Maria Muldaur

In late 1960s great blues survivor Victoria Spivey reccomended this little girl to Kweskin Jug Band ("you kids need some sex-appeal on the stage") and from these Jug Band days Maria Muldaur followed her dreams and sailed through music show-bussines and she's still around,some 35 years after this excellent debut album that some people call "one hit wonder".True,"Midnight at Oasis" was such monster 1970s radio hit that she never even approached this commercial peak but clearly it wasn't even her priority ("Oasis" was recorded as after-thought when they needed one more song for album and her buddy David Nichten suggested his song) What Muldaur did back than and she is still doing,is recording excellent and eclectic albums,covering different music genres and displaying formidable musical knowledge - there's a huge love for music and a brain in this little cutie,just in case you didnt notice - while keeping her own recognisable singing style,quirky and original,within first two minutes listener can tell this is Maria Muldaur.
Her 1973 solo debut is not so different from what she already did with husband on earlier albums (check "Pottery Pie") except is better produced and played - on "Pottery Pie" for example she did Memphis Minnie "Me & My Chauffer" and she recorded it recently again,some 30 years later.Besides "Oasis" this album has delightful collection of country,blues,vaudeville and ballads from off-the-wall sources,perhaps it was this freshness that audience find so appealing back than and I still do to this day - athought it must be said that huge commercial succes of this debut unfortunately towers over her other albums and somehow keep them in shadow and they all deserve to be heard,not only the next one ("Waitress in donut shop") but her recent acoustic blues albums as well.
To me,Muldaur is one of the great unsung heros of "americana" music and her perservance in this bussines is absolutely worth praise.

There are plenty of Maria's 1rst LP/CD reviews that swing towards her beginnings w/Jim Kweskin Jug Band and folk start, her one-time husband Jim Muldaur and his own edge in recorded folk history. Good Gracious!, a book could be written about the cult ..but anyway that is another story..

I first heard this LP/(CD) in a record store 1974 while I was flipping through the racks and had a couple of bucks that wanted to burn to something new. At that time, record stores got LPs like radio, play it , they'll buy it. I wandered around and heard the LP and bought it on a whim. Whattyada think? In two weeks I was playing for friends and then!

"Midnight at the Oasis" jumped out as a huge hit. Maria's vocal is sweet and fine, but it's Amos Garrett's guitar solo so sweet so perfect that makes it embodied DNA.

Other songs on the LP/(CD) begin the top 40 emergence of Linda Ronstadt, with Dolly Parton covers, and early rock.

A fine LP/(CD) '70s treasure

My first exposure to Maria Muldaur was after picking up the album Pottery Pie with her then husband Geoff Muldaur. Great album and her singing blew me away. I bought this on cassette the following year and have been listening to it ever since. She is one of a kind.

had this album years ago when it first came out - just wanted to walk down memory lane!

If you like acoustic country blues you'll love this Cd.
I first ran accross the album in it's vinyl form back in the 1970's
I looked for quite sometime before I found the cd version of it.
And everyone I have played the album for has went out and got their own copy of it.
So do yourself a favor.
One other thing you might want to look at her Richland Wowman and Sweet Lovin' Ol Soul albums and according to the liner notes of the Sweet Lovin' cd there will be one more album in this trilogy called Naughty,Bawdy & Blue