2010 album from the British Folk singer/songwriter. Make The Light features 11 tracks all written by Kate. "I remembered Jennifer Saunders saying to me a couple of years ago that I should do an album of my own songs and I thought it was a good idea except I didn't have enough songs! Now I have, so this is the right time!" Guests on the album include musicians Damien O'Kane, Kevin McGuire, Julian Sutton, Malcolm Stitt, Donald Shaw, James Mackintosh, John-Joe Kelly and Rex Preston. The brass quintet and string quartet also feature on the album.

2007 album from the UK's most popular female Folk artist, her seventh album overall. Features guest appearances from Eddi Reader, Ian Carr, John McKusker, Leon Hunt and others. Pure.

2011 holiday release from England's finest Folk singer and interpreter of classic material. With this release, Kate presents her second volume of South Yorkshire inspired songs and carols, following on from Sweet Bells.

The Girl Who Couldn't Fly is the sixth album from British folk star Kate Rusby. Produced by husband John McCusker the album 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. Pure. 2006.

Anyone expecting a stylistic leap the second time out for this bright talent will be disappointed with Sleepless. The mystery, however, is how anyone could listen to Kate Rusby's stunning debut, Hourglass, and wish that she'd abandon a sound that fits her like a custom-cut bodice. The Yorkshire, England-based classicist is clearly committed to the traditional folk music of her homeland, and she inhabits the music with preternatural confidence. First and foremost, she has a rare knack for making arcane phraseology seem vibrant. Witness the first album's "He took up his sword and he went to fight / Fa la lanky down dilly." Or, from this sophomore effort: "She's hit him on the head / The young man fell like lead / Quite dead / Upon the floor he lay." She dances over the words as if tipsy on some magical potion. Like its predecessor, Sleepless is marked by warm and supple playing. Among the smart originals and adapted traditionals is one contemporary selection--Iris DeMent's "Our Town." Appropriate, for as DeMent resuscitates old-time American hill music with unselfconscious élan, so does Rusby make the timeworn music of the British Isles come alive. --Steven Stolder