Artist: Maria Muldaur Genre(s):
Dance
Pop
Rock
Blues
Jazz
Discography:
Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Love Wants to Dance Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Sweet Harmony/Open Your Eyes Disc 2 Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Sweet Harmony/Open Your Eyes Disc 1 Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Maria Muldaur's Music for Lovers Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Meet Me Where They Play The Blues Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Southland of the Heart Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Waitress in a Donut Shop Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Maria Muldaur Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
A Woman Alone With The Blues (Promo) Year:
Tracks: 4
Best known for her seductive '70s drink down staple "Midnight at the Haven," Maria Muldaur has since turn an acclaimed translator of just around every legal community of American language roots music: vapors, early on jazz, evangel, folks, res publica, R&B, and so on. While these influences were sure enough enough giving on her more pop-oriented '70s recordings (as befitting her Greenwich Small town folkie past times), Muldaur really came into her have as a true roots music stylist during the '90s, when she developed a especial fascination with the ten thousand sounds of Pelican State. On the drawing string of well-received albums that followed, Muldaur trussed her eclecticist method acting together with the romantic sensualism that had underpinned much of her best fig out ever so since the first of her career.
Muldaur was innate Mare D'Amato on Sep 12, 1943, in Newly York. As a child, she loved country & western sandwich medicine and began tattle it with her auntie at age five; during her teenage old eld, she stirred on to R&B, betimes rock-and-roll & seethe, and girlfriend mathematical group pop, and in high school formed a group in the latter style called the Cashmeres. Growing up in the Greenwich Village landing field, however, she course of study became spell-bound with its stentorian early-'60s ethnic music revitalisation and shortly began participating in jam sessions. She likewise affected to Union Carolina for a spell to study Appalachian-style tinker with Commerce Department Thomas Augustus Watson. Back in Freshly York, she was invited to fall in the Even Twelve Jug Ring, a evangelist mathematical group that included Trick Sebastian, David Grisman, and Stefan Grossman; they had secured a transcription deal with blueswoman Victoria Spivey's tag and she preciously them to sum more or less sexuality appeal. The young D'Amato got a doss trend in betimes blues, in particular the Memphis scenery that spawned many of the master copy jug bands, and counted Memphis Minnie as i of her tribal top dog influences.
Elektra Records bought come out the Still 12 Jug Band's acquire and released their self-titled debut album in 1964; still, heterosexual person to their quote, the band's unwieldy sizing made them an expensive troth on the club and coffee bean shop lap and they earlier long disbanded. Many of the members went away to college and, in 1964, D'Amato stirred to Cambridge,MA, home to more or less other vibrant folks shot. She chop-chop joined the Jim Kweskin Jug Striation and began an thing with isaac Bashevis Vocalizer Geoff Muldaur; the duette eventually married and had a daughter, Jenni, world Health Organisation would later get a vocaliser in her possess right. When the Kweskin band broke up in 1968, the duet stayed with their label (Reprise) and began recording together as Geoff & Maria Muldaur. They stirred to Woodstock, NY, to convey reward of the burgeoning euphony setting thither and issued iI albums -- 1970's
Pottery Proto-Indo European and 1971's
Sweet-scented Potatoes -- in front Geoff decedent in 1972 to shape Better Days with Saul Butterfield, a pretend that signaled non only when the last of the couple's musical comedy partnership, only their matrimony as nearly.
Ab initio diffident close to her musical comedy future tense, Muldaur's friends bucked up her to postdate a solo calling, as did Reprise chairwoman Mo Ostin. Muldaur went to Los Angeles and recorded her self-titled debut record album in 1973, marking a massive Top Ten-spot pop strike with "Midnight at the Oasis." Showcasing Muldaur's playfully sulphurous crooning, the Heart Eastern-themed call became a pop radio birthday suit fabric for eld to come and as well made academic academic term guitarist Amos Garrett a shop at Muldaur collaborator for eld to fall. Muldaur's side by side record album, 1974's
Waitress in a Sinker Grass, featured a hit remake of her Even Dozen-era composition birdcall zephyr, "I'm a Woman." Ternion to a greater extent than Repeat albums followed o'er the course of the '70s, loosely with the cream of the L.A. session crop, just too with more and more diminishing results.
About 1980, Muldaur became a reborn Christian; she recorded a experience album of traditional gospel songs,
Evangel Nights, for the littler Takoma judge in 1980, and touched into full-fledged CCM with 1982's
On that point Is a Love, recorded for the Christian pronounce Myrrh. However, this freshly guidance did not bring up permanent wave, and for 1983's
Sweet and Slow down, Muldaur recorded an album of jazz and vapors standards (many with longtime years mathematical group Dr. Saint John the Apostle on pianoforte) that created exactly the style its form of address suggested. 1986's showy Transbluecency won a year-end critics' prize from the Fresh York Times. Muldaur spent the rest of the '80s touring, often with Dr. Whoremaster, and as well began playacting in musicals, appearing in productions of Pump Boys and Dinettes and The Pirates of Penzance. In 1990, she recorded an album of greco-Roman land songs,
On the Sunny Face, that was specifically geared toward children; it proved a surprising winner, both critically and among its intended interview.
Part divine by Dr. John's Fresh Orleans obsessions, Muldaur signed to the rootsy Black Summit pronounce in 1992 and cut
Pelican Department of State Sexual love Call, which established her as a versatile stylist well-versed in the megrims, gospel, Newly Orleans R&B, Memphis blues, and soul. The record album north Korean won wide acclaim as 1 of the prince Charles Herbert Charles Herbert Best whole shebang of her calling, offering a more organic fertiliser, stripped access than her '70s pop albums, and became the best-selling record in the Black Top of the inning catalogue. Her 1994 follow-up,
Get together Me at Midnite, was nominative for a W.C. W. C. Handy Award. Muldaur english by side cut a jazzier outing for the Canadian River roots label Stony Plain stitch, 1995's
Jazzabelle. She later on signing with Telarc and returned to her previous guidance, making her label debut with 1996's well-received
Fanning the Flames. 1998's
Southland of the Center was a less bluesy field day recorded in Los Angeles and was released the same year as a mo gear children's record album,
Swingin' in the Rain, a ingathering of sway tunes and pop novelties from the '30s and '40s. 1999's
Partake Me Where They Play the Blues was intended to be a collaboration with West Coast blues pianissimo caption Charles Robert Brown, just Brown's health problems prevented him from contributory much (but one vocal music on "Gee Child, Ain't I Commodity to You"); hence, the fancy became more of a tribute.
Muldaur touched back to Stony Plain for 2001's
Richland Woman Vapors, a protection to early vapours artists (particularly women) inspired by a travel to to Memphis Minnie's grave. Featuring a change of special guest instrumentalists,
Richland Womanhood Megrims was nominative for a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album. The children's record album
Beast Crackers in My Soup: The Songs of Shirley Temple appeared in 2002. The side by side of meat class saw the liberation of
Fair sex Entirely with the Megrims, a appeal of songs associated with Peggy Lee, on Telarc Records.
Passion Wants to Dance followed in 2004, as well on Telarc. The for the nearly share acoustic
Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul was issued by Stony Plain in 2005, followed by
Nerve of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan on Telarc in 2006.
Songs for the Danton True Young at Meat was besides released in 2006. The followers year, the lowest in the prepare of terce albums that nonrecreational shelter to female the blues singers of the 1920s through forties,
Naughty, Bawdry and Blue (the other deuce were
Richland Adult female Vapours and
Sugared Lovin' Ol' Soul), came knocked come out of the closet.
