Kate Rusby

While Mortals Sleep
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Make The Light
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Who Knows
Where The Time Goes
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Sweet Bells
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Awkward Annie
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The Girl Who
Couldn't Fly
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Underneath
The Stars
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Ten

Little Lights

Sleepless

Hourglass

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Reviews

Make The Light
Pure Records: PRCD32
Shock-horror! Everybody’s favourite folk music chanteuse turns to the ‘dark side’. And if you believe that well, shame on you! Still it makes for an interesting by-line and if anyone really is that blinkered when it comes to their choice in pigeonholing folk I seriously suggest they get a life. Opening with the gently chiding The Wishing Wife Rusby firmly establishes her credentials as a serious songwriter and I’m sure that if my partner Glenys read the lyrics she’d be in full agreement with the sentiments conveyed in such a whimsical fashion. I suppose this tale is a modern twist and more PC [politically correct] than say its Irish cousin Woman From Wexford but, having said that, for those who enjoy folk music plain and simple this is a cautionary tale much favoured by those who like their credits to read trad: arr. To all the gentlemen (and I do mean that in the disparaging tone in which it was delivered) read as much or as little as you want into the narrative (it’s the nearest many of us chaps will get to reading Bella or Take A Break) or you might wind up in Battersea Dogs Home…see album notes for details! The following track Mocking Bird includes a gently strings inflected Vaughn Williams moment and proves that those of a nervous disposition need not be afraid when it comes to the production values of Kate and her brother Joe who unerringly steer the accompanying musicians including Donald Shaw (harmonium), Kevin McGuire (double bass) and husband Damien O’Kane (banjo, bouzouki etc) to a rewarding recording. Not wishing to dispense with her Yorkshire roots the addition of a brass ensemble is the icing on a not inconsiderable debut as a songwriter of note and I personally can’t wait for the next album.
Pete Fyfe
Review from Folk London - April 2011