# Kate Rusby discography

The discography of Kate Rusby, an English folk singer, consists of twenty solo albums, four albums as part of a duo or group, four extended plays (EPs), two video albums, fourteen singles, and seven music videos. Rusby's debut was Intuition, an album recorded in collaboration with five other female singers from Yorkshire, which was released on a small label in 1993. Her breakthrough came with an eponymous album recorded with Kathryn Roberts, another of the singers featured on Intuition. This album, which was named as the best of the year by Folk Roots magazine, was the first release on Pure Records, a label set up by Rusby's father on which all her subsequent solo recordings have been released. Rusby and Roberts also formed the band the Equation in conjunction with the Lakeman Brothers, but Rusby left the group after their debut EP. In 1996 she joined the all-female folk group the Poozies, with whom she released one EP and one full-length album.
In 1997 Rusby released her first solo album, Hourglass, and two years later followed it with Sleepless, which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Two years later, Little Lights became Rusby's first release to enter the Top 100 of the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number 75. Her highest placing on this chart came with 2012's 20, which reached number 22. In 2006 she provided guest vocals on the single "All Over Again" by Irish pop singer Ronan Keating, which reached number six on the UK Singles Chart. Rusby has also made guest appearances on albums by artists such as Show of Hands, Battlefield Band, Roddy Woomble, Ella Edmondson and John McCusker.

## Albums
### Solo albums

| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Year | Album details | UK | US World |
| 1998 | Hourglass Released: 1 March 1997 Label: Pure Formats: CD | — | — |
| 1999 | Sleepless Released: 17 August 1999 Label: Pure Formats: CD | — | — |
| 2001 | Little Lights Released: 12 June 2001 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 75 | — |
| 2002 | 10 Released: 7 January 2003 Label: Pure Formats: CD | — | — |
| 2003 | Underneath the Stars Released: 11 August 2003 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 78 | 10 |
| 2005 | The Girl Who Couldn't Fly Released: 11 October 2005 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 45 | — |
| 2007 | Awkward Annie Released: 14 August 2007 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 32 | — |
| 2008 | Sweet Bells Released: 15 December 2008 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 91 | — |
| 2010 | Make the Light Released: 22 November 2010 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 99 | — |
| 2011 | While Mortals Sleep Released: 22 November 2011 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 91 | — |
| 2012 | 20 Released: 22 October 2012 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 22 | — |
| 2014 | Ghost Released: 4 August 2014 Label: Pure Formats: CD | — | — |
| 2015 | The Frost Is All Over Released: 27 November 2015 Label: Pure Formats: CD | — | — |
| 2016 | Life in a Paper Boat Released: 7 October 2016 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 98 | — |
| 2017 | Angels & Men Released: 24 November 2017 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 40 | — |
| 2019 | Philosophers, Poets & Kings Released: 31 May 2019 Label: Pure Formats: CD | — | — |
| 2019 | Holly Head Released: 2019 Label: Pure Formats: CD | — | — |
| 2020 | Hand Me Down Released: 2020 Label: Pure Formats: CD | 12 | — |
| 2022 | 30: Happy Returns Released: 6 May 2022 Label: Pure Formats: CD, download | 97 | — |
| 2023 | Light Years Released: 1 December 2023 Label: Pure Formats: CD, download | 76 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. ||||

### Collaborative albums

| Year | Album details |
| 1993 | Intuition (with Kathleen Deighton, Rosalie Deighton, Julie Matthews, Kathryn Roberts and Pat Shaw) Released: 1993 Label: Fat Cat Formats: CD, cassette |
| 1995 | Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts (with Kathryn Roberts) Released: 1995 Label: Pure Formats: CD, cassette |
| 1999 | Infinite Blue (as a member of The Poozies) Released: 19 January 1999 Label: Pure Formats: CD |
| 2004 | Heartlands (with John McCusker) Released: 18 October 2004 Label: Pure Formats: CD |

## Extended plays

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1995 | In Session Released: 1995 Label: Crapstone Format: CD | As a member of the Equation |
| 1997 | Come Raise Your Head Released: 1997 Label: Pure Format: CD | As a member of the Poozies |
| 1999 | Cowsong Released: 1999 Label: Pure Format: CD | |
| 2004 | Underneath the Stars Released: 2004 Label: Pure Format: CD | |

