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Lousiana Love Call

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Blues and New Orleans-style jazz just don't get much better than this. In Louisiana Love Call, Maria Muldaur pays homage to the rhythms and sounds that have made New Orleans one of the world's great centers of music. And what a tribute it is! Maria's voice, which has only improved with age, makes this album shine.

This CD is currently out of print because Black Top Records has gone out of business. This is unfortunate, because there isn't a single bad track on the album. Fortunately, you can still buy it used, though it is getting hard to come by. Maybe one of the major labels will pick up the rights to Louisiana Love Call and reissue it. One can only hope so - Maria Muldaur is one of the finest jazz and blues singers of our age, and this is one of her best albums. Enjoy!

I have Maria Muldaur's music from 1970 and her jug band days right up through her blues in 1999. This CD is one of the best.

Mr. Crosby seems to miss the fact that there is great beauty in Maria Muldaur's voice. It is both sultry and beautiful, and yes a little rough around the edges. Louisiana Love Call IS Louisiana and New Orleans - sultry, beautiful and VERY rough around the edges. She captures the feelings of the place very well.

Catch Maria live and you will see what I mean!

I had always put Maria's music right up there with the best, I'd
have to compare her to Bonnie Raitt as they both, in their early
years helped bring back a rootsy/folk/country blues that most
white teens and younger adults never got the chance to hear. While Bonnie has gone on to more rock/blues/pop success's(finally)and
Maria has kept to a different vision,(although Maria and Bonnie
have gone on to sing together, she just loves to tackle
styles (less commercial) and she does it better than anyone.
I got to see her several years back in a small jazz club in
Cambridge, Ma. and she IS one great entertainer. LLS is a great
CD from start to finish, I'd wished triple A radio had taken
this one in, just a stunner and one of the best in her long
distinquished career.

Wow, what a singer! I want to marry that woman!

First, I'll admit that I wasn't wild about some of the tracks on this album. But the rest ranged from excellent to great. Maria Muldaur's voice makes me really feel the hot, sultry, lazy air of the bayou, even way up here in the SF Bay Area. If I close my eyes I can smell it all and see the Cajun Moon overhead.

Best of Me, Louisiana Love Call, and especially Cajun Moon are among the hottest, ... songs I have ever heard, and Ms. Muldaur is the reason why.

Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly are right on. Mr. Crosby is off-base. This is a GREAT disc--her best!

Crosby just doesn't get it. Maria is at her best and the best of the genre her in her swamp blues here. Great stuff. Her other recordings over the five years since don't hold a candle to this one. Telarc should be so lucky as to get her to sound this good again. I wish they could. She did in live performance last year.

She was born to sing this music. This is where her soul is at home. She displays both her natural seductiveness and her remarkable vocal control. Her voice has darkened, thickened a bit. Slowly pouring cognac comes to mind repeatedly. The band is a tight unit, but gets as loose-limbed as you like to make it work--and work as a tight unit throughout. For all the talent on display and the clear evidence that they are enjoying it, the material is startlingly weak. Most tracks simply offer an armature for Muldaur and her buds to stew their boogie selves. And what a stew it is. Standouts: tr 1--Second line. Maria preaches/chants the sacred gems of second-line catechism, and I am converted. tr 9--Don't you feel my leg. She teases, "You know it don't belong to you," as a loose-limbed New Orleans band rolls, and Dr. John tickles the ivories. tr 12--Southern music. Muldaur and piano in a classy 1930s melancholy closer: "Southern music, why are you so sad?"

Much like Bonnie Raitt's second wind with NICK OF TIME in 1989,
Maria gave us Louisiana Love Call in the early 90's and it to
began a new phase and musical appreciation few can match to this
day. Maria and Bonnie both got attention back in the early 70's
with the musical variety they gave us on their albums. Here it
is 2005 and both ladies are still stronger than ever with up
coming releases. This collection is full of prime Maria and
well worth finally being able to obtain again. Great CD!!