Playing With Spoons
Rae Spoon may be transgendered, but his music is about more than an alternative lifestyle
Published February 4, 2010 by Gwyneth Dunsford in Music Feature
http://www.seemagazine.com/article/music/music-feature/spoons-0204/In the true tradition of country music, Rae Spoon is a drifter of sorts. However, unlike his predecessors, Spoon's identity as a transgendered man make his outlaw lifestyle notably riskier.
"I always liked going alone to small towns on the Greyhound and playing a show in the small town bar and leaving," says Spoon. "I thought it miraculous that it didn't amount to more danger. The main danger was the actual emotional exhaustion of identifying with something that was hard to communicate to people. Being alone and being queer ... there is a lot more than just violence working against you."
