Geoff Muldaur

Image No. 63-12-29: Jamming at the 47 Club 47, Cambridge, Mass., December 1963 At the Club 47, musicians often put together one-time combinations that were never recorded. We'd like to have a tape of this spontaneous group, in which Fritz Richmond (washtub) and Geoff Muldaur (washboard) of the Kweskin Jug Band accompany Al Wilson, later of Canned Heat, a young man who knew almost every blues ever recorded and could sing and play most of them on either the guitar or harmonica.

Image No. 64-9-9: Geoff Muldaur and Paul Arnoldi Club 47, Cambridge, Mass., July 1964 Multiple-threat instrumentalist Geoff Muldaur wails here on the clarinet, accompanied by Paul Arnoldi, who is either holding some other sort of musical instrument to his mouth or taking a sip of coffee.

Image No. 64-9-7: Lovebirds Onstage Club 47, Cambridge, Mass., July 1964 Maria D'Amato and Geoff Muldaur, the summer before they were married.

Image No. 64-11N-63: Jim Kweskin Jug Band 1964 Newport Folk Festival (Left to right) Mel Lyman, Maria D'Amato (soon to be Muldaur), Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Bill Keith The Jim Kweskin Jug Band was the first of the jug bands formed in the 60s folk revival and it gained the most widespread popularity. Before disbanding in 1968, the Jug Band shared billing in the psychedelic ballrooms of San Francisco with Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the Doors.

Image No. 64-21-7: Geoff Muldaur on washboard Kweskin Jug Band performance Sanders Theater, Cambridge, Mass., November 1964 Geoff Muldaur was the Jug Band's blues master, clarinetist, and washboard rhythm king.