{"id":52886,"date":"2023-09-13T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=52886"},"modified":"2023-09-13T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:06:23","slug":"on-stage-extra-maria-muldaur-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=52886","title":{"rendered":"On Stage Extra: Maria Muldaur, more than a one-hit wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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Maria Muldaur<\/p><\/div>\n

The end of summer is looming on the horizon. For fans of live music, that means there is an uptick in midweek shows.<\/p>\n

This week, there is an impressive array of live shows on Wednesday featuring a legendary folksinger, an iconic British pop band from the 80s, a groundbreaking metal band and an up-and-coming singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n

When music fans hear the name Maria Muldaur, most immediately think of \u201cMidnight at the Oasis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casual listeners who don\u2019t recognize Muldaur\u2019s name still recognize the song.<\/p>\n

\u201cMidnight at the Oasis,\u201d which was a hit single by Muldaur that reached number 6 on the Billboard\u00a0Hot 100<\/a> in 1974, was the first major commercial success in her music career which has spanned a half-century.<\/p>\n

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of\u00a0Maria Muldaur\u2019s mega-hit song \u201cMidnight at the Oasis\u201d and in celebration she and her band are hitting the road for a special tour. Muldaur is presenting her multi-media retrospective show,\u00a0\u201cWay Past Midnight…..A\u00a060-Year Musical Journey,\u201d which will chronicle her 60-year musical journey. The tour touches down on September 13 at the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, www.st94.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In this multi-media retrospective\u00a0Maria Muldaur chronicles her\u00a0six-decade musical journey through American Roots Music,\u00a0to The\u00a0Oasis and Beyond. Maria and her band perform her iconic hits (including\u00a0\u201cMidnight at the Oasis\u201d and \u201cI’m A Woman, etc.) as well as many oft-requested\u00a0\u201cfan faves\u201d from the 43\u00a0albums she has recorded in the last\u00a050 years.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0treats\u00a0the audience to previously unseen\u00a0photos\u00a0and\u00a0videos. The legendary singer shares\u00a0fascinating, often humorous personal stories from every stage\u00a0of her\u00a060-year career — from her early days in the 60s with The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, through\u00a0her years of\u00a0pop stardom. She has recorded albums in the folk, blues, early jazz, gospel, country, and R&B traditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWay Past Midnight\u201d\u00a0tells Muldaur\u2019s story in words, pictures, video\u00a0and\u00a0song. She talks about\u00a0her\u00a0personal encounters, friendships\u00a0and collaborations with many of the greatest names in music including Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Aaron Neville,\u00a0John Sebastian, David Grisman, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt,\u00a0Stevie Wonder, Hoagy\u00a0Carmichael and Benny Carter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the New Year\u2019s turned 2023, I realized it had been 50 years since \u2018Midnight at the Oasis\u2019 was released and climbed the charts,\u201d said Muldaur, during a phone interview last week from a tour stop in Maine. \u201cSo, I put this show together to celebrate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe play a lot of songs that span my whole career including songs from recent albums. Even though I\u2019ve made 43 albums since that time, as artists, we still like to play new material.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her critically acclaimed\u00a02001\u00a0Stony Plain Records release, \u201cRichland Woman Blues,\u201d was nominated for a Grammy and for a Blues Foundation Award for Best Traditional Blues Album of the\u00a0Year, as was the follow up to that album,\u00a0\u201cSweet Lovin\u2019 Ol\u2019 Soul.\u201d Her timely\u00a02008\u00a0album, \u201cYes We Can,\u201d featured her \u201cWomen\u2019s Voices for Peace Choir,\u201d which included Bonnie Raitt, Joan, Baez, Jane Fonda, Odetta, Phoebe Snow, Holly Near and others.<\/p>\n

In\u00a02009, she teamed up with John Sebastian, David Grisman, and Dan Hicks for\u00a0\u201cMaria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy,\u201d which\u00a0garnered Muldaur her fifth Grammy Nomination, and was also nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year by The Blues Foundation.<\/p>\n

