Her best-known song, "Don't Let That Man Get You Down" predated Loretta Lynn's stand-up-to-your-man hits by twenty years.

Texas Ruby made her first breakthrough in the music industry working with country bandleader Zeke Clements but by the mid forties she and husband Fox had developed their own stage act and were much in demand, including a stint as regulars on the Grand Ole Opry from 1944 to 1948.

Fox, widely considered one of country music's greatest fiddlers, worked the Opry more frequently as background instrumentalist than as a star.

On March 29, 1963, while Fox was appearing on the Opry, a fire broke out in the couple's home and Ruby was killed.

Ruby was the sister of Tex Owens, who composed Eddy Arnold's hit "The Cattle Call."