Maria Muldaur

Muldaur is rock's first torch singer of the Seventies. Because she neither writes nor sings
with the raw power of some women performers, she's had to develop an original musical
personality. She's mastered aspects of gospel, blues, country, jazz and rock singing but
she imparts her own brand of cool to each. Maria has been called a fox, but she's much
more. She sings about sex with an adult sense of joyfulness instead of a teenage... More >

In which a new '50s nostalgia, beatnikism, is manipulated to exploit reasonable doubts and fears about sex-role redefinition. No woman hip (or even tasteful) enough to love Skip James has the right to pretend there's such a thing as an earth mother. And if the production last time was too safe, this is what it was guarding against--ecch-lectic cliches. (Grade: C+)