It’s an intimate look into the life of one of New York City’s most prominent cultural figures. Baring It All is literally what the title says. I recently had a chance to see Buell, along with husband Jim Wallerstein and drummer Mindy Wright, as she unveiled her new (and hopefully continuing) show called Baring It All. And while she loves her Nashville home and career, she also misses the home-based call of the New York stages she was raised on. To put it mildly, Buell has kept herself in front of an audience for decades and hasn’t looked back since she started. She co-wrote a song with Sally Tiven (“By a Woman”) and had performed it several times with the incomparable Crystal Gayle. It was shortly after that that Bebe and Jim made a move to Nashville in late 2013 and once again she began to reinvent her style to include forays into country-tinged music. Buell’s country interest was brought out to the forefront when she recorded a 2012 Eddy Arnold tribute for Plowboy (Cheetah Chrome) Records. Her real comeback success came in the form of the 2011 release of Hard Love, a grungy, pop jewel produced by husband Jim Wallerstein (Das Damen) and Stephen DeAcutis. While Buell has a huge New York following, mainstream success was still a tough customer to catch. Once Liv was up and running Buell returned to music, utilizing the services of producer Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Hole, Teenage Fanclub, The Posies, Alice Cooper, Andrew W.K., The Dictators, Joan Jett, Nancy Sinatra, Screaming Trees, The Smithereens, Pete Yorn to name an illustrious few). She also formed The Gargoyles, a band that released singles and garnered major label attention, before Buell disbanded that group to focus all her attention on daughter Liv Tyler’s blossoming career. Then-boyfriend John Taylor (Duran Duran) got some friends together to back Buell in another musical effort.
The band, The Cars, served as her band on two of the tracks. Her very first real song success was in 1981 when she recorded a four-song EP with producers Rick Ocasek (The Cars) and Rick Derringer at the helm. When she wasn’t busy jet-setting all over the world with one-time beaus such as Todd Rundgren, Elvis Costello, Rod Stewart or Jack Nicholson, the former school choir singer was honing her songwriting craft and putting her career as a singer and band leader together. Buell may be known for dating rock idols, but she also wanted to be one in her clear way since she first showed up. Yes, she was a very lucky young Southern girl who was hired by the Ford Modeling Agency in New York, and yes, she was a Playboy centerfold in the 1970s, but she was also so much more. When it comes to describing Bebe Buell, there’s not much standard information that can be given that hasn’t been printed before.
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