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...Kweskin plus Papa John Kilstad--Passim...
...Kweskin plus Papa John Kolstad--Passim...
MARIA MULDAUR. Muldaur has emerged from a career of background harmonizing, singing for Jim Kweskin, and making only promising records with her husband Geoff to become a highly original solo interpreter and exciting stylist in her own right. Passim should provide the perfect arena for her talents; when Passim was the Club 47, Muldaur was reportedly responsible for some of its finest moments...
Geoff Muldaur, who co-founded the Kweskin Jug Band and was with them up until it disintegrated in 1969, is one of the main reasons Better Days is so different from Butterfield's previous band. Muldaur is an adept slide guitarist who carries several blues styles with him. He also contributes betwixt-and-between vocals (which are even better in live performance) and comes up with enjoyable arrangements. The drummer, Christopher Parker, is perfect in his blues discipline, delivering a steady, unadorned beat. He and bassist Billy Rich make up a solid, healthy rhythm section. Then we come to Butterfield...
...Fort Hill community is seven or eight Victorian, shabby buildings in Roxbury, across from a Revolutionary war monument, "our monolithic symbol." It is made up of about 150 people, "all living in all the houses at once." The community, Liz said, which includes Jim Kweskin of the jug band and Mel Lyman, who considers himself to be a second Jesus Christ, is connected with United Illuminating, which, besides Avatar, makes films, cuts records, and runs building projects in the South...