Geoff Muldaur (born August 12, 1943, Pelham, New York) is a founding member… Read Full Bio ↴Geoff Muldaur (born August 12, 1943, Pelham, New York) is a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days, as well as an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

Emerging from the Kweskin band with his then wife, Maria Muldaur, he established an impressive reputation in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 1960s and 1970s, followed by a move to the burgeoning folk, blues and folk-rock explosion in Woodstock, New York. He separated from his wife in 1972. He recorded with such as Bonnie Raitt, Eric Von Schmidt, and Jerry Garcia before stopping to tour or record in the mid 1980s. During this period, he composed scores for film and television, winning an Emmy Award, and produced albums for lesser known musicians such as Lenny Pickett and the Borneo Horns and the Richard Greene String Quartet, emerging after eleven years in 1999 with the critically acclaimed album, The Secret Handshake.

Muldaur continues to record and tour the world. His sister is the actress Diana Muldaur (L.A. Law, McCloud and Star Trek: The Next Generation).

His daughters, Jenni Muldaur and Clare Muldaur are also singer-songwriters.

Black Mountain Rag
Geoff Muldaur Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Black Mountain Rag' by these artists:

Dr. Corn's Bluegrass Remedy Black Mountain Doctor Blues Once my cousin told me that she…
Michael J. Miles I don't much see you, not anymore now Don't think of…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Geoff Muldaur:

Brazil Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June We stood beneat…
Chevrolet Buy you a Chevrolet Buy you a Chevrolet Buy you a Chevrole…
Chevrolet/ Big Alice Buy you a Chevrolet Buy you a Chevrolet Buy you a Chevrole…
That's All Right Well, that's all right, mama That's all right for you That…
The Rain Don' Fall on Me Ohh the rain,,, Dont fall on me no more Ohh the rain,, Dont…

Walking to New Orleans This time I'm walkin' to New Orleans I'm walkin' to New…

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@eddyg2745

22w↑1

Every hippie's favorite jug band, I saw them around 1966 at the Fillmore Ballroon in San Francisco on the corner of Geary and Fillmore streets (before there were Winterland, Fillmore West, Fillmore East)

@robinblair7854

3y↑18

Just thought some people would get a kick out of this. I'm old. I remember seeing Maria and Geoff (before they were married) and the whole Jim Kweskin Jug Band when I was a teenager, back in the 1960s, in Provincetown, MA. They would play tiny coffee houses where they could pack in about 50-80 people. You could sit close enough to touch them. I've seen them perform all the phenomenal songs on their old "albums" and CDs. I have the very best memories ever of growing up in a wonderful time, a safe time, a time when music was fun and not political. I wouldn't trade those memories or experiences for anything.

@ChrisCasadyanimation

3y↑2

Thanks for sharing your wonderful story, what a delight. Living history reaches out across YouTube, the great thing about being old.

@ChrisCasadyanimation

18y↑6

It's those big cartoony girly hair braids, that put her "over the top" in adorableness.

@puppiefaces

14y↑2

Thanks for posting this. She is so cool to hear. I was a youg chickie waitress in a little place where Jim Queskin and His Amazing Jug Band showed up to play one nite. They were quite amazing! I shall now search for more of them on youtube!

@ChrisCasadyanimation

15y↑6

It's from the excellent Dylan Documentary by Scorscese. If you want to see a rare Kweskin Jug Band clip see the documentary on the Isle of Wight festival by Murray Lerner "Message to Love" (1997). He needed to test his camera and he used them to focus on!

@Dulcimerea

36w

Thank you, I'll look it up. Murray Lerner also made the great film "Festival!" about the Newport Folk Festival.

@ChrisCasadyanimation

35w

In fact…. I think I need to change my comment from 14 years ago. I think the Kweskin clip I’m thinking of is in the documentary “Festival” to which you refer. I don’t think Jim Kweskin played the Isle of Wight festival. @@Dulcimerea

@ben909ben

14y↑4

Jim Kweskin with a K. My parents had about 3 of their albums. I bet there's very little video of them, so any clips of any lengths appreciated. Oh Don't You Leave Me Here was righteous, and their version of Memphis was a treasure.

@michaelkoon3431

17w

I L O V E Maria!!

@DavidLettvin

17y↑3

I got to dance with her once ... DAMN that Geoff Muldaur anyway!

@purps45

16y↑2

It was Maria D'amato back then. She hadn't married Geoff Muldaur yet (also a member of Kweskin's Jug band).

@timb0man1

I saw this band twice in the late 60ß early 70s, SF Bay area. Fun if you like that sort. I wasn't into them then, but love hearing them now.

