Ruby Rivers

Ruby Rivers is a magical timeless place where gummy bears grow on trees and the water tastes like Red Bull and vodka. Every time there is a disagreement, someone dies, and the dragons are all vegetarians.

If you're looking for real answers, it's a collection of songs borne of some pain and some happiness. Here's how it all came to be.

One day, Crystal decided to start writing songs, because she decided she had something to say. She moved from El Paso to Boston to LA to Chicago back to El Paso..then to NYC, writing her little heart out and performing along the way and trying to figure out what it was all going to sound like. She made her way to the East Village in NYC and met Marc, the musical mustang. He's a serene and inspired being who started drinking from some musical fountain at very young age. First he found the piano, then the guitar…then Crystal. They started toying around with some songs, adding some fun instruments along the way. They found a banjo, a harmonica, a glockenspiel, an accordion, some more guitars and other little bells and things. Nowadays they're known as Ruby Rivers. Marc doesn't like this name, but Crystal thinks that (much like many of her other ideas) Marc will grow to love their new identity. Despite frequent yet amicable disagreements, theirs is a happy marriage between her affinity for pure country sweetness and his rock'n roll habits. The resulting sound can only be described as Alternative Blueberrygrass-Singer/Songwirter-Folk-Blues-Soul tinged Alt-Country Rock & Roll.

Pretty Little Lady is a collection of some of their first songs. Produced and recorded at Shirk Music & Sound in Chicago, it is Crystal's second collaboration with Producer/Engineer Stephen Shirk. It will be released in August 2008. If you'd like to have a listen, go to Facebook, Myspace, Imeem, ILike, Second Life, ITunes, Garage Band, LavaLife, Friendster, Google, HomeDepot.com, Pinkberry.com, nasa.us.gov or any Local News Homepage and click on High School Sports. Just kidding.