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MARIA MULDAUR - ONE HOUR MAMA - THE BLUES OF VICTORIA SPIVEY
RELEASE DATE JULY 11, 2025. ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!
"Never judge a book from its cover and when a person is meek and humble don't judge them unless you know what you're doing. Some months ago I met a little girl of this type. She never had much to say. She was with a certain revival jug band at that time. I studied her voice,her looks and her personality very well. I can tell you that I found nothing but success for this little lady. I called her aside and told her to go for herself and to find a spot in which she could show off her talents instead of being in the background." -- Victoria Spivey, after viewing Maria Muldaur's first appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival with the Kweskin Jug Band.
- My Handy Man
- What Makes You Act Like That?
- Don't Love No Married Man
- Dreaming of You
- Organ Grinder Blues
- No, Papa, No!
- One Hour Mama
- Funny Feathers
- Gotta Have What It Takes
- Any-Kind-A-Man
- Down Hill Pull
- T-B Blues
MARIA MULDAUR
One Hour Mama: The Blues Of Victoria Spivey
Nola Blue Records
In 1970, the back of Bob Dylan’s New Morning LP has a photo from the early ‘60s of a young Dylan standing next to Victoria Spivey as she smiles brightly sitting by a piano. Spivey’s influence among other musicians is lovingly described by Maria Muldaur in both words and pictures (including the one with Dylan) in a 12-page booklet included in her Nola Blue Records gatefold CD, One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey.
As the opening song, “Handy Man,” begins the musical arrangement sounds like it from the ‘30s or ‘40s and, oh my, the salacious double entendre lyrics vocalized by Muldaur are in her most seductive sultry rendering. Trust me, you’ll be captivated through all 12 songs.
Muldaur duets with Elvin Bishop on “What Makes You Act Like That?” and Taj Mahal on “Gotta Have What It Takes,” which offers a perfection of interplay between the vocals of both sexes. I dare you to listen Mahal’s responses to Muldaur’s reading of Spivey’s lyrics without having a smile on your face!
Victory Spivey wrote about Maria when she was still a young Maria D’Amato: “I studied her voice, her looks, and her personality very well. I can tell you that I found nothing but success for this little lady. I called her aside and told her to go for herself and told her to find a spot in which she could show off her talents instead of being in the background.” Well, Muldaur most certainly has achieved that success as One Hour Mama is her 40th release! (And that doesn’t count her recordings with Jug Bands and her former husband, Geoff Muldaur.)
There is real appeal to 24 musicians who play a total of 13 different instruments to craft the smoky, heady, and sexually loose atmosphere of these songs from another age but are craftily brought back to life by a woman whose spark and vocal talents exceeds most. To glom a word from Muldaur’s biggest hit, “Midnight On The Oasis,” One Hour Mama is truly an “oasis” of sound from a sea of music that doesn’t quite hit the spot as well as Muldaur’s. Try to guess what lyrics you might hear from the following songs, “Any-Kind-Of-Man,” “Don’t Love No Married Man,” “Organ Grinder Blues,” and “No, Papa, No!”
One Hour Mama is a timeless recording and, had it been released any time during Victoria Spivey’s lifetime, it surely would have been a top seller. The same can be said for today as Muldaur has certainly released her magnum opus much to the enjoyment of anyone who seeks out her newest CD.
– Pete Sardon