Kate Rusby: Make the Light – review

(Pure Records) This is a new start for Kate Rusby. It's the first time she has recorded an album consisting entirely of her own songs, and it marks the debut of her new band, which features her partner Damien O'Kane on guitar, banjo and vocals. Yet, strangely enough, it sounds as if she needs a new sense of direction or urgency. Her singing is as exquisitely pure and wistful as ever, but she never leaves her comfort zone, preferring to revisit the styles that made her such a major figure in t...

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