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Sleepless is an album by the English folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 1999.[3][4] It was nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year.[5][6]

Sleepless
Studio album by Kate Rusby
Released	10 May 1999
Genre	English folk
Length	43:41
Label	Pure Records
Producer	John McCusker[1]
Kate Rusby chronology
Hourglass (1997) Sleepless (1999) Little Lights (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

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."[1]

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

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