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Maria Muldaur - Barnyard Dance: Jug Band Music For Kids

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:26
Size: 88.0 MB
Styles: Jug Band
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:58] 1. Mama Don't Allow No Jugband Music 'round Here
[2:55] 2. I Like To Ride A Camel
[2:28] 3. The Barnyard Dance
[2:59] 4. Don't Let It Bother You
[3:02] 5. Threw It Out The Window
[3:10] 6. Singing In The Bathtub
[3:33] 7. All By Myself
[2:55] 8. Under The Chicken Tree
[3:04] 9. Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
[3:22] 10. The Circus Song
[2:54] 11. Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor
[5:01] 12. Relax Your Mind


As Maria Muldaur puts it in her liner notes, jug band music is, by its very nature, a "happy, snappy, lighthearted, humorous, goofy, wacky, high-spirited" sound, which certainly would appeal to any child. Why this now-marginalized genre -- born in the '20s and popularized in the '60s via acts such as the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and the Even Dozen Jug Band (of which Muldaur was a member) -- was never marketed with kids in mind is a good question, but Muldaur hits the perfect note with this collection. Played on washboards, spoons, kazoo, and other fun instruments -- as well as guitar, banjo, bass, fiddle, etc. -- these old songs, with titles like "I Love to Ride My Camel" (wonder if it's the same camel Muldaur sent to bed on her '70s hit "Midnight at the Oasis"), "Under the Chicken Tree," and "Singing in the Bathtub" are whimsical and silly, yet never condescending as so much children's music tends to be. Muldaur's voice is huskier than it was back when she was making her popular albums in the '70s, but it's well-suited to these tunes. This is what she started out doing half-a-century ago, and adults with a soft spot for the jug band-folk style, and for Muldaur's output in recent years, will undoubtedly enjoy this music -- much of it from the traditional folk canon -- as much as their little ones. ~ Jeff Tamarkin

Maria Muldaur (vocals, kazoo); Kit Stovepipe (guitar); Devin Champlin (banjo, mandolin); Suzy Thompson (fiddle); Lucas Hicks (whistle, washboard, spoons, pans, bells); Jim Rothermel (pennywhistle, horns).

Recording information: Dragonfly Studios; Laughing Tiger Studios; Toolshed Sound Lab.

Barnyard Dance: Jug Band Music For Kids

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