Geoff Muldaur

Geoff Muldaur ( born August 13, 1943) is an American folk singer and guitarist. He was a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band of Cambridge (Massachusetts), and a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days band. He is one of the great voices of the folk and blues scene of the American East Coast.

Biography

Muldaur grew up in Pelham, New York as a teenager and went to New York in the jazz clubs and the shows of DJ Alan Freed to come. He hears there Leadbelly and falls victim to the folk and country blues. While studying at Boston University, he discovered the local folk scene. He then lives a year in New Orleans and hitchhiking through the USA. 1963 he releases his first album on the Prestige label. Soon after, he joined the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which was to revolutionize the more rigid approach of the folk music scene of that time. After the breakup of the Kweskin band he published with his then wife Maria Muldaur two successful albums as a duo. It is followed by several solo albums and two albums with Amos Garrett. He has worked with such famous musicians such as Bonnie Raitt, Eric Von Schmidt, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, John Cale, David Lindley, Van Dyke Parks and Garth Hudson. Although he is admired by his fellow musicians high, but the major breakthrough in the audience does not succeed.

There are only three white blues singers. Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them. ( Richard Thompson)

In 1981 he disappeared from the music scene. He earns his living as CEO of the label and Hannibal as a software programmer for the production of car accessories. During this time, he writes music for documentaries and commercials. Live he is only rarely heard -. Thus the revival of the legendary Newport Folk Festival in 1985, friends and inner compulsion to bring him back into the studio in 1998. With the publication of The Secret Handshake and the mix of blues, ragtime, folk and a hint of bebop come full circle back to his musical beginnings in the 1960s. The critics celebrate it, the audience wants to hear it again and other publications ( for example, a CD with tracks of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke ) should follow. Since then he has again reinforced on tour - full of old songs and stories.

His daughter Clare Muldaur has since followed in his footsteps and followed him as a songwriter.

His sister is the actress Diana Muldaur.

Discography

Solo albums

  • Sleepy Man Blues - Prestige
  • Having a Wonderful Time - Warner Bros / Reprise
  • Motion - Warner Bros / Reprise
  • Blues Boy - Flying Fish
  • I Is not Drunk - Hannibal
  • The Secret Handshake - Hightone
  • Password - Hightone
  • Beautiful Isle of Somewhere - Tradition & Modernity
  • Private Astronomy - A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke - German 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

  • 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
  • Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks 2009 - Tradition & Modernity
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