Salt Peter

Ruby's first studio album was Salt Peter, released in 1995. It spawned three singles, all of which had music videos made for them. The song "Swallow Baby" was released in 1996 as a radio-only promotional single, and a track called "This is" was made but not included with this album, instead appearing on the soundtrack to the movie The Cable Guy. Ruby went on tour in 1996 to support this album.

This album also had two remixed versions made: Stroking the Full Length for the UK market, and Revenge, The Sweetest Fruit: Salt Peter Remixed just in the United States. Salt Peter was followed up by Ruby's final studio effort Short-Staffed At The Gene Pool in 2001.

Production
The album was released on November 1, 1995, on the labels WORK Records and Creation Records, and was produced by Mark Walk and Lesley Rankine. It was recorded from June 1994 into January 1995 at the Soundhouse Studios facility located in Seattle, Washington.

On Salt Peter Eric Anderson played much of the bass, Bill Rieflin hit the drums, played guitar, and performed some of the mixing, and Scott Crane was assistant engineer to Walk. Rankine, Matthew Donaldson, and Joseph Cultice all contributed photography to the CD packaging, and Rankine & Toby Egelnick created its artwork.

Track listing

 * 1) "Flippin' Tha Bird"  (4:09) Rankine, Walk
 * 2) "Salt Water Fish"  (3:29) Rankine, Walk
 * 3) "Heidi"  (4:04) Rankine, Walk
 * 4) "Tiny Meat"  (4:04) Rankine, Walk
 * 5) "Paraffin"  (3:36) Rankine, Walk
 * 6) "Hoops"  (4:18) Rankine, Walk
 * 7) "Pine"  (4:08) Rankine, Walk
 * 8) "Swallow Baby"  (5:32) Rankine
 * 9) "The Whole is Equal to the Sum of its Parts"  (4:07) Rankine
 * 10) "Bud"  (4:19) Rankine
 * 11) "Carondelet"  (7:06) Rankine, Walk, Gira, Ferguson, Atkins
 * total length (48:24)