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It’s hard to believe that twenty-something Kate Rusby is already celebrating ten years in the music business – but then, she started young. Rather than issue a compilation as such, the delicate-voiced folksinger and songwriter from Barnsley has chosen to revisit and rework material from throughout her career. ‘The Maid Of Llanwellyn’, for example, which she previously recorded with the Poozies, is given a stunning treatment with accordion, viola and a brass section providing a sonorous counterpoint to the mournful vocal. Rusby’s husband, the equally precocious John McCusker produced the CD, plays a bewildering variety of instruments on it, and co-wrote one of the tunes here. A suitably representative collection from a lovely singer.