Posted on Fri, Feb. 1, 2008
Concert Previews
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/nightlife/20080201_Concert_Previews.htmlBaby Dee
Baby Dee is a classically trained harpist, a transgender person who worked circus freak shows, a cabaret singer attracted equally by the sacred and the profane. On Safe Inside the Day, her third album, she gets help from indie rock vets such as Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney, Andrew WK and Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons, with whom she shares a willingness to revel in overwrought emotions). It's a strange and wonderful record full of creepy, unsettling fairy tales and childhood remembrances, caught somewhere between Brecht/Weill's show tunes, Nina Simone's earthy anger, and Tom Waits' streetwise humor. She brings her act to the Tin Angel for a late show on Saturday, with two gauzy openers from Greg Weeks' local freak folk community, Meg Baird and Ex Reverie.
- Steve Klinge
