Kate Rusby - Make The Light

(December 2010) 11 tracks (49 mins): The Wishing Wife * The Mocking Bird * Let Them Fly * Only Hope * Lately * Shout To The Devil * Green Fields * Fair Weather Friend * Walk The Road * Not Me * Four Stars.

The defining voice of contemporary English folk music sings eleven of her own compositions.

Kate Rusby (vocals, guitar) with Damien O'Kane (guitar, tenor banjo), Malcolm Stitt (bouzouki), Julian Sutton (diatonic accordion), Kevin McGuire (double bass), John-Joe Kelly (bodhran), Donald Shaw (harmonium), Donald Grant (violin), Catrin Morgan (violin), Helena Smart (violin), Rebecca Jones (viola), Nicholas Trygstad (cello), David Edmonds (cello), Diane Clark (double bass), James Mackintosh (percussion), Rob Westacott (cornet), Andrew Holmes (flugelhorn), Jim Fletcher (tenor horn), Michael Dodd (euphonium), Matthew Broadbent (tuba), and Rex Preston (vibraphone).

"I feel this album is quite different from my others... Some of it is gritty, some of it is pretty and some of it is a bit wacky! But what fun we had making it. I hope people enjoy it!" (Kate Rusby)