Ruthie Foster has made the album of her career with "The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster". Austin legend Papa Mali handles the production and guitar duties joining Ruthie and some of Austin"s top musicians in a very strong set of originals and covers of songs by Son House, Sister Rosetta Thorpe and Lucinda Williams. This deeply grooving album shows a side of Ruthie that has ever really been captured in the studio before as she displays her talents on the Fender/Rhodes and unleashes her soulful vocals on the funkiest songs she has ever recorded.