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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
Digging into the tradition, playing vintage material for young hipsters, making musicology fun Maria Muldaur started doing that in the Boston coffeehouses five decades ago, and Tuba Skinny is doing it in New Orleans now. So, it’s no surprise that they’ve been circling around each other for a while (Muldaur sat in with Tuba Skinny at d.b.a. two years ago) and that they’ve now made an album out of it.
The pairing makes sense on a few levels: Tuba Skinny have lacked a good frontwoman since regular singer Erika Lewis went part-time, and Muldaur can always use a band to click with. They’re enough on the same wavelength that this project avoids the clumsiness often found in cross-generational collaborations. Muldaur’s persona has always been a bit bawdy it was she who made a ’70s hit out of Blue Lu Barker’s “Don’t Feel My Leg” so Tuba Skinny can play loose and be respectful at the same time. Muldaur’s voice has deepened over the years, but these sessions bring out th
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