MUSIC

McGonigel's Mucky Duck presents Ruby Jane.

A 17 year old writes songs about her life and the times and sings them in a voice that resonates with true emotion. It's an age old practice, but no one has taken the route Ruby Jane has in getting there.

The Texas native, who lived in Mississippi, and now Austin, for 4 prolific years, is a fiddle prodigy who was the youngest ever invited fiddler to the Grand Ole Opry. She has toured, performed with/and or opened for Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Big and Rich, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Asleep at the Wheel, Blues Traveler, and more. She fronts her own band, performing recently at Lollapalooza, ACL Festival, SXSW, and touring constantly.

The fiddle has been Ruby Jane's addiction since she was 2 years old and she's got the national titles to prove it. But with her first ever studio album, "Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness") hitting the stores June 19, Ruby Jane goes in a bold new direction that's closer to Neko Case and Wilco than Vassar Clements and Johnny Gimble. Such tunes as the track "XXVII" shows an artist making sense of her world through song.

She's a mature songwriter and haunting vocalist beyond her years, but Ruby Jane still loves to stun the not-to-be-missed live shows when she picks up the fiddle and blows your mind.