A1		Catch It	3:17
A2		I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	3:56
A3		New Orleans Hopscop Blues	2:45
A4		Trials, Troubles, Tribulations	4:44
A5		Prairie Lullabye	4:48
A6		Guide Me, O Great Jehovah	1:36
B1		Me And My Chauffeur Blues	6:21
B2		Brazil	4:17
B3		Georgia On My Mind	3:44
B4		Death Letter Blues	6:12

Bass – Billy Wolf
Drums – Billy Mundi, Rick Marcus
Guitar, Piano – Geoff Muldaur
Horns – Hal Grossman And Friends
Lead Guitar – Amos Garrett
Pedal Steel Guitar – Bill Keith
Trumpet, Whistling – Peter Ecklund (tracks: B2)
Vocals – Betsy Siggins, Maria Muldaur

Following the breakup of Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band in 1967, Geoff & Maria Muldaur found themselves free to pursue new musical directions, and their first album together, 1968's Pottery Pie, found them abandoning the whimsical old-timey sound of Kweskin's group for something fresher and more contemporary. However, their fondness for the blues and some of the more playful and esoteric avenues of American musical tradition hadn't faded a bit. Consequently, Pottery Pie is an album that seemingly defies genre or categorization, beyond the loose-limbed determination of the participants to have a fine old time, even when their music sounds sorrowful. There are no original tunes on Pottery Pie, but the Muldaurs put their own stamp on everything here, from the bluesy strut of "Catch It" and the playfully sexy spin on Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" to a sweetly sad take on "Georgia on My Mind" and a pair of reworked hymns that are deeply affecting in their simplicity and grace. The vintage jazz influences that Geoff & Maria explored with Kweskin surface on "New Orleans Hopscop Blues" and "Prairie Lullabye," but the presence of a funky rhythm section and Amos Garrett's signature guitar licks effortlessly transport the songs into the '60s. And their take on the old Tropicalia chestnut "Brazil," sincere on the surface and deeply twisted underneath, is a wonder to behold and worth the price of the album all by itself. (Terry Gilliam used the track in his film Brazil, and has said its oddball tone helped inspire the movie.) Geoff & Maria Muldaur's personal and professional relationship was not destined to last, and Pottery Pie was the first of only two albums they would make together. But plenty of acts have long and successful careers without creating anything with the adventurous charm of Pottery Pie, and it remains a left-field masterpiece. ---Mark Deming, allmusic.com

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1	My Tears Came Rolling Down	3:52
2	River's Invitation	3:16
3	Prelude In EM, No. 4, Opus 28	2:38
4	Sloppy Drink	3:15
5	La Juanda	4:15
6	Carolina Sunshine Girl	3:13
7	Washboard Blues	3:19
8	Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy	1:36
9	Chicken Stew Part 1	3:46
10	Dance Of The Coloured Elves	2:32
11	Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere	2:23

Bass – Bill Rich
Drums, Percussion, Tenor Saxophone – Scott Matthews
Dulcimer [Hammered] – Barbara Mendelsohn
Harmonica, Harmony Vocals – David (Bender) Burgin
Harmony Vocals – Dwight Brainerd
Jug, Harmony Vocals – Fritz Richmond
Mandolin, Harmony Vocals, Producer – Michael Melford
Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Lem Nitmar
Trombone – Nicholas ten Broek
Vocals – Jenni Muldaur
Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Geoff Muldaur
Vocals, Guitar, Trombone – Amos Garrett

This is an album from two master musicians with a top quality group of backing musicians. The content includes composers as diverse as Percy Mayfield, Chuck Berry, Hoagy Carmichael, Geoff and Amos themselves and even Chopin and Tchaikovsky.

