Looking for Ruthie Gorton (US)

Subject: Ruthie Gorton
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 04 Aug 26 - 02:20 AM

I sang with Ruthie many years ago at San Diego FF. She performed in a concert in Vancouver around that time. Can anyone help me find a contact with her?

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Looking for Ruthie Gorton (US)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Aug 26 - 11:10 PM

On December 14, 2007 you wrote about her after posting lyrics in Origins: Songs about women killing men:

By Peter Boyd, from the singing of Ruthie Gorton of LA. I met Ruthie at Lou Curtiss' San Diego Folk Festival one year in the 'seventies, and we did a few gigs together, including a little tour in BC, but I've lost sight of her since. You all may know here as the author of "Voices from the Mountains", a fine song in (and used as a title for) a book by Guy Carawan et al. A fabulous singer!

Other remarks situate here up and down the US west coast.

Free Palestine Now is from 1973 but is quite timely today.

Her Discography has no credits after 1986 (and those could be things produced much earlier).

Some of her backstory in Medium from January 8, 2026 (search to about 2/3 down the article).

I keep coming across your writings in which you discuss her concerts and songs. She turns up in articles and university library finding aids, but never as a current living human. I exhausted the results on an advanced Google search, nothing that doesn't look back at her work. But I suppose its good news that there are no obituaries. Perhaps she pulled a Zora Neale Hurston and just vanished into some other line of work. Good luck with the search.

Subject: RE: Looking for Ruthie Gorton (US)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 05 Aug 26 - 11:33 AM

There are a few references to Ruthie Gorton changing her name to Rutthy Taubb.
"ruthie+gorton" "rutthy+taubb"

A Rutthy Taubb is listed in the text of a search
"Lake Oswego
Rutthy Taubb is 79 years old and was born in October 1946.
Her current address is 8 Erasmus St in Lake Oswego, OR, where she's resided since March 2006.,,, "
but I couldn't get on to the actual page.
https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/pnnuu288n6940u8r66r6

&
"Rutthy Taubb is an individual documented in public administrative records and legal petition lists associated with Lake Oswego, Oregon (Zip Code 97035). There is no broader public figure, major event, or alternative context tied to this specific name."

Subject: RE: Looking for Ruthie Gorton (US)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 26 - 11:43 AM

Freddy, that makes perfect sense but I hadn't figured out a way to find the name change. Good work!