Girl Who Couldn't Fly [Import]

Girl Who Couldn't Fly [Import]

Track Listings

1. Game Of All Fours

2. Lark

3. No Names

4. Mary Blaize

5. Ballad

6. You Belong To Me

7. Elfin Knight

8. Bonny House Of Airlie

9. Moon Shadow

10. Wandering Soul

11. Fare Thee Well

12. Little Jack Frost (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
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.

Tracks:

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)

From Amazon.co.uk

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

Customer Reviews:

Surprised by Joy.......2007-01-18

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.

Sandy's Rightful Successor.......2006-07-28

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.

Pleasant.......2006-06-02

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.

Warm, ingratiating, affirming, reassuring English folk music.......2006-03-22

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]

A Voice Of Angelic Purity - A Must Buy! .......2006-03-18

This is a wonderful folk album. Kate Rusby's voice is angelic and plaintive and beautiful, but the songs here are equally magical and the combination is simply breathtaking. Simple acoustic accompaniment (with the occasional use of soft brass) makes for a really fantastic listening experience. I am so glad to have found this album and can't wait to hear more. I cannot recommend this album highly enough.

Average customer rating:

Her Magic Continues...

The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
Kate Rusby
Manufacturer: Pure
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Folk | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000A17H50
Release Date: 2005-09-12

Tracks:

Game of All Fours
Lark
No Names
Mary Blaize
Ballad
You Belong to Me
Elfin Knight
Bonnie House of Airlie
Moon Shadow
Wandering Soul
Fare Thee Well
Little Jack Frost [*]

Album Description

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.

Album Details

An Exceptional 2005 Full Length from the UK'S Most Popular Folk Artist, with Fantastic Cover Art by Graham Coxon of Blur Fame.

Customer Reviews:

Her Magic Continues..........2005-09-18

Kate's unique magic continues with this beautiful cd. Filled with all the talents we've come to expect: Kate composing original songs sounding wonderfully old, Kate putting traditional lyrics to her perfectly fitting new music, and Kate once again singing so subtly and yet with such emotion. She even performs a cover from a much more modern time, Pee Wee King's "You Belong to Me." There's a traditional bawdy song, several songs that play like the loveliest of lullabies, and even a kid's song.

Once again, Kate's instrumental genius of a husband, John McCusker, produces the album. His and Kate's arrangements include some of the most dense (and yet somehow still spare) groupings of acoustic instruments-played by the amazing regulars in Kate's band: Ian Carr, John, Andy Cutting, and a host of others. Roddy Woomble from the band Idlewild duets grandly with Kate on "No Names" and Roddy and Kellie While provide lovely harmony on several other songs. Even with such virtuoso playing (on fiddle, viola, flute, whistle, piano, cittern, accordion, harmonium, a brass section and an extra string section), the guitar work stands above all else (played by Kate, Ian, John, John Doyle, and Kris Drever).

The heart, of course, is still Kate's great voice. Yorkshire and folk music have never sounded so fine.

MOON SHADOW,
HE'S THERE BUT BARELY VISIBLE
MOON SHADOW,
WHEN I'M SCARED AND FAIRLY MISERABLE
A WATCH FOR ME HE'LL KEEP,
SO I MIGHT FALL ASLEEP.
(from Kate's "Moon Shadow")

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