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Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato, 12 September 1943, in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village

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, New York
New York City

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) is a roots-folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 singer best known for her song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 "Midnight at the Oasis
Midnight at the Oasis

"Midnight at the Oasis" is a 1973 rock song which was performed by singer Maria Muldaur and was her best known hit, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100....
".

performed in the early 1960s in Greenwich Village with Bob Dylan and with John Sebastian
John Sebastian

John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
, David Grisman
David Grisman

David Grisman is a Bluegrass music/Progressive bluegrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music....
, and Stefan Grossman
Stefan Grossman

Stefan Grossman is an American guitarist, teacher and businessman.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he began playing guitar at the age of nine, when his father bought him a Harmony f-hole acoustic guitar....
 (with the latter three in the Even Dozen Jug Band
Even Dozen Jug Band

The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman and Peter Siegel in New York City. Other members were David Grisman , Steve Katz , Maria Muldaur , Joshua Rifkin , and John Sebastian ....
). Later in the 1960s her vocals were heard in many of the tracks recorded
Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
 by Jim Kweskin
Jim Kweskin

Jim Kweskin is the founder of the Jim Kweskin jug band, with Fritz Richmond, Mel Lyman, and Geoff Muldaur and Maria Muldaur. They were active in Boston in the 1960s....
 and the Jug Band.






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Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato, 12 September 1943, in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
, New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is a roots-folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 singer best known for her song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 "Midnight at the Oasis
Midnight at the Oasis

"Midnight at the Oasis" is a 1973 rock song which was performed by singer Maria Muldaur and was her best known hit, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100....
".

Career

She performed in the early 1960s in Greenwich Village with Bob Dylan and with John Sebastian
John Sebastian

John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
, David Grisman
David Grisman

David Grisman is a Bluegrass music/Progressive bluegrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music....
, and Stefan Grossman
Stefan Grossman

Stefan Grossman is an American guitarist, teacher and businessman.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he began playing guitar at the age of nine, when his father bought him a Harmony f-hole acoustic guitar....
 (with the latter three in the Even Dozen Jug Band
Even Dozen Jug Band

The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman and Peter Siegel in New York City. Other members were David Grisman , Steve Katz , Maria Muldaur , Joshua Rifkin , and John Sebastian ....
). Later in the 1960s her vocals were heard in many of the tracks recorded
Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
 by Jim Kweskin
Jim Kweskin

Jim Kweskin is the founder of the Jim Kweskin jug band, with Fritz Richmond, Mel Lyman, and Geoff Muldaur and Maria Muldaur. They were active in Boston in the 1960s....
 and the Jug Band. Some of her recollections of the period, particularly with respect to Dylan, appear in the 2005 Dylan documentary film
Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
, No Direction Home
No Direction Home

No Direction Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th century American popular music and culture....
.

She became engaged and was married to fellow singer and Jug Band member Geoff Muldaur
Geoff Muldaur

Geoff Muldaur is a founding member of the Jim Kweskin of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days, as well as an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter....
, but their cooperation and marriage ended in 1972, after which she started a solo career.

In 1974 she had a hit with "Midnight at the Oasis
Midnight at the Oasis

"Midnight at the Oasis" is a 1973 rock song which was performed by singer Maria Muldaur and was her best known hit, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100....
", which reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
. This was followed in 1975 by her treatment of "I'm a Woman
I'm a Woman (song)

The song "I'm a Woman" was written by famed songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and was first recorded in 1962 by Christine Kittrell....
", the Leiber and Stoller number earlier associated with Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
. Around this time, Muldaur established a relationship with the Grateful Dead and their family. Opening for certain shows in summer of 74', with John Kahn, bassist of Jerry Garcia Band, which would eventually earn her a seat in the band. In the late 1970s, she was a member of the Jerry Garcia Band
Jerry Garcia Band

The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side-projects until his death in 1995....
 as a backing vocalist.

