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Jeff Healey has left us with a fine live recording. Photo: Stony Plain Records The clock is ticking and maybe you're seeking a Christmas or holiday gift idea for a blues music lover.

For decades, singer-songwriter Geoff Muldaur has been reinterpreting blues and jazz standards of the '20s and '30s. Today, we'll play some of the tracks from Muldaur's new album, Texas Sheiks, and he'll perform some songs live.

At least that's Maria Muldaur's take. "Jug band is the perfect good-time music for economic hard times," said Muldaur, who began her singing career 46 years ago with the Even Dozen Jug Band and, more famously, with Boston's Jim Kweskin Jug Band.

My interview with Maria Muldaur lasted just one question. I simply asked "America's First Lady of Roots Music" why she decided to return to the jug band music that she played at the outset of her career 46 years ago.

Maria Muldaur brought her jug band to Cumston Hall. Monmouth a ' Maria Muldaur's concert at Cumston Hall didn't have the kind of music usually played on the radio, but boy, it certainly made me tap my foot and smile the whole time.

A A By GREG HAYMES A A Special to the Times Union A A SCHENECTADY - Over the course of her lengthy and very rich musical career, Maria Muldaur has had only one bona fide Top 10 hit song.

Maria Muldaur may be best known for '70s staple 'Midnight at the Oasis,' but her musical roots date back to 1960s Greenwich Village.

DC writes regularly on-line and in print about rock and roll, jazz and the blues, composing reviews of cd's, DVD's, live performances, books and films, as well as conducting artist interviews.

Maria Muldaur Star Tribune Amy Millan Yan Lassalle, Star Tribune Rain Machine More from Music POP/ROCK While his other band has inched toward accessibility after pushing so many sonic boundaries, TV on the Radio guitarist, co-vocalist and beard-grower Kyp Malone has recorded a solo album under the name Rain Machine that's as wild as anything he's ...

Blues chanteuse Maria Muldaur didn't sing her Grammy hit Midnight At The Oasis during Sunday's valley visit.

Sisters in Soul featuring Marcia Ball, Bettye LaVette and Maria Muldaur, will perform at the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts at the College of Lake County at on Oct.

Formed in 2006 by Amy Finders and Annie Savage, the Awful Purdies are an all-female folk/Americana quintet propelled more by friendship and a need for an artistic outlet beyond the busy lives of families and careers than ambition or need for recognition; the good news is that, with their lovely, string-driven debut disc, they've succeeded on all ...

Forty-plus years since Maria's last performances with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Maria is bringing back the music that made her famous.

TED NUGENT, JERRY CANTRELL, SCOTT IAN Featured On PEARL's 'Little Immaculate White Fox' - Oct.

Geoff Muldaur's "Texas Sheiks'' spans country-blues to old-time parlor songs. "I bounce around from project to project trying to come up with the next crazy idea,'' he says.

Box office: 994-2900; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays www.zeiterion.org or 994-2900. Most venues serve a certain niche among music fans.

Alive and Picking playlist for September 12, 2009. The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label: Today's show opened with a set of music by folks who were born in the month of September.

Country singer George Jones is 78. Actress Linda Gray is 69. Singer Maria Muldaur is 66.

Organized as a fundraiser to reward youths deserving of scholarships, the Seaside Jazz Art Show draws people from all walks of life with an interest to promote the arts, and work together to improve the area's overall lifestyle.

This month The Beat would like to take a moment to recognize someone who has been a mainstay of the North Bay music scene for over 20 years.