Rufus and Judy: Together again for the first time.

What do we think of this. the first album is heartbreaking, gorgeous and difficult, a classic that has been burried because of myth

and there is something interesting, when gay culture has become more mainstream, more straight, less intresting, less spiky, less QUEER...there are writers and performers who are working as historians, for the old (coded, hidden, darkened street corner) ways, kaustenbaum as a writer, john cameron mitchell as a director, etc--and rufus of course is among those.

he can be a really great performer, as well. a brillant song writer, a talented singer, a louche/outre performer...and we kind of need all of those.

but, does anyone think this is trying to hard? does anyone think this will end up as a gong show, a supenova break down of "Elizabeth Taylor" tendecies, or worse, too reverential, too banal, too obvious.

if you were in charge of Judy's catalog, is this where you would start-and if not where would you begin?