2025 Charity Shop Purchases # 61 - Kate Rusby - Hourglass
A return visit to the Wigtown Community Shop and the four CDs for a pound offer was still on the go.
Try as I might I could only come up with three.
One of the three was Hourglass the 1997 deby album by folk singer/ songwriter Kate Rusby on on the Pure Records label . The Barnsley Nightingale has since released another 19 solo albums and 4 collaborative ones with other artists.
I've gone for Radio Sweethearts with the music having been writtren by her then husband John McCusker. It was written for the Americana band of the same name who he played with from time to time with the words being written by the band's lead singer John Miller. The Radio Sweethearts were a band I saw countless times and who have featured here a good few times in their own right.
My second selection Drowned Lovers was chosen simply on the basis that it references the River Clyde. A traditional song it has also been covered by Nic Jones on Penguin Eggs which inspired this version by Kate.
Always been partial to a bit of Kate Rusby but I've kept my distance album wise - only got her 10 which was a collection of re-recorded tracks circa 2002. I do have a recording of her and Laura Cantrell singing Iris De Ment's Our Town that I nicked from YT, but which now seems to have disappeared. There's one video of her and her family recorded during Covid singing Manic Monday that I return to now and then in which I allow myself to wallow in lachrymose sentimentality.
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