Good Morning Sweet Peas!
It’s positively bizarre darlings. It seems everybody at the club where I perform seems disgruntled that I don’t have a day job… as if there’s some rule that in order to be in the entertainment business one must sling hash by day for the privilege to play at night. The truth is, I do work every single day. I write songs, work on the show, make costumes, promote the act, deal with the web site and so on. And it was during some of this internet work yesterday that I came upon a delightful surprise!
I was doing a search on Google to see if my web promotion efforts were paying off – they weren’t – when I came across a link that said something to the effect of: Billy Dare & The Pumps/John Deere.
For those of you who don’t already know, John Deere is a song that Todd and I wrote about 5 years ago after coming across a bolt of fabric in a local Wal-Mart. The cloth had a yellow background with green John Deere logos and tractors on it. It was so hideous, I absolutely had to have it. Well, the fabric led to a dress and the dress led to a song and the song led to the character, Starlene and eventually it blossomed into the entire hillbilly segment of our show. Ah, doll babies, but I drift yet again.
So anyway, I come across this link and click it. Up pops a video of Angelica DeVil, a female impersonator out of Nashville, performing to the tracks of John Deere from our Beauty Is Pain CD. It positively made my day and brought back a flood of memories!
Several years ago, when we were on tour, we played a club in Nashville called The Nut House. That’s where I met Angelica DeVil – a positively delightful individual. It was a small house, maybe 20 people, but Angelica made sure everybody got involved. I always appreciated that and never forgot Angelica because of it. So not only was a surprised and flattered that somebody liked one of my songs enough to use it in their own show, but that the person doing it was such a doll.
If you want to check it out for yourself, you can go to: http://www.angelicadevil.com/johndeer.wmv
And now, babies, it’s nearly noon here in Las Vegas, so I probably should get fancied up and get to the costume shop. We have a big show coming up Tuesday night… the staff and employees of a local trailer park is having their Christmas Party at the club, so we’re doing our hillbilly, Trailer Park Christmas show for them. Therefore my mission is to locate a mullet wig for Todd, a red union suit for Mikey and pick up some lining material so I can make myself a dress out of a burlap Blue Seal Feed Bag. So who says I don't work?
Kisses for Days!
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