## Singles

| Year | Title | UK | Album |
| 2001 | "Withered and Died" | — | Little Lights |
| 2004 | "Underneath the Stars" | — | Underneath the Stars |
| 2005 | "No Names" | — | The Girl Who Couldn't Fly |
| 2005 | "You Belong to Me" | — | The Girl Who Couldn't Fly |
| 2005 | "Little Jack Frost" | — | The Girl Who Couldn't Fly |
| 2006 | "All Over Again" (duet with Ronan Keating) | 6 | Bring You Home |
| 2007 | "Planets" | — | Awkward Annie |
| 2007 | "The Village Green Preservation Society" | — | Awkward Annie |
| 2008 | "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" | — | non-album single |
| 2019 | "Jenny" | — | Philosophers, Poets & Kings |
| 2020 | "Manic Monday" | — | Hand Me Down |
| 2020 | "Friday I'm in Love" | — | Hand Me Down |
| 2020 | "Shake It Off" | — | Hand Me Down |
| 2023 | "Glorious" | — | Light Years |

## Video albums

| Year | Video information | Notes |
| 2004 | Live From Leeds Released: 29 June 2004 Label: Pure Director: Janet Fraser Crook | Recorded live at the Leeds City Varieties Originally broadcast on BBC Four |
| 2013 | Live at Christmas Released: 28 October 2013 Label: Pure Director: not credited | Recorded live at the Royal Hall, Harrogate |

## Music videos

| Year | Title | Director |
| 2006 | "All Over Again" | Simon Levene |
| 2016 | "Big Brave Bill" | unknown |
| 2017 | "Big Brave Bill Saves Christmas" | Jay Sillence |
| 2019 | "Jenny" | unknown |
| 2020 | "Manic Monday" | Kate Rusby and Damien O'Kane |
| 2020 | "Shake It Off" | Kate Rusby and Damien O'Kane |
| 2019 | "Glorious" | unknown |

## Other appearances
### Soundtracks

| Year | Song | Album |
| 1996 | "The Collier Recruit" "Broken-Hearted I Will Wander" | Over the Hills & Far Away: The Music of Sharpe |

### Compilation albums

* Only otherwise unreleased material included on compilation albums is listed
| Year | Song | Album/Single |
| 1999 | "The Cobbler's Daughter" | Cambridge Folk Festival: A Celebration of Roots Music 1998-99 |
| 2004 | "I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight?" | Folk Festival: A Celebration of Music Recorded at the Sidmouth International Festival |
| 2006 | "It's Curtains" | The Song of Steel |
| 2006 | "Underneath the Stars" | Cool as Folk |
| 2011 | "Butterfly" | Davy Steele: Steele the Show |
| 2011 | "Awkward Annie" "The Mocking Bird" "The Blind Harper" | Cambridge Folk Festival 2011 (DVD) |

### Guest appearances

| Year | Artist | Album | Credit | Track(s) |
| 1995 | Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley | Last Night's Fun | Vocals | "The Roseville Fair/The Concert Reel" "Starry Night" |
| 1997 | Battlefield Band | Across the Borders | Vocals | "The Green and the Blue" |
| 1997 | Roy Bailey | New Directions in the Old | Vocals | "Light Years Away" |
| 1999 | Show of Hands | Dark Fields | Vocals | "High Germany/Molly Oxford" |
| 2000 | Gibb Todd | Connected | Harmony vocals, box | "The Final Trawl" "Will Ye No Come Back Again" |
| 2000 | John McCusker | Yella Hoose | Vocals | "Night Visiting Song" |
| 2001 | Cathie Ryan | Somewhere Along the Road | Vocals | "Somewhere Along the Road" |
| 2002 | Linda Thompson | Fashionably Late | Guitar, harmony vocals | "Miss Murray" "No Telling" |
| 2003 | John McCusker | Goodnight Ginger | Vocals | "The Bold Privateer" |
| 2005 | John Doyle | Wayward Son | Vocals | "Bitter the Parting" |
| 2005 | Cherish the Ladies | Woman of the House | Vocals | "Bogie's Bonnie Belle" |
| 2006 | Kris Drever | Black Water | Harmony vocals | "Braw Sailin' on the Sea" "Green Grows the Laurel" "Navigator" |
| 2006 | Roddy Woomble | My Secret is My Silence | Vocals | "I Came in from the Mountain" "Act IV" "From the Drifter to the Drake" "Waverley Steps" "Play Me Something" |
| 2007 | Various artists | Ballads of the Book | Vocals | "The Weight of Years" (by Idlewild and Edwin Morgan) |
| 2007 | Martin Simpson | Prodigal Son | Vocals | "Never Any Good" |
| 2009 | Maura O'Connell | Naked with Friends | Harmony vocals | "The Bright Blue Rose" |
| 2009 | Ella Edmondson | Hold Your Horses | Vocals | not specified |
| 2010 | Damien O'Kane | Summer Hill | Vocals | "Summer Hill" "Raven's Wing" "The Sun is Burning" |
| 2014 | West of Eden | Songs from Twisting River | Vocals | "The Bee That Stung" |
| 2015 | Damien O'Kane | Areas of High Traffic | Vocals | "Banks of the Bann" |
| 2017 | Damien O'Kane | Avenging & Bright | Vocals | "Lately" |