Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an Englishfolk singer and songwriter from Penistone, Barnsley. Sometimes known as "The Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is one of the most noted contemporary English folk singers. In 2001 The Guardian described her as "a superstar of the British acoustic scene." In 2007 the BBC website described her as "The first lady of young folkies". She is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize.
Career
Rusby was born into a family of musicians in 1973 in Barnsley, England. After learning to play the guitar, the fiddle and the piano, as well as to sing, she played in many local folk festivals as a child and adolescent, before joining (and becoming the lead vocalist of) the all-female Celtic folk band the Poozies. Her breakthrough album came in 1995. A collaboration with her friend and fellow Barnsley folk singer Kathryn Roberts was simply titled Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts. In 1997, with the help of her family, she recorded and released her first solo album, Hourglass. Since then she has gone on to receive acclaim in her home country and abroad and her family continues to help her with all aspects of her professional career.
Kate Rusby UNDERNEATH THE STARS @30 from the album 30 : Happy Returns
Words and Tune K.Rusby
A reimagining of this track to celebrate 30 years as a touring musician. katerusby.com/album/30-happy-returns
Originally from Kate's 2003 album UNDERNEATH THE STARS katerusby.com/album/underneath-the-stars
One of Kate's seminal works and the inspiration for Underneath the Stars Festival underneaththestarsfest.co.uk
CREDITS:
Kate Rusby: vocals
Damien O’Kane: electric guitar & drum programming
Duncan Lyall: Moog & synths
Josh Clark: drums and additional programming
Nick Cooke: electric guitar
Sam Kelly: electric guitar
Produced by Damien O’Kane
Additional production by Kate Rusby
Engineered by Damien O’Kane
Additional engineering by Josh Clark
Mixed by Josh Clark getrealaudio.com
Mastered by Nick Cooke nickcookemastering.com
Recorded at Chairworks St...
published: 30 May 2022
I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Kate Rusby
The most beautiful song that always moves me. I know my pictures don't do it justice but I had to put something on with it.
published: 28 Sep 2008
Kate Rusby - Who Will Sing Me Lullabies
Kate Rusby Live From Leeds England
published: 27 Mar 2007
KATE RUSBY - THE WILD GOOSE
KATE RUSBY - THE WILD GOOSE
IS SHE SWEET OR WHAT
published: 22 Feb 2010
Kate Rusby - I Am Stretched On Your Grave ( Peaky Blinders )
Lyrics.
I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If your hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever.
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the earth
And I'm worn by the weather.
When my family think
That I'm safely in my bed
Oh, from mourn' until night
I am stretched out at your head
Calling out unto the earth
With tears hot and wild
For the loss of the girl
That I loved as a child.
Do you remember the night
Oh, the night when we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the touch of the frost?
Oh, and thanks be to Jesus
We did all that was right
And your maidenhead still
Is your pillar of light.
Oh, the priests and the friars
They approach me in dread
Oh for I love you still
Oh, my life, and you're dead
But I still will be...
published: 23 Jun 2017
Three Little Birds
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Three Little Birds · Kate Rusby · Bob Marley
Hand Me Down
℗ 2020 Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2020-08-14
Auto-generated by YouTube.
published: 27 Oct 2022
Kate Rusby, Blooming Heather aka Wild Mountain Thyme
Kate Rusby performs "Blooming Heather" at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival-Lyrics below:
Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
I will build my love a tower
By yon' pure crystal fountain
And on it I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull ...
published: 25 Feb 2013
Friday I'm In Love by Kate Rusby, OFFICIAL VIDEO
Friday I'm in Love by Kate Rusby, from the album Hand Me Down
Released Friday 14th August 2020 by Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd.
Listening Link https://ffm.to/handmedown-katerusby
https://purerecords.net/products/hand-me-down
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hand-Me-Down-Kate-Rusby/dp/B08DSYSJZ6
published: 28 Aug 2020
Kate Rusby - Underneath The Stars (With Lyrics in Description)
Underneath the stars I'll meet you
Underneath the stars I'll greet you
There beneath the stars I'll leave you
Before you go of your own free will
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
At least you'll go of your own free will
Go gently
Here beneath the stars I'm landing
And here beneath the stars not ending
Why on earth am I pretending?
