Josie Cotton - UKRAINIAN COWBOY (Official Video)

Josie Cotton’s videos from the B-Girls album and her Pussycat Babylon record took her fans straight to the drive-in; they were letters to film fans from another aficionado, one who was extremely adept at handling cinematic imagery and story telling. The clip for “Ukranian Cowboy“ picks up right where she left off. Once again, the costumes and performances are straight from the seamier side of the motion picture industry. The star, who appears in the very first frame in a replica ’60s B-movie poster, dresses the part to a T – and she gallops through the rest of the footage, high in the saddle with an electric guitar strapped to her back. But she’s not riding her horse through the Old West. Instead, she encounters Russian dancers, soldiers, titles in Cyrillic, and the domes of the Eastern church. There’s even a bear strumming a balalaika. It all works together brilliantly: an ironic testament to the artist’s impeccable eye for connections and parallels that elude th