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Another "where the heck have I been" - Eva Cassidy

Paul C

Paul C

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I just got turned on to an artist I was completely unaware of, Eva Cassidy.

I stumbled upon a link to Eva Cassidy singing Over the Rainbow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL-9JlSCNOQ

That led me to her Fields of Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPZ_HpnIVY

and then to Songbird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFFo1pu4q7Q

and At Last

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2odll7s8q0c

But she does it all... R&B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRNleKBDCNw

Jazz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jqje0lZZ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxztK6-kQ_w

Country... well, she does it all, and does it great.


So while listening all the stress and pain of the day just drained away. If drugs does this, I'd be a junkie.

Eva Cassidy died of malignant melanoma at the age of 33. :sigh:


But she left behind some great music. I immediately ordered

Eva by Heart

Songbird

Somewhere

Live at Blues Alley

What a voice!
 
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Cassidy is definitely a songbird of the first order. Her cover of Sting's Fields of Gold is awe-inspiring. A small side note on Eva. She got her first break in a duet album with Chuck Brown, the founder of the Go-Go style of funk music native to DC - a music style totally unrelated to hers. This album came out 5 years before her first solo album, "Live at Blues Alley."

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"Live at Blues Alley" is her only solo album released prior to her death (self-released in May '96. She died in November).

Great stuff.
 
Glad you fellows could come to the party!

I was made aware of her by a friend who recently passed away. He had a lot of chemo as a result of the cancer he suffered from. He told me that when he was feeling so physically miserable from the treatment, his spot of relief was to listen to Eva Cassidy.

BTW, the OP didn't post this one, one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ-gqfAaHos
 
Eva's rendition of "Over the Rainbow" is what triggered widespread awareness of her work. Funny how that song can do that, time and time again. Israel Kamakawiwo`Ole is another. It's not my favorite song by any means, but how he colors it makes for a definitely periodic listening.
 
You aren't really late to the party at all :) Eva didn't get properly recognized until after she passed away. The people close to her though think this is a good thing because they didn't think she could deal with the life of a celebrity.

She is definitely an amazing artist. When it came to getting her albums produced, she would only do songs she wanted to do, and never followed the direction of others. She had her own path in her music and did it all herself. It's part of the reason her music has so much soul in it.
 
I also discovered Eva Cassidy after she'd passed. I agree with others on her not being able to do with celebrity. But...what a voice.

Another artist - although in a completely different genre - who died way too young is Kate Wolf. She wrote most of her own songs, and was just on the verge of national attention when she died of leukemia.
 
Live At Blues Alley is always in rotation in my collection. All totaled, I have six of her albums. Great stuff! :thmbsp:
 
A few years ago I was cleaning out my my car and I found a a scrap of paper with "Eva Cassidy" scrawled on it. Just before I tossed it I realized she had been on the radio and I had noted her name as an artist to research. I have most of her music, "Live at Blues Alley", especially Golden Thread, and "Imagine" are especial treasures. She could make disparate genres her own, country, blues, r and b, and even hip hop.
 
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