I'm here again, the stars befriending
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
And Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
I'm sure they'd like me if they only met me
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Go gently
published: 29 Nov 2009
I Courted a Sailor
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I Courted a Sailor · Kate Rusby
Little Lights
℗ Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2001-06-04
Music Publisher: Sentric
Composer, Lyricist: Kate Rusby
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Words and Tune K.Rusby
A reimagining of this track to celebrate 30 years as a touring musician. katerusby.com/album/30-happy-returns
Originally from Kate's 2...
Words and Tune K.Rusby
A reimagining of this track to celebrate 30 years as a touring musician. katerusby.com/album/30-happy-returns
Originally from Kate's 2003 album UNDERNEATH THE STARS katerusby.com/album/underneath-the-stars
One of Kate's seminal works and the inspiration for Underneath the Stars Festival underneaththestarsfest.co.uk
CREDITS:
Kate Rusby: vocals
Damien O’Kane: electric guitar & drum programming
Duncan Lyall: Moog & synths
Josh Clark: drums and additional programming
Nick Cooke: electric guitar
Sam Kelly: electric guitar
Produced by Damien O’Kane
Additional production by Kate Rusby
Engineered by Damien O’Kane
Additional engineering by Josh Clark
Mixed by Josh Clark getrealaudio.com
Mastered by Nick Cooke nickcookemastering.com
Recorded at Chairworks Studio, Castleford, W Yorks
Additional recording Pure Records Studio, S Yorks.
Graphic design Tom Pitts handdrawnpixels.com
Cameras: Jim Lockey and Tyrone Braithwaite
Editing: Jim Lockey
katerusby.com
Words and Tune K.Rusby
A reimagining of this track to celebrate 30 years as a touring musician. katerusby.com/album/30-happy-returns
Originally from Kate's 2003 album UNDERNEATH THE STARS katerusby.com/album/underneath-the-stars
One of Kate's seminal works and the inspiration for Underneath the Stars Festival underneaththestarsfest.co.uk
CREDITS:
Kate Rusby: vocals
Damien O’Kane: electric guitar & drum programming
Duncan Lyall: Moog & synths
Josh Clark: drums and additional programming
Nick Cooke: electric guitar
Sam Kelly: electric guitar
Produced by Damien O’Kane
Additional production by Kate Rusby
Engineered by Damien O’Kane
Additional engineering by Josh Clark
Mixed by Josh Clark getrealaudio.com
Mastered by Nick Cooke nickcookemastering.com
Recorded at Chairworks Studio, Castleford, W Yorks
Additional recording Pure Records Studio, S Yorks.
Graphic design Tom Pitts handdrawnpixels.com
Cameras: Jim Lockey and Tyrone Braithwaite
Editing: Jim Lockey
katerusby.com
Lyrics.
I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If your hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever.
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's ...
Lyrics.
I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If your hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever.
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the earth
And I'm worn by the weather.
When my family think
That I'm safely in my bed
Oh, from mourn' until night
I am stretched out at your head
Calling out unto the earth
With tears hot and wild
For the loss of the girl
That I loved as a child.
Do you remember the night
Oh, the night when we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the touch of the frost?
Oh, and thanks be to Jesus
We did all that was right
And your maidenhead still
Is your pillar of light.
Oh, the priests and the friars
They approach me in dread
Oh for I love you still
Oh, my life, and you're dead
But I still will be your shelter
Through rain and through storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm
So I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the Earth
And I'm worn by the weather.
Lyrics.
I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If your hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever.
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the earth
And I'm worn by the weather.
When my family think
That I'm safely in my bed
Oh, from mourn' until night
I am stretched out at your head
Calling out unto the earth
With tears hot and wild
For the loss of the girl
That I loved as a child.
Do you remember the night
Oh, the night when we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the touch of the frost?
Oh, and thanks be to Jesus
We did all that was right
And your maidenhead still
Is your pillar of light.
