Ruth and Max celebrate 40 years of married musical life together with the October 2017 release of On a Canvas Painted Blue, a collection of songs written by Ruth over the last few years plus a song by one of their favorite Michigan songwriters, Drew Nelson. Their first studio release since 2010’s Turn Back A Page rose to Number 5 on the Folk DJ

Ruth and Max celebrate 40 years of married musical life together with the October 2017 release of On a Canvas Painted Blue, a collection of songs written by Ruth over the last few years plus a song by one of their favorite Michigan songwriters, Drew Nelson. Their first studio release since 2010’s Turn Back A Page rose to Number 5 on the Folk DJ radio chart, the new project was recorded and mixed in the couple’s home studio with some instrumental help from longtime collaborators and sometime bandmates John King-guitar and Daniel Seabolt-fiddle.