''Sleepless'' is an album by the
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Kate Rusby
Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Sometimes called the "Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British folk festivals, and is one of the be ...
, released in
1999
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. It was nominated for the
Mercury Prize
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the same year.
Critical reception
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The Washington Post
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'' wrote that Rusby "often creates ... ambience at the cost of blurring her melodies and stories; her vowels frequently flood the music until the consonants and rhythms are submerged in a tide of poignancy."
Track listing
#"The Cobbler's Daughter" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
#"I Wonder What is keeping my True Love This Night" (Traditional)
#"The Fairest of all Yarrow" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
#"
The Unquiet Grave
"The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man's grief over the death of his true love is so deep that it disturbs her eternal sleep. It was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child as Child Ballad number 78. One of the more comm ...
" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
#"Sho Heen" (Kate Rusby)
#"Sweet Bride" (Kate Rusby)
#"All God's Angels" (Kate Rusby)
#"The Wild Goose" (Traditional)
#"The Duke and the Tinker" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
#"Our Town" (
Iris DeMent
Iris Luella DeMent (born January 5, 1961) is an American two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and musician . DeMent's musical style includes elements of folk, country and gospel.
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DeMent was born in Paragould, Arkansas, the 14 ...
)
#"The Sleepless Sailor" (Kate Rusby)
#"Cowsong"
#"Botany Bay" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
Personnel
* Kate Rusby - vocals, piano, guitar
*
Dave Burland
Dave Burland (born 12 July 1941, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an English folk singer and guitarist. A former policeman, he has been performing in English folk clubs since 1968 and has been described by ''The Guardian'' as havi ...
- vocals
*
Ian Carr
Ian Carr (21 April 1933 – 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator. Carr performed and recorded with the Rendell-Carr quintet and jazz-fusion band Nucleus, and was an associate professor at the Guildhall ...
- guitar
*
Andy Cutting
Andy Cutting (born 18 March 1969) is an English folk musician and composer. He plays melodeon and is best known for writing and performing traditional English folk and his own original compositions which combine English and French traditions ...
- diatonic accordion
* Donald Hay - percussion
* Conrad Ivitsky - double bass
*
John McCusker
John McCusker (born 15 May 1973) is a Scottish folk musician, record producer, and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and p ...
- fiddle, banjo
*
Michael McGoldrick
Michael McGoldrick (born 26 November 1971, in Manchester, England) is a folk musician who plays Irish flute, uilleann pipes, low whistle and bodhran. He also plays other instruments such as acoustic guitar, cittern, and mandolin.
Bands
McGo ...
- whistle, flute
*
Francis Macdonald - percussion
*
Tim O'Brien - vocals, mandolin
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Darrell Scott
James Darrell Scott, known as Darrell Scott (born August 6, 1959), is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The son of musician Wayne Scott, he moved as a child to East Gary, Indiana (known today as Lake Station, Indiana). ...
- guitar
* Andy Seward - double bass
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Roger Wilson - vocals, guitar
References
Kate Rusby albums
1999 albums
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