Rue’s Jenna Ross has lived
every song she's written and every one of her songs came
from deep inside her heart. Song’s like “Tell
The World” and “Another Sad Love Song”.
That heart has been chewed up, spit out and put back together
so many times, that it’s no wonder that so many songs
have come from her seemingly endless well of pain. She’s
a modern day Janis Joplin whose stunning beauty hides a
vulnerable interior that yearns to loved beyond passion.
In that vulnerability is hope of a love that she has for
her fans, her family and that love which she cannot find.
Songs like “I’d Die For You”, “Encourage
Me” and “Paradox of Love” are shimmering
examples of that hope and her voice soars as she sings for
what she wants so dearly. In her fans she’s seems
to connect on a religious level, at any show you’ll
see her adoring fans worshipping her and Jenna worshipping
them back as they sing to each other and share their pain.
Jenna will make sure that you get her point though, and
through the music created by Echo, Ped and Rick the message
comes through loud and clear. Echo’s guitar is part
piano melodies, part crushing power chords and with a heavy
dose of maniacal attitude that is a little bit Munky and
a lot of Charles Manson. Ped almost seems to come right
out of an Anne Rice novel as he seems to be Lestat incarnate,
with bass lines that are hypnotically melodic and so low
he creates mini earthquakes. Just one listen to “The
Attraction” and “On My Knees” and you’ll
realize these sounds are not from this earth. Underneath
it all is the controlled chaos of Rick. Explosive double
bass patterns and blistering tom rolls are just the beginning
of what makes for percussion so intricate you’d think
he had 4 legs and 4 arms. But don’t be fooled, this
isn’t Animal behind the drums, every beat is carefully
crafted and the feel ebbs and flows with every word Jenna
sings. After all of that, the one thing you won’t
have trouble doing is singing these songs again and again.
The choruses will be stuck in your head and you’ll
find yourself singing them over and over again, realizing
that every word is true and somehow you’ll know exactly
why you and Jenna hate people who are phony, and you’ll
be at the next show singing, I’d die for you.....and
you’ll mean it.