Geoff & Maria Muldaur 1964/1979 singers, songwriters

Geoff  & Maria Muldaur

G. Muldaur (n. 1945, USA) ha già prodotto GEOFF MULDAUR (Prestige 1964 USA) e SLEEP MAN BLUES (Prestige 1965 USA), oscuri album nei quali propone di tutto un pò folk, blues, country, jazz e gospel, quando si unisce a Jim Kweskin nella sua Jug Band. Lì, dove è uno dei personaggi di spicco, conosce e sposa Maria D'Amato (n. 1943 USA) proveniente da un'altra jug band, la Even Dozen. Scioltasi la band di Kweskin, i coniugi Muldaur, fra il 1969 e il 1972, producono POTTERY PIE (Reprise 1969 USA) e SWEET POTATOES (Warner Bros 1972 USA), album piuttosto eclettici nei quali figura, tra gli altri, il chitarrista Amos Garrett. Subito dopo i due divorziano, Maria Muldaur l'anno dopo incide MARIA MULDAUR (Reprise 1973 USA), album di country - rock - blues al quale partecipano fra gli altri Ry Cooder, Clarence White, David Lindley, Dr. John e Amos Garrett. Del 1974 è invece WAITRESS IN THE DONUT SHOP (Reprise 1974 USA), ancora con Lindley, Dr. John, Garrett e altri, come Paul Butterfield, Linda Ronstadt e Doc e   Merle Watson. Il successo che Maria Muldaur riscuote in questo periodo viene testimoniato dalla apparizione in classifica dei suoi Midnight At The Oasis (1974) e I'm A Woman (1975) e dalle numerose partecipazioni di altri artisti come Linda Ronstadt, Eric Andersen, Doobie Brothers, Jerry Garcia, Willie Nelson e Leon Russell: la fortuna peraltro non le arriderà più  negli anni successivi, malgrado una produzione non abbondante ma qualitativamente valida. Geoff Muldaur nei '70 continua per la sua strada e fra il 1973 e il 1974 si unisce a Paul Butterfield nei Better Days, partecipando ai primi due album. Nel 1975/76 produce GEOFF MULDAUR IS HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME (Reprise 1975 USA) e MOTION (Reprise 1976 USA), presente Amos Garrett; sono album piuttosto complessi ed elaborati mentre GEOFF MULDAUR & AMOS GARRETT (Flying Fish 1978 USA) e BLUES BOY (Flying Fish 1979 USA) segnano il ritorno a un genere più folk. Negli anni '80, in seguito ad una conversione religiosa, Maria Muldaur si dedica alla musica gospel e, successivamente, si avventura in campo jazz.

"Maria Muldaur -- listening to, and presumably singing with, the music that was being played at a party after a 1969 Memorial Day weekend picnic on Boston's North Shore, which several of my friends and I attended. "Maria was best known for a hit song called Midnight at the Oasis in 1973, and was part of a musical folk group called the Jim Kweskin Jug Band

 

 Geoff Muldaur (born August 12, 1943, Pelham, New York, United States) is an American musician. He is an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and arranger. He was a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days. 