In\u00a02011, Muldaur released\u00a0\u201cSteady Love,\u201d a contemporary electric Blues album. It was \u201cBluesiana Music\u201d featuring her own brand of New Orleans-flavored Blues, R&B and \u201cSwamp Funk\u201d.\u00a0\u201cSteady Love\u201d\u00a0reached\u00a0#1\u00a0on the Living Blues Chart and garnered her another nomination for Best Traditional Female Blues Artist from the Blues Foundation.<\/p>\n

In\u00a02012, for her 40th album, Muldaur produced the critically acclaimed \u201cFirst Came Memphis Minnie,\u201d a loving tribute to the pioneering Blues woman who inspired and influenced so many female Blues artists who followed in her footsteps.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Muldaur released her 41st album\u00a0\u201cDON’T YOU FEEL MY LEG ~ The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker,\u201d which was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues category. It was recorded in New Orleans with an amazing cast of A-List NOLA musicians and earned Muldaur her sixth Grammy nomination.<\/p>\n

In September 2019, the Americana Music Association awarded Muldaur “The Lifetime Achievement Americana Trailblazer Award”\u00a0for her lifelong work of covering the depth and breadth of American Roots music and for being one of the pioneers of Americana music.<\/p>\n

Muldaur collaborated with world acclaimed New Orleans band Tuba Skinny in 2020 on \u201cLet\u2019s Get happy Together,\u201d a collection of 20s and 30s vintage Jazz & Blues. Released in May\u00a02021, the album received rave reviews. It received The Blue\u2019s Foundation\u2019s Nomination for Best Acoustic Album and was voted Best Traditional Jazz Album\u00a0in\u00a0OffBeat Magazine’s\u00a0Best Of The Beat\u00a0Awards.<\/p>\n

In\u00a02021, Muldaur and her guitarist, Craig Caffall, wrote and co-produced her latest single\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m Vaccinated and I\u2019m Ready For Love\u201d\u00a0to help inspire others to get vaccinated and to celebrate her feeling of liberation and renewal after her second shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlong with performing the songs, I\u2019ll be following my journey through roots music \u2013 and all is illustrated with wonderful old photos,\u201d said Muldaur, who just turned 81 yesterday (September 12).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I go back and do these tunes, it\u2019s very gratifying. I opened this tour in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was an early epicenter of the folk scene. We had fans of all ages \u2013 including a lot of college students.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real nucleus of the folk scene was located in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village where Muldaur was born and raised.<\/p>\n

Muldaur began her career in the early 1960s as Maria D\u2019Amato, performing with\u00a0John Sebastian,\u00a0David Grisman, and\u00a0Stefan Grossman\u00a0as a member of the\u00a0Even Dozen Jug Band.\u00a0She then joined\u00a0Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band\u00a0as a featured vocalist and occasional fiddle player.\u00a0During this time, she was part of the Greenwich Village scene that included\u00a0Bob Dylan, and some of her recollections of the period, particularly with respect to Dylan, appear in\u00a0Martin Scorsese’s 2005 documentary film\u00a0\u201cNo Direction Home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI started discovering old-time Appalachian music in the 60s,\u201d said Muldaur. \u201cI got a lot of inspiration from music of the 20s and 30s, jug band blues and gospel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Greenwich Village, I was in the right place at the right time. I got exposed to all these great blues artists like Son House and Mississippi John Hurt along with old-time music and bluegrass. The Village was the epicenter of all things hip.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Muldaur is sharing a glimpse of that era with fans old and new.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call my band a \u2018Bluesiana\u201d band,\u201d said Muldaur. \u201cIt\u2019s me and a three-piece \u2013 drums, guitar and keyboards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis show is a lot of fun. All-in-all, it\u2019s an interesting evening for people who like me and like my music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Maria Muldaur \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/whYiOJ2iBE0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maria Muldaur\u2019s \u201cWay Past Midnight…..A\u00a060-Year Musical Journey\u201d is scheduled for 8 p.m. on September 13 at the Sellersville Theater.<\/p>\n

Ticket prices range from $29.50-$45.<\/p>\n

Another touring act is coming to town and celebrating a 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n

