I’ve got a show at Aunt Charlie’s tomorrow night and I realized it’s been a year since I first took the stage as a dewy-eyed drag-princess-in-training. I’ll have some Deep Thoughts about drag in the near future, but tonight I just wanted to say thanks to all the singers whose songs I perform.

Special thanks to those who make up the core of my set list:

  • Candye Kane – “The toughest girl alive” whose voice is as big and beautiful as she is.

  • Joan Osborne - Best known as a one-hit wonder, she’s actually full of blues and soul and rock and sheer passion.

  • Grace Potter – A singer of near Joplinesque charisma who also plays a mean Hammond B-3 organ.

As well as to:

  • Shirley Bassey

  • The Be Good Tanyas

  • Bonnie Bramlett

  • Exene Cervenka

  • Wendi Colter

  • Martha Davis

  • Geri Halliwell

  • Chrissie Hynde

  • Deborah Iyall

  • Angelique Kidjo

  • Jill King

  • Lisa Koch

  • Rickie Lee Jones

  • Miranda Lambert

  • Annie Lennox

  • Courtney Love

  • Luscious Jackson

  • Allanah Myles

  • Bonnie Raitt

  • Susheela Raman

  • Dusty Springfield

  • Margo Timmins

  • KT Tunstall

  • Gretchen Wilson

I may mouth the words, but you came up with them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!