Monday Exposure: Emily Ritz/Honeybody Moonbee
August 25, 2008 · Print This Article
Honeybody Moonbee - Cough Syrup (MP3)
Honeybody Moonbee - Suction Cups (MP3) via MySpace
I’ve spent far too long trying to work out whether Emily ‘Honeybody Moonbee’ Ritz is the same Emily Ritz as the Emily Ritz who is the uke playing daughter of Lyle Ritz. I’m pretty sure she’s not, but if you’ve got better information I’m all ears. Whoever she is, she certainly knows how to write a captivating song.
Certainly, if there’s any Lyle Ritz influence on this music, it’s buried pretty deep. Honeybody Moonbee’s music is packed with low-fi ukulele riffs and freak folk vocals. Those vocals might make her a love her or hate her act. Personally, I love her.
Download more songs on her MySpace and listen to a pile more songs here.
If this is your first visit here, you can find the chords/tab in those posts by clicking on the song title in red.
I love her, too. Nice find.
I hope she puts something out soon. Judging by those live recordings, she’s got more than enough material.
She does have plenty of solid material. She certainly taps into that Billie Holiday haunting sound- which I think works so well with the ukulele. I was checking out some of her lyrics on the myspace, too. Nice to hear something out of the ordinary.
We’ll have to keep our eyes out for a recording.
Or, we could move to San Francisco and check her out for ourselves.