Baby Dee

DUJ69

CD (DUJ69)

Disc 1

  1. Hymn To Anne
  2. Little Window
  3. The Robin’s Tiny Throat
  4. Calvary
  5. A Weakness For Roses
  6. The Price Of A Sparrow
  7. What About My Father? (A Lullaby)
  8. Waiting

Disc 2

  1. The Moon And The Morning Star
  2. So Bad
  3. Look What The Wind Blew In
  4. When I Get Home
  5. My Heart’s Come Home
  6. Like Morning All Day Long
  7. Small Wonder
  8. Half A Chance
  9. My Love Has Made A Fool Of Me
  10. April Day
  11. Three Women

This double disc release collects material from the Little Window and Love’s Small Song CDs plus the Made For Love CD single.

Little Window is Baby Dee's debut released in 2000, here she creates something so incredibly sincere and delicate, yet remarkably fearless and undeniably classy. Baby Dee holds this album together entirely with solo piano and voice — — save for the two instrumentals that bookend the album, where she trades the piano for an accordion and bird calls — over which pours her obsession with nature, and the solace she finds in it to ease the horrors of her troubled past.

Love's Small Song is Baby Dee's follow-up to Little Window. Like its predecessor, the 11-song cycle of love, loss, anger, and forgiveness is built around the former circus performer's deceptively simple piano work and tin pan alley vocals. This time around, her work is accented by harp and accordion.

Made For Love was released in 2005 as a three track CD EP. On all three of these tracks, Baby Dee accompanies herself on piano, with bright, sad minor-key melodies. There is still something unmistakably, gnawingly creepy about the pain and sadness that seems an inseparable part of Baby Dee's transgender vocals, even when she sings relatively joyful songs like “Morning Fire”.

The Robin's Tiny Throat reveals how utterly unique and wonderful Baby Dee's voice is in contemporary music.