Accomplished multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Robin Ruddy has announced a release event on October 30, 2023, at the Commodore Grille in Nashville at 7:30 pm to celebrate her poignant new album, Healing Happens, a project that reflects on her journey from grief to healing following the death of her husband of 35 years. Healing Happens will be available for download and streaming on all digital music platforms and released nationally to Americana stations on Oct 31, 2023, in honor of his birthday. The project is currently available for pre-save/pre-sale now here.
Robin hopes that this music can help others process their grief in a way that was previously inaccessible to them. She hopes someone finds comfort and solidarity in knowing that they are not alone and that healing can and does happen with time.
Larry was Robin’s biggest fan and supporter who selflessly held down the fort and kept everything running in their multiple businesses, while Robin toured and traveled to 26 countries with Rod Stewart for two and a half years playing pedal steel, banjo, dobro and guitar. When her husband lost a courageous battle with cancer during the pandemic in 2021, Robin had to find a way to process her grief. For months after his death, she was unable to function, numbed by profound sadness coupled with being confronted with the massive responsibility and details of all the unfinished and ongoing projects and businesses that were left behind. She didn’t know what to do. So, she did what songwriters do. She picked up her guitar and the songs started coming, one after the other, as if they were being downloaded from heaven. As if she and her husband were still communicating through the music. Before she knew it, these songs became her roadmap from grief to healing, and over time, has evolved into a complete album. This music helped her see light shining through the darkness.
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About Robin Ruddy:
It has been said that each of us can do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people. Thankfully, Robin Ruddy found her one thing when, at age seven, she started learning to play stringed instruments. Since she learned the ukulele at age 7, she has added guitar, banjo, dobro and pedal steel and more. She has toured with Rod Stewart, Shania Twain, Ray Stevens, Lynn Anderson and other top-tier artists, won a Grammy, built a thriving career in Nashville, and has seen the highs and lows of life, all while observing and writing about it at the highest level.
Robin Ruddy is also a successful businesswoman and is the owner/co-founder of Best Built Songs, Parlor Studio, Parlor Productions, Ultimate Event Nashville and Music Row Realty.
Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Robin had a mostly beatific upbringing. Her father and mother were supportive of her musical dreams and encouraged them. When, at age 10, she decided that she wanted to learn how to play guitar, her parents told her that if she learned three songs by Christmas, they would buy her one. She did just that and played the songs for her mom and dad. “I guess it was my first audition,” she said with a smile, “And I passed it!”
She and her beloved husband, Larry Sheridan, built a life together in Nashville and made a sizable impact on the music community there. When Larry passed away recently, Robin did what songwriters do in times of great sadness: she began to write and record to not only assuage her grief but to help others who may be walking the same difficult and sometimes dark path. Robin’s new project, Healing Happens, will be released in the fall of 2023.
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