Track Listing

1. Game of All Fours
2. The Lark
3. No Names
4. Mary Blaize
5. A Ballad
6. You Belong To Me
7. Elfin Knight
8. Bonny House of Airlie
9. Moon Shadow
10. Wandering Soul
11. Fare Thee Well
12. Bonus Track: Little Jack Frost

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3140 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
A succession of plaudit-harvesting folk albums and subsequent international renown means that Yorkshire's Kate Rusby no longer needs to be nurtured with kind words of condescension along the lines of lass, babe and starlet, and yet there remains something irredeemably youthful about The Girl Who Couldn't Fly. It’s not just the butterfly flutter of Rusby's voice--which allows the nudge and wink of a smutty traditional favourite like "Game Of All Fours" to retain its charade and the magic of innocent years to linger. Sometimes the songs are bare--guitar and vocals--but they're never spartan, pink as nature intended, a curiously roseate melancholia where even an ill-fated adieu such as "No Names"--one of three songs sang, improbably, with Roddy Woomble of Idlewild--mollifies as fluently as a lullaby. The jolly virtues of the traditional "Mary Blaize" and Rusby's very own faux-traditional epic "Elfin Knight" are fleshier, finding Rusby accompanied by such folk scene luminati as Michael McGoldrick, Andy Cutting and John McCusker to ebullient effect. Proof, indeed, that folk music need not be studiously dour or touristically picturesque. If the current British folk scene is to produce a genuine household name, it's likely to be Kate Rusby.--Kevin Maidment

The Times
"..the finest female folk singer to hit the scene in two decades."

CD Description
'The Girl Who Couldn't Fly' is the sixth album from Britishfolk star Kate Rusby. Produced by husband John McCusker thealbum sees Rusby bring together a selection of traditional folk songs with her own material. Guest vocals come from Kellie While and Idlewild's Robbie Womble, while the artwork has been designed by former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon.

Customer Reviews

Simply Beautiful
It's been less than a year since I fell in love with Kate Rusby's music. I had read a positive review of her appearance at 2004's Sidmouth Folk Festival and decided to investigate her work. I was blown away by Underneath the Stars and sought out all her other albums, and despite loving artists like Status Quo and Black Sabbath have, through following Kate Rusby, discovered the whole genre of folk music. So it was with great anticipation I awaited this new album and I wasn't disappointed. As always the melodies and the story telling are beautiful, and that voice! I think Kate Rusby could probably sing a shopping list and make it sound breathtaking. Standout tracks for me are The Lark, Wandering Soul and Little Jack Frost and the more upbeat and bawdy Elfin Knight. I thoroughly recommend this album but for new fans I would say Underneath the Stars is an essential introduction to the different colours in her work.

A Voice Of Angelic Purity - A Must Buy!
This is a wonderful folk album. Kate Rusby's voice is angelic and plaintive and beautiful, but the songs here are equally magical and the combination is simply breathtaking. Simple acoustic accompaniment (with the occasional use of soft brass) makes for a really fantastic listening experience. I am so glad to have found this album and can't wait to hear more. I cannot recommend this album highly enough.

Take a moment in your life-a voice to soothe
Should you be new to Kate Rusby as I was up until two years ago when stumbling into her on BBC4 singing in a live concert, then do yourself the favour of listening and losing yourself in this ladies gloriously uncomplicatred voice sat alongside innovative and stylishly simple arrangements.
The lyrics will move you the music will move you.Kate has the ability to sing to the individual. If i didnt love my wife as much as i do then Kate would be my preferred second choice. Great new album and check out her previous, you cant fail to be impressed..