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Tenement Ruth

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About Me



Tenement Ruth is a five piece original roots rock band from St. Louis, MO. With lead vocals and rhythm guitars shared by Melissa Anderson and Kate Silsby, Tenement Ruth offers a sound that is at times on the edge, full throttle rock and roll combined with true to the soul song writing. Add to that layers of overdriven steel and tremolo wrenched guitar from multi- instrumentalist Dave Anderson, and back it up with the explosive rhythms of Mary Williams on drums, and the bass lines of Mr. Mike Herrmann and you’ve got...well, Tenement Ruth. Whatever that means.

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Member Since: 11/28/2005
Band Website: tenementruth.com
Band Members: Melissa Anderson
Kate Silsby
Dave Anderson
Mike Herrmann
Mary Williams
Influences: the usual
Sounds Like: just listen
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

James Burton? Nope...it’s Wayne!

We’ve summoned our good pal Wayne "the Wanker" Corners to join us at the upcoming and mighty exciting Gram Parsons tribute show we’ll be playing at the end of the month. While you’ll...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:50:00 PST

Ron Paul 2008

All we ask is that you look him up. Check out some of his videos on youtube...there are a ton, and you can get a pretty quick idea of whether or not you're into what he stands for.
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:01:00 PST

The 2 Cent Plain show is cancelled!

Try as I may, I can't get this show (Dec 1 at 2 Cent Plain) to disappear from our calendar, but it's off. We won't be there. Jackhead won't be there. Theodore won't be there. We're hoping to reschedul...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:35:00 PST

yipee--Tenement Ruth stuff now available at shows

Hello friends of TR-- well, we have finally put out some merch for the masses. We have hand picked shirts along with vintage jackets, dresses, skirts, hats, bags, etc, etc... and adorned them with al...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:57:00 PST

At last, recording dates!

Summer's around the corner and we've already got our schedule booked with local and regional shows, and we've finally got some studio time set aside. We start recording mid-May and hope to have someth...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:43:00 PST

We're ba-ack.

That's right...March is just around the corner, Mary has returned from India, and we'll be out and about once again. We've got itchy trigger fingers.
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:43:00 PST

Bah Humbug!

Come one, come all to our show at the Stagger Inn in Edwardsville on December 23. It'll be your last chance to see us for a couple of months, as we're going on a two-ish month hiatus after the New Yea...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:20:00 PST

Our friend Pedro

He's swell. He comes around to our shows and records us. We appreciate this, and now you can too. He's got a music page right here on myspace that you can visit to hear three songs recorded live at th...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:56:00 PST

Get it right.

Okay, I know that club promoters and people who book bands, as well as those printing ads in the RFT are quite busy, but just once I would like to see our band name printed correctly in the paper or o...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Fri, 05 May 2006 09:47:00 PST

Is it April already?

Wow time flies when you're...well...let's just say time flies. It has been a hectic couple of months for us what with Wayne gettin hitched (congrats Wayne and Laurie) but we are finally free to book ...
Posted by Tenement Ruth on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:40:00 PST