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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:  (597 reviews)
Sales Rank: 299
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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| Tracks:
| • | Fields Of Gold | | • | Wade In The Water | | • | Autumn Leaves | | • | Wayfaring Stranger | | • | Songbird | | • | Time Is A Healer | | • | I Know You By Heart | | • | People Get Ready | | • | Oh, I Had A Golden Thread | | • | Over The Rainbow |
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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 592 more reviews...
music for yoga classes April 5, 2008
I absolutely LOVE Eva Cassidy's music. I use her CD's in most all of the classes I teach. Her voice is like an angel and I am sad that she is no long with us. I am amazed she could sing jazz, blues, folk among other styles. She definitely is a "star" in my eyes and would have been had she lived.
 Eva Cassidy April 5, 2008
Eva Cassidy had a beautiful, clear voice and sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow like I never heard it before! Some songs were unfamiliar to me. A good cd for easy listening.
Get this CD! March 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What can I say? Eva Cassidy is a voice to cherish. Her vocal range is like no other. Her powerful voice will give you goose bumps. Her songs are borrowed from others, but she puts her own spin on everyone one of them. Each song is a surprise to the new listener. Her career ended way too soon; it is a shame we will no longer hear Eva sing new songs from her heart. God must have really needed an angel in his choir to have taken her voice off this earth so soon. Had she been alive for American Idol, she surely would have won. What can I say? I admit, I am an Eva Cassidy junkie. Just buy one of her CDs and you'll become one too.
 Songbird - Eva Cassidy March 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This studio album is more polished than "Live at Blues Alley" but the instrumentals sometimes overpower her voice at innapropriate times.
There are only ten songs on this album as opposed to twenty on "Live at Blues Alley".
Still, it is an excellent addition to anyone's library of her work!
 Beautiful voice, poor accompaniment March 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this CD because I was told that Eva Cassidy's voice was truly wonderful. It is a beautiful voice, but the accompaniment definitely sounds like it was done on the cheapest electronic keyboard (one that can do all instruments in poor representation.) The background music is best summed up as "UCK." And this is sad, because the voice is truly lovely. But after a couple of listenings, I probably won't listen to it again. It's cheap and nasty. I also clearly hear the echo put onto the voice to make it sound fuller, which can't possibly be necessary.
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