Hand Me Down, released on 14 August 2020 on Pure Records, is the seventeenth studio album by English contemporary folk musician Kate Rusby. Her first album to consist entirely of cover versions, it entered the UK Albums Chart at number 12, making it the highest-charting album of her career. Rusby is quoted as saying “As a folk singer, it's what I do, re-interpret existing songs, but usually the songs are much, much older... It dawned on me that not just the very old songs are handed down through the generations, but also favourite songs of any age, of any generation. Songs are precious for many different reasons.” “I kind of whittled the original 300 down to about 40, then kept circling them for a couple of weeks. Then ultimately I had to choose which 12 would complement each as a collection on a CD." “I also had to choose which songs would suit the way I sing, and also which songs we felt we had good ideas for to make them completely different to the original. So, there were a few different factors, but mostly it was down to me to choose.” Track listing: Manic Monday (written by Prince; a hit for The Bangles in 1986); Everglow (Coldplay); Days (The Kinks, covered by Kirsty MacColl, Elvis Costello); If I Had A Boat (Lyle Lovett); Maybe Tomorrow (from The Littlest Hobo, a Canadian TV series, performed by Terry Bush); The Show (theme song for TV series Connie, written by Willy Russell, performed by Rebecca Storm); Shake It Off (Taylor Swift); True Colours (wri