This week’s issue of Scene will feature an interview with transgendered singer-songwriter Baby Dee, whose new album, Safe Inside the Day, includes collaborations with indie-rock icons Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney. The CD will be released on hip indie label Drag City on January 22. Dee talks about growing up in Cleveland, moving to NYC, returning to Cleveland, and her music. What we didn’t have room for in the feature is a rundown of Dee’s career in the circus. Here’s what she told us about it: …
This article appears in Jan 2-8, 2008.
“And the more I got them to believe I was going to do it, the more angry they’d be when I didn’t.”
This is too funny. I imagine there was a big buildup. But how did Baby Dee get out of delivering? Did she just vamp until she ran out of time before the next show or what?
wow baby dee is so cool. i can hardly wait for the cd.