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!