More recently, Muldaur appeared on Super Jam
Super Jam (album)

Super Jam is a live studio recording featuring jazz, pop and traditional Traditional pop music, many of them film scores, included in the German TV series, Villa Fantastica....
 (1989), the live recording of the German
Germany

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 TV series Villa Fantastica with Brian Auger
Brian Auger

Brian Auger , is a jazz and rock and roll keyboardist, who has specialized in playing the Hammond organ.A jazz pianist, bandleader, session musician and Hammond B3 player, Auger has played or toured with musician such as Rod Stewart, Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Boy Williamson, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon and others....
 on piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
, Pete York
Pete York

Pete York is a rock music drummer who has been performing since the 1960s....
 on drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
, Dick Morrissey
Dick Morrissey

Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a United Kingdom jazz musician and composer. He played tenor sax, soprano sax and flute....
 on tenor saxophone
Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
, Roy Williams on trombone
Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
, Harvey Weston on bass
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 and Zoot Money
Zoot Money

George Bruno "Zoot" Money is a singing, keyboardist, bandleader and actor best known for his playing of the Hammond Organ and the Big Roll Band....
, also on vocals.

Muldaur has continued to perform, tour, and record since her success in the mid-1970s, including a turn at the Teatro ZinZanni
Teatro ZinZanni

Teatro ZinZanni is a circus dinner theater that began in the neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington in Seattle, Washington. It has since expanded on San Francisco, California's historic waterfront at Pier 29 on The Embarcadero ....
 in 2001.

Her 2005 release Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul was nominated for both a W.C. Handy Award and a Grammy award in the Traditional Blues Category.

Discography


Albums


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


Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band
  • Jug Band Music (1964)(Vangaurd)
  • See Reverse Side for Title (1965, credited as Maria D'Amato) (Vanguard, VDS-79234)
  • The Best of Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band (1966, compilation, credited as Maria D'Amato) (Vanguard, VDS-79270)
  • Garden of Joy (1967) (Reprise)


Geoff & Maria Muldaur
  • Pottery Pie (1970) (Reprise, RS-6350)
  • Sweet Potatoes (1972) (Reprise)


Solo
  • Maria Muldaur
    Maria Muldaur (album)

    Maria Muldaur is the eponymous 1973 first solo release of musician Maria Muldaur. The album includes Muldaur's best-known single, "Midnight at the Oasis", which charted at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Three Dollar Bill", which charted at #7 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts....
     (1973) (Reprise)
  • Waitress In A Donut Shop (1974) (Reprise)
  • Sweet Harmony (1976) (Reprise)
  • Southern Winds (1978) (Warner)
  • Open Your Eyes (1979) (Warner)
  • Gospel Nights (1980) (Takoma)
  • There Is A Love (1982) (Myhrr)
  • Sweet And Slow (1984) (Tudor)
  • Transblucency (1986) (Uptown)
  • Live In London (1987) (Making Waves)
  • On The Sunny Side (1990) (Music For Little People)
  • Louisiana Love Call (1992) (Black Top)
  • Jazzabelle (1994) (Stony Plain)
  • Meet Me At Midnite (1994) (Black Top)
  • Fanning The Flames (1996) (Telarc)
  • Southland of the Heart (1998) (Telarc)
  • Swingin' In The Rain (1998) (Music For Little People)
  • Meet Me Where We Play The Blues (1999) (Telarc)
  • Richland Woman Blues (2001) (Stony Plain) (w/Taj Mahal
    Taj Mahal (musician)

    Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician who folds various forms of world music into his offerings....
    , Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
     and other guest artists)
  • Animal Crackers In My Soup (2002) (Music For Little People)
  • A Women Alone With The Blues (Remembering Peggy Lee) (2003) (Telarc)
  • Sisters And Brothers (With Eric Bibb and Rory Block) (2004) (Telarc)
  • Love Wants To Dance (2004) (Telarc)
  • Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul (Old Highway 61 Revisited) (2005) (Stony Plain) (w/Del Rey, Steve James and other guest artists)
  • Heart of Mine: Maria Muldaur Sings Love Songs of Bob Dylan (2006) (Telarc)
  • Naughty, Bawdy, And Blue (2007) (Stony Plain)
  • Yes We Can! (2008) (Telarc)


Compilation Albums

  • 30 Years of Maria Muldaur: I'm A Woman (May 4, 2004)


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