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Title: The incomparable Baby Dee
Post by: Shana A on April 23, 2010, 08:01:58 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 23, 2010, 08:01:58 AM
The incomparable Baby Dee
Despite the florid backdrop, for Baby Dee the magic's in the words
Published April 22, 2010 by Mark Hamilton
http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/music/music-previews/the-incomparable-baby-dee-5554/ (http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/music/music-previews/the-incomparable-baby-dee-5554/)
More often than not, North American music criticism comes down to the simple act of making comparisons. At any given time, there's but a mere handful of artists that all others are compared to, and fit into easy-to-digest "recommended-if-you-like" boxes. Baby Dee, on the other hand, refuses to co-operate. Despite some occasional references to the similarly difficult-to-classify Antony and the Johnsons, the unconventional singer-songwriter and harpist has thus far avoided the name-the-influences game.
"It's like a game of Go Fish — a card game for the simple-minded," she says while boarding a boat in Norway en route to the U.K. "If people don't know how to get into it or they don't have any background or context for it, they go there — 'She doesn't sing as nice as Antony,' or 'She doesn't write songs as nice as Antony,' and they can't think of anything else to say. But it makes me happy that it's so hard otherwise to do that."
Despite the florid backdrop, for Baby Dee the magic's in the words
Published April 22, 2010 by Mark Hamilton
http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/music/music-previews/the-incomparable-baby-dee-5554/ (http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/music/music-previews/the-incomparable-baby-dee-5554/)
More often than not, North American music criticism comes down to the simple act of making comparisons. At any given time, there's but a mere handful of artists that all others are compared to, and fit into easy-to-digest "recommended-if-you-like" boxes. Baby Dee, on the other hand, refuses to co-operate. Despite some occasional references to the similarly difficult-to-classify Antony and the Johnsons, the unconventional singer-songwriter and harpist has thus far avoided the name-the-influences game.
"It's like a game of Go Fish — a card game for the simple-minded," she says while boarding a boat in Norway en route to the U.K. "If people don't know how to get into it or they don't have any background or context for it, they go there — 'She doesn't sing as nice as Antony,' or 'She doesn't write songs as nice as Antony,' and they can't think of anything else to say. But it makes me happy that it's so hard otherwise to do that."