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Squeeze<\/p><\/div>\n

Squeeze\u00a0has returned to America this fall to celebrate their upcoming 50th\u00a0anniversary alongside fellow New Wave pioneers The Psychedelic Furs. The two classic Brit pop acts will share the bill at The Met (858 North Broad Street, Philadelphia,http:\/\/themetphilly.com<\/a>) on September 13.<\/p>\n

Fueled by the celebrated songwriting partnership of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, the band first blasted to the forefront of the U.K. music scene during the height of the punk revolution.<\/p>\n

With songwriting hooks and melodies that harkened back to the 60’s British Invasion, the groundbreaking album featured “Take Me I’m Yours,” followed by a series\u00a0of U.K. hits, including “Cool for Cats,” “Up the Junction,” “Pulling Mussels From A Shell,” “Black Coffee in Bed,” and “Labeled With Love.” The band made an indelible mark on the U.S. in 1981 with the release of their classic hits, “Tempted,” “Hourglass,” and “853-5937” (from East Side Story.)<\/p>\n

Squeeze disbanded in 1999, then reunited in 2007, releasing three new albums.<\/p>\n

In\u00a02022, the\u00a0\u201cFood for Thought\u201d EP was released featuring\u00a0one new song, two reimagined songs, and three exclusive live tracks. Profits from the digital album went to benefit\u00a0independent U.K. Food Banks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it worked very well and raised lots of money for food banks,\u201d said Difford.<\/p>\n

Additionally, both Difford and Tilbrook have released various solo projects.<\/p>\n

Squeeze came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the\u00a0new wave\u00a0period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. The vast majority of their material is composed of lyrics by\u00a0Difford\u00a0and music by\u00a0Tilbrook, who are guitarists and vocalists in the band.<\/p>\n

The group formed in\u00a0Deptford, London, in 1974 and first broke up in 1982. Squeeze then reformed in 1985 and disbanded again in 1999.<\/p>\n

The band reunited for tours through the United States and United Kingdom in 2007.<\/p>\n

In 2010, they issued\u00a0\u201cSpot the Difference,\u201d an album of newly recorded versions of older material. The band’s first album of all-new material since \u201cDomino\u201d in 1998,\u00a0\u201cCradle to the Grave,\u201d was released in October 2015 followed by another album,\u00a0\u201cThe Knowledge<\/a>,\u201d in October 2017.<\/p>\n

During an interview last week, Difford explained why there was such a gap in studio recordings between \u201cDomino\u201d in 1998 and \u201cSpot the Difference\u201d in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason is that as a band we were not up and running,\u201d said Difford. \u201cI was off doing my own thing as was Glenn. The break had the brain wave to re-record our songs and thus \u2018Spot the Difference.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring those 12 years, we didn\u2019t perform as Squeeze much because we were off doing our own things during much of that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

What was the catalyst for the band\u2019s re-formation in 2007?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did some press for a \u2018hits\u2019 record that was being released and after that coming together in a hotel room talking to a journalist, we talked about playing together again,\u201d said Difford. \u201cOur respective managers at the time then put together further creative meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Squeeze\u2019s \u201cCradle to the Grave\u201d album was released in October 2015 and provided the music for a BBC drama called\u00a0Cradle to Grave, based on the autobiography\u00a0Going To Sea in a Sieve\u00a0by\u00a0Danny Bake.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw \u2018Cradle to the Grave\u2019 as both a TV soundtrack and a Squeeze album \u2013 a coming together of new songs, a catalyst for relighting an old flame,\u201d said Difford.<\/p>\n

