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Music CD - Kate Rusby: The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
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Music CD: The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
Artist: Kate Rusby
List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $11.88
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Manufacturer: Compass Records
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Tracks:
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1. Game Of All Fours
2. The Lark
3. No Names
4. Mary Blaize
5. A Ballad
6. You Belong To Me
7. Elfin Knight
8. Bonnie House Of Airlie
9. Moon Shadow
10. Wandering Soul
11. Fare Thee Well
12. Little Jack frost (Bonus Track)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0766397442020
Label: Compass Records
Manufacturer: Compass Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Compass Records
Release Date: 2005-10-11
Studio: Compass Records
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Kate Rusby - a real treasure
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Surprised by Joy
Comment: Kate Rusby's songs are not only beautiful, but charming in their simplicity and ornate in their dynamics. Kate Rusby is first and formost a story teller and her lovely delicate voice portrays well the emotion, love, and warmth of its owner. As a songwriter, her work has a timeless quality that makes it quite unique. This CD is full of songs you will listen to over and over and never get tired of, and lovely lilting melodies that you will be quite happy to have stuck in your head. From the toungue-in-cheek song Mary Blaize to the devestating tale of false love told in A Ballad, Kate Rusby's "The Girl Who Couldn't Fly" is a timeless work of art.
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Summary: Sandy's Rightful Successor
Comment: Kate Rusby is the UK's finest female singer/songwriter since Sandy Denny. Which is not to say that she is in any way a copycat; she is an original. Any of her albums will be a worthy addition to your collection - including this latest work. Buy this. Then go out and buy the rest of her catalog.
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Summary: Pleasant
Comment: I like most of Kate Rusby's other albums but this one did not do all that much for me. The most I can say is that it was "pleasant".
None of the songs was particularly memorable. I just let her fade into the background while I was doing unpleasant tasks. Hearing her voice was pleasant.
Her voice is not particularly strong but does possess a certain airy quality. It was pleasant.
It was pleasant without ever being memorable.
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Summary: Warm, ingratiating, affirming, reassuring English folk music
Comment: Combines a unique, appealing voice with expert, tailored acoustic folk settings, and songs with strong traditional English folk roots, even when Rusby wrote words and/or music. Her voice has a broad range-fairly pure in the upper reaches, huskier and earthier in a lower register. The slower a song, the more her voice resonates and quavers, giving a (false) sense of frailty in a voice that practically demands to fill any intimate space with warmth. Lovely. Settings are all carefully tailored and presented with great precision that is never cold or clinical; a homey folkiness underlies the virtuosity of the players. Songs tend to start simple and carefully accumulate complexity as they proceed, in many different ways. Session as a whole is warm, ingratiating, affirming, and reassuring-she places and holds the world in a good place. Stand-out: tr 6-You belong to me (she remakes a '50s pop classic in her own English folkie image). [49:47]
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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