Journalist and DJ Connie Kuhns tracks powerful '80s and '90s women's music in new book

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Journalist and DJ Connie Kuhns tracks powerful '80s and '90s women's music in new book
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A decade documenting the women\u0027s music scene on Co\u002DOp Radio reveals Rubymusic book.

about doing a show devoted to playing only music by women. Inspired by how indie DJs at KOMA Radio in Oklahoma City had shaped her youth and musical tastes, she wanted to deliver a similar experience to listeners. Rubymusic Radio was born.

Rubymusic Radio ran for 15 years. After Kuhns retired the program, she went on to host the Rubymusic stage at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival where local audiences had their first taste of artists such as Michelle Shocked, Katie Webster, Sweet Honey in the Rock and others. Hauling around a sizable archive over the years, Kuhns finally realized the only way to come to terms with things she was still mulling over about the era was to do the book.

From retyping old stories from yellowed, crumpled newsprint clippings she held onto, to having to home in on which stories to include or omit was time-consuming. It also turned up rabbit hole after rabbit hole to further confound the writer.

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