Ruth Greenwood - ProfilesArchive

About Me

As a new member of the Nashville Independent Music group, Ruth was recently featured in a round with Arthur Godfrey and Rob Wolff. She's also been invited to put together a round at the Bluebird Cafe.
Ruth began playing and singing professionally in Vancouver, BC Canada at 18 with band "Hot Damn", playing clubs, open-air concerts and on national TV. Her first song on her first demo was recorded on RCA by Gail Wynters
On hearing Ruth's first 5 demos (Ruth playing piano and singing), John Hammond, Sr. wrote "Excellent writer, good singer"
Other songs were recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck, FAME TV show cast (reaching no. 1-3 in Europe), Gary Portnoy ("Cheers" cowriter), John McCafferty (on Texas" NBC-TV show).
In Nashville, Ralph Murphy produced and released Saundra Steele's recording of Ruth's "Better than Ever", written with Jack Perricone.
She took a decade-long hiatus from the music business to concentrate on her family, but returned to it after placing 4 songs out of the top 15 in a Nashville song contest.
- Ruth has performed at the Bluebird Cafe in the round with Tony Arata ("The Dance" by Garth Brooks), at the Belcourt Theatre in the round with Angela Kaset, Gerald Smith, Ken Mellons and Rachel Williams
"Wish I'd Known" was one of 10 finalists in the USA Songwriting competition and "I Won't Apologize" was a finalist in the Nashville Song Search
Although her CD "I Won't Apologize" includes 10 solo-written songs (and one cowrite), Ruth collaborates with many writers in a number of genres, including hit/staff writers.
Ruth has also been an invited performer at Nashville's Commodore, Broken Spoke, Hall of Fame, Cocktails and the French Quarter, Millenium Music Conference, IMC/Philadelphia as well as New York City's Bitter End and the Mamapalooza Festival 2006 and 2007.
License Ruth's music for commercial use through Pump Audio

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/13/2005
Band Website: ruthgreenwood.com
Band Members: Ruth Greenwood
Sounds Like: -somewhere between Shawn Colvin and Alison Krauss

-James Taylor in a skirt

-the bluesy lovechild of Jackson Browne and Janis Ian ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------

"Wanna know what I'm talking about when I say publishers in this town need to get clued into the writing of Ruth Greenwood? Watch this video. THIS is how a song should be written, it's quite simply beautiful - and as always, Ruth's voice is spot on. This is the title track to her album, "I Won't Apologize", " wrote Paul King in his latest Music City/Nashville blog. Click here for full review and video
Type of Label: None

My Blog

this is how I too see the world...esp. the last line...

For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseea...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Sat, 17 May 2008 08:55:00 PST

PUCCINI, FROSTING, AND PICKING - looking up

If you read my blogs from last year, you know that family matters made it a very tough year. However...2008 promises good things. While I still can’t quite work at the same pace I wa...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:08:00 PST

ALL IN GOOD TIME

Truth in advertising: the guitar in my CD cover photo, my faithful Baby Taylor, is REALLY hard to play compared to...oh, anything. I brought it on a trip with me recently because the car was goi...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:35:00 PST

Was that an F?

I just left a comment on a page, and had to go through security. No, no metal detectors, just some dancing letters and numbers to type. It's tricky, filling in one of those Capcha security...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:09:00 PST

ITS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF MY FIRST BLUEBIRD CAFE SET...FOUR YEARS AGO

2/29/2004 was when I first played the Bluebird. Something told me playing >thatIt was my real return to performing, and felt magical, like being the house band for the land of Brigadoon. R...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:37:00 PST

peace

how wonderful that there is so much to songwriting that i can think about next week's music plans and realize that, given what i don't yet know, what i haven't yet tried, relatively speaking, i am a t...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:08:00 PST

who we were yesterday, who we might be tomorrow

"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." &nbs...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:54:00 PST

Now THAT was HOT!!

Wow. That was the most beautiful team sport anything I've ever seen.Truly a SUPERbowl.Not that I'm going to take up football as a hobby.Running is good, aerobic, but I could never memorize that ...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:29:00 PST

The Definition of Mixed Emotions!

The definition of mixed emotions:Finding out your 10-year-old son got scolded by his teacher today for continually humming your song, "Don't Stop Talking" (which he just heard this morning on Sandy Zi...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:50:00 PST

Inches

Am I the only person who, when I get an e-mail message with a subject line like, "This will add up to 4 inches..." wonders if said pills would make me tall enough to reach the top shelves in my ...
Posted by Ruth Greenwood on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:50:00 PST