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When Maria Muldaur discovered the music of Tuba Skinny she learned that just like herself, these musicians study, play and immerse themselves in early blues, jazz and jug-band music of the 20s and 30s. Listening to their albums, Maria came to the conclusion that ''they were not just playing a marvelous repertoire of cool tunes with great skill and authenticity, but somehow channeling the very atmosphere and vibration of that bygone era.''

Just prior to the Covid Pandemic in January 2020, Maria asked Tuba Skinny to collaborate in a showcase performance at the International Folk Alliance Conference in New Orleans. It was so well received that an album was immediately conceived and recorded later that year, with the title track summing it all up: Let's Get Happy Together. Performing 12 songs as close as possible in feeling to the original recordings, Tuba Skinny and Maria Muldaur breathed life into rarely heard gems from this incredible era.

Maria Muldaur's 55-plus year career is a long and adventurous odyssey through the forms of American Roots Music: Blues, Jug Band, Bluegrass, Jazz and Appalachian ''Old Timey'' Music. Over 42 albums Maria has been nominated 6 times for Grammy Awards, as well as for Blues, Folk and Roots awards. She has been recognized at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis for many of her Stony Plain releases over the years, and is the 2019 recipient of the ''Lifetime Achievement Americana Trailblazer Award'' from the Americana Music Association.

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• Declared BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR by Goldmine Magazine

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Muldaur has never sounded better or more suited to her material... Her vocals are a delight and so is the band, which incorporates banjo and guitar as well as such too-rarely-heard instruments as cornet, trombone, clarinet, washboard, and, of course, tuba.

     —Americana Highways

Let's Get Happy Together overflows with Crescent City joie de vivre... With six Grammy nominations over the years, Maria certainly warrants a seventh now.

     —Goldmine Magazine

Muldaur is in Nawlins, finds a street band, plays a showcase with them and everyone goes nuts. It's just that simple when you have a career going back 57 years and find yourself right in the center of your métier. Kicking it out on songs as old as dirt by important people that have pretty much been forgotten, this organic record is dripping with soul and spunk---the kind that keeps the good times rolling. A well dug up classic from a gal that knows where all the bodies are buried.

     —Midwest Record

These twelve pearls of cultural antiquity and striking melody ring with total relevance.

     —Elmore Magazine

Muldaur doggedly continues to explore blues, jazz, country, gospel, R&B, and other purely American music forms.

     —Jazz Times