Last year's Grammy-winner for Best Contemporary Blues Album, singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster, performs some of her new songs live for today's episode of Soundcheck.
Ruthie Foster is a ten time winner of the Blues Music Awards, and last year won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. So yes, Ruthie sings the blues. But her songs also embrace soul, R&B, gospel, country, and rock. She’s released fourteen albums, including a 2007 LP called The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster. Foster struts her stuff live in our studio from time to time – and her live set of new songs is today’s episode of Soundcheck, our twice-weekly podcast, available wherever you get podcasts, or at soundcheck.org