I had read Rene Marie's website comments about the SSB but not until I heard the interview could I put it all in context. I see a woman so passionate about her singing that it really did not make sense to her how people got so upset over what she offered for the SSB.... the innocence of a true believer focused only on the believed.

A more cynical approach would have been to assume that the version she had sung at another event-- well-received-- was the version that caused her to be invited to the next event. That would have put her response to the upsets into a context easier for folks to understand-- of course she would not have needed to ask an OK for an alt version-- "isn't that why you invited me?!?!?"

Now that she's done it I hope it WILL be why she is invited, next time around. NOW it's what she is known for.

I especially loved, in the interview, the conversation around "Dixie" and what she related of the chat with her son about it. This is a thinking woman, bound to wring good out of evil.

~Susan