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Singer-songwriter Ruby Friedman says of her new tag 51 Recordings album Chimes After Midnight, InchI'm giving voice to remarkable people who time will erase otherwise, ordinary men and women who changed history. Like chimes after midnight, theirs are the voices you would not hear - people in the dark.InchThe Portland-based Ruby Friedman Orchestra's album comprises 10 new compositions penned or co-authored by the pyrotechnic-voiced Friedman. Most of the tracks were co-produced and arranged by Friedman and multi-instrumentalist Ben Landsverk, the co-writer of InchHoneystomach (The Flight of Connie Converse),Inch InchFlower Whore,Inch and InchWhen the Hangman.Inch Connie and Graham Yost (creator of the hit shows Slow Horses, Silo, and Justified) are co-executive producers of the album.Co-writers also include Nashville-based musicians Adrienne Smith and Philip White (InchMusic RowInch), California-based DJ/producer Kr3ature (InchFrom the StormInch), and Nicholas Allan Johns, who is a member of Friedman's Los Angeles band (InchFour Day MuseInch). Friedman is supported on the record by top players from L.A, Portland, Nashville, New York, Rome, and Athens. The album was mixed and mastered by Steve Baughman in L.A.Chimes After Midnight is the successor to Friedman's highly regarded 2016 album Gem, which was praised in Magnet by veteran critic j. poet for it's Inchquiet songs of devastation.Inch In the interim, she has released the tartly funny single InchAin't Got Your MoneyInch (featured on the Disney + series The Mighty Ducks); the stormy Los Angeles radio hit InchUn4GivenInch; and the Mitchell Froom-produced InchTeardrop Trailer,Inch originally written for Wynonna Judd. In 2022, she performed InchFire Down BelowInch on the trailer for the concluding season of the hit Netflix series Peaky Blinders.She says of her new recording, InchIf there's a thread on this album, there a