Kate Rusby, Kathryn Roberts - Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts
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Free Music Review: Wonderful cd
Hit: 5 Stars
What a wonderful cd! Every song is great, but my favorite has to be "the queen and the soldier" The lyrics to that song express so much anguish and sorrow that it makes me shiver everytime I listen to it. Both ladies voices are beautiful and I hope that we see another albumn by these together real soon.Free Music Review: Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts sound like magic
Hit: 5 Stars
I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of female vocalists, nor am I a Celtic music buff. However I've never heard two women sing together like these two. It's a sound that caresses and squeezes your heart all at the same time... The sound makes me feel like I want to cry from the saddest and most warm embrace.Free Music Review: Real music
Hit: 5 Stars
The two ladies present a lovely group of songs, sung in breathtakingly beautiful voices. This is the music of the Scots' parlor, mainly voice and piano, easy to listen to but far from easy listening. By the way, Kate Rusby is person is a singing Gracie Allen: an absolutely crazy young woman!Free Music Review: Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts
Hit: 5 Stars
A beautiful album to listen to - these girls manage to present traditional British folk music with a contemporary feel, with heavenly, husky voices and style of singing that makes you stop in your tracks.Free Music Review: Not so silly sisters
Hit: 4 Stars
First, let me admit: I came to this record after hearing Ms Rusby on the radio recently, ordered several CDs, and this one arrived first, so I can't compare it to other records by either artist. It's been a great surprise. One of my favorite 'folk revival' records of all time is Maddy Prior and June Tabor's "Silly Sisters" and fans of that record should buy this without hesitation. Now, this is not quite in the rarified terriory of June & Maddy, but it is very good. Both Ms Rusby and Ms Roberts have fine voices, but Rusby's is often quite thrilling and is the real star here. The unfussy, simple arrangements serve their oft-heard material well.
Ms Rusby sounds particular luminous on "Recruited Collier" & "Dark Eyed Sailor". I am also partial to Ms Roberts version of "Plains of Waterloo" -- this doesn't quite match the specatularly mournful June Tabor version (on her "Airs and Graces") but she does nicely capture the heartache in this ballad, one of my favorite "my lover went to war and now he's dead" ballads.
If I have a complaint it is that there is quite enough variety of mood here -- but that's a small problem with stuff this lovely.