Difford explained his songwriting process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sit and write, I wait and then write some more. \u00a0I then think about what just happened and if I had hit the mark. Then, I down tools and wonder off. And so it goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID wasn\u2019t really a distraction. I found the time engaging allowing me to write lots of new ideas. There is never disruption only inspirational breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with Difford and Tilbrook, Squeeze now\u00a0features keyboardist Stephen\u00a0Large\u00a0and drummer Simon Hanson (since 2007)\u00a0percussionist\/backing vocalist\u00a0Steve Smith (frontman for electronic band Dirty\u00a0Vegas) along\u00a0with pedal\/lap steel guitarist Melvin\u00a0Duffy (who joined them for the 2019 tour) and Owen\u00a0Biddle (former bassist for The Roots who joined in 2020). Squeeze most recently toured across the U.S. in 2021 with\u00a0HALL & OATES,\u00a0being the first UK\u00a0band to tour the US since the pandemic.
\nVideo link for Squeeze \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/bm3fYvXkAT8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at The Met which also features the Psychedelic Furs, will start at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Tickets prices start at $39.50.<\/p>\n

The Babyklok Tour featuring Dethklok and Babymetal will be unleashing hours of brutal metal rock when it makes a stop this week at the Mann Center\u2019s TD Pavilion.<\/p>\n

Dethklok is a band with a niche audience \u2013 a large and very devoted niche audience.<\/p>\n

Dethklok\u00a0is a fictional\u00a0melodic death metal\u00a0band featured in the\u00a0Adult Swim\u00a0animated television series\u00a0\u201cMetalocalypse,\u201d known for its satirical or parodic lyrical themes.<\/p>\n

The first official Dethklok album was released on September 25, 2007, entitled\u00a0\u201cThe Dethalbum.\u201d The album debuted at number 21 on\u00a0Billboard\u00a0magazine’s\u00a0Top 200\u00a0list.\u00a0The band released\u00a0\u201cDethalbum II\u201d\u00a0on September 29, 2009.<\/p>\n

The band’s third album,\u00a0\u201cDethalbum III,\u201d was released on October 16, 2012. The soundtrack\u00a0to the special episode,\u00a0\u201cMetalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem\u201d\u00a0was released on October 29, 2013.<\/p>\n

A real band was set up in order to perform the band’s music in live shows. Both bands were created by\u00a0Brendon Small\u00a0and\u00a0Tommy Blacha. The music heard on \u201cMetalocalypse\u201d is performed by Small, with others needed for live concerts and albums.<\/p>\n

On August 25, 2017, Small released his second solo album,\u00a0\u201cBrendon Small’s Galaktikon II,\u201d which is considered to serve as \u201ca new Dethklok album,\u201d due to\u00a0Adult Swim\u00a0holding the rights to the band name. However, after a five-year absence, the band returned to perform at Adult Swim Festival 2019<\/p>\n

Their fourth album, and first in over a decade,\u00a0\u201cDethalbum IV,\u201d was released in August 2023, along with a soundtrack album to the film \u201cMetalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a TV writer.\u201d Said Small, during a phone interview last week from a tour stop in Ohio. \u201cI graduated from the Berklee College of Music and also studied writing at Emerson College. I did stand-up comedy for a while in Boston and then started writing for television.\u201d<\/p>\n

Small and Loren Bouchard co-created\u00a0\u201cHome Movies,\u201d an animated series that initially aired on the\u00a0UPN\u00a0television network which moved to\u00a0Cartoon Network’s\u00a0Adult Swim\u00a0block. The series ran for four seasons from 1999-2004. Small was one of the show’s writers, while Bouchard served as the director.<\/p>\n

Small served as co-producer, co-writer and composer for the Adult Swim animated series\u00a0\u201cMetalocalypse,\u201d which ran for four seasons from 2006-2012, along with a 2013 special,\u00a0\u201cMetalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem.\u201d In addition to writing, directing and executive producing the series, Small also provided voice talent for the characters\u00a0Skwisgaar Skwigelf,\u00a0Pickles, and\u00a0Nathan Explosion, three of the five members of Dethklok.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking for the right project,\u201d said Small, who grew up in Salinas, California.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent a long time figuring out how the band would be and how to work with animation. I\u2019m the creator of the show and I wrote all the music.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0Metalocalypse\u00a0series, Dethklok is depicted as the world’s most popular and successful death metal band. The members of Dethklok reside in a colossal, fortress-like castle elevated high above ground called Mordhaus, which serves as their residence as well as their recording studio. Beyond their extremely wealthy financial status, they also oversee a massive personal organization of devoted workers known as Klokateers, who act as their personal servants, as well as their roadies, security personnel, and private military squadron.<\/p>\n

