Album: Sleepless by Kate Rusby (1999)
Genre: Folk
Format: Album

Description: "Sleepless" is the second studio album by English folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 1999, on the Pure Records label. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year.
Sleepless was the winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for 2000.
This, her second solo album, is collection of traditional songs and original compositions (plus a sensitive cover version of Iris Dement's "Our Town") in which Rusby muses on and mourns for lost love in a variety of settings.
 The album's style is a distinctive combination of traditional influence and strictly acoustic instrumentation, with arrangements that take different directions than the familiar renditions of the old songs. But there is also a good helping of original material by Kate that sound like classic traditional ballads.

Artist Background: Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times. In 2001 The Guardian described her as "a superstar of the British acoustic scene." In 2007 the BBC website described her as "The first lady of young folkies". She is one of the few folk... Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, 1990s, Album


"Sleepless" is the second studio album by English folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 1999, on the Pure Records label. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year.
Sleepless was the winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for 2000.
This, her second solo album, is collection of traditional songs and original compositions (plus a sensitive cover version of Iris Dement's "Our Town") in which Rusby muses on and mourns for lost love in a variety of settings.
 The album's style is a distinctive combination of traditional influence and strictly acoustic instrumentation, with arrangements that take different directions than the familiar renditions of the old songs. But there is also a good helping of original material by Kate that sound like classic traditional ballads.

Sleepless

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