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Rue Royale Continued

A lovingly illustrated EP, The Search For Where To Go, is the first fruit with copies already dispatched to intrigued music fans throughout the US, Canada, England and France. Its five songs open with the gentle kick-drum driven Parachutes And Lifeboats and Walls. The yearning spiritual Even In The Darkness and folk-tinged Everything Comes From You Anyway come next, before the star-gazing closer UFO.

Brookln grew up in St Louis, Mo, with musicians for parents. He played the coffee-house circuit with God's Green Earth before moving to Chicago in 1998. A solo EP and full-length CD followed along with a short spell fronting local rock act Trevorside. Ruth was raised in Midlands county Staffordshire in the UK, a stone's throw from the historic city of Lichfield with it's 1,300-year-old cathedral. Teenage years sound-tracked by 90's Brit-pop and folk-rock, she met Brookln when tourinf with a band Stateside. They wed in England four years ago and settled in Chicago soon after.

Three years after they picked up their guitars together, the Rue Royale journey has embarked. Light a candle on the table, pour another glass..and climb aboard.