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Heart of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan | 
 enlarge | Artist: Maria Muldaur
Label: Telarc
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 31520
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 83643
UPC: 089408364327
EAN: 0089408364327
ASIN: B000GIWGX0
Release Date: August 15, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Buckets of Rain | | • | Lay Baby Lay (Lay Lady Lay) | | • | To Be Alone with You | | • | Heart of Mine | | • | Make You Feel My Love | | • | Moonlight | | • | You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go | | • | Golden Loom | | • | On a Night Like This | | • | I'll Be Your Baby Tonight | | • | Wedding Song | | • | You Ain't Goin' Nowhere |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The incomparable Maria Muldaur has always traversed a wide expanse of American music--in 2003, she recorded A Woman Alone with the Blues, a tribute to jazz icon Peggy Lee--and so perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that she has now applied her interpretive gifts to the love songs of Bob Dylan. Choosing from among his classics ("I'll Be Your Baby Tonight") and lesser-known works ("Golden Loom"), Muldaur bravely recasts several songs in disparate grooves (reggae, Cajun, swing), and even allows keyboardist David Torkanowsky to sneak a few bars of the jazz standard "Ain't Misbehavin'" into the end of "Moonlight." As expected, Muldaur is most at home with lazy, country-blues treatments ("Buckets of Rain"). But she can also effectively pull off the intense drama of total sublimation, especially on "Wedding Song" and "Make You Feel My Love," which she renders so tenderly as to elicit a tear. The title track finds her trying to talk herself out of an unsuitable lover, yet one suspects she won't be able to outsmart her heart. On both "Lay Baby Lay" (the gender-switching version of "Lay Lady Lay") and "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," she eschews Dylan's urgent and poignant sexuality for sensuality, making both songs a study in how the sexes approach the chemistry of love. --Alanna Nash
Album Description
A"I saw Maria in the great Martin Scorsese documentary about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home,A" says Elaine Martone, production supervisor for the project. A"She had recalled many great stories and anecdotes about the early days, and there was some great footage of her performing in the Village in the early A`60s with the Kweskin Jug Band. I was struck by the fact that sheA'd had a direct association with Dylan during his formative years, which I knew because she and I had spoken about from previous conversations. When Bob [Woods, executive producer] approached her about doing a recording of Dylan songs, she narrowed the focus and suggested an album of DylanA's love songs. We thought that was an even better idea, and the result is a stirring, sensual album.A" Blues and folk chanteuse Maria Muldaur, a contemporary of Bob Dylan during his Greenwich Village heyday of the early A`60s, brings it all back home by delving into the various ballads and love songs in DylanA's rich catalog and interpreting them in her own trademark style. Among the eleven tracks are A"Buckets in the RainA" and A"Meet Me in the Moonlight Tonight.A"
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| Customer Reviews:
 Oral seduction supreme! August 17, 2008
Siriam (London United Kingdom)
I must admit I only know Maria Muldaur from her "Midnight at the oasis" period in the 1970s and picking up on that she was a contemporary of Dylan's in his Village period from the first volume of his biography. My sole reason for buying this was an ongoing interest in all Dylan covers with a selection of Dylan love songs from across the years being on offer here.
The lady does not disappoint with a nice set of interpretations which achieve a reworking of many songs and mostly vast improvements on Dylan's originals with her slightly husky blues cum jazz interpretations (Lay Lady Lay being one of the best examples versus the country style original). Arrangements and backings are mostly very understated with the emphasis being on the mood rather than the soloing. As the liner notes make clear the project had been in gestation for some years without any willing labels and the necessary push being ironically her appearance in the Martin Scorsese documentary on Dylan "No direction home" which allowed this recording to occur.
Finally full points for a wide range of choices taking in obvious choices (Buckets of rain, Heart of mine, I'll be your baby tonight and You ain't going nowhere) to some less obvious choices (the recent Moonlight, Wedding Song and Golden Loom).
The fact I find myself endlessly slipping this onto my CD player reflects what a seductive set Maria has crafted.
 Love Maria Muldaur, Love Bob Dylan (Don't love this) May 17, 2008
Avocadess (Austin, TX United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was a good and brave tribute to Bob Dylan, and I'm one of Maria Muldaur's biggest fans -- as well as Bob Dylan's -- and sorry to say, I just keep wishing I was hearing Bob sing these songs and not Maria. It just didn't translate on most of these songs to go from the male to female perhaps -- not sure just what it is. I won't be listening to this CD that much (but that's okay, I'm totally in love with at least four of Maria's other CDs, and newly especially "Love Wants to Dance").
I am SO glad Maria keeps recording and recording. She is just awesome -- but this compilation, to me, is a miss.
On heavy rotation May 2, 2008
J. Menick (NY)
Combination of her voice and his songs: this is her best album in years (and I've liked the recent ones a lot).
Not the best but certainly a must for Dylan lovers March 31, 2008
W. J. Remme
As a huge Dylan-fan (for over 40 years now) I collect almost every music played and/or written by Bob Dylan. Maria Muldaur sings with a wonderful voice 12 covers. Just relax and listen. Of course, there are better covers, but this album is worth buying it. Only one point of critism. Why weren't the songs "Is your love in vain" and "Love minus zero/No limit" not covered?
very unique July 5, 2007
Jana (Cazenovia, NY)
What a great combination. If you like Maria Muldaur and you like Bob Dylan, especially his love songs, this is the CD for you! I play if over and over.
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