Mark Weigle
SoulSex (Wrestling the Angel/Versatile)
GAY SEX singer/songwriter music, from Rock-C&W-Punk-HipHop-folk on CD #1. CD #2 is gay themes; emotional, acoustic. "Deep, flannel-warm voice" - Armistead Maupin
Jim fouraat wrote for the Village Voice Annual Critics Poll 2005:
THE MOST DANGEROUS ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Mark Weigle has delivered the most dangerous and courageous album of the year. SoulSex is a two-disk album. On disk 1, Wrestling the Angel, he once again proves himself as accomplished a songwriter as the late Mickey Newbury. He sings in as voice as butch sweet as Vince Gill. On disk 2Versatile, he puts gay sex front and center. The kind of sex that drives Jon Steward writers to make funny but depersonalizing jokes and comedians in movies like The Aristocrats try to one up each other on the outrageousness of anal penetration. Weigle's songs celebrate cock-sucking, boot licking, and penis and asshole worship that would make Ginsberg, Whitman, Vidal and Baldwin fully tumescent. Weigle delivers with voracious passion and a glutinous sense of joy that is starkly missing from pornographic renderings of gay sexuality. Sadly Mark Weigle has a bushel of recorded romantic country, gay, love songs that should have been the soundtrack of Brokeback Mountain and that would have made all the little boys and girls wet with tears, if anyone had ever heard them. He is not only a gay musical treasure but also a country icon waiting to be discovered by the world.
Moods: Out-and-Proud