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Songbird | 
 enlarge | Artist: Eva Cassidy
Label: Blix Street
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  606 reviews
Sales Rank: 455
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 410045
UPC: 739341004520
EAN: 0739341004520
ASIN: B000006AKD
Release Date: May 19, 1998
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Condition: Used - Good
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| Tracks:
| • | Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy, Sting [1] | | • | Wade in the Water - Eva Cassidy, Traditional | | • | Autumn Leaves - Eva Cassidy, Mercer, Johnny | | • | Wayfaring Stranger - Eva Cassidy, Traditional | | • | Songbird - Eva Cassidy, McVie, Christine | | • | Time Is a Healer - Eva Cassidy, Scanlon, Diane | | • | I Know You By Heart - Eva Cassidy, Scanlon, Diane | | • | People Get Ready - Eva Cassidy, Mayfield, Curtis | | • | Oh, Had I a Golden Thread - Eva Cassidy, Seeger, Pete | | • | Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy, Harburg, E.Y. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Songbird cherry-picks tracks from the three locally released albums of Eva Cassidy, whose hauntingly beautiful vocals went virtually unheard outside her native Washington, D.C., during her short 33 years with us. Lost to melanoma in 1996, Cassidy sang with an unaffected purity and an astonishing ability to make both classic and contemporary songs sound like they were written just for her. Sting's "Fields of Gold" finally lives up to its title through the alchemy of Cassidy's transcendent rendition, while other tracks on this anthology showcase her ease in the realms of pop (Christine McVie's "Songbird"), soul ("People Get Ready"), gospel ("Wade on the Water"), and traditional standards ("Autumn Leaves" and "Over the Rainbow"). Framed by understated jazz and pop arrangements, Cassidy's clear, soulful voice and exquisite phrasing make her that rarest of vocalists whose interpretations are a complement to any song. A fine introduction to a true talent. --Billy Grenier
Album Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 601 more reviews...
The Best Ever November 17, 2008
This album is the best album ever. Her voice is angelic. I love it so much that I've bought multiple copies to give away -- "no reason" gifts -- just because. /cbb
WoW... November 14, 2008
Wow..
Just picked this album by pure luck... and I thought I was unlucky for entire year!
This is by far the best album I've listened this entire year. I never thought a music can be this moving.. She really sings with her heart and soul. This is must have.
The CD is fine, the LP is even more' heavenly..' October 31, 2008
An 'audiophile' standard for years. Hearing the beautiful sounds of Eva
brings tears to one's eyes. And the fact that she is no longer with us adds to that pain of knowing that we lost a true talented singer.
With "Autumn Leaves", Eva leaves behind a legacy for the ages.
A humbled singer who didn't 'hit the big-time' with all the pomp,pizazz and awards that accompanies the music industry. In her albums, there is the revelation of her soul, done to the perfection of angelic like quality. As mentioned in the header,by hearing Eva on a great sounding analog rig, the effect goes even deeper and reveals how wonderful an artist she was.
Dr. Eva's Medicine for the Soul October 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first stumbled across Eva Cassidy on a compilation of guitar songs for rainy days, singing "Autumn Leaves." A serviceable old standard to be sure, but I've heard it probably a hundred times by our most acclaimed singers, and wasn't enthused about hearing yet another version. But after listening I realized two things: that I'd never really heard Autumn Leaves before, or more accurately, I had never *felt* it, and that I had to know more about this singer who was able to bring so much new depth out of a familiar song. Why hadn't I heard of her before? Listening to others of her songs showed this effect was no fluke. Eva has a way of forcing us to slow down and feel, perhaps for the first time, what the songwriter was trying to tell us. 'Look what I found under this old leaf,' she seems to say, swaying her unerring metal detector from side to side and holding up the nugget you missed before.
And this was no accident. She reportedly chose her songs based on the effect the lyrics had on her, which gave her a somewhat eclectic but highly distilled repertoire. Some have said that Eva was unaware of her talent, but I am now convinced this was not the case, but rather she chose in her humility to subjugate herself in service to the message of the song, and its connecting power to the collective unconscious of our human condition. She bridges the synapse between songwriter and listener better than any other singer I have ever heard.
People speak upon first hearing Eva of being stopped in their tracks, waiters halted emerging from swinging kitchen doors holding plates of cooling food, of being unexpectedly and irresistably moved to tears.
At this Eva Cassidy has no peers. From what deep well of sadness she drew I can only imagine, but her airy incantations speak of what it means to be alive, to be human in a world not optimized for the care and feeding of sentient beings. You'll soon find out which of her songs do it for you. It is best, however, to take them sparingly, like a penicillin reserved for emergencies, to save your life, lest you become desensitized to the effect.
You'll know when: when life has taken all you have to give, and then it takes more; when you've lost someone you can't live without, but have to go on living anyway; when nothing can get into that hardened lump of coal that used to be your heart... Put on Eva, and turn out the lights, so it's just you, and a red dot glowing on the stereo, alone in the dark with your pain: take two sad songs, have a good cry, and call me in the morning.
Don't know how I overlooked this artist before now October 16, 2008
This is a great CD. I would highly recommend it to anyone that likes Eva. It is as soulful and beautiful as the artist herself was.
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