Ruth Minnikin

Twenty-seven months, two weeks, five days and eleven hours after its noble beginnings, Ruth Minnikin and Her Bandwagon have completed their orchestral opus, Depend on This. During its creation, Minnikin tirelessly cultivated her creativity over months of mournful mornings, aloof afternoons and nestled, late-night writing sessions. Depend on This takes its walk on the red carpet of artistic endurance and tested every ounce of Ruth’s body and brain. With the vision of a tiny symphony swaying in her mind’s eye, Minnikin mentally battled and yearned for the momentum to finish the piece. Minnikin describes the completed album as, “a conceptually dramatized exaggeration of an avant-garde jalapeno pepper on a life raft.”

Depend on This‘ uber-calculated conclusion spans the Atlantic Ocean and unites seventeen magical musicians, twenty three integral instruments, a men’s vocal choir, three pop producers, one sound artist, and a handful of visual artists.

On her acclaimed 2006 release, Folk Art, Ruth Minnikin stuck to the essentials. Contained in a hand-sewn, ink-stamped canvas case, the album’s packaging reflected the music within. Rootsy, bare and without pretension, Folk Art offered eleven tracks from an artist with her focus set on the songs and the live-recording process.

Minnikin’s varied and accomplished musical history has surely helped hone this kind of concentration. Her first band, Booming Airplanes, was signed to EMI during the Halifax pop explosion of the ‘90’s. Her chamber-pop side project, The Heavy Blinkers, developed a cult following all over the world, and at the turn of the millenium, Ruth made two albums and toured the UK and the US with alt-countryquintet, The Guthries

Mp3 “Depend On This” from Depend On This:
http://www.pigeonrow.com/RuthMinnikinDependOnThisI.mp3

High-Res Photo of Ruth Minnikin:
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High-Res Photo of Ruth Minnikin and Her Bandwagon:
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