The band’s fan base includes billions of\u00a0metal\u00a0fanatics, who frequently endanger themselves to watch the band perform live, as their incredibly expensive shows are frequently held in dangerous locations, and include numerous hazards such as excessive pyrotechnics, aircraft, lasers, and giant bladed pendulums, with many shows concluding in multiple attendee deaths. With their widespread commercial success and lucrative\u00a0sponsorship contracts, Dethklok is ranked as the world’s seventh largest economy by the end of the second season.<\/p>\n

Despite their otherworldly success, the members of Dethklok are often portrayed as incompetent at almost everything not related to their profession. The band struggles to perform everyday tasks, including shopping for groceries, preparing food, and maintaining proper social relationships. Throughout the series, they are often assisted by their manager and lawyer, Charles Foster Offdensen, who frequently attempts to prevent the band from making poor decisions.<\/p>\n

The band’s actions and uncanny misfortune caught the attention of an\u00a0Illuminati-style council, known as\u00a0The Tribunal.<\/p>\n

The Tribunal is portrayed as Dethklok’s antagonist throughout the series, and secretly monitors their actions in almost every episode. They describe Dethklok as the “world’s greatest cultural force”. The leader of The Tribunal (Mr. Salacia), however, frequently instructs the other members to allow Dethklok to do as they will.<\/p>\n

\u201cMetalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar\u00a0was made available to purchase digitally and on Blu-ray on August 22 — accompanied by two\u00a0new albums: Dethalbum IV\u00a0(August 22) and\u00a0\u201cMetalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)\u201d (August 25).<\/p>\n

\u201cMetalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar,\u201d an original full-length movie written and directed by Small and produced by\u00a0Titmouse,\u00a0Adult Swim\u00a0and\u00a0Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. The film stars\u00a0Small,\u00a0Blacha,\u00a0Malcolm McDowell\u00a0(“A Clockwork Orange”), Victor Brandt\u00a0(“Metalocalypse”),\u00a0Stephen \u201cThundercat\u201d Bruner\u00a0(Grammy\u00ae\u00a0Award Winning Musician),\u00a0King Diamond\u00a0(KING DIAMOND; MERCYFUL FATE),\u00a0Mark Hamill\u00a0(\u201cBatman:\u00a0The Animated Series\u201d; \u201cThe Machine\u201d),\u00a0Kirk Hammett\u00a0(METALLICA),\u00a0Jon Hamm\u00a0(“Confess. Fletch”; “Top Gun: Maverick”),\u00a0Scott Ian\u00a0(ANTHRAX),\u00a0Amy Lee\u00a0(EVANESCENCE),\u00a0Malcolm McDowell\u00a0(“A Clockwork Orange”),\u00a0Juliet Mills\u00a0(“Passions”),\u00a0Laraine Newman\u00a0(“Saturday Night Live”),\u00a0Raya Yarbrough\u00a0(\u201cMetalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem – a Klok Opera\u201d), and\u00a0Livia Zita\u00a0(2022 Winner – Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very surreal having so much new ‘Metalocalypse’\u00a0and DETHKLOK\u00a0this year with the trifecta of the tour, movie and album,\u201d said\u00a0Small. \u201cI\u2019m so excited to get on the road with the powerful\u00a0BABYMETAL, and to celebrate all the hard work that team \u2018Metalocalypse’\u00a0&\u00a0DETHKLOK\u00a0put in over the last two years and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur live show has a giant movie screen and crazy symmetry between the picture and the band. It\u2019s very entertaining \u2013 musically and visually.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Dethklok — https:\/\/youtu.be\/R8r2heCJAUU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Babyklok Tour featuring Dethklok and Babymetal with Jason Richardson as the opening act will start at 7 p.m. at the Mann Center\u2019s TD Pavilion.<\/p>\n

