Kate Rusby's singing voice is a very honest one, revealing her northern accent, which I think is wonderful in this age of Pseudo-American pop singers. She manages to convey both complexity and simplicity in her well-crafted songs - which draw on traditional lyrics and original music.
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WithUnderneath the Stars, her first studio album since 2001'sLittle Lights, Kate Rusby ... more
takes a massive step forward. Like her fellow north-easterner Eliza Carthy, she's still plundering a folk back-catalogue that stretches back several hundred years an...
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With Underneath the Stars, her first studio album since 2001's Little Lights, Kate Rusby ... more
takes a massive step forward. Like her fellow north-easterner Eliza Carthy, she's still plundering a folk back-catalogue that stretches back several hundred years ...
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With Underneath the Stars, her first studio album since 2001's Little Lights, Kate Rusby ... more
takes a massive step forward. Like her fellow north-easterner Eliza Carthy, she's still plundering a folk back-catalogue that stretches back several hundred years ...
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Advantages: Kate's fabulous northern singing voice Disadvantages: None, in my opinion.
Kate Rusby's singing voice is a very honest one, revealing her northern accent, which I think is wonderful in this age of Pseudo-American pop singers. She manages to convey both complexity and simplicity in her well-crafted songs - which draw on traditional lyrics and original music.
The album opens with guitar used almost percussively in the intro to The Good Man - a highly unique, humorous and ambigulous song (traditional lyrics), ... ...mandolin, and (i think?) xylophone... don't quote me!
Unfortunately, the album wanes a little in the middle, but the first and last few songs are memorable and lovely.
I have to say I haven't liked everything I've heard Kate do (slushy duets with Ronan spring to mind) but this album was the first I heard of her and a good introduction. I have yet to see Kate and band perform live, but would very much like to.
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Kate Rusby's singing voice is a very honest one, revealing her northern accent, which I think is wonderful in this age of Pseudo-American pop singers. She manages to convey both complexity and simplicity in her well-crafted songs - which draw on traditional lyrics and original music.
The album opens with guitar used almost percussively in the intro to The Good Man - a highly unique, humorous and ambigulous song (traditional lyrics), and works its way through acoutic arrangements of guitar, piano, mandolin, and (i think?) xylophone... don't quote me!
Unfortunately, the album wanes a little in the middle, but the first and last few songs are memorable and lovely.
I have to say I haven't liked everything I've heard Kate do (slushy duets with Ronan spring to mind) but this album was the first I heard of her and a good introduction. I have yet to see Kate and band perform live, but would very much like to.
It's dangerous to describe this as folk music, as most people will switch off immediately. However, describe this as honest, endearing acoustic music with brilliant songs and superb backing and we are getting nearer the truth. The first four songs set the mood beautifully, The Good Man is wonderful, Let Me Be has the most addictive hook of all times, Cruel is honest and sad. The middle tracks are maybe not as strong, but Falling sets up a final 5 ... ...The Stars' which includes some gentle brass band accompaniment which is disarmingly beautiful.
I don't really like folk music and I hate brass bands, but this for me is her best album, and the best album I have ever heard or probably will ever hear. She's lovely, it's great, just give it a try. See her in concert, though, for an even better life affirming evening to treasure. The anti-Britney Spears, an honest hard-working, very funny, beautiful ...
bakerdjb 13.11.2006
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Product details
Title
Underneath The Stars
Performer
Kate Rusby
Genre
Folk
Sub Genre
British Folk
Release Date
18/08/2003
Recomended Retail Price
14.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2004
Label / Distributor
Pure / Cadiz/Universal Music
Engineer
Joe Rusby
Producer
John McCusker
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5060066680016
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Kate Rusby (vocals, guitar); Ian Carr (guitar, mandolin); John McCusker (cittern, ukelele); Andy Cutting (diatonic accordion); Neil Yates (trumpet, flugelhorn); Ewen Vernal (double bass); James Macintosh (percussion, wee bells). Recorded at Pure Records Studio, South Yorkshire, UK.
Album Reviews
Dirty Linen (p.47) - "UNDERNEATH THE STARS is an emotional, bewitching album from a woman who continues to stand among the best of the new generation of English folk performers."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Goodman
2.
Daughter Of Megan
3.
Let Me Be
4.
Cruel
5.
Blind Harper
6.
White Cockade
7.
Young James
8.
Falling
9.
Bring Me A Boat
10.
Polly
11.
Sweet William's Ghost
12.
Underneath The Stars
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