Oh, the priests and the friars
They approach me in dread
Oh for I love you still
Oh, my life, and you're dead
But I still will be your shelter
Through rain and through storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm
So I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the Earth
And I'm worn by the weather.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Three Little Birds · Kate Rusby · Bob Marley
Hand Me Down
℗ 2020 Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 20...
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Three Little Birds · Kate Rusby · Bob Marley
Hand Me Down
℗ 2020 Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2020-08-14
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Three Little Birds · Kate Rusby · Bob Marley
Hand Me Down
℗ 2020 Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2020-08-14
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Kate Rusby performs "Blooming Heather" at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival-Lyrics below:
Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the...
Kate Rusby performs "Blooming Heather" at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival-Lyrics below:
Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
I will build my love a tower
By yon' pure crystal fountain
And on it I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Kate Rusby performs "Blooming Heather" at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival-Lyrics below:
Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
I will build my love a tower
By yon' pure crystal fountain
And on it I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Friday I'm in Love by Kate Rusby, from the album Hand Me Down
Released Friday 14th August 2020 by Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd.
Listening Link https://ffm.to/ha...
Friday I'm in Love by Kate Rusby, from the album Hand Me Down
Released Friday 14th August 2020 by Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd.
Listening Link https://ffm.to/handmedown-katerusby
https://purerecords.net/products/hand-me-down
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hand-Me-Down-Kate-Rusby/dp/B08DSYSJZ6
Friday I'm in Love by Kate Rusby, from the album Hand Me Down
Released Friday 14th August 2020 by Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd.
Listening Link https://ffm.to/handmedown-katerusby
https://purerecords.net/products/hand-me-down
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hand-Me-Down-Kate-Rusby/dp/B08DSYSJZ6
Underneath the stars I'll meet you
Underneath the stars I'll greet you
There beneath the stars I'll leave you
Before you go of your own free will
Go gentl...
Underneath the stars I'll meet you
Underneath the stars I'll greet you
There beneath the stars I'll leave you
Before you go of your own free will
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
At least you'll go of your own free will
Go gently
Here beneath the stars I'm landing
And here beneath the stars not ending
Why on earth am I pretending?
I'm here again, the stars befriending
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
And Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
I'm sure they'd like me if they only met me
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Go gently
Underneath the stars I'll meet you
Underneath the stars I'll greet you
There beneath the stars I'll leave you
Before you go of your own free will
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
At least you'll go of your own free will
Go gently
Here beneath the stars I'm landing
And here beneath the stars not ending
Why on earth am I pretending?
I'm here again, the stars befriending
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
And Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
I'm sure they'd like me if they only met me
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Go gently
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS
I Courted a Sailor · Kate Rusby
Little Lights
℗ Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2001-06-04
Music Publisher: Sentr...
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS
I Courted a Sailor · Kate Rusby
Little Lights
℗ Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2001-06-04
Music Publisher: Sentric
Composer, Lyricist: Kate Rusby
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS
I Courted a Sailor · Kate Rusby
Little Lights
℗ Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2001-06-04
Music Publisher: Sentric
Composer, Lyricist: Kate Rusby
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Words and Tune K.Rusby
A reimagining of this track to celebrate 30 years as a touring musician. katerusby.com/album/30-happy-returns
Originally from Kate's 2003 album UNDERNEATH THE STARS katerusby.com/album/underneath-the-stars
One of Kate's seminal works and the inspiration for Underneath the Stars Festival underneaththestarsfest.co.uk
CREDITS:
Kate Rusby: vocals
Damien O’Kane: electric guitar & drum programming
Duncan Lyall: Moog & synths
Josh Clark: drums and additional programming
Nick Cooke: electric guitar
Sam Kelly: electric guitar
Produced by Damien O’Kane
Additional production by Kate Rusby
Engineered by Damien O’Kane
Additional engineering by Josh Clark
Mixed by Josh Clark getrealaudio.com
Mastered by Nick Cooke nickcookemastering.com
Recorded at Chairworks Studio, Castleford, W Yorks
Additional recording Pure Records Studio, S Yorks.
