It’s the start of a new era for Ruby Dawn.
PRESS
“I’VE WAITED A
lifetime to have this kind of band,” says vocalist and keyboard player Carola Baer, as she looks back on Ruby Dawn’s beginnings in 2022. “I’ve played with loads of people, but this band’s become significantly important to me.”
The band crowns a long, sometimes challenging musical journey for Baer, a lifelong environmentalist and humanitarian, who imbues her songs with lyrics reflecting her personal beliefs and fears.
Already, the past two years have yielded two Ruby Dawn albums. The first, 2023’s Beyond Tomorrow, is now joined by Blood On Water –of which Baer is immensely proud, especially the contributions made by her bandmates: guitarist Dave Salsbury, with whom she had previously worked, bassist/producer Ian Turner and drummer Adam Perry.
“But we didn’t plan it this way!” she says. “One day, it dawned on us that we had enough songs for the album. Ian is such a technical guru, he pushed it further and did an incredible amount of work on it. I was fussing over the final order, and I’m glad they overrode me. The only thing I could do then was sit back and listen, and I cried all the way through it.