"Modern vintage sounds that will make you laugh and cry and dance like there’s no tomorrow, Ruby Friedman is an electrifying performer and songwriter"-- KCRW, Gary Calamar  
“You don’t need to know Ruby Friedman’s life story to get a sense of who she is. Just hearing her, and better seeing her perform, tell enough. Her voice and manner are as bold and brash as her flame-red hair. But she’s telling you anyway, with ‘Fugue in L.A. Minor,’ the opening song of her long-in-coming first album, Gem…It’s quite the curtain-raiser, fitting as what follows has some theatrical punch, Vaudevillian in some spots, Brechtian in others. Well, really it’s Vaudeville-y and Brecht-y, not fully either, or any one thing at any time. Bluesy also applies. Jazzy maybe. But brassy, always…another highlight is a last-minute addition to the album, the powerful ‘Ballad of Lee Morse…’ Friedman sings the tale with a kind of force that can only come from someone who sees something, or a lot, of herself in it. It’s part celebratory, part cautionary. And all Ruby Friedman.”
--Steve Hochman, KPCC (NPR Affiliate)
"One hell of a frontwoman with a completely unique and transfixing voice laden with passion... {Gem} is a necessary addition to your music collection." --  POP MATTERS, Sarah Zupko  
"Songs of Quiet Devastation - Gem is full of intense emotion, dark and menacing, full of violent frustration and shattered expectation"  -- MAGNET MAGAZINE, J Poet

Love all types of music but Shakin Stevens is ace

One of the first female fronted Rockabilly/Jump Blues Swing Bands from LA County in the late 90's early 2000's featuring some underage members playing live in juke joints with a classic guitar sound, female vocals, upright bass and brass from first gig Trash City Records in East LA to House of Blues B.B. Kings The Foothill The Derby Linda's Dollhut and Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend 
Recorded live in studio long time requested we love you and  hope you share our tracks to anyone who loves old music!
Cross Town 7 
vocals: Irene Vasquez
Lead and Rhythm guitar: Manuel Plascencia
Upright Bass: 
Mark Nutter
Drums: 
Joe Aspgrin
Alto Sax: Chad Canter
Baritone Sax: Alex Hernandez
Guest Piano player from UK: 
Carl Sonny Leyland

I have a Surf and Instro Music Addiction!

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