Graphic design Tom Pitts handdrawnpixels.com
Cameras: Jim Lockey and Tyrone Braithwaite
Editing: Jim Lockey
katerusby.com
Lyrics.
I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If your hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever.
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the earth
And I'm worn by the weather.
When my family think
That I'm safely in my bed
Oh, from mourn' until night
I am stretched out at your head
Calling out unto the earth
With tears hot and wild
For the loss of the girl
That I loved as a child.
Do you remember the night
Oh, the night when we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the touch of the frost?
Oh, and thanks be to Jesus
We did all that was right
And your maidenhead still
Is your pillar of light.
Oh, the priests and the friars
They approach me in dread
Oh for I love you still
Oh, my life, and you're dead
But I still will be your shelter
Through rain and through storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm
So I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the Earth
And I'm worn by the weather.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Three Little Birds · Kate Rusby · Bob Marley
Hand Me Down
℗ 2020 Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2020-08-14
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Kate Rusby performs "Blooming Heather" at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival-Lyrics below:
Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
I will build my love a tower
By yon' pure crystal fountain
And on it I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Friday I'm in Love by Kate Rusby, from the album Hand Me Down
Released Friday 14th August 2020 by Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd.
Listening Link https://ffm.to/handmedown-katerusby
https://purerecords.net/products/hand-me-down
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hand-Me-Down-Kate-Rusby/dp/B08DSYSJZ6
Underneath the stars I'll meet you
Underneath the stars I'll greet you
There beneath the stars I'll leave you
Before you go of your own free will
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
At least you'll go of your own free will
Go gently
Here beneath the stars I'm landing
And here beneath the stars not ending
Why on earth am I pretending?
I'm here again, the stars befriending
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Underneath the stars you met me
And Underneath the stars you left me
I wonder if the stars regret me
I'm sure they'd like me if they only met me
They come and go of their own free will
Go gently
Go gently
Go gently
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I Courted a Sailor · Kate Rusby
Little Lights
℗ Pure Records (Yorkshire) Ltd
Released on: 2001-06-04
Music Publisher: Sentric
Composer, Lyricist: Kate Rusby
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Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an Englishfolk singer and songwriter from Penistone, Barnsley. Sometimes known as "The Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is one of the most noted contemporary English folk singers. In 2001 The Guardian described her as "a superstar of the British acoustic scene." In 2007 the BBC website described her as "The first lady of young folkies". She is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize.
Career
Rusby was born into a family of musicians in 1973 in Barnsley, England. After learning to play the guitar, the fiddle and the piano, as well as to sing, she played in many local folk festivals as a child and adolescent, before joining (and becoming the lead vocalist of) the all-female Celtic folk band the Poozies. Her breakthrough album came in 1995. A collaboration with her friend and fellow Barnsley folk singer Kathryn Roberts was simply titled Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts. In 1997, with the help of her family, she recorded and released her first solo album, Hourglass. Since then she has gone on to receive acclaim in her home country and abroad and her family continues to help her with all aspects of her professional career.
Take the robe from off thy form, And cease thine hair to braid, Thy love to thee will come no more, He woos another maid, And broken are the many vows, That he hath pledged to thee, He woos another maid, and this, My bridal morn should be. False to me oh say not so, For if thy tale be true, And the one that I love be lost to me, I shall not live to rue, And if he do take another mate, Before the holy shrine, Another ne'er shall have my heart, Death will be a friend of mine. She takes the robes from off her form, And dons a snow white gown, She loosened from her locks the braid, And let her hair hang down, She flung around her lovely head, The thin shround of her veil, To hide the fast ascending tears, And cheek of moon ray pale. With hurried yet, with careful steps, Into the church she hides, And there she saw the false of heart, Receive another bride, The bridal pageant swept along, 'Til all the train had fled, Why stands the lone deserted one, She slumbers with the dead
She’s played alongside Molly Tuttle, Allison de Groot and Brittany Karlson in the all-women, super group The GoodbyeGirls... He’s worked with a range of Celtic, folk and world music artists, including Kate Rusby and Kris Drever ... I am such a big fan.