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'30: Happy Returns' can’t be faulted. Take a bow, Kate, and keep shining your light.

Rightly considered a national treasure, Kate Rusby has made a significant contribution over the last few decades to popularising English folk music, and I’m regularly surprised when friends, who otherwise wouldn’t dream of going to a folk gig, tell me they’ve been to see Kate and her band. With this latest release, she celebrates 30 years as a professional musician. She is still very much at the top of her game.

I first saw Kate supporting Richard Thompson at the Guildford Civic Hall in 1998 (six years late to the party), where she was promoting her first solo album, Hourglass. One year on and Sleepless album was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize. Among her other accolades, she has two honorary doctorates, performed the theme song to Jennifer Saunders’ Jam And Jerusalem, and has picked up a stellar list of fans, including Matt Lucas, Stephen Fry, Brian Cox and Ade Edmondson. The guest artists featured on this release reflect not only her influences but also the respect held for Kate amongst the worldwide music scene. They include Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Richard Hawley, Darlingside, KT Tunstall, Sarah Jarosz, Sam Kelly, Dan Tyminski and Beth Nielsen Chapman. The same could be said for her previous anniversary album ’20’ from ten years ago, which featured Nic Jones, Dick Gaughan, Paul Weller, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eddi Reader and Richard Thompson.

All the tracks on 30: Happy Returns are newly-recorded and re-interpreted versions of past favourites. It opens with the unmistakable tones of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It’s extraordinary that the South African male choral group blend so perfectly with Kate’s pure English vocals. It’s a joyous and enchanting opening on which Kate’s partner Damien O’Kane, also a featured guest on the album, provides ethereal and haunting guitar parts and impeccable production throughout.


Tracks:
01. We Will Sing @30
02. No Names @30
03. Fairest of all Yarrow @30
04. Cruel @30
05. Let Me Be @30
06. Ghost @30
07. High on a Hill @30
08. Blooming Heather @30
09. Only Desire What You Have @30
10. Underneath the Stars @30
11. Walk the Road @30
12. Hunter Moon (Remastered 2022)
13. Until Morning (Remastered 2022)
14. Jenny (ExtraOrdinary Remix)
15. As the Lights Go Out

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7mOlR0uxdo