UPDATE: Ruthie Foster won her first Grammy Award on Sunday, February 2025, capturing Best Contempary Blues Album category for Mileage.
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Austin-based blues singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster talks about WBGO's Dave Popkin about her latest album Mileage.
Foster has slugged it out in the music business for the last 30 years. Now after ten studio albums (13 overall) and six Grammy nominations, she is moving into the A List of blues performers, traveling the world for major festivals and high-profile events. One of those events is the upcoming Blues Jam at Jazz at Lincoln Center on February 21 and 22. Guitar phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram heads a bill that includes Ledisi, Sherman Irby, Chester “CT” Thompson, Deshawn Alexander, Adam Deitch, Roosevelt Collier, Chris Bergson, and Pete Fallico.
You can SEE Dave Popkin's entire interview with Ruthie Foster here.
