Thursday, August 05, 2004  

Miss Tony, "Pull Ya Guns Out"
Miss Tony, "How You Wanna Carry It?"
2 Hyped Bros, "DooDoo Brown"
Foe, "Stretchmarks"
from DJ Ice: Father Time Vol. One (Club Classics Mix) (Iceland Organization, 2001)

Baltimore's ghetto-trax style is beyond minimal, cheap in sound and content, but it's perfect for pole dancing. I only wish I had one here in my office. Alas, I'll just have to make due with these carefully taped together pencils.

Though I live a mere 30 miles south of Bal'more, truth is I know almost nothing of its music scene. Part of that is because I don go to da city dat much, hon, udder dan fer ta drink Natty Boh an ta see da Oboes play ball. And it's also because I don't go to strip clubs.

Sure, Baltimore booty-bass music---aka "doo dew"---gets played at club nights where people stay (mostly) clothed, but I don't go to those anymore, either, at least not since I severely pulled my left hammy doing the Funky Chicken at Republic Gardens back in '94. (Did you know that former Detroit Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker once missed part of the season due to his overuse of the Cabbage Patch? True story.)

I can't find anything about DJ Ice, 2 Hyped Bros, or Foe, and my pal Bri C hooked me up with the CD, which lists a phone number but no Web site. Just go to Catascopic for a profile of the B'more sound, and then read why Scott Seward thinks "Baltimore House Music Is the New Dylan." And then go to Baltimore Club Trax to hear more music that would make Luther Campbell proud.

But I did find out about Anthony "Miss Tony" Boston:

Anthony M. Boston, 36, a popular female impersonator and disc jockey in Baltimore, died of kidney failure on April 11, 2003, in Baltimore. For years Boston was known as "Miss Tony," a popular drag queen in Baltimore's nightclubs and on WERQ-FM, a radio station better known as 92-Q. In 1998, he retired his drag persona and joined a church in the city and worked to help needy residents. Boston created "Miss Tony" in the mid-1980s, and was discovered by Frank Ski, a well-known disc jockey at WERQ-FM. Boston became the entertainment reporter at WERQ-FM, and later joined its morning team. After his stint on the morning radio show ended, Boston continued to work there part time as host of a late-night show known as "Off the Hook Radio."

Posted by CP | Link |

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