Show You Should Know: Ruby Boots at Great Scott, October 17

Great Scott is going to be grooving next Wednesday night. It’s no secret that headliner Low Cut Connie will bring everything they’ve got, but you would be silly to miss Ruby Boots earlier on the bill.

Fresh off her sophomore album, Don’t Talk About It (Bloodshot), which was released in February, Ruby Boots seems poised to have a break-out year. She has a voice that makes you turn your head immediately and her songwriting is both catchy and vulnerable. Unlike other artists coming out of Nashville, Ruby Boots seems to be kind of a genre-agnostic in the best way: elements of pop, country, indie, and punk all find a home in her songs.

That might be because she’s not from Nashville, per se. She left Perth, Australia at fourteen, working on pearling boats, following a circuitous path before settling in Tennessee. Not sure what you were doing at fourteen, but I bet you weren’t, “going to bed at about 9pm, getting up at 5am, starting work dead on 6am, sweating and being covered in seaweed, sea water, sea shit and sea lice by 6.30 am and for the next 10 and a half hours after.” (Read that article about pearling here.)

Check out a couple of Ruby’s songs below and get tickets to the show at Great Scott here. If you’re elsewhere in New England, the show will continue on to Higher Ground in South Burlington, VT on 10/19. You can also check out the interview we did with Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner a few months ago here.