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)

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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

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Moment of Truth

Stone's Throw

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Majestic Mayhem

Majestic Mayhem (Action/Adventure, Orchestral)

A song about humankind achieving...
 
IDIOCRACY
(Martin Olson & Jeff Root)

Idiots and imbeciles 
our love will never die
saps and fools and cretin brains 
sing along with this refrain

i am stupid but i am free 
and i'm happy as i can be 
all right okay so long good night

the foolish think that they are wise 
the wise think they are fools 
things are not as they may seem 
am i crazy or am i a dream?

i am stupid but i am free 
and i'm happy as i can be 
all right okay
so long good night

sleep tight it's alright 
no need to fight 
just say goodnight 
everybody's happy chachacha 
everybody's happy lalala

Idiocracy

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

Beauty

Our demo for "Keep on Building." Recorded at Disney Studios by Dan Povenmire, Swampy Marsh, Martin Olson and Jon Colton Barry. Demo produced by Martin. Mini-doc of us writing it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6_29p2GYk

Floor After Floor-Song Demo by Dan, Swampy, Martin & Jon

"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

Fugue In L.A. Minor

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