| Sleepless | ||||
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| Released | 10 May 1999 | |||
| Genre | English folk | |||
| Length | 43:41 | |||
| Label | Pure Records | |||
| Producer | John McCusker [1] | |||
| Kate Rusby chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
Sleepless is an album by the English folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 1999. [3] [4] It was nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year. [5] [6] It won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2000 for best album. [7]
The Washington Post wrote that Rusby "often creates ... ambience at the cost of blurring her melodies and stories; her vowels frequently flood the music until the consonants and rhythms are submerged in a tide of poignancy." [1]
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