Maria Muldaur - Southern Winds (1978) Part 1 (Full Album)

Track List: 1-4

1. Make Love to the Music (0:00)
2. Say You Will (4:07)
3. I'll Keep My Light in My Window (7:28)
4. I Got a Man (12:02)

Southern Winds is the fourth studio album by American folk rock singer Maria Muldaur, released in 1978 by Warner Bros. Records.

'Southern Winds' Allmusic Review by Eugene Chadbourne
By the beginning of the '80s, vocalist Maria Muldaur would have gotten to the end of her rope with her big-time Warner Bros. contract, finding nothing there but the hollowed-out remains of music once every single interesting aspect has been excised. This album was cut when this process had just gotten underway, and on this album one still finds the dominate energy to be a kind of communal give and take between the songstress and her fellow musicians that harks back to her days in the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. Guitarists Les Dudek and Amos Garrett are from a bit heavier and unfortunately slicker mold, but they are on their best behavior here, making positive contributions to a band sound that for the most part gels. Keyboardist Mike Finnigan is one of several extremely talented players who are on hand, along with a crack horn section that includes the feisty Ernie Watts. In terms of a songs it is an odd batch, rather consistent in a bland way, lacking a signature hit or even one of the kind of goofy novelty numbers that really liven up her albums. The emphasis here was on romance -- men with cigars can be seen poking their noses into the studio -- and the choice of songs that was made is not one that can be said to have a high degree of edge. In fact, the message seems to be more along the lines of mellowing out. The final third of the album is pretty heavy on the Leon Russell material, none of which is that distinguished but was sure trendy at the time. Still, if one is assembling Muldaur albums from this period, this one will begin to rise to the top simply because some of the ones that followed were so much worse.

Musicians:
Maria Muldaur - lead vocals
John Hug - guitar
Amos Garrett - guitar
Thom Rotella - guitar
Les Dudek - slide guitar
Christopher Bond - guitar, synthesizer
Phil Aaberg - acoustic piano, electric piano
Michael Finnigan - added keyboards
Dave Burgin - harmonica
Robert Bryant - wind instruments
Chuck Findley - wind instruments
Jim Horn - wind instruments
Lew McCreary - wind instruments
Don Menza - wind instruments
Ernie Watts - wind instruments
Scott Edwards - bass
Ed Greene - drums, syndrums
Gary Coleman - percussion
Jim Anderson - backing vocals
Rosemary Butler - backing vocals
Michael Finnigan - backing vocals
Amos Garrett - backing vocals
Greg Prestopino - backing vocals
Wendy Waldman - backing vocals
Pepper Watkins - backing vocals

Notes:
Christopher Bond - producer, arrangements
Candy Van Duser - production assistant
Recorded at Sound Labs, Inc. in Hollywood, California (USA), 1977
John Mills - recording engineer
Linda Tyler - Assistant Recording Engineer
Armin Steiner - Engineer Recording Stringed Instruments
James Getzoff - concertmaster
Glen Christensen - art direction, original album design
John Lykes - original album cover painting
Bob Maile - lettering