2025 Charity Shop Purchases # 65 - Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
My third and final purchase in a four CDs for a pound in the Wigtown Community Shop. Try as I might I couldn't come up with a fourth.
Awkward Annie was the second ony by Kate Bush that I picked up and it replaces a burn from the library. From 2007 and on the Pure label it was her 7th studio album. It's predecessor The Girl Who Couldn't Fly was also available but I already had that one.
As with most of her albums from that period it is a mixture of her own songs and covers of traditional songs. One of each for you I think. Bitter Boy is one of her own compositions and one she feels is the favourite of the ones she has written.
Andrew Lammie is a traditional Scottish ballad and is Child Ballad 233.
Her version of The Kinks classic The Village Green Preservation Society is included as a bonus track. It was recorded as the theme song for the BBC sitcom Jam and Jerusalem which from my patchy recollection was pretty awful and not remotely funny.
Kate Rusby - The Village Green Preservation Society
As things stand this is my final Charity Shop purchase of the year. It is getting harder and harder. I was in a shop yesterday which probably had 700 to 800 CDs. I came away with nothing
The Kinks cover is one of the few songs of hers that I have in my collection. It is mostly stuff from compilations.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope that the charity shops will be full of unwanted but tasteful Christmas gifts in January.
Unlikely, but we can only hope!
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