Kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
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Artist: Kate RusbyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Compass Records
Soundtracks:
- Game of All Fours
- Lark
- No Names
- Mary Blaize
- Ballad
- You Belong to Me
- Elfin Knight
- Bonnie House of Airlie
- Moon Shadow
- Wandering Soul
- Fare Thee Well
- Little Jack Frost [*]
Free Music Notes for The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
Free Music Review: A somewhat different album, some disappointments, but good album nonetheless
Hit: 4 Stars
First, I am a fairly big fan of Kate Rusby. She is exceptionally talented.
I will start with what I don't like about this album. I find many of Rusby's albums to be slightly difficult to get into so I always listen to the whole thing several times before reviewing it. This album seemed to me more difficult to get into than normal. It is inspired, but takes a little more effort to appreciate. Also it would have been nice if she credited Oliver Goldsmith properly for Mary Blaize (IMO, Goldsmith's original version was clearer than Rusby's). I would also like to see a version of the tradition balad "The Elfin Knight" rather than the brief song on this album.
If you are looking for more on Mary Blaize, check Project Gutenberg for Mary Blaize, Goldsmith and Caldecott.
However, there some real treasures in this album and some of them have become my favorite songs from Rusby. The best songs, IMO, on the album are The Lark, Mary Blaize, Moonshadow, and Wandering Soul. Wandering Soul has become my absolute favorite of Rusby's songs.
I keep getting a sense that "Game of All Fours" is a double entendra with sexual undertones in the good old tradition of Old English riddles.
All in all a good album but listen to it a few times before forming an opinion.
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The Girl Who Couldn't Fly is the sixth album from British folk star Kate Rusby. Produced by husband John McCusker the album sees Rusby bring together a selection of traditional folk songs with her own material. Guest vocals come from Kellie While and Idlewild's Robbie Womble, while the artwork has been designed by former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. Pure. 2006.A succession of plaudit-harvesting folk albums and subsequent international renown means that Yorkshire's Kate Rusby no longer needs to be nurtured with kind words of condescension along the lines of lass, babe, and starlet, and yet there remains something irredeemably youthful about The Girl Who Couldn't Fly. It's not just the butterfly flutter of Rusby's voice--which allows the nudge and wink of a smutty traditional favourite like "Game of All Fours" to retain its charade and the magic of innocent years to linger. Sometimes the songs are bare--guitar and vocals--but they're never spartan, pink as nature intended, a curiously roseate melancholia where even an ill-fated adieu such as "No Names"--one of three songs sang, improbably, with Roddy Woomble of Idlewild--mollifies as fluently as a lullaby. The jolly virtues of the traditional "Mary Blaize" and Rusby's very own faux-traditional epic "Elfin Knight" are fleshier, finding Rusby accompanied by such folk scene luminati as Michael McGoldrick, Andy Cutting, and John McCusker to ebullient effect. Proof, indeed, that folk music need not be studiously dour or touristically picturesque. If the current British folk scene is to produce a genuine household name, it's likely to be Kate Rusby. --Kevin Maidment
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