An evening with
GEOFF MULDAUR
Solo and acoustic | Take it from Garrison Keillor, who's said "His fantastic, idiosyncratic music is unlike anyone else's."
A mainstay on the folk and blues scene for more than three decades, Geoff Muldaur been an influence on artists as varied as John Cale, Richard Thompson, John Sebastian, Lucinda Williams, David Lindley and Dave Van Ronk. Few people have done more to bring blues and gospel into the world of mainstream pop and rock. He became legendary for his collaborations with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, with his then-wife Maria Muldaur, with white boy blues pioneer Paul Butterfield, and finally with guitar wizard Amos Garrett.
But it's his solo career and recent Hightone recordings that have made crystal clear just how humorous, stirring, dazzling and deeply engaged a performer Geoff Muldaur really is.
|With his magical voice and singular approach to American music intact, he's performed at Lincoln Center in New York, the Getty in Los Angeles, Royal Festival Hall in London, as well as folk and blues festivals around the world. His newest albums, all of which have met with high critical acclaim, feature Geoff's unusually crafted interpretations of classic, oftentimes obscure, American material, as well as his own unique compositions. The recordings include performances by David Lindley, The McGarrigle Sisters, John Sebastian, Van Dyke Parks, Roswell Rudd, Amos Garrett, Lenny Pickett and Howard Johnson.
In addition to tours and recording, Geoff continues to apply his arranging skills to a variety of projects for albums and film. (It was his recording of "Brazil" that inspired Terry Gilliam's film of the same name.) Although known as a musicians musician, it is clearly Muldaur's voice that most identifies him. Sweet, grizzled, it delivers the latest epiphanies from a life spent in loving exploration of roots music, where the field is fertile and the roots are deep. In the words of the New York Times, Muldaur "succeeds not because he copies the timbre and inflections of a down-home African American but because his voice — reedy, quavering, otherworldly — is so unusual that the music becomes little more than a context, a jumping-off point."
The London Times, meanwhile, has proclaimed, "Immaculate guitar picking is matched by the vocals that are rich, and bore out Richard Thompson's praise for him: 'There are only three white blues singers, and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.'"
Sun Apr 27 | 7 pm
CSPS | 1103 Third St SE | Cedar Rapids
$14 advance | $17 day of show

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