Maria Muldaur - Heart of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan
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Artist: Maria MuldaurEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- Buckets of Rain
- Lay Baby Lay (Lay Lady Lay)
- To Be Alone with You
- Heart of Mine
- Make You Feel My Love
- Moonlight
- You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
- Golden Loom
- On a Night Like This
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Wedding Song
- You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Music reviews of Heart of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan
Music Review: Maria Muldaur: Heart of Mine; The Love Songs of Bob Dylan, and Bob Dylan, Christmas In The Heart
Rating: 5 Stars
Maria Muldaur's voice and her very tight band (with special guests) may make the now-gravelly voiced Dylan's works palatable for the reluctant listener.
Maria croons Dylan's "Buckets of Rain,"To Be Alone With You," "Make You Feel My Love," "You're Gonna' Make Me Lonesome When You Go," "Golden Loom," "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" with a comfort developed in her own musically-delicious career. Muldaur (muld-hour) was a young New York City girl while outside her front door the 'Folk Movement' of the 1960's was taking place. She polished her stage presence and vocal talents in the many venues of that day, and since. You remember her jazz-tinged, "Midnight At The Oasis."
She takes "Lay, Lady, Lay," and makes it "Lay, Baby, Lay," a sensuous feminine approach. The title song, "Heart of Mine," is beautiful in its simplicity, treated simply by her band. "Moonlight," "On a Night Like This," and "Wedding Song" round out 49:21 minutes and seconds of delightful work in various tempos. I heard four cuts on National Public Radio and bought it with confidence I would not regret it. I don't, and bought and gave 4 more copies as gifts for Christmas 2009.
I also bought Dylan's "Christmas In The Heart," a wonderful bit of personal fun between the bard and his fans. It's a great repertoire of Christmas favorites you can sing along with. "Must Be Santa" is a true treat for kids to learn. A joke is thrown in for the cognoscenti. I got the Limited Edition Deluxe Package with five blank holiday cards with the 'Currier and Ives-like' CD cover on the front. All proceeds go to feed hungry people, a splendid gesture by a splendid fellow, which was a bonus in this tragic winter of 2009. Find a food pantry in your town. Share a little of your good fortune. You may save a life, and strengthen a soul, especially your own.
Description of Heart of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan
Â"I saw Maria in the great Martin Scorsese documentary about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home,Â" says Elaine Martone, production supervisor for the project. Â"She had recalled many great stories and anecdotes about the early days, and there was some great footage of her performing in the Village in the early Â?60s with the Kweskin Jug Band. I was struck by the fact that sheÂ?d had a direct association with Dylan during his formative years, which I knew because she and I had spoken about from previous conversations. When Bob [Woods, executive producer] approached her about doing a recording of Dylan songs, she narrowed the focus and suggested an album of DylanÂ?s love songs. We thought that was an even better idea, and the result is a stirring, sensual album.Â"Blues and folk chanteuse Maria Muldaur, a contemporary of Bob Dylan during his Greenwich Village heyday of the early Â?60s, brings it all back home by delving into the various ballads and love songs in DylanÂ?s rich catalog and interpreting them in her own trademark style. Among the eleven tracks are Â"Buckets in the RainÂ" and Â"Meet Me in the Moonlight Tonight.Â"
The incomparable Maria Muldaur has always traversed a wide expanse of American music--in 2003, she recorded A Woman Alone with the Blues, a tribute to jazz icon Peggy Lee--and so perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that she has now applied her interpretive gifts to the love songs of Bob Dylan. Choosing from among his classics ("I'll Be Your Baby Tonight") and lesser-known works ("Golden Loom"), Muldaur bravely recasts several songs in disparate grooves (reggae, Cajun, swing), and even allows keyboardist David Torkanowsky to sneak a few bars of the jazz standard "Ain't Misbehavin'" into the end of "Moonlight." As expected, Muldaur is most at home with lazy, country-blues treatments ("Buckets of Rain"). But she can also effectively pull off the intense drama of total sublimation, especially on "Wedding Song" and "Make You Feel My Love," which she renders so tenderly as to elicit a tear. The title track finds her trying to talk herself out of an unsuitable lover, yet one suspects she won't be able to outsmart her heart. On both "Lay Baby Lay" (the gender-switching version of "Lay Lady Lay") and "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," she eschews Dylan's urgent and poignant sexuality for sensuality, making both songs a study in how the sexes approach the chemistry of love. --Alanna Nash
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