10-05-2023, 08:19 PM
I'm not generally a fan, but there is something about this artist. I stumbled across her when I was listening to pit bands (an English tradition, coal mines would form brass bands and perform and compete with others, see the Pete Postlethwaite film Brassed Off), as I have to listen to instrumentals when working as words distract me. So brass bands are a regular thing, and whilst listening to a playlist I stumbled across a collaboration between the Grimethorpe Colliery Band (who performed on Brassed Off) and the aforementioned Kate Rusby, Underneath the Stars, and it was just beautiful. So I searched her and saw she sung a cover famous Celtic song that I've always loved (I come from Irish stock on my Mum's side), Wild Mountain Thyme (sometimes called Blooming Heather or Will Ye Go Lassie), and I loved her version of that as well, and I now have a go to of half a dozen songs of hers when I am in the mood.