Baby Dee
Safe Inside The Day (Drag City)

A SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SOMETHING WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMPLETION OF THE ALBUM SAFE INSIDE THE DAY FOR DRAG CITY.

I was born in Cleveland Ohio. This album is very much about the street I grew up on.

Where The Earlie King ruled without mercy. And Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss invented the Dance of Diminishing Possibilities.

I left for New York in 1972 and eventually became a musician. I was good at the sacred and I was good at the profane but I could never get the hang of anything
in between and I went from the street to the church to the street again and then I stopped.

I found myself back in Cleveland and began to write songs.

And then I stopped writing songs. I thought I had said everything I had to say and there was nothing left to say so I simply stopped.

And then I remembered Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss and my own father and all the little ghosts that lived with us and I realized that there was something left to
say after all.

The inside is bigger than the outside, more important, and less destructible.

“Many mansions” and all that.

Kingdom of god.

I love everybody

— Dee

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