Production, Guitars: Jeff Stuart Saltzman

It’s All Over Now Baby Blue

Pale Blue Eyes written by Lou Reed
Performed by Ruby Friedman and Arlan Shierbaum
Produced by Hein Hoven
Executive Produced by John Taylor 
Image: Peter O'Toole

01 Pale Blue Eyes

Players: Lead Vocals: Ruby Friedman Keys: Ben Crippin Taylor, Drums: Matthew Steer, Violin/Voice: Imani Coppola, Banjo: Conor Mueller Bass: Jesse Murphy Guitar: Dirk Freymuth
Engineer of Sound: Bill Mueller


Needle In The Hay - Ruby Friedman (Live in Tribeca Turn Gallery/2013)

Flower Whore
Words: Ruby Friedman
Music: Ruby Friedman/Ben Landsverk

I’m not tryna wannabe a queen living a basic dream
I’m gonna wrap you ‘round my finger have you wonder have you linger

We don’t have much hope and we both know we may have only today
Does it matter if I last or if I stay?

Leave ‘em by the door
I’m a flower whore

Why do you keep bringing up my pain and all that’s buried
I told you it’s just me nothing’s wrong with my family move along
Everybody gets beat and hit on when they’re just little kids
My friends had it worse than me
Just give me dope money

Leave ‘em by the door
I’m a flower whore

I don’t know any other way
I tried my best to keep wolves at bay
When night comes and I finally wake
Just let me go or I will break
<floating above her body>
My hands are sewn to bed
The line is flat red
My legs don’t touch
The floor in my head
Don’t come close
Don’t go away
Does it matter anyway?

I’m not tryna wannabe
We don’t have much hope and we both know we may have only today 
Does it matter if I last or if I stay?
Leave ‘em by the door.


Ruby Friedman: Vocals, dying piano
Ben Landsverk: Viola, banjo, piano, acoustic guitar, bowed bass
Scott Healy: Accordion
Mark Pender: Trumpet
Adriana Wagner: Trombone, dying trumpet
Steve Williams: Drums
Drums engineered by Merle Chorunuk, Atomic Sound, NYC

Flower Whore

Piano-Tom McDermott
Violin- Ysanne Spevack 

Recorded live at SmashMouth Studios, New Orleans,February, 2015


House Of The Rising Sun - Live In Old Algiers, New Orleans

Words:Ruby Friedman
Music: Ruby Friedman/Nick Page
Guitars: Val McCallum
Banjo: Nick Page
Drums: DJ Bonebrake
Bass: Nick Page
Percussion/Back-Ups: Nick Page, Ruby Friedman, Jesse Martin, 
Whistles/Vocals: Ruby Friedman
Produced by Nick Page

I Want My Life To Testify

Harry Warren / 4jaysMusic
Piano: Scott Healy 
Vocals: Ruby Friedman 
Production: Nick Page 
Recorded on Harry’s piano 🕊️

Welcome To The Party / Dept Of Harry Warren

Words and Music by Ruby Friedman/ASCAP/Rubyredlawn Music 
Produced by Beethoven(Alex Elena/Topher Mohr) and Ruby Friedman
Guitars: Adam Zimmon, Topher Mohr
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
Fiddle: Aubrey Richmond
Percussion Drums: Alex Elena 
Vox/Whistles: Ruby Friedman
Dog Barks: Clovis The Northman In Another Lifetime
Photo: Alex Elena 
MUA: Jessica Cook

I'm not your friend
I killed a man
If it damn well please me, I'll do it again
No diamond ring, no blood money
Righteous deeds, I do 'em for free. 

See those girls, they were both raped
One set on fire, one escaped
And she told me where the dirty demon lived.
Nightmares come and cops are slow
And you know how those juries go 
I grabbed my rifle and made a house call.

I'm not your friend
I killed a man 
If it damn well please me, I'll do it again
No diamond ring
No blood money
Price is right, I'll do it for free. 

See blood splatter on the wall
Man on camera, five dogs gone
He tortures and he preys on the weak and small.
Eye for an eye is too kind
When he commits the worst crimes
Give him to me cuz he aint doin' no more "time".

How many years will you have to wait?
My patience cannot hold
How many times can you make him pay?
My vengeance can't be sold.  

I'm not your friend, I killed a man
If it damn well please me, I'll do it again.
No diamond ring
No blood money
Righteous deeds, I do 'em for free. 