Tickets start at $52.50.<\/p>\n

Lauren Calve, who is headlining a show at City Winery (990 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, www.citywinery.com<\/a>) on September 13, has just released her debut album, \u201cShift.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShift\u201d is more than a title; it is an aural assessment of where Calve was when putting the songs together for the LPO.<\/p>\n

\u201cI taught myself to play guitar when I was 15 or 16,\u201d said Calve, during a phone interview last week from her home in Maryland. I played covers and went to open mics until about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I started writing my own music, that\u2019s when things started to click. I was really into roots music. The new album, which is my firsr full length, \u00a0is a little bit of a shift. While it still has some of a roots influence, it has a sound that is a little more generic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calve released her debut EP, \u201cBetween the Creek and the Tracks\u201d in 2014. She released a pair of singles in 2018 \u2013 \u201cBe My Home\u201d and \u201cSunny Day\u201d \u2013 and followed with the \u201cLight Dark\u201d EP later that year. Next was the \u201cWildfire\u201d EP in 2020.<\/p>\n

This year, Calve put out three more singles \u2013 \u201cShift,\u201d \u201cEverything at the Same Time\u201d and \u201cAlchemy\u201d \u2013 prior to the recent release of the \u201cShift\u201d album.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy early music was definitely acoustic blues \u2013 Delta Blues \u2013 slide guitar, resonator, lap steel,\u201d said Calve. \u201cI was listening to blues greats like Son House, Elmore James, Robert Johnson and Lightning Hopkins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started listening to a lot of folk recordings \u2013 Lomax recording and Smithsonian Folkways albums. I also loved Chicago blues. I definitely listened to it all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was first writing, I was surprised to hear these blues influenced come through in my writing and vocals. Blues is a through line for everything. Some of that made it onto \u2018Shift.\u2019 I wanted to take my recording experience to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShift\u201d was recorded in Nashville at 3Sirens Music Group with producer, engineer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dex Green (Margo Price, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Allison Russell).\u00a0Green brought heavy hitters into the studio: Fred Eltringham on drums (ACM Drummer of the Year, Drumeo Country Drummer of the Year, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson), Audley Freed on guitar (Sheryl Crow, The Black Crowes), Robert Kearns on bass (Sheryl Crow, Lynyrd Skynyrd), Marlon Patton on drums (Larkin Poe, Lera Lynn), Jared Reynolds on bass (Ben Folds) and Joe Costa on the board (Ben Folds).<\/p>\n

\u201cHe took songs that had never been road tested, songs that went directly from my living room to the studio, and effortlessly brought them to life,\u201d said Calve.\u00a0\u201cNashville is home to some of the best musicians in the world.<\/p>\n

I felt like I got to work with the best of the best.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t just their technical ability; they approached every song with true artistry and infectious enthusiasm. As a developing artist and singer\/songwriter, you have to hire all these players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went down to Nashville four times in 2020 and 2021. Each time, I came down with a new batch of songs. It gave me more time to write songs \u2013 thought-provoking songs that were more reflective of what I was going through.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shift was more than musical.<\/p>\n

During the 14-month writing and recording process, Calve was thriving on pushing herself outside of her comfort zone. In turn, Shift<\/a>\u00a0was the catalyst for major paradigm shifts in her life.\u00a0 Several months after wrapping up the album she ended an engagement and six-year relationship. And she finally stopped drinking after years of failed attempts, and the writing process forced her to examine the ways she had limited herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a shift in songs and a shift in personality,\u201d said Calve. \u201cI was going through some serious personal changes. All the songs had this yearning for change. I wanted to make an album not a collection of songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Lauren Calve — https:\/\/youtu.be\/uJegCHsActQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lauren Calve\u2019s show at the City Winery with Joey Frendo will start at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $12 and $15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times The end of summer is looming on the horizon. For fans of live music, that means there is an uptick in midweek shows. This week, there is an impressive array of live shows on Wednesday featuring a legendary folksinger, an iconic British pop band from the 80s, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8457],"tags":[7426,10432,15308],"class_list":["post-52886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-d-arts-entertainment","tag-featured","tag-maria-muldaur","tag-squeeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52887,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886\/revisions\/52887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}