Liz Mitchell - Clarinet
Clarissa Carlyon - Cello
James Hurst - Electric Bass
Tom Oldfield - Drums
Darren Stevens - Double Bass
Mr Will - Piano Accordion
Influences
Victor Menace, Nathan Ball, Tofu Love Frogs, Leo Kottke, Show Without Punch, Bob Dylan, Tryo, Joni Mitchell, Ani Difranco, Arundati Roy, Billy Bragg, Terra Folk
Sounds Like
"I assure you this is the real thing"
- Sleeping With The NME
"Ruth's ability to paint vivid pictures in your imagination is unparalleled in contemporary mainstream music."
- God Is In The TV
"Gorgeous. Words lack the power to describe this- just make sure you hear it!"
- Is This Music?
"What we have here is an outrageously talented singer-songwriter"
- Louder Than War
"...there’s a snappy sharpness to Ruth Theodore’s vocal delivery... Theodore skillfully plays with rhythm, pronunciation and phrasing... it’s very refreshing."
- The Fugitive Motel
"With words as dangerous as her guitar playing, Ruth Theodore reminds us why songwriting is important in the first place. Emerging as a truly alternative voice in contemporary folk, this original collection is as engaging as it is beautiful. Performed and arranged entirely under Ruth's direction, Worm Food positively beams with character from start to finish - refreshingly original and relentlessly imaginative."
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With no disrespect, I consider myself a South Coast refugee. Why? Because I stood helplessly by watching every one of my good friends die. Casualties of… peace and the filtered brutality of middle stream suburbia's small town mentality.
I used to cobble behind the stand where the bandwagons stopped, marvelling at folk either jumping on or falling off, and each time my hat filled with nothing but loss, I'd wrap my scarf up around my mouth and mumble abuse into its cloth.
But too stubborn to remain stubborn I eventually stowed away, on Dylan by night and Difranco by day. But leading the fickle is like feeding a stray, I'd have ridden anyone heading that way, that way …back;
…before Glastonbury sold out, back before Glastonbury sold out. Before the Empire struck back with its life sized cardboard cut out. Before the Red Necks and the White Coats and the Boys in Blue got permission, to slip into their khaki under the camouflage of religion.
hey if u want some funk bass lessons - let me know i need a job lol and no probs it was a pleasure listning to youre music its great my fav one ive heard of urs is "rash" coz its on youre studios myspace - i love that its great :D
Hey Rooster hows things, hopes you are well? What you been up to? We are getting busy with recording which is good and less than 2 weeks till Charlie starts school. Take care and big love Glennster and Anne xx
Cheers for sending the pack through going to listen later on after I've posted my playlists.
Played your track Murray's Wives from Folk Rising...here's what my no1 listener wrote in her feedback.
Ruth Theodore - Murray's Wives. Such a fresh and individual folk style. The words were so delicately giving the music and story so deft ly and purity of tuning. Quite beautiful and dreamy !
So I go into the off-license to get a couple of Tuborg and your music is playing. But I don't know what it is so I ask the guy, - What's the music? And he tells me. Then he adds - Hell, no-one likes good music anymore. And he takes the disk out and gives it to me. Now that's service.
Hey my dear! Hows things going for your lovely self,I hope your well and enjoying the wonderfull sunshine! I just watched the performance of co2 on you tube,alas ive missed you perform i hope its not too long till i get to see you again!
I will send you the article as soon as it is published... I am looking forward to meet you once again, and if I get lucky to play some music with you :)
Pleased to say I just brought your album the other day, just as good as when we saw you play at the Railway Inn a while back! You have gotta make another appearance down there!
Ruth Theodore see you performing live at the inSpiral lounge in Camden last February the 25th was an overdose of adrenaline... You have such a passion, your compositions are original and very inspired, you play the guitar in a unique way and your voice is amazing... I bought your cd and I am glad I did it, everybody and their little sister should do the same... ;)
You are a great artist full of talent... I am going to write an article for the brazilian newspaper Cometa Itabirano to invite people to discover your musical universe... All the best to you and everybody you love :)
