Nashville-based avant garde artist Rich Ruth has released the live recording from last year’s performance at the Third Man Nashville’s Blue Room venue to celebrate the release of his album I Survived, It’s Over. Rich Ruth – Live at Third Man Records is available to stream and is heralded by a video of Ruth and his band performing “Heavy and Earthbound” at the show.
Later this year, fans will also be able to catch Rich Ruth at various festivals, as well as European dates with Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection, a run of U.S. shows with St. Paul & the Broken Bones, and a June 3 performance at Nashville’s Basement East with Crooked Rhythm and Rose Hotel.
Ruth released Where There’s Life in 2021, a collection of meditative pieces written in the early months of the pandemic “manifesting the collective sense of uncertainty and solitude of the time.”
Recorded in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic and in the wake of a series of tornadoes that wreaked havoc upon his North Nashville neighborhood, I Survived, It’s Over sees Rich Ruth engaging in further sound exploration.
Ruth adds:
Working on this music is a daily meditation. I wanted to encapsulate the tranquility and disarray found within this process.
RICH RUTH LIVE 2023
3/30 – Big Ears Festival – Knoxville, TN
4/19 – Blue Shell – Cologne, DE #
4/20 – Aalhaus – Hamburg, DE #
4/21 – Huset KBH – Copenhagen, DK #
4/24 – The Hope & Ruin – Brighton, UK #
4/25 – Hyde Park Book Club – Leeds, UK #
4/26 – Broadcast – Glasgow, UK #
4/27 – Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – Belfast, UK #
4/28 – Kilkenny Roots Festival – Kilkenny, IE #
4/29 – Whelan’s – Dublin, IE #
4/30 – Sounds From The Other City – Manchester, UK #
5/2 – Hare & Hounds – Birmingham, UK #
5/3 – The Lexington – London, UK #
5/4 – Les Aralunaires – Arlon, BE #
5/5 – L’International – Paris, FR #
5/21 – Peace Pavilion – Greenville, SC %
5/23 – Miller Theatre – Augusta, GA %
5/25 – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater – Wilmington, NC %
6/3 – Basement East – Nashville, TN
8/3-6 – Pickathon – Happy Valley, OR
# – w/Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection
% – w/St. Paul & the Broken Bones
