Maria Muldaur and Tuba Skinny ‘Get Happy Together’
This is the kind of New Orleans music that makes a person smile and tap one’s feet when a song is happy and moan with a knowing smile when it’s sad.
Let s Get Happy Together
Maria Muldaur and Tuba Skinny
Stony Plain
7 May 2021
Maria Muldaur has done more than any other contemporary artist to keep the music of early 20th century jazz and blues women alive. She has recorded full-length albums dedicated to individual performers such as Blue Lu Barker and Memphis Minnie, as well as thematic ones including the critically acclaimed
Maria Muldaur teams up with Tuba Skinny for vintage jazz and blues album
Six-time Grammy nominee Maria Muldaur, who’s been dubbed “The First Lady of Roots Music” for previous albums touching on her wide-ranging influences from blues, country, folk, jazz and even jug band music, continues her exploration of the great American roots music songbook. On her latest excursion, this time into the vintage jazz and blues sounds of the 1920s/’30s, Maria teams up with acclaimed New Orleans street band Tuba Skinny for
Let’s Get Happy Together, scheduled for release on May 7 on Stony Plain Records.
Muldaur recorded
Program #239 (April 9 at 8:00 p.m. and April 10 at 3:00 p.m.)
Equal parts poignant and lighthearted, Esther Rose s honeyed retro-country has the crossover appeal of artists like Margo Price and Kelsey Waldon.
Steeped in dreamy, rustic twang, her solo debut, This Time Last Night, arrived in 2017. Her third album, 2021 s How Many Times, added a touch of pop luminance to the mix without diluting her songs folksy charm.
Born in Detroit and based New Orleans, Rose began her recording career in collaboration with her then-husband, Luke Winslow-King, in 2013. They split in 2015, and she set about putting together an album of her own.
Program #239 (April 9 at 8:00 p.m. and April 10 at 3:00 p.m.)
Equal parts poignant and lighthearted, Esther Rose s honeyed retro-country has the crossover appeal of artists like Margo Price and Kelsey Waldon.
Steeped in dreamy, rustic twang, her solo debut, This Time Last Night, arrived in 2017. Her third album, 2021 s How Many Times, added a touch of pop luminance to the mix without diluting her songs folksy charm.
Born in Detroit and based New Orleans, Rose began her recording career in collaboration with her then-husband, Luke Winslow-King, in 2013. They split in 2015, and she set about putting together an album of her own.
This is the second release that Tuba Skinny member Max Bien-Kahn has done in the past six months under the Max and the Martians banner, and they couldn’t be more different: Last year’s
Stay at Home Demos was made for the moment, a set of Covid-themed songs with a proudly homemade sound; while this more-produced album is in a more timeless power-pop vein.
There’s still a Covid reference or two between the lines or maybe it’s just that any album that begins with a reference to sitting in a burning building is bound to sound timely in 2021. But these songs are all concerned with the classic pop topic of romantic loss. No idea whether Bien-Kahn was going through a split when writing these songs, but it does play like a model breakup album, and the emotional tone is in fact miserable from start to finish. That doesn’t mean it’s a depressing album, but it does mean that the hooks and grooves are there for reassurance as the singer picks up the pieces.