A modern country singer with a sweet touch and a fondness for vintage styles, Ruthie Collins released her debut album, Get Drunk and Cry, in 2017. A native of Fredonia, New York, Collins was raised on a farm. Taking to music as a child, she decided to pursue it professionally as an adult. She enrolled in Boston's Berklee College, leaving the school a semester prior to graduation so she could pursue a career as a songwriter in Nashville.
Settling in the Music City in 2006, she formed Wild Honey with Victoria Gibson, and the pair appeared on the 2008 CMT competition Can You Due...