Sleepless (Kate Rusby album)

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.

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

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

• 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

References