Track Listing
1. Wild Ox Moan, The
2. This World Is Not My Home
3. Alberta
4. Got to Find Blind Lemon - (part one)
5. I Believe I'll Go Back Home
6. Chevrolet / Big Alice
7. I Can't See Your Face
8. Mistreated Mama
9. Someday Baby
10. Just a Little While to Stay Here
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Amos Garrett, Bruce Forman, David Grisman, Hal Ketchum, John Magnie, Lenny Pickett, Richard Greene, Stephen Bruton | | Producer: | Geoff Muldaur | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Geoff Muldaur (vocals, guitar, pennywhistle, tambourine); Amos Garrett, Stephen Bruton (guitar); Eric Levine (fiddle); John Nicholas (piano); Bill Rich (bass); Larry Thompson (drums); Kester Smith (congas).
Engineers include: James Tuttle, Jay Hudson, Paul Wickliff.
Geoff Muldaur recorded THE SECRET HANDSHAKE over the course of a year in different places across America, after a 17-year absence from the music scene. The album flows like one long, well-paced, and multi-faceted story; the common thread through it all is Muldaur himself, who has been exploring various American musics since the mid-'60s.
This album is rich with character and confidence, in a way that only someone with deep and broad experience can accomplish. Muldaur has never been a pop musician; he's followed his own impulses, exploring various strains of American blues, folk, and gospel. From Southern churches to Delta crossroads to New Orleans parades, Muldaur chases it down, gets inside it, and makes it his own.
Editorial Reviews
...THE SECRET HANDSHAKE is [Muldaur's] first solo album in several years, and it is a beauty. The highlight of the disc must certainly be the fife-and-drum-band reworking of 'Chevrolet'...
Dirty Linen (04/01/1999)
...THE SECRET HANDSHAKE is [Muldaur's] first solo album in several years, and it is a beauty. The highlight of the disc must certainly be the fife-and-drum-band reworking of 'Chevrolet'...
Dirty Linen (04/01/1999)
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