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This posthumous anthology is the perfect introduction to the astonishing vocal talents of Eva Cassidy, a young, relatively unknown singer who died of cancer at 33, just as her career was beginning to gain steam. Cassidy, a native of Washington D.C., gained local favor with her pure, straightforward tone and her lovely, tasteful interpretations of everything from standards to gospel to contemporary pop.
SONGBIRD is a definitive best-of selection that picks from Cassidy's studio albums and shows the depth and breadth of her skills. SONGBIRD's perfection as a compilation is in its song choice, which covers Cassidy's takes on gospel ("Oh, Had I A Golden Thread"), soul (Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready"), pop (Sting's "Fields of Gold"), and well-known standards ("Over the Rainbow"). Cassidy's own perfection stems from her ability to bring the same precise, inventive phrasing and crystalline tone to each individual song, regardless of genre, making it indelibly her own. This collection became a best-selling number-one album in the U.K., and with good reason.
Songbird is a posthumous anthology culled from the album Live At Blues Alley and her other solo release, Eva By Heart, along with one track from her 1992 duet album with Chuck Brown titled The Other Side. Blix label.
Personnel: Eva Cassidy (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Chris Biondo (guitar, drum programming); Keith Grimes (guitar); Dan Cassidy, Mike Stein (violin); Chris Walker (trumpet); Lenny Williams (piano); Kent Wood, Hilton Felton, John Gillespie (organ); Larry Melton (upright bass); Raice McLeod (drums).
Arranger: Eva Cassidy.
Rolling Stone (8/30/01, p.125) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...She effortlessly shuffles styles and the song selections are astute...Cassidy comes across as a bluesier version of English folk singer Sandy Denny....she melts her personality into the fabric of each melody..."
Q (3/99, p.93) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "Eva Cassidy had the power to leave the nerve-centre tingling. She possessed a rare emotional honesty and a knockout voice (closest relation: Roberta Flack) and applied them to whatever material took her fancy..." Songbird Music | List Price | $16.98 (You save $3.53) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Pop, Country, Blues, Easy Listening, Vocal, Folk Music, Folk, Contemporary Blues | | Label | Blix Street | | Orig Year | 1998 | | All Time Sales Rank |  62   | | CD Universe Part number | 1187962 | | Catalog number | 410045 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 19, 1998 | | Studio/Live | Mixed | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Chris Biondo; Eva Cassidy | | Engineer | Chris Biondo; Roy Battle; Kent Wood | | Recording Time | 42 minutes | | Personnel | Eva Cassidy - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Lenny Williams - piano
Chris Walker - trumpet
Chris Walker - trumpet
Raice McLeod - drums
Chris Biondo - guitar, drum programming
Keith Grimes - guitar
Dan Cassidy
Kent Wood
Mike Stein - violin
John Gillespie - organ
Larry Melton - upright bass
Hilton Felton
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Eva Cassidy Songbird Songs Songbird Music Review Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Top ten album
One of the ten albums I'd bring going to that island. Most covers are better than the originals. Can't bė? Listen!
Submitted by martyvanderstaak (Best, Netherlands) 
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Fantastic range of singer of such a young age. Shame she died so early and this album is wonderful. Her version of Songbird has a slight blues edge to it, and it works.
The other songs range from Ballads to Jazz/Blues numbers and showcase her fabulous range.
Submitted by james-karyn (Darwin, Australia)
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Eva Cassidy will blow you away
With her soulful tones, Eva just took my breath away. Any cover she did, she now owns. Whether reflecting or sharing, Songbird is timeless.
Submitted by lucindazink (Baldwinsville, N.Y.)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Hauntingly beautiful
I have never heard Fields of Gold, Songbird, and Over the Rainbow sung with such a beautifully clear interpretation. Her voice haunts me even when I'm not listening to this beautiful disc. The whole album is among my all-time favorites, but these three songs are unmatched.
Submitted by a reviewer (Neligh, NE USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Eva Cassidy Ranks with Streisand, Ronstadt, Eder
I didn't discover Eva Cassidy until long after her death, but even now, after listening repeatedly to "Songbird," I am astonished that none of the tracks in this compilation CD ever made it to "hit" status.
Eva's work isn't for you if you're into head-banging, boy bands, rap music (that oxymoron again!) or top 40 rock/pop. Her voice is pristine, bell-clear, and as expressive as an American voice has ever been. When the title track comes up (a Christine McVie song), I hit the Repeat button...and float away into the mature romantic music we don't hear much anymore. NOT elevator music; this is the real thing for grown-up lovers.
