If you pick up Richland Woman Blues remembering Maria Muldaur's erotic recording of the song with Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, you may be surprised at how her voice has changed, and yet how impossible it... more

After giving herself to blues, jazz, folk, gospel and country, Maria fell hard for the sounds of New Orleans starting in the '90s. Teaming with the cream of the Crescent City crop, she digs deep into... more

Not only are Sippie Wallace, Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter honored on this 2007 album, but Maria is also joined by a modern-day blues heroine: Bonnie Raitt, who sings with... more

Taj Mahal, Pinetop Perkins and Alvin Youngblood Hart join Maria as she pays loving tribute to Memphis Minnie on this 2005 album. There's personality, playfulness and sultry singing to spare here: "I... more

Maria revisits her jug-band roots with her old partners John Sebastian and David Grisman as well as Dan Hicks, Taj Mahal and the Crow Quill Night Owls on this eminently enjoyable 2009 album. They... more

Maria was so smitten with New Orleans street band Tuba Skinny that she asked them to play with her at the January 2020 International Folk Alliance Conference. Then the pandemic came—but that didn't... more