Geoff Muldaur is an American

United States

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 founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band

Jim Kweskin

Jim Kweskin is the founder of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, with Fritz Richmond, Mel Lyman, and Geoff and Maria Muldaur...

 of Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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; a member of Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield was an American blues vocalist and harmonica player, who founded the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the early 1960s and performed at the original Woodstock Festival...

's Better Days; and an accomplished solo

Solo (music)

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 guitarist

Guitarist

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, singer, and songwriter

Songwriter

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.

Career

Emerging from the Kweskin band with his then-wife, Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is a folk-blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s...

, he established an impressive reputation in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 1960s and 1970s, followed by a move to the burgeoning folk

Folk music

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, blues

Blues

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 and folk-rock explosion in Woodstock, New York

Woodstock, New York

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. He separated from his wife in 1972. He recorded

Sound recording and reproduction

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 with such artists as Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...

, Eric Von Schmidt

Eric Von Schmidt

Eric "Rick" Von Schmidt was an American singer-songwriter and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene that included Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.-Background and associations with Dylan:Von Schmidt's father,...

, and Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia

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 before ceasing to tour or record in the mid 1980s. During this period, he composed

Composer

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 score

Film score

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s for film

Film

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 and television

Television

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, winning an Emmy Award

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, and produced

Record producer

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 album

Album

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s for lesser known musicians such as Lenny Pickett and the Borneo Horns and the Richard Greene

Richard Greene (fiddle player)

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 String Quartet. In 1985, he performed a cover of Ary Barroso

Ary Barroso

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's Aquarela do Brasil

Aquarela do Brasil

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specifically as the signature tune of Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

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's dystopia

Dystopia

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n satire

Satire

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 cult film Brazil

Brazil (film)

Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy/black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm...

. After he had not made any release for eleven years, Muldaur emerged in 1999 with the critically acclaimed album, The Secret Handshake.

In 2009, Muldaur formed a roots super-group for work on a new album. Dubbing themselves Geoff Muldaur And The Texas Sheiks, folk and American music luminary Stephen Bruton

Stephen Bruton

-Background:Born in Wilmington, Delaware as Turner Stephen Bruton, he moved with his family to Texas at the age of two. He fell into the Fort Worth music scene after graduating from Texas Christian University when he joined Kris Kristofferson's band as the latter's career was about to take off;...

, Grammy-winning Dobro player Cindy Cashdollar

Cindy Cashdollar

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, fiddle virtuoso Suzy Thompson, guitarist Johnny Nicholas

Johnny Nicholas

Johnny Nicholas is an American blues musician. He is most noted for being a member of the Grammy Award winning group, Asleep at the Wheel.-Biography:...

 and bassist Bruce Hughes joined Muldaur in the studio for a pair of recording sessions in 2008. Bruton died in May 2009, but the music lives on in the album entitled Texas Sheiks that was released September 22, 2009, on the Tradition & Moderne label.

His sister

Sibling

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 is the actress Diana Muldaur

Diana Muldaur

Diana Muldaur is an Emmy-nominated American film and television actress.-Career:Born in New York City, but raised on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Muldaur started acting in high school and continued on through college, graduating from Sweet Briar College in Virginia in 1960. She studied acting...

 (L.A. Law

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, McCloud and Star Trek: The Next Generation

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). His daughters, Jenni Muldaur

Jenni Muldaur

Jenni Muldaur Jenni Muldaur Jenni Muldaur (born March 29, 1965, Boston, Massachusetts is an American blues and folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of recording artists Geoff and Maria Muldaur, sister of Clare Muldaur and niece of actress Diana Muldaur...

 and Clare

Clare & the Reasons

Clare and the Reasons are a Brooklyn based band, fronted by collaborators Clare Manchon and Olivier Manchon. Their debut LP, The Movie, which included contributions from Van Dyke Parks and Sufjan Stevens, was released to much acclaim. They released their second album, Arrow, on Frog Stand Records...

, are also singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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s.

Muldaur is the author of "Moles Moan" which has been recorded by his friend Tom Rush

Tom Rush

Tom Rush is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.- Life and career :Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after...

. This song has been used as a theme song for many folk music radio programs, most notably by Gene Shay.

Solo albums

• Sleepy Man Blues - Prestige
• Having a Wonderful Time - Warner Bros/Reprise
• Motion - Warner Bros/Reprise
• Blues Boy - Flying Fish
• I Ain't Drunk - Hannibal
• The Secret Handshake - HighTone
• Password - HighTone
• Beautiful Isle of Somewhere - Tradition & Moderne, Germany
• Private Astronomy - A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke - Deutsche Grammophon

with Maria Muldaur

• Pottery Pie - Warner Bros/Reprise
• Sweet Potatoes - Warner Bros/Reprise

with Amos Garrett

• Geoff Muldaur & Amos Garrett
  Amos Garrett
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   - Flying Fish
• Live in Japan - Yupiteru (Japan)

Jim Kweskin Jug Band

• Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band - Vanguard
• Jug Band Music - Vanguard
• See Reverse Side for Title - Vanguard
• Garden of Joy - Warner Bros.
• Jug Band Blues (with Sippie Wallace
  Sippie Wallace
  Sippie Wallace was an American singer-songwriter. Her early career in local tent shows gained her the billing "The Texas Nightingale". Between 1923 and 1927, she recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by herself or her brothers, George and Hersal Thomas...
  
  ) - Mountain Railroad
• Greatest Hits - Vanguard

Paul Butterfield's Better Days

• Better Days - Warner Bros/Bearsville
• It All Comes Back - Warner Bros/Bearsville

Various artists

• The Blues Project- Elektra
• The Bluesville Years - Prestige
• Newport Folk Festival 1964 Evening Concerts Vol. 1 - Vanguard
• Newport Folk Festival 1965 - Vanguard
• Festival 1967 - Vanguard
• The Record Show - Warner Bros
• Goodbye - Suspex
• Avalon Blues - Vanguard

External links

• Official Geoff Muldaur website