Sleepless
Studio album by
Released10 May 1999
GenreEnglish folk
Length43:41
LabelPure Records
ProducerJohn McCusker[1]
Kate Rusby chronology
Hourglass
(1997)
Sleepless
(1999)
Little Lights
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Sleepless is an album by the English folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 1999.[3][4] It was nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year.[5][6] It won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2000 for best album.[7]

Critical reception

The Washington Post 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."[1]

Track listing

  1. "The Cobbler's Daughter" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
  2. "I Wonder What is keeping my True Love This Night" (Traditional)
  3. "The Fairest of all Yarrow" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
  4. "The Unquiet Grave" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
  5. "Sho Heen" (Kate Rusby)
  6. "Sweet Bride" (Kate Rusby)
  7. "All God's Angels" (Kate Rusby)
  8. "The Wild Goose" (Traditional)
  9. "The Duke and the Tinker" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
  10. "Our Town" (Iris DeMent)
  11. "The Sleepless Sailor" (Kate Rusby)
  12. "Cowsong"
  13. "Botany Bay" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 "KATE RUSBY 'Sleepless' Compass". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  2. Rick Anderson. "AllMusic review". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  3. "Kate Rusby Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. Dorian, Frederick; Duane, Orla; McConnachie, James (21 September 1999). "World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East". Rough Guides via Google Books.
  5. "Mercury Prize–Previous winners and shortlists". Mercury Prize. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  6. "Local girl made good". The Irish Times.
  7. "Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006: Previous Winners" BBC.co.uk (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)


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