Jug Band of 1968

The Jim Queskin Jug Band featured a fetching young Italian singer named Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica d'Amato who later married Geof Muldaur, (Maria Muldaur) Here's a very short clip of Big Fat Woman Blues. I highly reccommend buying the DVD this is from.
(Some have said this is from 1968, so I've amended the title, it used to say "1966")
see the full vid here: • Video

[@robinblair7854]

Just thought some people would get a kick out of this. I'm old. I remember seeing Maria and Geoff (before they were married) and the whole Jim Kweskin Jug Band when I was a teenager, back in the 1960s, in Provincetown, MA. They would play tiny coffee houses where they could pack in about 50-80 people. You could sit close enough to touch them. I've seen them perform all the phenomenal songs on their old "albums" and CDs. I have the very best memories ever of growing up in a wonderful time, a safe time, a time when music was fun and not political. I wouldn't trade those memories or experiences for anything.

[@ChrisCasadyanimation]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful story, what a delight. Living history reaches out across KZbin, the great thing about being old.

[@erichsylvester4354]

I live in San Francisco & was fortunate to meet Maria & become friends & go to see a Kweskin gig together. I've loved Maria since the beginning of the jug band, & look forward to her next live gig or recordings.

[@eddyg2745]

Every hippie's favorite jug band, I saw them around 1966 at the Fillmore Ballroon in San Francisco on the corner of Geary and Fillmore streets (before there were Winterland, Fillmore West, Fillmore East)

[@prime-mate]

Maria is so adorable ❤

[@MrShaggy1016]

She’s beautiful

[@ChrisCasadyanimation]

That sums it up in two words. : )

[@ChrisCasadyanimation]

It's those big cartoony girly hair braids, that put her "over the top" in adorableness.

[@ChrisCasadyanimation]

It's from the excellent Dylan Documentary by Scorscese. If you want to see a rare Kweskin Jug Band clip see the documentary on the Isle of Wight festival by Murray Lerner "Message to Love" (1997). He needed to test his camera and he used them to focus on!

[@Dulcimerea]

Thank you, I'll look it up. Murray Lerner also made the great film "Festival!" about the Newport Folk Festival.

[@ChrisCasadyanimation]

In fact…. I think I need to change my comment from 14 years ago. I think the Kweskin clip I’m thinking of is in the documentary “Festival” to which you refer. I don’t think Jim Kweskin played the Isle of Wight festival. @@Dulcimerea

[@puppiefaces]

Thanks for posting this. She is so cool to hear. I was a youg chickie waitress in a little place where Jim Queskin and His Amazing Jug Band showed up to play one nite. They were quite amazing! I shall now search for more of them on youtube!

[@ben909ben]

Jim Kweskin with a K. My parents had about 3 of their albums. I bet there's very little video of them, so any clips of any lengths appreciated. Oh Don't You Leave Me Here was righteous, and their version of Memphis was a treasure.

[@DavidLettvin]

I got to dance with her once ... DAMN that Geoff Muldaur anyway!

[@empathic11]

@TileNut Also her voice. "Richland Woman" was the first of hers I heard. And I was a goner./

[@purps45]

It was Maria D'amato back then. She hadn't married Geoff Muldaur yet (also a member of Kweskin's Jug band).

[@timb0man1]

I saw this band twice in the late 60ß early 70s, SF Bay area. Fun if you like that sort. I wasn't into them then, but love hearing them now.

[@Dulcimerea]

I confess, I just listened to "Midnight at the Oasis" again. And it met my hopes and beyond. It's magnificent. So I want to tell you about the day I met Maria Muldaur. It was at Newport, about 1967, or 8 or 9. The field where the "workshops" and low-stage concerts. She was walking along with a friend. I ran up with my Nikkormat, and said "Can I take your picture?" and she turned to her woman friend and said only, "I wish people wouldn't ask me that!" and then I snapped a picture. I developed it- it was Plus-X 400 film- at home and printed her face on 8x10 glossy paper, and since then I've lost it. But if you look her up on Wikipedia, it was that same day, You can see why a young man of 17 or 19 had his life changed by a moment.

