Track Listing

1. I'm a Woman
2. Midnight at the Oasis
3. My Tennessee Mountain Home
4. Work Song
5. Rockin' Chair
6. It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)
7. Don't You Make Me High (Don't You Feel My Leg)
8. Three Dollar Bill
9. Cajun Moon
10. Louisiana Love Call
11. Best of Me
12. It Feels Like Rain
13. Me and My Chauffeur Blues - Maria Muldaur, Roy Rogers
14. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You - Charles Brown, Maria Muldaur
15. Get Up, Get Ready
16. Somebody Was Watching Over Me - Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt
17. Well, Well, Well
18. Soul of a Man - Taj Mahal, Maria Muldaur
19. It's a Blessing - Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9840 in Music
• Released on: 2004-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Album Description
Maria Muldaur’s musical style defies definition. She’s conquered jazz, blues, country, folk, gospel and rock, while shaking the tambourine with Jerry Garcia and blending vocals with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Aaron Neville, Dr. John and Charles Brown. She spent time as a member of the Even Dozen Jug Band and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band before going solo. This collection spans the last 30 years, featuring audience and personal favorites, picked by Muldaur herself. She includes track-by-track commentary in the liner notes, offering special memories and anecdotes for each of the CD’s 19 tracks. Forty years into her career, Maria Muldaur continues to tour and release new material.

Customer Reviews

Superb overview of her distinguished career
If all you know by Maria is Midnight at the Oasis or if all you have is an album or two, you're in for a treat. This collection collects the cream of her long career and puts it in one package. If you've ever seen her perform live, then you'll know many of these songs, because these are the ones that form the core of her stage act. If you're a fan of the blues, gospel, soul, and country--not to mention straight-up pop--you will love Maria Muldaur, and this CD is the perfect introduction. Get it while you can!

Let this woman lead the Second Line Parade
I have appreciated this woman's voice for more than the thirty years she has been recording. It is regrettable that she hasn't received the attention she deserves for her body of work, but that is just the luck of being an artist who chooses the best work for herself truly. She is ecclectic in her choices, ranging from New Orleans, LA to Nashville/Memphis, TN to New York City, NY. The album 'Maria Muldaur's 'Midnight At The Oasis' was my introduction to her and was a pop hit in the mid-70s and it also had on it Dolly Parton's 'My Tennesee Mountain Home'. Two songs of such distinct style differences that gave my fifteen year old mind wonderful posibilities. On this retrospective, there are the contributions of Doctor John, the Neville Brothers, Peggy Lee, Brother Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, JJ Cale, Ry Cooper, Bonnie Riatt, Mavis Staples, The Chambers Brothers, Benny Carter, and too many more. Because of Ms Mudaur, I have since listened to and become a fan of many almost forgotten greats like Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, and Hoagy Carmichael. I have seen people try to catagorize the music of this woman, but she is more than the Blues, or Gospel, or Pop, or whatever you try to file her under - other than Favorite.

A great album with only one surprise.
This is really an amazing album that has quite a variety of music (the spectrum goes from gospel to hokum (or vice versa if you prefer)). She runs the gamut of jazz, blues, gospel, field hollers, hokum, and pop. Only one surprise. I'm amazed that she didn't pick "Richland Woman Blues" as one of her best. She single handedly turned this Mississippi John Hurt song into a masterpiece. I'm not questioning her choices (I'm just glad the artist is the producer for a change), and there's no way of adding it in (it's a 79+ minute disc). Maria and her friends (Dr. John, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Rait, Mavis Staples, Aaron Nevil, The Chambers Brothers, Charles Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, and a lot more) make one full platter of entertainment.