I'm Not Your Friend

Words: Ruby Friedman 
Music: Ruby Friedman/Joshua Valleau
Produced by Joshua Valleau, Ruby Friedman 
Recorded at The Glass Wall, Brooklyn, NY
Guitars: Rob Bailey, Rich Hinman
Bass: Joshua Valleau
Cello, Violins: Ysanne Spevack
Piano, Mellotron: Joshua Valleau

I gave Los Angeles my youth 
The world will get the rest in Truth, forever 
I gave my body, gave my mind to alcohol 
Bathed in brine, et cetera 
I trusted a mentor with my muse 
He burned and raped the patron saints, left embers 
But he should’ve checked me for a pulse before he left for Denmark-town and stole my leathers… 

I’ll wait. Believe that something’s  working hard behind the scenes to bring it all together. 

I fell in love, I lost love 
Forbidden clichés don’t come any better 
I had a child , I gave  her up to RocknRoll 
I sold my soul unfettered. 
Grew fired of complaining so I sat down and I wrote an honest letter 
To G-d, I wrote “What am I doing here?” 
He said, “Keep singing it will get better!” 

It’s a bittersweet world 
What a tangled web we weave 
Next stop Tibet 
But first: New Orleans. 

I’ll wait. Believe  that something’s  working hard behind the scenes to bring it all together. 
There’s more to life than Heaven and Earth 
We dare to dream 
Wings made of more than feathers.

Fugue In L.A. Minor

Produced by Matthew Steer and Colin McGuinness
Mixed by Lior Goldenberg
***per request Rodney Bingenheimer
***Ruby Friedman (solo project one-off for The Mayor Of Sunset Strip)
***downloadable via the dark arrow above on the music bar. 
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End Of The World***

Un4GvN
Produced by Two Beards Productions (Alex Elena, Steve Baughman) 
lyrics: Ruby Friedman 
music: Alex Elena, Steve Baughman, Ruby Friedman

"...circle the wagons, hire mercenary dragons to burn all the evidence, and build your case to preserve your fake empire of smoke and mirrors and incense...you took away her only home..."

Un4GvN (Feat. Two Beards)

From the upcoming 2015 mini album "Song Of The Demimonde" 
Written by the late great Harry Warren (ASCAP) (4 Jays Music)
Additional Lyrics and instrumentation: Ruby Friedman
Produced by Nick Page
Commissioned by Julia Riva, Granddaughter/Publisher of Harry Warren/4 Jays Music


Ungrateful Heart (Song Of The Demimonde)

Produced by Gentleman Alchemists 
Mastered by Steve Baughman
Lyrics: Ruby Friedman
Music: Ruby Friedman, John Fryer, ColinMcGuiness

30 irons in the fire
30 years of night
Fall through your hands
When there's no light
50 miles to Heaven 
50 miles to Hell
You could go either way
But you can't tell

I've sown my seeds and let the lanterns fly
I've prayed for rain when there's no sky
Try not to quit while flying blind
Some miracles come one minute to midnight

Your Fate is calling
Our Time is coming
Stick to your guns all through the night 
Your train is humming
Ride that destiny and hold on tight
Let's journey on a bullet

Been walking on razors, blood everywhere
The wheels fall off and you despair 
Everybody needs help
No one hears you beg
"Everybody gets a break"
Someone else said 

Something's gotta change
But life's not fair
It's so hard to keep fighting
Go back upstairs 
Open up the window
And look outside
Some flowers only bloom
One minute to midnight 

Who's on the way?
Light the candles
Who's on the way?
Lead me out out of the catacombs...
Lead me out!

Your Fate is calling...

Journey On A Bullet

Journey On A Bullet (featuring Gentleman Alchemists)

Words: Ruby Friedman
Music: Ruby Friedman, Nicholas Allan Johns 
Produced by Mitchelll Froom
Mastered by Stevie B 
Guitars: Val McCallum
Bass: Bob Glaub
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Keys: Mitchell Froom 

I won't say goodbye 'cause this is not The End
You give me hope that I will see you again
if I can't get to Amarillo by the morn'
Meet me on Highway 40 when you're airborne

In a teardrop trailer
We're gonna live forever
We roam the country sky
And our animals are free
In a teardrop trailer we gonna live forever 
We roam the country sky and our animals are free...

Black-suited minister likes fishnets and burlesque
He says the homeless are just saints under duress
"You only need money so you can give it away"
We'll get to Portland via Grand Canyon Way. 

In a teardrop trailer we're gonna live forever
We roam the country sky and our animals are free.

Mr. Hoggatt - you made a believer out of me
With a lingering death and no self-pity
I kept you at arm's length, you touched so many
How could I know that life's too short to wait and see.

Teardrop Trailer

Angel Eyes (Roxy Music Cover)

Produced by Beethoven (Alex Elena, Josh Valleau) 
Mastered by Bill Mueller
Written by Ruby Friedman, Bob Thiele, Gregg Sutton
Vocals: Ruby Friedman
Guitars: Adam Zimmon
Bass: Dorian Heartsong
Horns: Ulf Bjorlin
Drums: Alex Elena
Keys: Josh Valleau


Shooting Stars (2011)

"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

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