Geoff Muldaur | Artist
Geoff Muldaur is an American musician born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and arranger. He was a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days, and half of the husband and wife duo Geoff & Maria. Muldaur's debut recording was the excellent Sleepy Man Blues album in 1963, when he was only 20 years of age. Then after a five year stint in the Kweskin Jug Band, Geoff and then wife Maria released two albums as a duo, Pottery Pie (1970) and Sweet Potatoes (1972). The couple separated in 1972 and Geoff joined Paul Butterfield's Better Days band, along with Amos Garrett, with whom he would collaborate later in his career. Muldaur stayed with the Butterfield group for four years, leaving two albums, including the excellent Better Days. Since then his recorded output has been sporadic, releasing three solo albums in the late '70s then after a twenty year hiatus, reemerging in 1998 with the excellent The Secret Handshake album. In 2003 Muldaur released an album reinterpreting the music of early jazzman Bix Beiderbecke called Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke. In 2009, he formed a roots supergroup dubbed Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, comprising American music luminary Stephen Bruton, Grammy-winning Dobro player Cindy Cashdollar, fiddle virtuoso Suzy Thompson, guitarist Johnny Nicholas and bassist Bruce Hughes. The collective joined Muldaur in the studio for a pair of recording sessions which were released as Texas Sheiks in 2009. Although not a prolific recording artist, Muldaur has built a body of work representing some of America's finest roots music in the folk-blues tradition. Outside of his music performance work, he is also an Emmy Award winning composer of scores for film and Television.
Artist Website: geoffmuldaur.com
Featured Albums: Geoff Muldaur
Related Artists: Maria Muldaur, Paul Butterfield, Amos Garrett, The Jug Band
