Rick Ruskin has been played on NTS in shows including Sounds Of The Dawn, featured first on 18 October 2020. Songs played include Break Out The Wine and Against Tradition.

Rick Ruskin started playing guitar in 1962 and in just one year became a respected professional musician in his native Detroit, Michigan. In 1964, while still in Jr. High School, he was chosen to open the bill for the blues and gospel master, Reverend Gary Davis at Detroit's legendary Retort Coffee House. This engagement resulted in a fast and permanent friendship with the master blues, ragtime, and gospel guitarist. Rev. Davis was…