Alix Dobkin's seminal album, Living with Lesbians, feat. The Lesbian Power Authority is a lost gem. Alix is still touring and promoting MY RED BLOOD, A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, & Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, a catchy title that really puts you in the picture about Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, & Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, which will certainly strike a chord with many of the Weasel's regular contributors.
"Alix Dobkin...pioneered lesbian music with uncompromising, intimate songs"
— The New York Times Magazine
And so it behoves me to pay tribute to the pioneer of lesbian music with an unpublished lesbian genre demo cassette I found in my favourite womyn's bookstore. Sadly, it it only a really bad cover version of the original Dobkin song, done by Duane Bundy and Earl Biedermeyer from their cell in the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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Very quirky voice, if not a little wistful. Thanks for this post, it brightened up my afternoon.
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