Ruthie Foster June 30, 2007

TWO SHOWS! 7:30pm and 10pm

If you haven’t yet been introduced to the music of this prodigiously gifted singer and songwriter from Texas, you’re in for a major epiphany. And if you’ve been following Foster’s career ever since her self-released, 1997 debut, Full Circle, or even since her 2002 breakthrough, Runaway Soul, you’re in for an even bigger surprise, because you really haven’t ever heard Foster until you hear her now. Simply put, mama’s gotta brand new bag. “Running across Papa Mali when I did was great for me,” says Foster. “Because he’d been showing up to a lot of my shows here in Austin, and he mentioned that he heard so much more in me than what was coming across. She admits to initially having “quite a few reservations” about calling her fifth album The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster, crediting both her producer, noted Austin-based “swamp music” guitarist Malcolm “Papa Mali” Welbourne, and her label, Houston’s Blue Corn Records, for making that particular gutsy call. As for how they came up with it, well … just give it a listen, and you’ll understand.

Ruthie Foster will also be opening for The Doobie Brothers on Sunday, July 1st.