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Purchase Songbird CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Eva Cassidy Live At Blues Alley CD (1997)
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Singer Eva Cassidy achieved posthumous fame with SONGBIRD, an anthology of her finest moments. During her lifetime, however, Cassidy made a name for herself in Washington, D.C., where she lived and regularly performed. ...
| | Eva Cassidy Eva By Heart CD (1997)
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An album both haunting and inspiring, tragic and mesmerizing, Eva by Heart was the singer's only true studio album, and hints at the promise which was never to materialize due to her early demise from cancer. Five of the songs on this set ("I Know You by Heart," "Time Is a Healer," "Wayfaring Stranger," "Wade in the Water," and "Songbird") appear on her Songbird collection. The import version of Eva by Heart contains an extra track, "Dark End of the Street," which does not appear on the American version, or on any of her albums for that matter. The styles range from folksy (the sweet "I Know You by Heart"), to soulful ("Time Is a Healer"), to introspective ("Say Goodbye," "Waly Waly"), to downright rousing ("Wayfaring Stranger," "How Can I Keep From Singing?") and bluesy ("Blues in the Night."). Eva's voice always sounds crystalline, and her interpretive skills are unmatched (as evidenced on her lovely take of Christine McVie's "Songbird"). The woman had the power to transform a standard or a traditional into her own song, and she could belt out the blues just ...
| | Eva Cassidy Time After Time CD (2000)
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Principally recorded at The Maryland Inn, Annapolis, Maryland. Includes liner notes by Kevin Howlett.
As is so often the case, the talents of singer Eva Cassidy did note come to public attention until after her death. Cassidy died at a mere 33 years of age in 1996, and up until then she'd only been known in the local music scene of Washington D.C. Subsequently, a word-of-mouth groundswell earned her posthumous popularity in England, which then wafted back over to the U.S. TIME AFTER TIME is a good introduction to Cassidy's work. More an interpreter than a writer, Cassidy completely inhabits everything from Simon & Garfunkel's folky ballad "Kathy's Song" to Joni Mitchell's hippie anthem "Woodstock" and Bill Withers's brooding R&B classic "Ain't No Sunshine." Throughout the album, her singing is consistently both strong and reserved, betraying emotion without ...
| | Eva Cassidy Other Side CD (1992)
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Online CD shops where you can sample tracks before purchasing the disc are especially helpful with Chuck Brown, whose music is rarely programmed on radio. The Other Side consists of '40s and '50s supper-club sounds. Eva Cassidy sings on more than half of the tracks, soloing and performing a number of duets, including "You Don't Know Me," "I Could Have Told You So," and "I'll Go Crazy." The '60s deep soul classic "Dark End of the Street" is the most modern song. Lovers of '50s MOR will love this release; everyone else, will not. ~ Andrew Hamilton
Recorded at Chris Biondo's, Glendale, Maryland.
Personnel: Chuck Brown (vocals); Eva Cassidy (vocals, guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Dave Lourim, Keith Grimes (guitar); Dan Cassidy (violin); Amanda Wiliams, Lenny Williams (strings, piano, organ, vibraphone); ...
| | Eva Cassidy Imagine CD (2002)
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Following Eva Cassidy's 1996 death from cancer at the age of 33, word-of-mouth popularity in America by way of England led to a number of stellar posthumous releases mixing live and studio recordings. 2002's IMAGINE follows the same path and is no less impressive. Front and center is the late D.C. native's stellar vocal timbre that allowed her to interpret a wide range of songwriters. In the studio, she easily moved from a slinky version of Little Willie John's "Fever" (featuring interesting support on fiddle by brother Dan) to a soaring interpretation of "I Can Only Be Me," a Stevie Wonder composition originally recorded by Keith John for the SCHOOL DAZE soundtrack.
The most notable in-concert performances featured here come from intimate Annapolis venues like the King of France Tavern and defunct Pearl's. These gorgeous solo acoustic readings include the standard "Danny Boy" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain." Most fitting is Cassidy's ...
| | Eva Cassidy American Tune CD (2003)
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After seven posthumously released and well-received records, the tragic story of Eva Cassidy has passed into the realm of cult legend. The notoriously shy D.C.-area performer with the most powerfully gentle voice could render any song, no matter how well-known, no matter how frequently turned to by other singers, into her own. In fact, this eighth release, AMERICAN TUNE, contains a reworking of perhaps the most covered song of all time, the Lennon-McCartney ballad "Yesterday," and despite thousands of versions, she discovered a new interpretation hidden within the folds of the familiar.
At this point, it's practically impossible to disassociate "God Bless The Child" from Billie Holiday's original, and many have added their own takes, but Cassidy's voice earnestly and artfully ...
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The title of Ben Thomas' CD, Triskaidekphobia, may make the set seem forbidding but actually the music is quite accessible. "Triskaidekphobia" means fear of the number 13, and has to do with the title piece being in 13/4 time. The music actually alternates between Latin jazz and hard bop and, although the vibes/clarinet front line may make one ...
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Beyond Ash is made up of members Ashley George (vocals/writing, guitar), Jody Turner (guitar), Joel Boyce (bass) and Steve Keough (drums). The boys in Beyond Ash released their debut CD "4 Leaf Clover" in 2003 and sold out of all they had pressed. In 2004 Beyond Ash won the Roseland Battle of the Bands and released their second CD "Wish". The "Wish" video was produced and filmed in Halifax and is soon to ...
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