Melissa Ruth's lyrics & chords

DOO-WOP TWANG: Melissa Ruth is a classically trained musician with back-porch sensibility. At once literary and soulful, charming and heartbreaking, Ruth and sideman Johnny Leal create music that is both down-home intimate and downtown immediate. Growing up in rural British Columbia, Melissa Ruth was raised on a balanced diet of borscht and Bob Dylan. As a teenager she studied classical flute and eventually earned a BA in music performance and education. As an undergrad studying classical music by day, by night Melissa was active in the under...read more