“Aiming for Honesty” is Jesse Ruben's debut album, released in January 02, 2008. The album was recorded over a two week period in Atlanta with producer Clay Cook (John Mayer, Marshall Tucker Band). What followed was a trio of sold out CD release shows in Philadelphia (World Café Live), New York (The Bitter End), and Boston (The Paradise Lounge). The album received major radio airplay on both college and commercial stations, including a live broadcast on NPR, and heavy rotation on the XM station “The Loft”. The first single, “A Lack of Armor” - a song about a heartbroken couple … read more
“Aiming for Honesty” is Jesse Ruben's debut album, released in January 02, 2008. The album was recorded over a two week period in Atlanta with p… read more
“Aiming for Honesty” is Jesse Ruben's debut album, released in January 02, 2008. The album was recorded over a two week period in Atlanta with producer Clay Cook (John Mayer, Marsha… read more
23-year-old, Philly-bred singer-songwriter Jesse Ruben freely confides that he’s done a bit of “obsessing” over his second album, The Ones That Matter. Not that such anxiety is evident on the highly accomplished disc, the follow-up to Ruben’s self-released 2008 debut, Aiming for Honesty. Adding full-band accompaniment to his lush, soulful pop-rock, Ruben also stretches impressively as a writer on The Ones That Matter, achieving a near-novelistic sense of character and setting on finely hewn tracks like “A Lack of Armor,” “Bleeker and Sixth,” and “Unbreakable.” His relentless atte… read more
23-year-old, Philly-bred singer-songwriter Jesse Ruben freely confides that he’s done a bit of “obsessing” over his second album, The Ones That Matter. Not that such anxiety is evident on… read more
23-year-old, Philly-bred singer-songwriter Jesse Ruben freely confides that he’s done a bit of “obsessing” over his second album, The Ones That Matter. Not that such anxiety is evident on the highly accomplished disc, the follow-up t… read more