280 Sydney Road
Brunswick
Victoria
Music lovers the world over continue to learn about this band that’s earned a nationwide following and international fans with its honest, original music fused with synergy, sugar, sweat and soul. The 14-year-old four-piece combo plays an Americana that encompasses Texas honky-tonk, Bakersfield twang, Memphis rockabilly, Western swing and good old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll. After nearly constant touring for the past 14 years, including thousands of dates across America, Europe and Australia, songs from the band’s fourth album, MILES FROM HOME (Dionysus Records, June 2008; produced by Conrad Uno), are still earning steady airplay, including “Cold Pines and Red Dirt,” which earned band front woman- lead vocalist and songwriter Ruby Dee- runner-up honors in Songwriter magazine’s 2007 competition. The album charted in at #86 on the AMA Top 100 for more than four weeks and #26 on the Texas Third Coast Music FAR Top 40. Ruby and the band are releasing a brand new album on Catty Town Records and we here in Australia get first crack at it! LITTLE BLACK HEART is the first record Ruby has been able to write since a bad accident 8 years ago that left her with a TBI. Ruby’s worked her way back from that, and folks are saying these are some of the best songs she’s ever written.’