  ruby vroom was soul coughing's 1994 debut album. the album's sound is a mixture of sample-based tunes (loops of raymond scott's "powerhouse" on "bus to beelzebub", toots and the maytals, howlin' wolf, the andrews sisters, and the roches on "down to this", and a loop of sampler player mark de gli antoni's orchestral horns on "screenwriter's blues", among others). it also features guitar-based tunes like "janine", "moon sammy", and "supra genius" and jazzy, upright-bass-fueled songs that often slyly quoted other materialâthe theme from courageous cat on "is chicago, is not chicago", thelonious monk's "misterioso" on "casiotone nation", and bobby mcferrin's cover of joan armatrading's "opportunity" on "uh, zoom zip". the album's lone guest is rachel benbow murdy, band founder mike doughty's ex-girlfriend, who supplies a vocal on "janine". doughty had murdy go out to a payphone in sheridan square in new york and improvise a long, meandering song into their answering machine. recorded a year before the ruby sessions, doughty and bass player sebastian steinberg recorded the tune at the avant-garde jazz club the knitting factory during the daytime, when the club was closed, with club soundperson james mclean. mclean put a mic on the answering machine, which doughty had brought to the session. ruby was named after ruby froom, daughter of record producer mitchell froomâa freque
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