reprinted from alibi  V.19 No.33 | August 19 - 25, 2010
This Week's Music

Time-Traveling Transvestite

Joe West is Xoë Fitzgerald in a New Mexican sci-fi rock opera

By Samara Alpern

Anne Staveley

This is a story about love, so we know from the outset to expect tragedy. But, as the cross-dressing, folk-singing antihero of Xoë Fitzgerald: Time-Traveling Transvestite teaches us, that’s no reason to give up on a good cause.



“I’m fighting for the brokenhearted,” Xoë sings. “I’m fighting for the odd man out / I stand for all the freaks and all their broken dreams / Mad Dog, Alexis, Frankie and the Time Machine.”

joe west : homemade rocket to the moon

joe west
lone butte, new mexico