Right Now - Album Version

To Do - Album Version

This EP is in honor and memory of my best friend, who left this world at a young age, but pressed a lasting imprint on my life. It is released with hope, that those who have lost someone important to them may find comfort in knowing they are not alone, and that our dearly departed are remembered and loved.

Moon Girls

Released August 14, 2016 
Ruth Acuff - Harp, Vocals 
Jeff Mueller - Upright Bass, Vocals 
Drew Lance - Percussion, Vocals 

Merry Ellen Kirk, Susan Acuff, Silas Acuff, Mary Leibovich - vocals

We Do (single release)

This song was written with the thought in mind that the holidays can be a difficult time for many people. I want to take everyone’s blood pressure down a notch, and I want to turn to the strength that inner peace has the potential for. 

Voice, Harp, Upright Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin (X2), Tamborine, Sleigh Bells

Peace

Harp & Voice: Ruth Acuff
French Horn: Marcella Houghton
Upright Bass: Jeff Mueller
Cello: Greg Spillman
Viola: Morgan Owen Smith
Violin: Morgan Owen Smith
Field/nature recordings from the 2017 total solar eclipse in Columbia Missouri: Tim Pilcher

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/Zi4cSSlKgsw

To Be Happy

This song was inspired by the painting “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich, which shows a person standing on a precipice above a landscape of mountains and trees obscured by fog. When I saw it, I felt a kinship with the person in the painting - having come to many points in life when the path forward wasn’t clear - even from a higher vantage point. Though it can be lonely and confusing, there is also a harsh beauty to the mystery and hidden potential.


Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSEMKPnIrO8

Wanderer

Cocoon - Album Version

From Nothing - Album Version

Recorded on my ipod, a song in remembrance and in dedication to my best friend Kelli. Rest in Peace.

Dark Blue Dark Green

Ruth's music is steeped in both ancient traditions and modernist indie-folk. Her voice is trained and ethereal, unique and enchanting. She’s a multi-instrumentalist, but her focus and instrument of choice is the pedal harp. Her blend of Americana and chamber music was first heard on a pair of 2011/2012 EPs. Her shimmering 2013 album This is the Dream captures Acuff’s singular songcraft and exquisite breeze-borne ballads, a sound that evokes organic earthiness and celestial atmospheres. With her 2014 EP release To the Moon she proves unusually adept at mingling the real and the surreal in a tribute to lost loved ones. For a listening session guaranteed to optimize your emotional wellness, Ruth Acuff (whose extended family includes country music legend Roy Acuff) brings her unique dreamscapes to take you to a place where you lose yourself, or if your prefer, find yourself. 

Ruth Acuff

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