Ruby's Jam from cabin songs by Ilana Cameron

My neighbours were renovating their house and mentioned there was fireplace and chimney in their backyard, an outdoor kitchen that had been built by the original owner, a woman named Ruby. They mused that she probably used it to boil up jam. I was inspired and wrote this song.

'Lying at the foot of the Skimmerhorns, the Creston Valley in British Columbia, Canada, is a unique geological region between the Purcell and Selkirk mountain ranges. The wide valley is a flood plain of the Purcell Trench that is divided by the Kootenay River—which runs from Banff and Yoho National Parks and winds its way through Fort Steele into northern Idaho—where it turns north at Bonner’s Ferry and makes it way down the Creston valley into the magnificent Kootenay Lake before forming its west arm at Nelson and descending rapidly into the Columbia River at Castlegar. This rich soil valley that was created 12,000 years ago by the melting of glaciers was populated by aboriginal peoples, the original residents being the Kutenai—one of three groups who formed the Ktunaxa First Nation.' Creston Museum

Born in the woods in the interior of BC she was raised in Vancouver but eventually made her way back to the mountains. After years of writing and performing regularly as a solo act and with bands Ilana is now mostly a coffee roaster for her company Lark though she also rides her bicycle or can be found experimenting in the kitchen or garden. Coffee: larkcoffee.ca

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