Career

Having established an impressive reputation with the Kweskin Jug Band during the 1960s, Geoff and Maria Muldaur (who were then married) recorded their first album, Pottery Pie, for Warner Bros. Records in 1969. It was on this album that Muldaur recorded his celebrated version of "Brazil" (original title "Aquarela do Brasil"), which became the title inspiration and the opening theme for Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil. After recording Pottery Pie, the Muldaurs moved to the burgeoning folk, blues, and folk-rock scene in Woodstock, New York. They separated in 1972, shortly after Geoff joined the group Paul Butterfield's Better Days.
After leaving the Butterfield band in 1976, Muldaur recorded two more solo albums for Warner Bros., an album with Amos Garrett, a solo album for Flying Fish Records, and a jump band album, Geoff Muldaur and the Nite Lites, for Hannibal Records. During this period, he also recorded with Bobby Charles, Jerry Garcia, Eric Von Schmidt, Bonnie Raitt, and John Cale. In the early 1980s, Muldaur left the stage and recording studio for a working sabbatical. During this period, he composed scores for film and television, winning an Emmy Award, and produced albums for Lenny Pickett and the Borneo Horns and the Richard Greene String Quartet.
Muldaur emerged in 1998 with The Secret Handshake. After two more albums in 1999 and 2000, he recorded the semiclassical jazz album Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke for Deutsche Grammophon in 2003.
In 2009, Muldaur formed a roots supergroup for work on a new album. Dubbing themselves Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, folk and American music luminary Stephen Bruton, Grammy-winning Dobro player Cindy Cashdollar, fiddle virtuoso Suzy Thompson, guitarist Johnny Nicholas, and bassist Bruce Hughes joined Muldaur in the studio for a pair of recording sessions in 2008. Bruton died in May 2009. Texas Sheiks was released on September 22, 2009, on the Tradition & Moderne label.
His sister is the actress Diana Muldaur. His daughters Jenni Muldaur and Clare are also musicians. His daughter Dardanella Slavin is a chiropractor.
Muldaur is the author of "Moles Moan", which was recorded by his friend Tom Rush. This song has been used as a theme song for many folk music radio programs, notably by Gene Shay.

Discography

Solo albums

• Sleepy Man Blues – Prestige (1964)
• Is Having a Wonderful Time – Warner Bros/Reprise (1975)
• Motion (Geoff Muldaur album) – Warner Bros/Reprise (1976)
• Blues Boy – Flying Fish (1979)
• I Ain't Drunk – Hannibal (1980)
• The Secret Handshake – HighTone (1998)
• Beautiful Isle of Somewhere – Tradition & Moderne (Germany) (1999)
• Password – HighTone (2000)
• Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke – Deutsche Grammophon

With Maria Muldaur

• Pottery Pie – Warner Bros/Reprise
• Sweet Potatoes – Warner Bros/Reprise

With Amos Garrett

• Geoff Muldaur & Amos Garrett – Flying Fish
• Live in Japan – Yupiteru (Japan)

Jim Kweskin Jug Band

• Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band – Vanguard
• Jug Band Music – Vanguard
• See Reverse Side for Title – Vanguard
• Garden of Joy – Warner Bros.
• Jug Band Blues (with Sippie Wallace) – Mountain Railroad
• Greatest Hits – Vanguard

Paul Butterfield's Better Days

• Better Days – Warner Bros/Bearsville
• It All Comes Back – Warner Bros/Bearsville

Various artists

• The Blues Project – Elektra
• The Bluesville Years – Prestige
• Newport Folk Festival 1964 Evening Concerts Vol. 1 – Vanguard
• Newport Folk Festival 1965 – Vanguard
• Festival 1967 – Vanguard
• The Record Show – Warner Bros
• Goodbye – Suspex
• Avalon Blues – Vanguard

With the Texas Sheiks

• Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks – Tradition & Moderne

Collaborations

• Slow Dazzle – John Cale (vocal harmonies)
• Penny's Farm - Jim Kweskin (2016)

Maria Muldaur (born September 12, 1943) is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song "Midnight at the Oasis" and continues to record albums in the folk traditions.
She was the wife of musician Geoff Muldaur and is the mother of singer-songwriter Jenni Muldaur.

