Bleecker and 6th - Jesse Ruben

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She's scouring galleries
Counting her calories
Saving her salary too
She's soft and outspoken
But feels like she's broken
And hoping that she will improve

Cause she's been so deceived
That she thinks that she needs to be fixed
She's in love with a man that she met down on Bleecker and 6th

He's more than her neighbor
She likes his behavior
And thinks he can save her for real
And it's not asking much
For a man she can trust
That offers to pay for the meal

And she needs him to call
And she's pounding the wall with her fist
She's in love with a man that she met down on Bleecker and 6th

And this city is scary when
No one is there to share it with
And if anything's wrong
She needs someone strong to take care of it
She wants to take care of him

He's out for a walk
Cause he fought with his boss
Over losses that didn't make sense
It's late afternoon
In the middle of June
And she's reading a book on a bench

So he sits down beside her
And smiles and then he says this
Well I think you're the woman I met down on Bleecker and 6th

And this city is scary when
No one is there to share it with
And if anything's wrong
She needs someone strong to take care of it
She wants to take care of him

At first they were shy
And a little bit quiet
But they stayed awake until dawn
And as the day passed
They both realized at last
They found what they lacked all along

So he takes a deep breath
Puts his hand on her neck
And they kiss

And this isn't a shock
Cause this story does not have a twist
They're in love and they live
In a loft down on Bleecker and 6th

Mhm, Mhm
Mhm, Mhm

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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 attention to detail pays off handsomely.

He makes no apology for meticulously fine-tuning all aspects of his work and presentation. “Every time you create something you have an opportunity to say something new – or at least something honest,” he says. “I take that opportunity seriously.”

Ruben’s expansive and deeply compassionate point of view has resonated strongly with an ever-growing audience, whom the performer has cultivated with virtually nonstop touring and persistent online networking; as a result, he’s sold some 5,000 copies of Honesty on his own.

He often receives emotional messages from fans declaring that his songs have crystallized their feelings, commemorated milestones in their lives and even helped repair broken bonds. “One woman wrote to me and said she and her daughter didn’t get along, but when she drives the girl to school every day they listen to my music – and it’s the only time they don’t fight,” he marvels. “The songs I wrote in my basement helped her relationship with her daughter. How could I ask for more than that?” Indeed, his compositions have connected so powerfully with listeners that several cover versions have been posted on YouTube.

Such moments of connection helped inspire the title of The Ones That Matter. Ruben had compiled a list of some 80 candidates, but it was in the aftermath of the recording process that he realized what the disc should be called.

“I was on an epic road trip,” he remembers of this epiphany. “I realized that as much as this album is about music, it’s ultimately a representation of who I am – and all that amounts to is all the incredible people I’ve surrounded myself with, and the places I’ve spent time, and the stories and jokes that came out of those experiences with those people. That’s when I understood that the only logical name for the album was The Ones That Matter.”

Recorded during a record-breaking snowstorm in Charlottesville, Virginia – where producer Chris Keup (Jason Mraz, OAR, Parachute) and partner Stewart Myers (Mraz, Lifehouse, Rachel Yamagata, Mandy Moore) have their studio – the disc afforded Ruben a chance to fully appreciate the devotion of his pals. “I had some of my best friends in the world come down to help me finish the record,” he relates. Other players on the disc include drummer Brian Jones (Mraz, Yamagata, Moore); and keyboardist Daniel Clark (Ryan Adams, kd lang, Moore). Meyers handled bass on several tracks.

The profound gratitude Ruben felt upon finishing the album snowballed in the coming days. “I wanted the title of this record to express my thanks to everyone who mattered – not just my friends who worked on the record, but their friends. The people who gave me a couch to crash on, made me dinner, drove me to the train station. Everyone who came to my shows, and walked up to tell me what the songs meant to them. I’m thanking them all with this record.”

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