GEOFF MULDAUR
Blues Boy (Bullseye Blues)
Reviewed by Shaun Dale

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Bullseye has performed a fine musical public service with the rescue of these tracks recorded by Geoff Muldaur in 1978 and 1979. Following his relative success with the Kweskin Jug Band and Paul Butterfield's Better Days band, Muldaur had fallen on musical hard times, traveling with guitarist Amos Garrett, taking whatever meager bookings were available for the duo. After recording these cuts, Muldaur was to take a twenty year sabbatical from the studio. With a resurging interest in country blues, the time seems right for people to take note of these performances.

Geoff Muldaur has a deep knowledge of early blues styles and an expressive voice that fits a range of material that stretches from the Delta to Chicago, with stops at every intervening point along the blues highway. Some of this material is familiar to any informed pop fan, and some is rare enough to be new even to the seasoned afficianado, but it's all well worth getting to know. Geoff Muldaur has staged something of a comeback in the last few years, and having these tracks from his back catalog available on CD can do nothing but help that effort.

Track List:

Nothing In The World * Bad Feet * Meanest Woman * Walking To New Orleans * Tears Came Rolling Down * Sloppy Drunk Blues * Forty Four * That's All Right * Feelin' Good * Old Train * Chicken Stew Part 1 * Dance Of The Colored Elves

© 2001 - Shaun Dale