@haggar1

14y↑1

Jim Kweskin's Jug Band issued this song "I Ain't Gonna Marry"with Maria singing on "Garden of Joy" (available on CD)- though I prefer the tempo and balance on the fragments posted here and by smile67.

@empathic11

13y↑3

@TileNut Also her voice. "Richland Woman" was the first of hers I heard. And I was a goner./

@reedhawk

12y↑2

Check out Chasin' Gus' Ghost - an independent film about the origin of jug band music, featuring most of these musicians. I just saw the film and was really impressed.

@Dulcimerea

36w

I confess, I just listened to "Midnight at the Oasis" again. And it met my hopes and beyond. It's magnificent. So I want to tell you about the day I met Maria Muldaur. It was at Newport, about 1967, or 8 or 9. The field where the "workshops" and low-stage concerts. She was walking along with a friend. I ran up with my Nikkormat, and said "Can I take your picture?" and she turned to her woman friend and said only, "I wish people wouldn't ask me that!" and then I snapped a picture. I developed it- it was Plus-X 400 film- at home and printed her face on 8x10 glossy paper, and since then I've lost it. But if you look her up on Wikipedia, it was that same day, You can see why a young man of 17 or 19 had his life changed by a moment.

@eddyg2745

22w

Plus-X, Tri-X, Pan-X the mainstay of every aspiring photographer..

@dsfddsgh

8y↑10

Maria looks like Wednesday Addams all grown up in 1968. LOL Cute as a button.

@Froike

17y↑2

Wow..look at Bill Keith...one of the greatest melodic banjo players!

@peterfriend8084

Didn’t Keith start a weird, offbeat religious cult group that entangled Kweskin and others for a number of years…?

@MrShaggy1016

33w

She’s beautiful

@ChrisCasadyanimation

33w

That sums it up in two words. : )

@Genessender

14y↑2

You should see (and hear) her daughters. Check out "Clare and the Reasons."

@karenaligo8631

4y↑1

Love this version of this short clip. Does she have this particular version clip Jug Band of '68 on any of her albums? I would like to purchase.

@ftsjr

15y

Maria looked like a real Sweetie. Nice clip.

@Vetpabst

15y

Maria is 22 or 23 in this video . She was born 9-12-43.

@klarolivia

16y

She's cool :)

@ukuleleph

14y↑1

Is that Bill Keith on the joe ?

@beadcat

13y

@stellerquest Sure is.

@DavesGoneBy

Jim Kweskin fans! On Sat, May 26, 2018, JK is our guest on the DAVE'S GONE BY radio show.
WATCH LIVE 11am-2pm(Eastern) on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RadioDaveLefkowitz
Or listen later to the archives at: www.DavesGoneBy.com

@Dippeh

16y

Does anyone know where you can find this song? I mean as a music track, not the dvd (It's No Direction Home from Martin Scorsese if anyone wasn't sure)

@PriestsandParamedics

15y

Wow she's so pretty, how old do you think she is there?

@lakeviewviking

16y

is that Mel Lyman on the jug?

@jonathanb5150

9y↑2

I know this might be a little late, especially since most of you posted years ago, but if any of you are still looking for the entire clip, I recently tried finding it myself and foun plenty of links... here's a link to it watch?v=7w6SewvJE1w <---- just plug that in after .com/ on the url for youtube

@stellerquest

13y↑1

Bill Keith on banjo?

@pameh6732

Yes

@modernpolitics

15y

What DVD is this from? The guy at the start is John Cohen, I think, and Dave Van Ronk is at the end. Is there more footage of the Kweskin band in the rest of the movie?

@pameh6732

4y↑2

No - several bits of commentary by Maria, though.

@GreenUnderbelly

16y

Lyman was a rad guy-- An awesome cult-anaire I hear.

@dharmaseed

16y

Nope, it's Fritz Richmond. You can tell by the dark glasses!

@beowulf3075

13y

My god she was a babe, never realised she was Italian...

@JellyrollHorton

14y

@Fretkillr I think this was taken off Dylan's "Don't Look Back" DVD.

@twilliams870

16y

Bill resembles a Klingon! Check at 0:25.

@VivGude88

13y

Jimmy is looking hoot!!! :)

@music1960stopped

Jim and Geoff are still playing at venues around the northeast, and still fantastic!

@albertangeloro5832

3y↑1

to be featured tomorrow Sat. @ radiosoleil.com 2 - 6pm... i played flamenco guitar at the Cafe Flamenco on Bleecker St, a basket house and knew Maria from the nabe and at The Gaslight on Mac Dougal St in the village. thanks for this great look at Maria

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