Ruthie brings us her truth

Since her last album, The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster, life has changed for this Texas singer. Ruthie Foster has had her fair share of hard knocks and it’s evident in her music.

Raised by a strong mother and a loyal family in the conservative town of Brazos Valley in central Texas, Foster has used her experiences to create her own musical journey.

She admits that her latest album, The Truth According to Ruthie Foster, is in fact the soundtrack to her varied life, expressed through a mixture of Southern blues, gospel, jazz rock and that all-important country poetry.

My life has definitely blossomed since my last album but I look at it as an extension or a Volume Two -” it’s a series of growth that I’m going through, Foster said.

The truth is about being in the present and not worrying about what people think you are or where you should be. It’s about life, despair, joy being in that and learning from that.

The album looks at life, relationships and dealing with it when you’re stuck in the same place and realising that and doing what you need to do to get out of that.

Foster is visiting Australia in April for the Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival and will stop by Sydney for shows at the Basement on 8 April and The Factory on 23 April.

My goal this year is to keep touring and getting out as much as possible especially with all the international tours, she said.

At my shows I will do a combination of all of the hits but I really want to try and concentrate on having a good time and for the audience to really enjoy themselves.

info: Book for the Basement show at thebasement.com.au. Book for the Factory show at factorytheatre.com.au. For more details on Ruthie Foster visit ruthiefoster.com.