Memory is a strange and wonderful artifact. When I was a teacher, students who were seniors referred to school habits as traditions, though much of what they referred to this way had just been initiated when they were in middle school. Family […]
The summer may be over, but there is plenty of dancing in the street that will greet this fall’s outstanding slate of releases from a variety of folks. A couple of legends, a couple that should be legends by now, some […]
This is a somewhat misleading and frustrating reissue. Its dozen tracks are well-sequenced, and the set flows delightfully over the course of 40 minutes — but it’s not actually Geoff Muldaur’s 1979 album of the same name. Rather, it’s eight […]
With The Secret Handshake in 1998, his first solo album in nearly two decades, Geoff Muldaur re-established himself as a pre-eminent singer and performer in the blues tradition. On Password, Muldaur continues to mine that tradition with excursions into country, […]
Geoff Muldaur’s genius sprawls messily across styles and genres, all of them grist for a creative mill now well into its fourth decade. Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Music is a convenient starting point for understanding Muldaur’s music, but […]
