Song:Midnight At The Oasis
Album:30 Years Of Maria Muldaur: I'm A Woman
Midnight At The Oasis was the one big stab at pop stardom for Maria Muldaur. But her roots were in the Greenwich Village folk music scene and after her hits in the 70s, she returned to those roots and is still recording today. She was born Maria D'Amato Sept. 12, 1943 in New York City. She started out with a girl group called The Cashmeres but then with the mid-60s folk boom, she joined the Even Dozen Jug Band with John Sebastian, David Grisman and Stefan Grossman. When the size of the group became unweildy, she moved to Cambridge, MA to join the Jim Kweskin Jug Band in 1964. She met and married singer songwriter Geoff Muldaur and eventually recorded as a duo for Reprise Records. When he started Paul Butterfield's Better Days in 1972, they split up and Reprise president Mo Ostin convinced Maria to record as a solo artist in Los Angeles. Midnight At The Oasis reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. She worked with a lot of session musicians on the album including Amos Garrett, Ry Cooder, Dr. John, Dave Holland, David Grisman and plenty more. David Nichtern wrote Midnight At The Oasis and played guitar on the album. He's an Emmy winning composer for his music for the daytime soap operas One Life To Live and As The World Turns. Maria had a top twenty hit in 1975 with her cover of the Lieber/Stoller classic I'm A Woman. But by 1980 she had faded and became a born again Christian and recorded a gospel album for Takoma Records. In recent years Maria has recorded roots music for labels like Telarc and currently she records for Stony Plain. Her latest CD Garden Of Joy was released in October. This comp from Shout! Factory is a good intro to her music. Here's Maria Muldaur performing Midnight At The Oasis on The Midnight Special 1974.
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