October 7, 2008 }}</ref>
}}
'''''The Phosphorescent Rat''''' is the fourth album by the [[blues rock]] group [[Hot Tuna]], released in early 1974 as Grunt BFL1-0348. This was the first Hot Tuna album recorded after guitarist [[Jorma Kaukonen]] and bass player [[Jack Casady]] had left [[Jefferson Airplane]]; the group had been waiting for their return all through 1973 and when this didn't happen, [[Jefferson Starship]] was formed at the start of 1974. The two core members were joined as before by drummer Sammy Piazza, though [[Papa John Creach]] had left the band and would shortly join the Starship project. The band's playing was moving away from the softer, more [[acoustic music|acoustic]] sound of their first three albums, and towards a [[hard rock]] sound that would be explored on their next three albums.
==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Jorma Kaukonen]], except where noted
{{tracklist
| headline         = Side one
| title1          = I See the Light
| note1           =
| length1         = 4:15
| title2          = Letter to the North Star
| note2           = also recorded as "Lord Have Mercy" for ''[[Quah (album)|Quah]]''; released as a bonus track
| length2         = 2:31
| title3          = Easy Now
| note3           = later re-recorded with new lyrics as "Easy Now Revisited" for ''[[Steady as She Goes (Hot Tuna album)|Steady as She Goes]]''
| length3         = 5:10
| title4          = Corners Without Exits
| note4           =
| length4         = 3:37
| title5          = Day to Day Out the Window Blues
| note5           =
| length5         = 3:26
}}
{{tracklist
| headline         = Side two
| title1          = In the Kingdom
| note1           =
| length1         = 5:26
| title2          = Seeweed Strut
| note2           = instrumental
| length2         = 3:25
| title3          = Living Just for You
| note3           =
| length3         = 3:18
| title4          = Soliloquy for 2
| note4           =
| length4         = 3:42
| title5          = Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From?
| note5           = instrumental
| writer5         = [[Reverend Gary Davis]]
| length5         = 2:56
}}
==Personnel==
*[[Jorma Kaukonen]] – [[singing|vocals]], [[electric guitar|guitars]]
*[[Jack Casady]] – [[bass guitar|electric bass]], bass [[balalaika]]
*Sammy Piazza – [[drum kit|drums]], [[Spoon (musical instrument)|spoons]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
;Additional personnel
*Tom Salisbury – conductor of strings and woodwinds on "Corners Without Exits" and "Soliloquy for 2"
*Andrew Narell – steel drums on "Living Just for You"
;Production
*Pat Ieraci – production coordinator
*Mallory Earl – recording engineer, mixing engineer
*Steve Mantoani – assistant engineer
*Marek A. Majewski – cover design
*Recorded at Wally Heider's, San Francisco
*Mastered at The Lacquer Channel, Sausalito
==References==
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{{Hot Tuna}}
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