Hard to believe that these are the same musicians who featured so stronly in the Jim Kwesin Jug Band and Paul Butterfiled Blues Band, this is a great showcase of two outstanding performers and an album to play and enjoy over and over again. In fact, I'm doing just that right now as I am writing this review. ---W. Baker, amazon.com

Amos Garrett is a brilliant guitarist with a beautiful style that's completely his own. Besides all that he has a great baritone voice.On this CD all of this comes together in a brilliant cover of Chuck Berry's ballad La Juanda. One of the greatest Chuck Berry covers ever made! ---J. Athmer, amazon.com

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1	Yellow Dog Blues	3:00
2 	The World Is Going Wrong	3:06
3 	All By Myself	3:42
4 	Poor Boy	3:00
5 	Fan It	3:15
6 	Hard Time Killin' Floor	4:19
7 	Sweet To Mama	3:15
8 	Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away	2:33
9 	Cairo	3:36
10 	Under The Chicken Tree	3:09
11 	Please, Baby	3:02
12 	Blues In The Bottle		3:48
13 	Right Now Blues		4:01
14 	Travellin' Riverside	5:53
15 	Yellow Dog Blues (Reprise)	2:54

Stephen Bruton - Guitar, Mandolin, Six String Banjo, Soloist
Cindy Cashdollar - Dobro, Guitar (Steel), National Steel Guitar, Slide Guitar
Floyd Domino - Piano
Bruce Hughes - Bass (Upright), Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Geoff Muldaur - Guitar, Kazoo, Six String Banjo, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Johnny Nicholas - Banjo, Drums, Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin, Six String Banjo, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Suzy Thompson - Accordion, Fiddle, Vocals (Background) 

Muldaur's unique tone and phrasing are instantly recognizable, and like many musicians who came of age during the 1960s folk revival, he was making roots music before the term was invented. He's a fine blues singer and an inventive interpreter of folk, pop, ragtime, and jug band music, to name just a few of the genres he's put his stamp on. In 2008 his longtime friend Stephen Bruton, favorite guitarist of artists like Kris Kristofferson and Bonnie Raitt learned he had terminal cancer. Muldaur asked Bruton to join him in the studio for a project he was recording, a roots music super session that was going to explore the intersection of folk, blues, country, swing, ragtime, jug band, and mountain music. That said, it's ragtime and jug band music that most informs Muldaur's arrangements. Big Bill Broonzy's "All by Myself" gets a rollicking treatment with Muldaur's boozy lead vocal and tasty solos from Bruton's guitar, Cindy Cashdollar's dobro, and Floyd Domino's piano. "Fan It," a tune made popular by Bob Wills, features a saucy vocal from special guest Jim Kweskin, solid fiddle work by Suzy Thompson, and Cashdollar's jazzy pedal steel. "Sweet to Mama" harks back to the sound of early African-American string bands. Muldaur moans the blues and plays banjo with barebones backing by Thompson's fiddle and Bruce Hughes on standup bass. The surrealistic "Under the Chicken Tree" blends jug band, cowboy, and Hawaiian pop with a playful vocal from Kweskin, Muldaur on kazoo, Johnny Nicholas on mandolin, Cashdollar's dobro, and Kweskin playing banjo. "Blues in the Bottle" was one of the first tunes cut by the Kweskin Jug Band and Kweskin reprises his role from that early session with Bruton on mandolin, Cashdollar's dobro, Thompson's fiddle and Hughes on standup bass adding a big jazzy vibe to the take. Burton adds mandolin to the sinister blues numbers that end the set. "Travelin' Riverside" is a grim Robert Johnson (is there any other kind?) tune with Cashdollar's foreboding dobro and Nicholas' tortured guitar adding to the menacing atmosphere. W.C. Handy's "Yellow Dog Blues" gets an instrumental arrangement that suggests swing, ragtime and jug band music to take things out on a high note, Thompson's fiddle wailing like a preacher possessed by the Holy Spirit. Bruton passed shortly after these sessions, but the music lives on, sounding like a loose, freewheeling, front porch gathering of longtime friends. It's a fitting tribute to Bruton and another feather in Muldaur's cap, an excellent addition to his already impressive body of work. ---AllMusic Review

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