Biography

Muldaur was born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato in Greenwich Village, New York City, where she attended Hunter College High School.
Muldaur began her career in the early 1960s as Maria D'Amato, performing with John Sebastian, David Grisman, and Stefan Grossman as a member of the Even Dozen Jug Band. She then joined Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band as a featured vocalist and occasional violinist. During this time, she was part of the Greenwich Village scene that included Bob Dylan, and some of her recollections of the period, particularly with respect to Dylan, appear in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary film No Direction Home.
She married fellow Jug Band member Geoff Muldaur, and after the Kweskin group broke up, the two of them produced two albums. She began her solo career when their marriage ended in 1972, but retained her married name.
Her first solo album, Maria Muldaur, released in 1973, contained her hit single "Midnight at the Oasis", which reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. It also peaked at number 21 in the UK Singles Chart. Later that year, she released her second album, Waitress in a Donut Shop. This included a re-recording of "I'm a Woman", the Leiber and Stoller number first associated with Peggy Lee and a standout feature from her Jug Band days. The title of this album is taken from a line in another song on the album, "Sweetheart", by Ken Burgan.

Around this time, Muldaur established a relationship with the Grateful Dead. Opening for some Grateful Dead shows in the summer of 1974, with John Kahn, bassist of the Jerry Garcia Band, eventually earned her a seat in that group as a backing vocalist in the late 1970s. Around the same time Muldaur met and eventually collaborated with bluegrass icon Peter Rowan. The two became close, and she was chosen to be the godmother of his daughter Amanda Rowan. She appeared on Super Jam (1989), the live recording of the German TV series Villa Fantastica, with Brian Auger on piano, Pete York on drums, Dick Morrissey on tenor saxophone, Roy Williams on trombone, Harvey Weston on bass and Zoot Money, also on vocals.^{[citation needed]}
Muldaur continued to perform, tour, and record after her success in the mid-1970s, including a turn at the Teatro ZinZanni in 2001.
Her 2005 release Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul was nominated for both a Blues Music Award (formerly the W.C. Handy Award) and a Grammy Award in the Traditional Blues category. In 2013, she was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) category.

Discography

Even Dozen Jug Band

• The Even Dozen Jug Band (1964, credited as Maria D'Amato) (Elektra, EKS-7246)

Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band

• Jug Band Music (1965, credited as Maria D'Amato) (Vanguard, VDS-79163)
• See Reverse Side for Title (1966, credited as Maria D'Amato) (Vanguard, VDS-79234)
• Garden of Joy (1967) (Reprise, RS-6266)
• The Best of Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band (1968, compilation, credited as Maria D'Amato) (Vanguard, VDS-79270)

Geoff & Maria Muldaur

• Pottery Pie (1969) (Reprise, RS-6350)
• Sweet Potatoes (1972) (Reprise, MS-2073)

