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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 Froom --a frequent collaborator of ''Ruby Vroom'' producer Tchad Blake --and singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega . The album was recorded at Sunset Sound Factory in Hollywood, Blake and Froom's usual haunt--a storage room near the studio's lounge was filled with vintage keyboards and road cases filled with toys--whistles, baby rattles, children's toy xylophones. Many of these ended up in the songs, such as a train whistle played by Doughty on "Uh, Zoom Zip". This was in keeping with Tchad Blake's spirit of maverick experimentation, which included sticking a Binaural head-shaped microphone in front of Yuval Gabay 's drumkit, sticking a mic in a muffler, called "the Bone" and sticking that in the drum booth as well, and having Doughty improvise wild, yelling ad-libs on "Casiotone Nation," singing into a cheap amplification system called an Ahuja that Blake bought in India. The speaker was essentially a huge bullhorn atop a stick. TRACK LISTING #"Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" (3:48) #"Sugar-Free Jazz" (3:55) #"Casiotone Nation" (3:50) #"Blueeyed Devil" (4:12) #"Bus to Beelzebub" (4:33) #"True Dreams of Wichita" (5:00) #"Screenwriter's Blues" (5:08) #"Moon Sammy" (4:09) #"Supra Genius" (3:59) #"City of Motors" (4:38) #"Uh, Zoom Zip" (3:56) #"Down to This" (3:49) #"Mr. Bitterness" (5:32) #"Janine" (4:58) PERSONNEL
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