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RUTHIE FOSTER: Winner of the 2010 Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year, Ruthie Foster was also named "Best Female Vocalist" at the 2008 Austin Music Awards. She sat in with Warren and with the Allman Brothers at the 2008 Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, and debuted as a member of Warren's band at the 2010 Jam. Ruthie is a guest vocalist on Warren's new album, and was nominated for a Grammy for her own most recent release, "The Truth According To Ruthie Foster". She's been featured on the PBS syndicated show Austin City Limits and NPR's All Things Considered, and has made impact appearances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, leading to a headlining spot at this year's festival. On stage Ruthie takes things up a notch or two with her fiery and unmistakable mix of folk, soul, blues and gospel.
PAUL THORN:
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi and raised among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured a young Elvis generations before, Thorn has rambled down back roads and jumped out of airplanes, worked for years in a furniture factory, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Duran on national television, signed with and been dropped by a major label, opened for Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, and John Prine among many other headliners, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet fully accessible music of our time.
Still, Thorn’s story has never been complete. If you follow it back through his songs, at some point near the beginning the mysteries gather like a mist, obscuring the picture and leaving unanswered the question of how he acquired his ability to find brilliance buried in shadows, darkness in daylight, poetry in the mundane, and truth in the brutal beauties of life. |
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