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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: 314
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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Her voice will guide us into the tear 2000 September 16, 1998
Rarely does a voice come along as beautiful as this. It takes a spirit that truely understands the pains and the joys of life to be able to interpret other peoples visions the way that Eva has. She doesn't just sing the words , she gives them life! Even a song as familiar as Over The Rainbow becomes new again when Eva sings it. Fields of Gold unfolds in a story of lost love and scattered dreams. You can see the lovers in their dance.Your heart will be broken every time you listen to this CD. And yet, you will push the repeat button over and over feeling strangely uplifted.
A truly magical voice September 14, 1998
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Rarely in a lifetime does there come along a voice like Eva Cassidy's.Never have I heard such an achingly honest voice.Her voice is a pure musical instrument, under total control.It has all the colors of the rainbow, and then some.She can tranfix you in a moment with soft silky tones that soar to spine tingling rapture.Eva moves with effortless ease through many styles, from a folky "Fields of Gold" by Sting, to the jazz standard "Autumn Leaves", to a gospel rendition of Pete Seeger's "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread".Ho hum ,not another version of "Over the Rainbow", but Eva makes it a completely new song with imaginative and immaculate phrasing.Not only can Eva sing like a songbird, she plays guitar,keyboard, cello, does background vocals and musical arrangements.It is a heart-rending tragedy that she died at only 33, and we can't be too grateful for her beautiful and exquisite legacy of song.Thank you Eva, your voice is immortal.It is a tear stained rainbow that will live in our souls forever.
Voices like Eva's are a rare and beautiful gift. September 14, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw Chuck Brown and a little-known Eva Cassidy perform at Wolftrap's Jazz Festival in the early 1990s - a performance that will stay with me always. Before the pretty, petite blonde stepped up to the microphone she was just another blues artist. But with her first note - clear, strong, effortless, simply pure and beautiful soul, the entire audience knew that here was someone special. Eva Cassidy was destined to be one of the great living legends of the blues and her death was incredibly sad. Luckily, she left us a wonderful legacy in her voice.
Why am I crying? September 9, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In my life, I have cried at the sound of a musicians voice only twice. The first, was upon hearing Stevie Ray Vaughn sing "Crossfire"--only seconds after learning of his death. The second ,was hearing Eva sing "Fields of Gold" preceeded by the story of Eva's too short life as told by Boston DJ Robin Young. The goosebumps and tears were present from the first,sweet sound of Eva's voice, until the gentle fade out, at the end of the song. Everytime i hear her on the radio now, i feel an emptiness over her loss combined with a sense luckiness-that the voice of an angel was captured for all of us to hear. Thank you to Eva, for the music. And thank you to Robin, for clueing me in to this great talent.
A sublime voice that transmits the artist's noble soul September 5, 1998
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Eva Cassidy is surely singing in the heavans now and that seems such an appropriate place for her. I had the amazing luck to wander into a tavern basement on a sleepy evening in Annapolis Maryland sometime within about a year before she died. My friend and I found down there a few beple drinking pints and a young lady playing guitar and singing without unaccompanyment. I became absolutely fascinated with what I was hearing-- such control over such a beautiful voice. She was performing not just for the 12 or so people in the room but also to the grace of the music itself. I could not beleive what a treasure we had stumbled onto nor why there was not a throng of people. I had to go up and compliment her personally after she finished. Later after some searching and after she died I found her CD's I read her story and it all became clear... I would like to have known her and heard her more. She has always stayed with me.
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