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Safe Inside The Day, by Baby Dee (LP on Drag City)

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Format: LP
Label: Drag City
Price: £11.99
Catalogue number: DC351
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Baby Dee is an eccentric character to say the least. I read an interview with her recently and she came across as a sweet soul. She is a friend of Will Oldham and current 93 collaborator. 'Safe Inside The Day', her album for Drag city is an odd mixture of theatrical and dark cabaret. Phil reckons that 'The Earlie King' sounds like a track from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. This is about as unorthodox as the singer songwriter format comes. Although it's rooted in the conventional the subject matter, and lyrics are just plain strange. You get the feeling she searches deep into her self and that this is a very personal journey. There's moments that hint at a Broadway musical. Her vocals, piano and harp playing are accompanied by Bonnie Prince Billy, Matt Sweeny and Andrew WK.

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TRACKLISTING

1.    SAFE INSIDE THE DAY
2.    THE EARLIE KING
3.    A COMPASS OF THE LIGHT
4.    THE ONLY BONES THAT SHOW
5.    FRESH OUT OF CANDLES
6.    BIG TITTY BEE GIRL (FROM DINO TOWN)
7.    A CHRISTMAS JIG FOR
8.    A THREE-LEGGED CAT
9.    FLOWERS ON THE TRACKS
10.    THE DANCE OF DIMINISHING
11.    POSSIBILITES
12.    BAD KIDNEYS
13.    YOU’LL FIND YOUR FOOTING

A SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SOMETHING WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMPLETION OF THE ALBUM SAFE INSIDE THE DAY FOR DRAG CITY.

I was born in Cleveland Ohio. This album is very much about the street I grew up on.
Where The Earlie King ruled without mercy. And Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss invented the Dance of Diminishing Possibilities.
I left for New York in 1972 and eventually became a musician. I was good at the sacred and I was good at the profane but I could never get the hang of anything in between and I went from the street to the church to the street again and then I stopped.
I found myself back in Cleveland and began to write songs.
And then I stopped writing songs. I thought I had said everything I had to say and there was nothing left to say so I simply stopped.
And then I remembered Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss and my own father and all the little ghosts that lived with us and I realized that there was something left to say after all.
The inside is bigger than the outside, more important, and less destructible. “Many mansions” and all that. Kingdom of god. I love everybody — Dee


·    Baby Dee is an internationally travelled singer, songwriter and performer. SAFE INSIDE THE DAY is her third album.
·    SAFE INSIDE THE DAY was produced by Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, who also played on the record, along with Andrew WK, Robbie Lee, Max Moston, Bill Breeze, John Contreras, James Lo and Liz Kessel, all of whom bring extra fullness to Dee’s old-world pop sensibilities.
·    The cult of BABY DEE is growing! She’s a favorite of a number of celebrities, all of whom we’re too humble to actually name in this space.

 

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About the humble LP:

The LP is the daddy of formats. 12" inches of sheer joy. The LP adds to the glory of the 12" record as it can be played at a slower speed (33rpm instead of the usual 45rpm for singles), consequently more musical joy can be had. Played on a decent deck the sound of an LP is about a million times better than any other format. They look fantastic...... a nice gatefold sleeve with a information rich inner sleeve will keep you entertained for hours even before your stylus has chance to make eye contact with it's 12" prey. An essential part of musical heritage which will never be forgotten. It still does play at a multitude of speeds but as it's recorded to be played slower they normally sound ridiculous sped up. Though double albums can make up for this slight inadequacy by ramming more tunes into your ears for your money. Utterly essential.

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