[Cover photo credit to Jody Domingue]

Austin-based singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster has shared a live rendition of “What Kind of Fool,” a highlight taken from her album Healing Time. Recorded at The Haute Spot in Cedar Park, Texas, the new live release arrives following Foster’s 2024 Grammy nomination for Healing Time, which is up for Best Contemporary Blues Album. This marks her fifth career Grammy nomination to date and she is a multiple Blues Music Award winner.

Foster explains:

‘What Kind of Fool’ says and relays my influence and my experience with love. Love lost, love realized, and more importantly where I stand and where I refuse to stand anymore with love. I related to this song incredibly because I’d been there personally. The song was brought to me via my friend/bandmate Hadden Sayers. I decided to fly him and my keys player Scottie Miller down to Austin for a writing session for the new album, Healing Time. Hadden brought the bulk of the song to me and Scottie. We all managed to hash out the rest of the song together.

As an album, Healing Time focuses on “love, wisdom and life experience.”

Last Fall, Foster was honored at Austin’s Paramount Theatre with a star on the sidewalk of the historic venue, becoming only the sixth artist to do so and joining Lyle Lovett and Delbert McClinton.

Ruthie Foster 2024 Tour Dates:

February 22 – Las Vegas, NV – The Smith Center

February 23 – Las Vegas, NV – The Smith Center

February 24 – Austin, TX – 2024 Texas Songwriters Hall Of Fame Show

February 29 – Tallahassee, FL – Opperman Music Hall

March 1 – Ground Zero – Biloxi, MS

March 2 – Miami, FL – Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center

March 3 – Stuart, FL – Lyric Theatre

March 8 – The Bugle Boy – La Grange, TX

April 4 – Caffe Lena – Saratoga Springs, NY

April 5 – The Folkus Project – Syracuse, NY

April 9 – Alberta Rose Theatre – Portland, OR

April 10 – Kay Meek Arts Centre – West Vancouver, BC

April 11 – The Triple Door – Seattle, WA

April 18 – The Bull Run Restaurant – Shirley, MA

April 19 – Strand Theatre – Rockland, ME

April 20 – Stone Mountain Arts Center – Brownfield, ME

April 26 – The Tin Pan – Richmond, VA

May 17 – Bentonville, AR – FreshGrass, Bentonville 2024

May 18 – Bentonville, AR – FreshGrass, Bentonville 2024

May 23 – Main Street Crossing – Tomball, TX