Sleepless is an album by the English folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 1999. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year. It won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2000 for best album."Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006: Previous Winners" BBC.co.uk (Retrieved: 19 July 2009)
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."
Track listing "The Cobbler's Daughter" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) "I Wonder What is keeping my True Love This Night" (Traditional) "The Fairest of all Yarrow" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) "The Unquiet Grave" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) "Sho Heen" (Kate Rusby) "Sweet Bride" (Kate Rusby) "All God's Angels" (Kate Rusby) "The Wild Goose" (Traditional) "The Duke and the Tinker" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) "Our Town" (Iris DeMent) "The Sleepless Sailor" (Kate Rusby) "Cowsong" "Botany Bay" (Kate Rusby/Traditional)
Personnel Kate Rusby - vocals, piano, guitar Dave Burland - vocals Ian Carr - guitar Andy Cutting - diatonic accordion Donald Hay - percussion Conrad Ivitsky - double bass John McCusker - fiddle, banjo Michael McGoldrick - whistle, flute Francis Macdonald - percussion Tim O'Brien - vocals, mandolin Darrell Scott - guitar Andy Seward - double bass Roger Wilson - vocals, guitar
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