[@eddyg2745]

Plus-X, Tri-X, Pan-X the mainstay of every aspiring photographer..

[@Dr.Pepper001]

She sang "Midnight at the Oasis" that was released in 1974.

[@Investorym16]

God I wish I could find full version of this

[@reedhawk]

Check out Chasin' Gus' Ghost - an independent film about the origin of jug band music, featuring most of these musicians. I just saw the film and was really impressed.

[@Froike]

Wow..look at Bill Keith...one of the greatest melodic banjo players!

[@peterfriend8084]

Didn’t Keith start a weird, offbeat religious cult group that entangled Kweskin and others for a number of years…?

[@haggar1]

Jim Kweskin's Jug Band issued this song "I Ain't Gonna Marry"with Maria singing on "Garden of Joy" (available on CD)- though I prefer the tempo and balance on the fragments posted here and by smile67.

[@dsfddsgh]

Maria looks like Wednesday Addams all grown up in 1968. LOL Cute as a button.

[@Genessender]

You should see (and hear) her daughters. Check out "Clare and the Reasons."

[@ftsjr]

Maria looked like a real Sweetie. Nice clip.

[@michaelkoon3431]

I L O V E Maria!!

[@DavesGoneBy]

Jim Kweskin fans! On Sat, May 26, 2018, JK is our guest on the DAVE'S GONE BY radio show. WATCH LIVE 11am-2pm(Eastern) on Facebook: facebook.com/RadioDaveLefkowitz Or listen later to the archives at: www.DavesGoneBy.com

[@karenaligo8631]

Love this version of this short clip. Does she have this particular version clip Jug Band of '68 on any of her albums? I would like to purchase.

[@Vetpabst]

Maria is 22 or 23 in this video . She was born 9-12-43.

[@Vtwoods09]

Kweskin!

[@jonathanb5150]

I know this might be a little late, especially since most of you posted years ago, but if any of you are still looking for the entire clip, I recently tried finding it myself and foun plenty of links... here's a link to it watch?v=7w6SewvJE1w

[@ukuleleph]

Is that Bill Keith on the joe ?

[@klarolivia]

She's cool :)

[@beadcat]

@stellerquest Sure is.

[@Dippeh]

Does anyone know where you can find this song? I mean as a music track, not the dvd (It's No Direction Home from Martin Scorsese if anyone wasn't sure)

[@beowulf3075]

My god she was a babe, never realised she was Italian...

[@PriestsandParamedics]

Wow she's so pretty, how old do you think she is there?

[@modernpolitics]

What DVD is this from? The guy at the start is John Cohen, I think, and Dave Van Ronk is at the end. Is there more footage of the Kweskin band in the rest of the movie?

[@pameh6732]

No - several bits of commentary by Maria, though.

[@dharmaseed]

Nope, it's Fritz Richmond. You can tell by the dark glasses!

[@stellerquest]

Bill Keith on banjo?

[@pameh6732]

Yes

[@GreenUnderbelly]

Lyman was a rad guy-- An awesome cult-anaire I hear.

[@lakeviewviking]

is that Mel Lyman on the jug?

[@JellyrollHorton]

@Fretkillr I think this was taken off Dylan's "Don't Look Back" DVD.

[@VivGude88]

Jimmy is looking hoot!!! :)

[@music1960stopped]

Jim and Geoff are still playing at venues around the northeast, and still fantastic!

[@twilliams870]

Bill resembles a Klingon! Check at 0:25.

[@albertangeloro5832]

to be featured tomorrow Sat. @ radiosoleil.com 2 - 6pm... i played flamenco guitar at the Cafe Flamenco on Bleecker St, a basket house and knew Maria from the nabe and at The Gaslight on Mac Dougal St in the village. thanks for this great look at Maria