jess waggoner - diners and queer bars

from Queer Madison Mixtape: Winter 2021 by Queer Madison Mixtape

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Jess Waggoner (they/them) is one of the founders of the Queer Madison Mixtape project. A recent transplant from Houston by way of Bloomington, Indiana, Jess is eager to meet and collaborate with local artists. They are drawn to themes such as rural queers, trans trucks, big hair, and femme utopias. Past projects include a drag gospel quartet, a femme-fronted Meatloaf cover band, and various twangy queer femme-centric projects such as Corn Palace, The Cabinettes, and Mary Okie. They live in the Atwood area with their chihuahua, Gravy Rae. Special thanks to Rick Nagy for capturing this track, which is dedicated to small-town & rural queers.

Contact: stoneleaftreedoor@gmail.com.

Description: A treble voice, sometimes dividing into harmonies, croons against the backdrop of a spare strummed guitar.

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Content warning: drug use, illness

Tonight there’s nowhere to go
All the diners and the queer bars are closed
This town gets meaner every day
I’d ask you to come with me but I know
you’ll stay

Cause little sister she lives on the phone
We pray her man never comes home
And your mamaw always been sick
She measures out her days in finger pricks

Now I’m stuck here in Dallas
Wishin & hopin for snow
Using every hotel amenity
satellite tv, gettin stoned
And I knew then (I knew) you were gone

And you, reaching in the back seat
To squeeze the top of my leg
And you, running down to the VP
we’d die we’d die without your scrambled eggs

And you, taking a lifetime
To find the station that would raise the dead
And you, awake after midnight
Every plan we laid to smoke this place
Is gone
You were looking out for me

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from Queer Madison Mixtape: Winter 2021, released February 11, 2021

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Queer Madison Mixtape Madison, Wisconsin

Queer Madison Mixtape is a Compilation of Low-Effort Recordings by Local Queers in Madison, WI.

We created a space for local queers to connect and share their quarantine tunes.

Donations for downloads will go to making Communication–a safer, sober arts and music space–more physically accessible.

QMM Collective Members: Jess Waggoner, Jennifer Bastian, Shaun Soman and Lindsay Welsch-Sveen. ... more

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