Maria Muldaur, "The First Lady of Roots Music," has just released One Hour Mama, a tribute to her mentor, Victoria Spivey. Credit: Screenshot Maria Muldaur, “The First Lady of Roots Music,” has ...

For Maria Muldaur, Bob Dylan is just as much of a lover with his music as he is a fighter. "When people think of Bob Dylan, they think of these amazingly insightful, perceptive songs of social ...

Maria Muldaur and Tuba Skinny: Barnabus Jones, Max Bien Kahn, Jason Lawrence, Greg Sherman, Muldaur, Shaye Cohn, Craig Flory, Todd Burdick, and Robin Rupuzzi. Credit: Photo by Josef Crosby/Courtesy of ...

Nola Blue Records has announced a Valentine’s Day single from Benny Turner & Maria Muldaur. Brook Benton and Dinah Washington’s 1960 release of “Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)” was a pop and R&B hit, ...

Four women musicians performed a joyous tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie, black pioneers in gospel and early blues styles that became the roots of rock 'n' roll. The 22-song concert ...

Robert Christgau reviews the latest CD from vocalist Maria Muldaur, best known for her quirky 1970s pop tune "Midnight at the Oasis." Her new CD is Heart of Mine: Maria Muldaur Sings Love Songs of Bob ...

The life of a blues singer can be a tough row to hoe, even for a red-hot mama like Maria Muldaur. If living on the road and doing countless nightclub dates don't wear you down, the record industry ...

Last year, Maria Muldaur realized it has been 40 years since her chart topping hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” and that she had released 40 albums in her long career. So she told herself, “Instead of ...

Most people of a certain age remember Maria Muldaur as the sultry singer of “Midnight at the Oasis,” a song that brought her radio success in the early ‘70s on the heels of the two albums she recorded ...

To put the spotlight on the late great New Orleans vocalist and composer Blue Lu Barker deserves kudos. Singer Maria Muldaur gathered the right musicians to back her ...

Everything I've read in advance of this show takes the same general line. And it goes like this: There is so much more to singer Maria Muldaur than "Midnight at the Oasis." While that certainly is the ...

Produced by Maria Muldaur, the album features some of NOLA’s finest “first-call” musicians. When a 24-year-old Blue Lu Barker stepped up to the microphone at Decca Records studio in Manhattan in 1938 ...