This is a disc that fully exploits the very best of Maria Muldaur’s voice; it is music that comes out of New Orleans and the gumbo that makes up music from the Crescent City.  Blues, Soul, The Gospel Church Jazz and Funk are all mixed together here and simmered to perfection by Dave Torkanowsky as the Musical Director and Master Facilitator, with Maria as the Producer.  The passion she brings to this music is displayed in its raw form and she leaves staidness and blandness at the door for they never show their unremarkable faces on this disc.

Whether it was going to New Orleans to make this disc, the musicians who played with her, or some other factor who knows, but this is one of her most and heartfelt, passionate discs since “Richland Woman Blues.”   Her singing here is consistently some of the strongest and most emotionally explosive we have heard in a long time.  The musicians are mostly a solid group of New Orleans people who grew up with the funk and gumbo of the music of that city; some of the people are Shane Theriot on guitar, Johnny Allen on bass, Shannon Powell on drums and background vocals, Cranston Clements on guitar, and Jenni Muldaur on background vocals before you think this is nepotism, this daughter of Maria and Geoff has recorded with the likes of Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, and Marianne Faithfull, not exactly what anyone would label fluff singers.  With a group like this I think it would have to be a deliberate mess up to come up with a bad disc.  Then there are the songs written by writers such as Bobby Charles, Percy Mayfield, Elvin Bishop, Stephen Bruton, and Arthur Adams, that is a group with a plethora of songwriting awards.  This disc is Maria Muldaur at her best and should not be missed.