Mustard's Retreat

May 1975. It seemed inevitable. David Tamulevich, Libby Glover & Michael Hough had been informally jamming and performing with each other for more than 3 months in the Rathskeller of the Old Heidelberg Restaurant in Ann Arbor, MI. The room had grown consistently packed with enthusiastic fans every weekend. They all agreed it was time they made the trio official, and took the name Mustard’s Retreat from one of Tamulevich’s original tunes.

They performed as a trio throughout the late 1970s, until Libby moved south: Tamulevich & Hough decided to keep going as a duo ,( with Libby sitting in whenever her travels brought her back to Michigan). Success and accolades continued to follow them as they broadened their radius of touring, and began making albums. Their 14 recordings, plus 4 compilations with the Michigan songwriting collective The Yellow Room Gang , have been highly acclaimed and received significant airplay
across the country, Canada and Europe. Two of their original songs, ( Ours is a) Simple Faith, and Gather the Family have been included in the prestigious Rise Again songbook. Their newest recording , By Request, came out in January 2024.

They became a trio again in 2015 when Libby permanently moved back to Michigan. In 2019 Michael retired from the group and moved to Arizona to care for his partner who was battling cancer: Libby and David have carried on and continued meeting with great success.

Their performances are always joyful and uplifting, as well as thought provoking and insightful:, a mix of songs and storied, old and new, that celebrate the common humanity and community that binds us all together. “ Music to cure what ails you,” were the words of an early reviewer, and it is even more true now than it was when it was written in the late 70s.