Maria Muldaur Grisman, and Stefan Grossman as a member of the Even Dozen Jug Band. She then joined Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band as a featured vocalist and occasional violinist. During this time, she was part of the Greenwich Village scene that included Bob Dylan, and some of her recollections of the period, particularly with respect to Dylan, appear in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary film "No Direction Home". She married fellow Jug Band member Geoff Muldaur, and after the Kweskin group broke up, the two of them produced two albums. She began her solo career when their marriage ended in 1972,
Bob Dylan many dismissed it as an "incoherent mess"; a few treated it as a serious work of art. In October 2004, Dylan published the first part of his autobiography, "". Confounding expectations, Dylan devoted three chapters to his first year in New York City in 1961–1962, virtually ignoring the mid-1960s when his fame was at its height. He also devoted chapters to the albums "New Morning" (1970) and "Oh Mercy" (1989). The book reached number two on "The New York Times"' Hardcover Non-Fiction best seller list in December 2004 and was nominated for a National Book Award. "No Direction Home", Martin