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)
Music reviews of The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
Music Review: This One Takes Off!
Rating: 4 Stars
Celtic influences her own compositions, traditional Irish ballads are set to her own music and light and airy vocals float across the accompaniment of guitar describe the material that Ms. Rusby presents us with on this CD.
There are twelve tracks total, eleven plus a bonus track. The works are well produced by John McCusker with vocal accompaniment on a few tracks by Roddy Woomble and Kellie While.
Ms. Rusby's vocals are sometimes light and delicate, as in the opening track of The Game of All Fours. They can also be strong and imposing as in the traditional Mary Blaize which Ms. Rusby has put to music.
Most of the pieces are ballads, with the exception being You Belong to Me, the Pee Wee King piece. In the background of this piece we hear the light accent of Ms. Rusby as she makes the work vocally her own. The acoustic instrumentation highlights her vocals and blends nicely, accenting the work but never overpowering her voice.
Outstanding tracks on this CD include the traditional pieces which Ms. Rusby has interpreted in her own style of which Mary Blaize is a strong example. Celtic influences in her own works the Elfin Knight and Little Jack Frost are also outstanding tracks. She gives a delicate and heartfelt performance in Moon Shadow. The lyrics and melody are very memorable in Little Jack Frost which is included in a TV production. And of course, her own personal interpretation of You Belong to Me is a winner.
This is a lovely presentation of Ms. Rusby's vocal talents and compositions. I liked her interpretations of the traditional material, and her own "new traditional" pieces. Ms. Rusby is a delight to listen to and I look forward to more work by her. maf
Description of The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
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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