Maria Muldaur (album)
Maria Muldaur is the 1973 debut studio album of musician Maria Muldaur. The album includes "Midnight at the Oasis", her best-known single, which charted at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Three Dollar Bill", which charted at #7 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts. The album, which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200, was certified gold by the RIAA on May 13, 1974. The album is heavily influenced by country and blues.
Critical reception
The album was positively reviewed, and very positively in at least one case. Writing in October 1973, Rolling Stone's reviewer Jon Landau described the album as "one of the half-dozen best" of the year, "the kind of glorious breakthrough that reminds me why I fell in love with rock & roll."Track listing
Side One- "Any Old Time" – 3:45
- "Midnight at the Oasis" – 3:49
- "My Tennessee Mountain Home" – 3:32
- "I Never Did Sing You a Love Song" – 2:49
- "The Work Song" – 4:04
- "Don't You Feel My Leg " – 2:48
- "Walkin' One and Only" – 2:47
- "Long Hard Climb" – 3:03
- "Three Dollar Bill" – 3:58
- "Vaudeville Man" – 2:41
- "Mad Mad Me" – 3:13
Personnel
- Maria Muldaur - vocals
- Clarence White - acoustic guitar
- Bill Keith - banjo, steel guitar
- Ry Cooder - acoustic guitar
- David Lindley - Hawaiian guitar
- Andrew Gold - acoustic guitar
- David Nichtern - acoustic, producer
- David Grisman - mandolin
- Dr. John - keyboards, horn arrangements
- Jim Dickinson - piano
- Mark T. Jordan - piano
- Spooner Oldham - piano
- Greg Prestopino - piano, background vocals, voices
- James Gordon - organ, clarinet
- Chris Ethridge - bass guitar
- Klaus Voormann - bass guitar
- Ray Brown - bass guitar
- Dave Holland - bowed bass
- Jimmy Calhoun - bass guitar
- Tommy McClure - bass guitar
- Freebo - bass guitar
- Amos Garrett - bass guitar, guitar, vocals, guitar solo
- Jim Keltner - drums
- Ed Shaughnessy - drums
- John Boudreaux - drums
- Jim Gordon - drums
- Chris Parker - drums
- Jerry Jumonville - alto horn, horn arrangements
- Artie Butler - alto horn, horn arrangements
- Nick DeCaro - accordion, string arrangements
- Richard Greene - violin
- Larry Packer - violin, viola
- Karen Alexander - background vocals
- Gloria Jones - background vocals
- Ellen Kearney - background vocals
- Bettye LaVette - background vocals
- Jessica Smith - background vocals
- Beryl Marriott - violin