Allison De Groot & Rich Ruth (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

$28.99

Allison De Groot & Rich Ruth (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

Name: Allison De Groot & Rich Ruth (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record
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Allison De Groot & Rich Ruth (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

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Discover an intriguing musical collaboration with Allison De Groot & Rich Ruth (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record. Bringing together the distinctive artistry of Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth, this release is an exciting choice for listeners who appreciate adventurous musicianship, roots-inspired sounds, atmospheric textures, and music that moves beyond easy genre boundaries.

Allison de Groot is known for her expressive banjo playing and deep connection to traditional and contemporary roots music, while Rich Ruth brings an exploratory approach shaped by atmospheric, instrumental, and experimental sounds. Together, their contrasting musical backgrounds create a collaboration with plenty for curious listeners to explore.

Presented on classic LP vinyl, this release is made for focused listening. Drop the needle, settle in, and experience the collaboration as a complete record while adding another distinctive title to your physical music collection.

Whether you already follow Allison de Groot or Rich Ruth, collect folk and roots music, enjoy experimental and genre-crossing releases, or simply love discovering unexpected musical collaborations, this factory-sealed LP deserves a place on your turntable.

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Collaborative and independent LP vinyl releases can have much narrower physical distribution than mainstream albums, and individual pressings may become increasingly difficult to locate once current inventory sells through. With Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth bringing their distinctive musical perspectives together on one record, this is a release worth securing while copies remain available.

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Clawhammer banjo and ambient minimalism don't seem like natural conversation partners, but Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth find genuine common ground in the space between rhythm and drone. De Groot's deep roots in old-time tradition meet Ruth's layered, meditative soundscapes in a pairing that reframes what the banjo can anchor and where it can float.

Allison de Groot is a clawhammer banjo player from Winnipeg, Canada whose work spans old-time, bluegrass, and folk traditions. A recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and an Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year nominee, she is perhaps best known for her duo with fiddler Tatiana Hargreaves, whose albums Hurricane Clarice and their self-titled debut earned recognition from the IBMA, the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and the JUNOs.Rich Ruth is a Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist (born Michael Ruth) who records for Third Man Records. His albums draw from ambient, spiritual jazz, minimalism, and synth-driven post-rock - compositions that begin with looping drones and synthesizers and expand outward through collaboration. His 2024 LP Water Still Flows is his most recent record.The two came together when Ruth was set to produce a solo record for de Groot. Over the course of about a year in Ruth's Nashville studio, the project quietly shifted - the two began composing together, and what emerged is shaped as much by space and process as by melody. de Groot's clawhammer banjo moves through looping and delay, set against Ruth's synthesizer arrangements in a way that balances the tactile immediacy of acoustic instruments with the enveloping qualities of electronics. Patrick M'Gonigle contributed violin and string arrangements throughout, and pedal steel from Spencer Cullum adds further color to the record's palette.Shortly after completing the album, the group debuted the material live at Big Ears Festival as one of the event's surprise performances - a stripped, minimalist set that reflected the spirit of the recordings. The album captures two distinct musical voices finding not so much a meeting point as a new, shared language.

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