Solo

• Maria Muldaur (1973) (Reprise, MS-2148) (CD reissue: Warner Bros. 27208)
• Waitress in a Donut Shop (1974) (Reprise, MS-2194)
• Sweet Harmony (1976) (Reprise, MS-2235)
• Southern Winds (1978) (Warner Bros. BSK-3162)
• Open Your Eyes (1979) (Warner Bros. BSK-3305)
• Gospel Nights (Recorded at McCabe's) (1980) (Takoma, TAK-7084) (with the Chambers Brothers)
• There Is a Love (1982) (Myrrh, MSB-6685)
• Sweet and Slow (1983) (Spindrift/Making Waves, SPIN-109) (CD reissue: Stony Plain, SPCD-1183) (with Dr. John, Kenny Barron, and other guest artists)
• Transblucency (1986) (Uptown, UP-27.25) (recorded 1984–85 with "jazz" septet)
• Live in London (1986) (Making Waves, SPIN-116)
• Louisiana Love Call (1992) (Black Top, BT-1081) (reissued by Shout! Factory with same part number)
• Maria Muldaur and Friends: On the Sunny Side (1992) (Music for Little People/Warner Bros. 42503)
• Meet Me at Midnite (1994) (Black Top, BT-1107) (reissued by Shout! Factory with same part number)
• Jazzabelle (1995) (Stony Plain, SPCD-1188)
• Fanning the Flames (1996) (Telarc, CD-83394) (with Johnny Adams, Huey Lewis, Bonnie Raitt, Mavis Staples, and other guest artists)
• Southland of the Heart (1998) (Telarc, CD-83423)
• Swingin' in the Rain (Classic Swing Tunes for Kids of All Ages) (1998) (Music for Little People/Rhino, R2-75311)
• Meet Me Where They Play the Blues (1999) (Telarc, CD-83460) (with Charles Brown, Danny Caron, David Mathews, and other guest artists)
• Maria Muldaur's Music for Lovers (2000, compilation) (Telarc, CD-83512)
• Richland Woman Blues (2001) (Stony Plain, SPCD-1270) (with Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and other guest artists)
• Animal Crackers in My Soup (& Other Songs Made Popular by Shirley Temple) (2002) (Music for Little People/Rhino, R2-78179) (with Carrie Lyn)
• A Woman Alone with the Blues (...Remembering Peggy Lee) (2003) (Telarc, CD-83568)
• Classic Live! (2003) (Burnside/DIG Music, UPC: 80440 30110 27) (live radio broadcasts from 1973 and 1975)
• I'm a Woman: 30 Years of Maria Muldaur (2004, compilation) (Shout! Factory, SF-30219)
• Sisters & Brothers (with Eric Bibb, and Rory Block) (2004) (Telarc, CD-83588)
• Love Wants to Dance (2004) (Telarc, CD-83609)
• Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul (Old Highway 61 Revisited) (2005) (Stony Plain, SPCD-1304) (with Taj Mahal, Tracy Nelson, Pinetop Perkins, Del Rey, Steve James, and other guest artists)
• Heart of Mine: Maria Muldaur Sings Love Songs of Bob Dylan (2006) (Telarc, CD-83643)
• Songs for the Young at Heart (2006, compilation) (Music for Little People/Earth Beat!/Rhino, R2-74541)
• Naughty, Bawdy & Blue (2007) (Stony Plain, SPCD-1319) (with James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band and Bonnie Raitt)
• Live in Concert (2008) (Global Recording Artists, UPC: 64641 31264 27)
• Yes We Can! (2008) (Telarc, CD-83672) (with the Women's Voices for Peace Choir)
• Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy: Good Time Music for Hard Times (2009) (Stony Plain, SPCD-1332)
• Maria Muldaur's Barnyard Dance: Jug Band Music For Kids (2010) (Music for Little People/Rhino, R2-524467)
• Christmas at the Oasis (Live at the Rrazz Room) (2010) (Global Recording Artists, UPC: 64641 31287 28)
• Steady Love (2011) (Stony Plain, SPCD-1346)
• ...First Came Memphis Minnie...A Loving Tribute (2012) (Stony Plain, SPCD-1358) (with Rory Block, Ruthie Foster, Bonnie Raitt, Phoebe Snow, Koko Taylor, and other guest artists; Muldaur's 40th album)
• Don't You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker (2018) (The Last Music Company) (Muldaur's 41st album)

Jerry Garcia Band

• Cats Under the Stars (1978, Arista)
• Pure Jerry: Warner Theatre, March 18, 1978 (2005, Jerry Made)
• Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978 (2009, Jerry Made)
• Garcia Live Volume Four (2014, ATO)

Paul Butterfield's Better Days

• Better Days (1973, Bearsville) – on tracks 5, 7, and 8
• It All Comes Back (1973, Bearsville) – credited as "vocals", but no specific tracks given

Other contributions

• Wendy Waldman, Love Has Got Me (1973, Warner Bros.) – Background vocals on "Lee's Traveling Song"
• Linda Ronstadt, Heart Like a Wheel (1974, Capitol) – Harmony vocals on "Heart Like A Wheel"
• Wendy Waldman, Gypsy Symphony (1974, Warner Bros.) – Background vocals on "Come On Down"
• Linda Ronstadt, Prisoner In Disguise (1975, Elektra) – harmonies/background vocals on "You Tell Me That I'm Falling Down"
• Elvin Bishop, Hog Heaven (1978, Capricorn) – on two songs
• Terry Robb, Stop This World (1996, Burnside BCD-0025)
• Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash (2003, Northern Blues)

