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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: 328
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Songbird indeed...! January 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had this album for about two years and I still love it. Easy listening and a real sweet spirit. Eva has a terrific voice and excellent accompanists on this collection. The songs just seem to go together perfectly. It looks like a "best hits" compilation, judging by the contents of her other recordings. I'm glad I ran across this album. She had me at "Over the Rainbow."
Miraculous January 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't normally review what I buy. I've never had a compulsion to tell the world what I thought of something. However, after buying this album I was compelled to add my review and second the 5 star reviews already posted.
I first heard of Eva Cassidy in a small quilting store in Syracuse Nebraska where my wife was shopping. `Wade in the Water' was playing and I couldn't help but notice that voice. What a voice! Powerful or oh so tender as the music required. Now I should say, I'm a classical violinist and not really into this kind of music. The masterpieces of Beethoven and Brahms and the playing of Hilary Hahn are more my kind of stuff. But I was taken with that voice and had to buy the CD.
After listening to it the first time I must say (almost to my embarrassment) that I loved it. Successive listenings have only impressed me more. The songs are so heartfelt, both the lyrics themselves and Eva's singing of them that I could not help but be drawn into the music. She was gifted with a marvelous voice, but even more wonderful is the way she used it. Her passion and expression makes the music sound as if she was singing directly to me and no one else. A couple of songs still bring a tear to my eye. The more I hear `I Know You by Heart' the more I think it may become my favorite simply because of the sentiment it expresses. But how can I place it ahead of `Songbird' or `Had I a Golden Thread'? Neither of them are second place songs - but I digress.
She sings with a folk/blues/gospel flavor, but I think that is irrelevant. The making of good music in any genre is a miracle that touches the heart. Eva's music is a miracle and it will touch your heart.
Who Should Own This Album December 31, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Eva Cassidy's "Songbird" should be in the possession of every human being on the planet.
Her voice. Her voice.
Her voice.
-David
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
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