MP3 Home Ground - COUNTRY: Americana

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Country folk with female three-part harmonies

14 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Americana, FOLK: Gentle



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Blue Rubies are three women (Cindy Dell, Jen Ryckman, Judi Rideout) from Port Dover, Ontario, Canada who got together over wine and an open mic a few years ago to put together some stand-out three-part harmonies and roots/blues back-to-basics songs with a twist about small town life, love, tilt-a-whirls, and runaway teenaged girls. Playing bass, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and harmonica, the Rubies (also known as the Redheads) also share vocal roles, taking turns singing lead and harmony. 'Blue' (Johnny Frame) joins them on guitar and mandolin. In June of 2005 they released their debut CD entitled HOME GROUND which was engineered by Rod Phelan in St. Catharines, Ontario and produced by Johnny Frame (aka 'Blue'). The CD contains songs written by the Blue Rubies and friends and one cut is a Michele Shocked song: When I Grow Up sang by Judi.
Born and raised in Ontario Cindy Dell had rural beginnings in a musical family. Both parents were piano teachers and Cindy and her sisters received classical training in violin, cello, and piano at a young age. At 13 Cindy bought herself a guitar and started to write songs. She picked up the bass along the way and was a founding member of the all-girl band, Tin Angel, in Toronto who went on to be signed to Atlantic Records in New York with producer Jack Douglas. Their self-titled album was released world-wide and received airplay all over the planet. Since then, Cindy has been making music from Miami to New York to southern Ontario on her own and with various bands including Blue Rubies, Shindig, Janes Street, Dell, Ross, & Ovington, The Baladins, Blame it On Yoko, and Girl Talk. She has four independent releases out on CD. In Blue Rubies Cindy plays guitar, fiddle, and harmonica.
Judi Rideout has played bass and guitar around southern Ontario for many years with Shindig, Toots and Driver, Rideout and Shaw, and the Swinging Johnsons. Her influences include Tom Waits, Gillian Welch and Marcia Ball. In the Blue Rubies she plays bass and guitar.
Jen Ryckman grew up listening to classic rock and making music with songwriter/musician/father Elvin Ryckman and mother/musican Pat. In the Blue Rubies Jen plays mandolin and the âsuitcaseâ. She also sings with The Cutters who have a self-titled CD out that has received play on internet radio. She cites her main musical influence as Neil Young.