updated with newly-unearthed Phillip Elwood review
Well, well, well … just found a review of a Maria Muldaur show at BCT on Saturday, October 12, 1974 in the Berkeley Barb (Wikarska 1974). Maria worked with three bands this night.
1) David Nichtern (I presume “and the Nocturnes”): Nichtern, Hank DeVito on steel, Larry Jones on bass, and Claude Pepper on drums. Nicolette Larson sang some.
2) Great American Music Band: Maria sang and played violin with the main band of Richard Greene (fiddle), David Grisman (mandolin), Ellen Kearney (rhythm guitar, vocals), John Carlini (guitar) and Joe Carroll. Martin Fierro sat in for a number with the GAMB!
3) Maria’s band: Merle [sic] Saunders, Paul Humphrey, John Kahn, Jerry Garcia, Martin Fierro.
Beyond being new to The List, this is the earliest second-earliest confirmed Garcia-Humphrey shared stage event, supplanting the next night at the Santa Barbara County Bowl. Update: I now have confirmation that Humphrey drummed on 10/11/74 at the Chateau Liberté. Elwood’s review provides the following songs from the JGMS set: “Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You,” “Lover Man,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Harder They Come,” “Sitting In Limbo,” and Dan Hicks’s “Walkin’ One And Only”.
JGMS serving as Maria’s backing band certainly tickles the imagination.
! review: Elwood, Phillip. 19741014. Goodtime Maria in a mellow mood. San Francisco Examiner, October 14, 1974, p. 23.
! review: Wikarska, Carol. 1974. Maria Muldaur’s Body Song. Berkeley Barb, October 18-24, 14.
! seealso: JGMF, “Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You?”, URL http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2017/04/gee-baby-aint-i-good-to-you.html.
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