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"Today I'll Think
About The Rain"
Songs by
Ruby Allmond
an
Anthology
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Ruby’s Artistry
is a Legacy
The
Ruby Allmond Music Collection is now a part of the
Special Collections of Texas A&M University -
Commerce. Currently we are administering Ruby’s beautiful
portfolio of music in a desire that Ruby will not be
forgotten and that her songs will always be known as
"Ruby Allmond’s songs".
Before she became critically ill, Ruby assembled 41
of her songs into an Anthology---a book of the
lyrics and two CDs of her singing and playing those
songs. She titled it "Today I’ll Think About The
Rain" It is a very elegant treasure… something
to keep, enjoy, and cherish. Her music is not like
anything to which you probably have been listening; it is a genre of its own…classy, yet simple
and so enjoyable! Someone has described her music as "Texas
Classic".
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Ruby’s
words that she spoke and wrote were deceivingly
simple…about people’s everyday lives and said like
no one has ever said them before. They are said in
such simplicity that one almost overlooks their
depth and profundity... their greatness. Every song
that she wrote has either a story in it or the idea
of a story. She used the impressions of nature to
express feelings or to build the picture. One word
that she used in many of her songs is "gentle".
Another feature that she used was inner-rhyming.
Also, her singing is made beautiful by what she
called "phrasing". These things really portray Ruby,
herself. She attracted the respect and admiration of
people of all ages.
Can you imagine a little 4-year old girl sitting on
her father’s knee playing on the strings of a guitar
while her father held the big back part of the
guitar? That shows the determination that she had to
play pretty sounds. Some people believe that Ruby
was the best guitar player that they ever heard. And
some believe that she was the best fiddle player
that they ever heard. One man in her audience in
Stephenville, TX, said, “I hope you live forever”. |
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The
Ruby Allmond Music Collection is now a part of the
Special Collections of Texas A&M University
-Commerce, PO Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429-3011.
Phone:903-886-5720
