republished review from her website: “Six albums, countless live performances and eight years on from being 1999’s token, sorry, wildcard Mercury nominee, not an awful lot has changed in the world of folk songstress Kate Rusby. She is still, as the BBC put it, ‘the acceptable face of folk’; less traditional than Eliza Carthy and easier on the ear than Seth Lakeman. The only thing that has noticeably shifted over time is that with each album she releases, her own compositions have improved to the point that the word ‘Rusby’ is now a surer mark of a song’s quality than the word ‘trad’ . And old-school folkies can stick that opinion in their pipe and slippers and smoke it.”
“Who Will Sing Me Lullabies”