Water Still Flows (Limited Edition True Red Vinyl) Sampson Starkweather author of The Big Smoke

author of The Big Smoke (Penguin

As a black female artist

and traveler from New Orleans

and the A-side is a powerfully stark cover of Lucinda Williams’ “Greenville” that has been a staple of her live set for years

Water Still Flows (Limited Edition True Red Vinyl) Sampson Starkweather author of The Big SmokeRich Ruth, the recording project of Nashville multi instrumentalist Michael Ruth, makes wholly immersive instrumental songs that thread the line between gleefully adventurous and calmingly meditative. His music starts in solitude with mesmerizing loops and drones anchoring the arrangements that are eventually colored in by an eclectic cast of collaborators. The resulting exploratory compositions, which combine spiritual jazz, synth infused post rock,