Rutherford is a quartet from Missouri that plays rock music flavored with funk, folk, blues and jazz. Drawing from such influences as Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, and Counting Crows, songwriters Ruth Acuff and Jeff Mueller create sweeping compositions accented with Beatle-esque harmonies. Pat O'Driscoll adds a third voice as well as excellent guitar that is sometimes atmospheric and at other times bold. Brian Kent goes beyond keeping the beat, infusing each song with infectious energy atop a solid foundation. Rutherford is currently in pre-production for their second studio album, tentatively entitled "The Portal".

Rutherford has performed @ The Blue Note, Mojo's, Eastside Tavern, The Martini Bar, Cherry Street Artisan, and The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO), The Broadway Oyster Bar, Pop's Blue Moon and Magee's (St.Louis, MO), Springfield Brewing Company (Springfield, MO) as well as Camp Zoe (in Salem, Mo), Anna Bananas (Honolulu, Hawaii), R&B's (Sand Island, Hawaii) and Blake's on Telegraph (Berkeley, CA.)

Rutherford has shared the stage with Shawn Mullins, Saving Jane,Dana Cooper, The Bottlerockets, Noah Earle, Bockman, Ludo, Joe Stickley's Blueprint, The Station, Split Lip Rayfield, Amsterband, Mark Bilyeu, Spookie Daly Pride, The Doxies, Stendek, The Make Believe, Nova Lunacy, Caulfield and the Magic, Two Gallants, Slugtrail, Thinline, 40 Thieves, The Follow, Javier Mendoza Band, The Ham, Echelon, In Thicket, PsychoSis, Sea of Red, The Mathmatics, Gypsy Switch, The Passion, and many others