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Ruby the RabbitFoot, aka Ruby Kendrick, grew up in South Georgia believing that her aunt was a witch and that she was united to the world of the occult. “I think i’m connected to that world. Even though shit seems to always hit the fan, I feel like a lucky charm,” Ruby explains about her adopted surname. Raised in “a household of hippies” Ruby was taught to look at nature for answers. “I didn’t grow up Protestant or Catholic or anything like that,” she says. “I grew up believing in magic and that’s kind of like teaching someone about faith. Accepting that it’s not all up to you.” Art and music was also in the family. Her grandfather was a singer; a “crooner turned farmer.” The aforementioned aunt was a well-to-do erotic novelist. So when Ruby wasn’t building bonfires or raising Dalmatians or exploring Okefenokee Swamp with her cousins and brother, she was singing and painting. Around the age of 13, she picked up a guitar and started writing songs of her own. Five years later, Ruby was under the lights at an open mic night, riding the buzz of performing live. Nevertheless, her visual talents prevailed and she soon found herself in college as an art student. But art school never seemed to fit. Ruby bounced around from college to college, writing and recording at home throughout the whole ordeal. 

New As Dew is a brilliant addition to the RabbitFoot canon. One that is undoubtedly inspired by the bohemian trials of Athens, but which also indirectly invokes the swamps and shorelines of her youth. Credit Nelson again for the diverse production. “The Shelf” roars wide-open, while “Infinity” sees Ruby swathed in a quilt of kudzu and Spanish moss. The title track finds her brimming with swagger; talk singing atop a skittering combination of steady rhythm and syncopated guitar riff. “Misery” draws on calypso-folk while the soaring coda of “Ring Around” brings it all to a close, cool air whipping through the driver’s side window as Ruby races the sunrise up Prince Avenue.



Verenigde Staten
Folk/Pop
Label: Normaltown

01 - Ways 
02 - The Shelf 
03 - Obsession 
04 - Infinity 
05 - New as Dew 
06 - Killers 
07 - Misery 
08 - As Bad As I Am 
09 - Sing to Me 
10 - Ring Around