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From her introduction to jug band music in her native Greenwich Village during the folk boom of the `50s, through to classic country, R&B, jazz, gospel, blues and New Orleans funk, her musical odyssey has taken her to her present status as an eclectic favourite of the truly knowledgeable insiders. She belongs in the elite company of legendary purveyors of American blues and jazz such as Mildred Bailey, Peggy Lee, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Memphis Minnie, Alberta Hunter and so on. </div> <div> This is Maria at the peak of her form. She has produced a stellar collection of great blues arrangements that showcase her unique slinky marvel of a voice. Maria is indeed only one of a handful of contemporary women who sing the blues the way they're meant to be sung - deep, sultry, sophisticated and soulful. This refreshing album which was recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, will be a standard for many years to come. </div> <div> Until now, Louisiana Love Call, recorded by Maria on Black Top Records in 1992 in her beloved New Orleans, has been hailed as the best album of her career. This followed three months of intense and challenging vocal workout in musical theatre which resulted in a new found deeper, stronger, much more supple voice. Meet Me Where They Play the Blues is lovingly dedicated to the late, incomparable Charles Brown, the expatriate Texan who invented the West Coast club blues often referred to as `cool blues', a mellow soulful style blended with sophisticated jazz voicings. The music however transcends mere jazz and blues lines. It also encompasses elements of gospel and swamp funk and explores the blues' southern roots. Maria has dubbed this blues dripping with a Louisiana beat as `bluesiana'. </div> <div> What's immediately arresting on the opener, Soothe Me, is the heart-warming Charles Brown piano style of Dave Matthews and the flawless guitaring of Danny Caron. On Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You, Maria duets with Charles in his last recorded appearance. Too ill to travel to the studio, Charles contributed his vocals from his nursing home bed. New Orleans humidity drips through Maria's sultry version of John Hiatt's Feels Like Rain and big band swing backs her gritty cover of It Ain't the Meat It's the Motion. The title cut features a New Orleans mixture of piano, clarinet, trumpet and tuba as does the gospel-tinged He Don't Have the Blues Anymore. Cranston Clements lays down a funky guitar riff on Levon Helm's Blues So Bad and traditional, classic blues is represented in Misery And The Blues and All To Myself Alone. </div> <div> The first-hand influences of Victoria Spivey and Sippie Wallace filter through a matured Maria Muldaur on this outing, giving the blues a soulful shot in the arm for the next century. One can imagine the likes of Charles Brown, Johnny Adams and Blue Lu Barker looking down on her with big smiles. Beautifully packaged with a smoky barrelhouse joint photo on the cover, the CD comes with comprehensive liner notes and for me stands alongside Ruth Brown's A Good Day For the Blues as the best uptown blues album of 1999. Meet Me Where They Play The Blues contains twelve excellent tracks with a total playing time of just over fifty-six minutes.</div> <bR> <div> Al Hensley </div> <div> Presenter of Blue Monday on Noosa Community Radio FM101.3</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>