Geoff Muldaur Performs Songs From The '20s & '30s

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

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The singer, composer and guitarist has had a lifelong passion for the jazz and blues of the '20s and '30s. In the '60s and '70s, he made a series of influential recordings with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Paul Butterfield's Better Days, and Maria Muldaur. His new double CD, titled His Last Letter, traces the musical influences of his life, and is arranged for, and performed with, Dutch chamber musicians. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2009.

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0:00.0	This is Fresh Air.
0:01.1	I'm David B. Inkouli, professor of television studies
0:03.6	at Rowan University in New Jersey, Infra Terry Gross.
0:07.6	Singer, arranger, composer, and musician, Jeff Moldauer,
0:11.6	has had a lifelong passion for jazz and blues
0:14.3	of the 1920s and 30s.
0:16.7	His recordings reinterpreting that music
0:19.4	have led many listeners to seek out records from that era.
0:23.4	Moldauer was a founding member of the Jim Queskin jug band
0:26.8	in 1962.
0:28.8	That band was together for about six years
0:31.3	and inspired people like Jerry Garcia and John Sebastian.
0:35.7	After the jug band broke up, Moldauer
0:38.2	recorded with his then-wife Maria Moldauer
0:41.1	and teamed up with Paul Butterfield
0:43.0	to form the band Better Days.
0:45.8	Jeff Moldauer has a new 2CD box set titled His Last Letter.
0:51.5	It traces his musical influences
0:53.8	and includes tunes by Duke Ellington, Bix Byterbeck,
0:57.5	Jelly Roll Morton, and even poems of Tennessee Williams
1:00.8	set the music.
1:02.5	It's arranged for and recorded with Dutch Chamber Musicians.
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