​Maria Muldaur (from One Hour Mama – The Blues of Victoria Spivey

​Maria Muldaur (from One Hour Mama – The Blues of Victoria Spivey

​Maria Muldaur (from One Hour Mama – The Blues of Victoria Spivey available on Nola Blue Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
 
Born in Houston, Texas (1906), Victoria Spivey began her musical career playing in a family string band led by her father. After he passed, Victoria began playing parties by herself at seven years-old. In 1918, she was hired to accompany films at the Lincoln Theater in Dallas before venturing into performances in local bars and nightclubs as a teenager. She was signed to Oken Records in 1926, beginning a recording career that would span forty years and took Victoria Spivey into the 1960’s, when she co-founded Spivey Records.
 
Maria Muldaur handles the music of Victoria Spivey with care, revisiting the songs of the Blues icon on her recently released One Hour Mama – The Blues of Victoria Spivey. Blues music backs the tracks with bright melodies, like the piano ramble of “Down Hill Pull” and the bounce of “Dreaming of You”. A warning comes with the dark Dixieland of “Don’t Love No Married Man” as a shuffling rhythm supports the admonitions for “Any-Kind-Of-Man” while a sunny strut rides underneath the finger-pointing of “No, Papa, No” and a slow Blues stride wraps around the title track. Maria Muldaur is joined by Tuba Skinny on “Funny Feathers” and “Organ Grinder Blues” while she welcomes Taj Mahal in for “Gotta Have What is Takes”, exiting One Hour Mama with the funereal march of “T-B Blues”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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