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| Songbird | 
 enlarge | Artist: Eva Cassidy
Label: Blix Street
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $5.75
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (600 reviews)
Sales Rank: 248
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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Profoundly heartfelt, intensely emotional, achingly beautiful music December 20, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This CD is amazing. Eva Cassidy's *Over the Rainbow* is the most moving rendition of the song I have ever heard: she reaches an emotional crescendo during her delivery of this standard that makes other, more safe and polite, renderings pale in comparison. Each and every one of the other songs on this CD displays Cassidy's tremendous range (from soulful, *all-out* African-American gospel style to light, *floaty* Allison Kraus-style folk, and many shades in between). Her stylistic range, amazing as it might be, however, is just one aspect of a tremendous, natural technique which fully supports the often heartbreakingly intense emotional truth of each song's delivery. Cassidy's acoustic guitar and keyboard work is also part of that technical underpinning. Listen to her beautiful guitar playing on *Autumn Leaves,* in which she keeps bringing back a haunting motive which underscores the searing sadness of the song. The fact that Cassidy died of cancer at age 33 adds poignancy to the CD, but this work of art stands on its own, and I give it my highest recommendation!
Eva: the very best! December 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Of all the amazing persons who bring us pleasure Eva Cassidy has given us a voice/words/ and performance that touches our deepest emotion. I was so pleased to hear one of her songs as background for a PBS promo...... She is my favorite artist. My own heart aches that she had to leave us so early
Ruth Erhardt
Loving Eva Cassidy November 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I absolutely love this cd. The songs are great and her voice is pure pleasure!
Songbird-Eva Cassidy November 15, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Eva's voice is mesmerizing. My 17 year old niece died this past July and a friend loaned me Eva's Songbird album during that difficult time. I listen to it often and think of my girl. I wish I could have know Eva Cassidy and heard her beautiful voice live. This album should be a treasure to anyone's collection.
Mesmerized November 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Eva Cassidy's Songbird captivated and mesmerized me when I first heard excerpts on a PBS special about her. Her voice haunted me. I could not get her out of my mind. You will never be the same.
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