Sleepless

Kate Rusby - Sleepless

Sleepless
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Artist: Kate Rusby
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-08-17
Music Label: Compass Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Cobbler's Daughter
  2. I Wonder What Is Keeping My True Love This Night
  3. Fairest of All Yarrow
  4. Unquiet Grave
  5. Sho Heen
  6. Sweet Bride
  7. All God's Angels
  8. Wild Goose
  9. Duke and the Tinker
  10. Our Town
  11. Sleepless Sailor
  12. Cow Song [*]
  13. Botany Bay [*]

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Free Music Review: I love this album!
Hit: 5 Stars

This is my first experience with the voice of Kate Rusby. Repeated listenings confirmed for me that there is something new to hear each time. That is the mark of a good album. Because I enjoyed this album so much, I got most of her other CDs as well as her concert DVD. I will only comment on one song, "Wild Goose," which is my favorite. In fact I loved it so much I went hunting for sources and found out (as I suspected) that it is a sea shanty (a "halyard song" to be precise), sometimes known as "Ranzo" or "Ranzo Ray." Those words appear in the chorus, as another reviewer mentioned. Of course Kate does her own thing with it, and the results give me a lump in the throat. It's a wonderful thing to know how a song can live many lives, from long-ago sailors singing as they work the sails and ropes, to my living room in 2004, and still have a powerful meaning. Thanks, Kate.

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Anyone expecting a stylistic leap the second time out for this bright talent will be disappointed with Sleepless. The mystery, however, is how anyone could listen to Kate Rusby's stunning debut, Hourglass, and wish that she'd abandon a sound that fits her like a custom-cut bodice. The Yorkshire, England-based classicist is clearly committed to the traditional folk music of her homeland, and she inhabits the music with preternatural confidence. First and foremost, she has a rare knack for making arcane phraseology seem vibrant. Witness the first album's "He took up his sword and he went to fight / Fa la lanky down dilly." Or, from this sophomore effort: "She's hit him on the head / The young man fell like lead / Quite dead / Upon the floor he lay." She dances over the words as if tipsy on some magical potion. Like its predecessor, Sleepless is marked by warm and supple playing. Among the smart originals and adapted traditionals is one contemporary selection--Iris DeMent's "Our Town." Appropriate, for as DeMent resuscitates old-time American hill music with unselfconscious ?lan, so does Rusby make the timeworn music of the British Isles come alive. --Steven Stolder

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