She wants her man to come back ...
She wants her man to come to the bedroom ...
She wants her man to respect her ...
She wants that man's girl friend to come to the bedroom ...
She wants young women to start wearing pants ...
She stands at a keyboard in a pretty blue dress, she prowls the stage like a black limbed lioness, she cradles a wooden slide guitar in her lap, she pumps an electric guitar Jimi Hendrix style, she holds the mic in her hands with her eyes closed and her emotion pouring out of her throat.
She is 22 and plays like 40, she is 85 and giggles like 15; she is a woman from the prarie whose life was changed by a ancient blues record; she is a woman of the black urban world who hangs on to her roots in a white suburban setting; she interprets the emotional tones of another woman's words; she turns inside herself to find her own music.
She sings alone, just her voice and her instrument. She connects with other women and rocks as unit.
She is Ma Rainey. She is Lady Day.
She is Suzie Vinnik, Aida Lee, Donna Gratis ...
She is the Women's Blues Review 2011.
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This is my life: Creating videos, living with 2 border collies, living with Collette, watching too many movies, not reading enough books, and constantly baffled by how they get the caramel in the Caramilk bar
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- Victor Kellar
- Sometimes I am a video editor who sleeps in the hull of an old U-Matic deck and subsists on lightly buttered B-rolls Sometimes I am a writer and poet who would rather think it than write it Mostly I am a barely reformed hippie, co-owner of a border collie and lucky enough to have lived for over twenty years with someone who has a good enough sense of humour to know that I think I have one too
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