 

 

 

 

Brazil - Geoff & Maria Muldaur - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urN7Pdzw5Cs

Lyrics

Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June
We stood beneath an amber moon
And softly murmured "Someday soon"
We kissed and clung together

Then, tomorrow was another day
The morning found me miles away
With still a million things to say
Now, when twilight dims the sky above
Recalling thrills of our love
There's one thing I'm certain of
Return I will to old Brazil

Then, tomorrow was another day
The morning found me miles away
With still a million things to say
Now, when twilight dims the sky above
Recalling thrills of our love
There's one thing that I'm certain of
Return I will to old Brazil
That old Brazil
Man, it's old in Brazil
Brazil, Brazil

Songwriters: Ary Barroso

Brazil lyrics © Peer International Corporation, Canzoni Moderne Ca-mo Di Piero Sugar, Peermusic France, Irmaos Vitale Sa, Vitale Irmaos Sa Industria E Comercio, IRMAOS VITALE SA INDUSTRIA E COMERCIO

Artist: Geoff Muldaur

Album: Pottery Pie

Released: 1968

Genre: Folk

Geoff Muldaur - Downtown Blues - YouTube

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Geoff Muldaur : The Rain Don' Fall on Me - YouTube

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From the 1964 Prestige album "Sleepy Man Blues"

 

 

Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis (1974) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt2O4Y_sQ98

Lyrics

Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows painting our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
Heaven's holding a half-moon
Shining just for us
Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust

Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, till the evening ends
'Til the evening ends
You don't have to answer
There's no need to speak
I'll be your belly dancer, prancer
And you can be my sheik

I know your daddy's a sultan
A nomad known to all
With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him
Jump at his beck and call
But you won't need no harem, honey
When I'm by your side
And you won't need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride
Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, till the evening ends
'Til the evening ends
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Got shadows painting our faces
And traces of romance in our heads

Oh come on, oh come on
Woo hoo hoo, yeah, oh yeah
Oh oh, yeah, yeah

Songwriters: David Nichtern

Midnight at the Oasis lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Artist: Maria Muldaur

Album: Maria Muldaur

Released: 1973

Genres: Rock, Pop

Nominations: Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Grammy Award for Record of the Year

 

 

I'm a Woman - Maria Muldaur (1974) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDs-7I3NElE

Lyrics

I can wash out forty-four pairs of socks
And have them hangin' out on the line
I can starch and iron two dozen shirts
Before you can count from one to nine

I can scoop up a great big dipper
Full of lard from the drippin's can
Throw it in the skillet, go out and do my
Shopping and be back before it melts in the pan

'Cause I'm a woman
W-O-M-A-N
I'll say it again

I can rub and scrub till this old house
Is shinin' like a dime
Feed the baby, grease the car and
Powder my face at the same time
Get all dressed up, go out and swing
Till four a.m. and then
Lay down at five, jump up at six
And start all over again

'Cause I'm a woman
W-O-M-A-N
I'll say it again

If you come to me sickly, you know
I'm gonna make you well
If you come to me hexed up,
You know I'm gonna break the spell

If you come to me hungry,
You know I'm gonna fill you full o' grits
If it's lovin' you're lackin, I'll kiss you
And give you the shiverin fits

'Cause I'm a woman
W-O-M-A-N
I'll say it again

I can stretch a greenback dollar bill
From here to kingdom come
I can play the numbers, pay my bills
And still end up with some

I got a twenty dollar gold piece says
There ain't nothin' I can't do
I can make a dress out of a feed bag
And I can make a man out of you

'Cause I'm a woman
W-O-M-A-N
I'll say it again

'Cause I'm a woman
W-O-M-A-N
And that's all

Songwriters: Mustafa Guendogdu / Errol Rennalls / Peter Hinderthuer

I’m a Woman lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Artist: Maria Muldaur

Album: Waitress In A Donut Shop

Released: 1974

Genres: Country music, Pop