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

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. 