Baby Dee: A Little Buzz in a Big Bee Costume

[Natasha]

Baby Dee: A Little Buzz in a Big Bee Costume

http://www.sfweekly.com/2008-02-13/music/baby-dee-a-little-buzz-in-a-big-bee-costume
02/13/2008

Let's start with Baby Dee's fun facts. She's a batty middle-aged lady from Cleveland who left a life as a avant-garde musician in New York for a career as a professional roofer, then went on to pal around with Will Oldham and Andrew WK. She made an astounding, raucous record for Drag City, and she habitually rides a tricycle while dressed as a bee during performances. She's the kind of bawdy woman who used to be called a "broad," except this broad's songs can be plaintive and fragile as a newborn left in a basket on the church stairs. Also this broad was once (outwardly, at least) a dude.