Editing Ruby Records

{{Short description|American record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| image       =  Ruby_Records_logo_-1.jpg
| parent      = [[Slash Records]]
| founded     = {{start date and age|1981}} 
| founder     = [[Chris D.]]
| status      =<!--Leave blank unless "Inactive" or "Defunct"--> 
| distributor = [[Warner Bros. Records]]<br>{{small|(In the US)}}<br>[[Mercury Records]]<br/>{{small|(Outside the US)}} 
| genre       = Various
| country     = United States
| location    = 
| url         = 
}}
'''Ruby Records''' is an American [[record label]], founded predominantly as a rock music label subsidiary of [[Slash Records]]. The original version of the label released seven albums in [[1981 in music|1981]] and [[1982 in music|1982]].

Ruby was distributed through the same independent distributors that handled its corporate parent, Slash.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bsnpubs.com/warner/distributed/ruby.html|title=Ruby Album Discography|publisher=BSN Publications}}</ref> When [[Warner Bros. Records]] bought Slash, they took over distribution of Ruby's three most popular albums ([[The Gun Club]]'s ''[[Fire of Love (album)|Fire of Love]]'', [[Misfits (band)|The Misfits]]' ''[[Walk Among Us]]'', [[The Dream Syndicate]]'s ''[[The Days of Wine and Roses]]'') and deleted the others (which included releases by [[the Flesh Eaters]], [[Blurt]] and [[Lydia Lunch]]). The WB-distributed version of ''Fire of Love'' has an altered cover design, but the CD reissues on Slash and [[Rhino Records|Rhino]] use the original artwork. Ruby was founded by [[the Flesh Eaters]] singer [[Chris D.]] He was listed as producer of the [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]]' ''[[Walk Among Us]]'' LP on its original release, although this was amended for the CD reissue. Chris D. also produced [[The Dream Syndicate]]'s ''[[The Days of Wine and Roses]]'' and some tracks on [[The Gun Club]]'s ''[[Fire of Love (album)|Fire of Love]]'', as well as the two Flesh Eaters albums released by Ruby.

After the Chris D. era, the Ruby label received some brief revivals. In 1989, it released albums by [[Sweet Baby (band)|Sweet Baby]] and [[Field Trip (band)|Field Trip]]. In 2012, Drag News released a self-titled EP on Ruby.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Drag-News-Drag-News/release/6454666|title = Drag News – Drag News EP (2012, CD)}}</ref> In 2018, [[Prayers (duo)|Prayers]] collaborated with the surviving members of [[Christian Death]] to release a limited edition single on Ruby.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Prayers-Cursed-Be-Thy-Blessings/master/1356317|title = Prayers (6) - Cursed be Thy Blessings}}</ref> Ruby has also released an album by [[Mississippi Fred McDowell]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/24485762-Fred-McDowell-Mississippi-Fred-McDowell-and-The-Studio-5-Players|title = Mississippi Fred McDowell and The Studio 5 Players}}</ref> and an EP by The Drab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/17050455-The-Drab-The-Drab-Lathe-cut-7-EP|title = The Drab - Lathe cut 7" E.P.}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]

==References==
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[[Category:American record labels]]
[[Category:Record labels established in 1981]]
[[Category:Record labels disestablished in 1982]]
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