[78-L] Maria Muldaur

[Peter Fraissinet]

And just released in October on the Stony Plain label, Maria Muldaur 
& Her Garden of Joy, teaming up with some luminaries from her past 
and present to make some great jug band music (everybody's getting 
back to their jug band roots, it seems).  With old songs like Bank 
Failure Blues and The Panic Is On, the old jug band repertoire of 
Maria's seems extra-relevant just now.

She was touring until a couple weeks back with members of the Crow 
Quill Night Owls to promote the CD (see their vids on youtube, you 
won't be sorry).  What a fun evening when they came through Ithaca 
NY!  Maria got to reunite with her old Even Dozen Jug Band pal Peggy 
Haine, who lives hereabouts.  Peggy got up and blew a jug for one tune.

Now a couple of those Crow Quill boys (Kit Stovepipe & Devin 
Champlin) are spending their pre-gig hours in every town they come 
through hunting up old 78s (& LPs), and I sent them home with some of 
mine, after we played a few tunes outdoors on a beautiful 
unseasonably warm November day.  Don't you love it when record 
collectors are actually using their collections to create their own 
music?  I sent them off with a CDR of some Arizona Dranes on OKeh and 
Catherine Boswell on QRS that they needed to hear...

Peter Fraissinet
West Danby NY

At 12:52 PM 12/8/2009, you wrote:

>There's a great Maria Muldaur CD that was issued in 2006, although I 
>just got a copy recently. It's purportedly a CD for children, but 
>many of the songs are remakes of classics from the '20s, '30s & 
>'40s, including "Swingin' on a Star," "Aba Daba Honeymoon," "Cooking 
>Breakfast for the One I Love," "Singin' in the Rain," "At the 
>Codfish Ball," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Mocking Bird 
>Hill," and Jimmie Rodgers' "Prairie Lullaby." Great assistance from 
>folks like David Grisman, Dan Hicks, Roy Rogers (the blues slide 
>guitarist), and others. This is a great CD for children as well as 
>grown-ups. CD is called "Songs for the Young at Heart" on EarthBeat! R2-74541.
>
>Cary Ginell