Kate Rusby: 20 – review

(Pure/Island Pink)Kate Rusby celebrates 20 years in music with a classy if frustrating 20-track retrospective that fails to do justice to the celebrity cast joining in. There's everyone here from Paul Weller to folk heroes Nic Jones, Richard Thompson and Dick Gaughan, and a US country contingent including Chris Thile of the Punch Brothers, Jerry Douglas and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Sadly, they mostly just add respectful, minimalist backing vocals or instrumental work as Rusby revisits 19 old favou...

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