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
- The Lark
- No Names
- Mary Blaize
- A Ballad
- You Belong To Me
- Elfin Knight
- Bonnie House Of Airlie
- Moon Shadow
- Wandering Soul
- Fare Thee Well
- Little Jack frost (Bonus Track)
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Free Music Review: Kate Rusby - a real treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't imagine anyone not loving Kate Rusby's voice; it's replete with passion and sensitivity. One reviewer here said her voice was "pleasant." That's like saying the stained glass in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin is "okay," which would show a lack of adequate looking. This isn't background music; it's art, something to enter into, savor and experience, not McMusic as background noise for life.
The production work is wonderfully sparse and tasteful. If you like music with depth, clarity, beauty, emotion, and spirit, you'll love The Girl Who Couldn't Fly. If you're merely looking for a beat to do some booty-shakin' or working out, there's an abundance of..well..less-than-deep music out there for you. But Kate Rusby - this woman is worth real listening.
So - really, truly listen to Kate Rusby's voice on this cd. Hear her ability to put across emotion; hear her vocal control, her restraint in using that instrument. Soak in the production, the arrangements, the restraint of the musicians who choose to support that voice rather than attract attention to themselves.
After careful listening, my evaluation is this: Top level, well-recorded music from wonderfully restrained musicians supporting one of the best voices I've ever heard. There is an intense soulfulness that comes from reserve and understatement. Kate Rusby's power comes from a deep well, an ear for turning tradition into her own unique expression, a gifted set of vocal cords, and the wisdom and restraint to use it all to give her songs depth and emotion.
I do think it too bad this isn't called The Girl Who COULD Fly. I'd like to see her in concert.
The Girl Who Couldn't Fly Poster
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 MaidmentFolk Music CDs
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