Kate Rusby - Philosophers, Poets and Kings (2019) [Hi-Res]

Title: Philosophers, Poets and Kings
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Genre: World; Folk; Pop
Quality: 24-bit/48kHz FLAC
Total Time: 51:59
Total Size: 612 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Listening Post 238. There’s an exquisite equilibrium to Kate Rusby’s voice, at once celestial and cozy, planting a wistful note in the most comical saga and a vein of comfort in the most tragic. On Philosophers, Poets & Kings, her seventeenth solo album, the folksinger-songwriter covers a sweeping range of experience and emotion drawn mostly from her South Yorkshire surroundings—old and new tales of wine and wisdom, celebration and gravity—based on characters intimately real or just as intimately mythical. Rusby was born into a musical family in Barnsley and in her teens was already one of Britain’s best-known traditional singers. She was a rare folk artist nominated for a Mercury Prize (given annually for best album in the British Isles) and has won four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. All acoustic for most of her career, she has in recent years discretely integrated electronics—aided by husband-guitarist Damien O’Kane—into her sound arsenal. She wrote Until Morning to offer solace to a friend who was in the “deepest, darkest hour” and who passed away not long after the album’s release (video 1). The Farmer’s Toast is a traditional drinking anthem, enchantingly reprised to honor the planter family that hosts the Rusby clan’s annual Underneath the Stars music and arts festival (video 2). The drinking takes an erudite turn in the title track (video 3), evoking Plato and Socrates and carrying an elegant echo of Monty Python’s Philosophers Song. The collection’s most stunning chapter, Halt the Wagons, recalls an 1838 flood that killed 26 children working in a South Yorkshire mine—for which Rusby enlisted members from the Barnsley Youth Choir (the same ages and gender makeup as the victims) to give the song blazing immediacy (videos 4 and 5). More than the most philosophical chronicler, this timeless nightingale of folk brings—and sings—history and legend to life. (Pure Records)

Philosophers, Poets & Kings
Kate Rusby: Vocals
Damien O’Kane: Guest vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Sam Kelly: Guest vocals
Barnsley Youth Choir: Guest vocals
Chas MacKenzie: Electric guitar
Duncan Lyall: Moog, double bass
Anthony Davis: Piano, keys, synths
Nick Cooke: Diatonic accordion
Michael McGoldrick: Whistles, flute
Ross Ainslie: Whistles
Ron Block: Banjo
Josh Clark: Percussion
Gary Wyatt: Cornet
Rich Evans: Flugelhorn
Sam Pearce: French horn
Robin Taylor: Euphonium
Mike Levis: Tuba

Tracklist:
01. Kate Rusby - Jenny (4:38)
02. Kate Rusby - Bogey's Bonnie Belle (4:24)
03. Kate Rusby - Philosophers, Poets & Kings (4:27)
04. Kate Rusby - Until Morning (4:27)
05. Kate Rusby - Crazy Man Michael (4:57)
06. Kate Rusby - Don't Go Away (4:13)
07. Kate Rusby - The Squire and the Parson (3:41)
08. Kate Rusby - The Wanderer (3:39)
09. Kate Rusby - The Farmer's Toast (4:24)
10. Kate Rusby - As the Lights Go out (3:46)
11. Kate Rusby - Jenny (Ordinary Remix) (4:31)
12. Kate Rusby - Halt the Wagons (4:52)

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2019 Philosophers, Poets and Kings 24-48 FLAC.rar - 613.2 MB

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Kate Rusby - Philosophers, Poets and Kings (2019) [Hi-Res]

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