Songbird - Eva Cassidy

..."Songbird" album. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Songbird ~ The Album ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Songbird is a compilation album of Eva Cassidy songs, released two years after the singers death at the end of 1998. It's essentially an introduction to the singers' music, compiled from 3 separate albums; Live At Blues Alley, Eva By Heart and The Other Side. Track Listing; 1) "Fields of Gold" (4:42) 2) "Wade In The Water" (4:02) 3) "Autumn Leaves" (4:41) 4) "Wayfaring ...
...(4:16) 7) "I Know You By Heart" (3:59) 8) "People Get Ready" (3:16) 9) "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" (4:49) 10) "Over The Rainbow" (4:57) The album is mostly acoustic with use of smooth, soft and gentle guitar strings, accompanied by a blend of high and low mixed piano notes, and the hauntingly angelic voice of Eva Cassidy. I don't think any words I could ever write or say could ever do justice to the sheer majesty and crystal angelic quality ...

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...TRACK FIVE Songbird 3.43 min Again, a sad song, although Eva looks back again and thinks about her relationship and how real it is and how the songbirds sing about their love affair, and how much she loves the person for whom she is singing the song. Her singing is pretty in this song, innocent in many ways, simple and almost childlike. She was a young singer and has made it in this song work in her favor. Simple love that believes in everything ...
...Time is a Healer 4.15 min A kind of bluesy number, where Eva is looking back through photos of someone she loved, someone who had given her a lot of pain, and seeing once again in the photograph the goodness of the person she knew, rather than thinking the negative things, the way people do. People hurt us, make us cry, crush our dreams but at the end of the day we are all people that can live and forgive and remember that time heals. It really ...

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...I have listened to Songbird so many times that I am scared that the cd will wear away, let me tell you about it I am sure you will want to listen to it once I have told you all about it. The cover is brown with a picture of Eva Cassidy in the centre of it, I get a lump in my throat when I see her picture as she was such a beautiful woman who`s chance in life was taken away by cancer. She had a talent for playing the guitar as well as singing, this ...
...FIELDS OF GOLD *************** This song was sung by Sting originally but I think Eva`s rendition of it is much more heart warming. It is more commonly known as being the song from the cancer advert on TV, you know, the one where the little boy is ready for school and is having a last look in the mirror when he sees his mother standing behind him lovingly looking at him even though she is not really there. Always gives me a little lump in my throat ...

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If you want to experience true and pure female vocal talent, you won’t find much better at the moment, than the offerings on this CD. Eva Cassidy has burst into the popular music scene in a rather unconventional way. She developed cancer in 1996 and died shortly afterwards at the age of only 33. I wonder if she would have ever received the recognition she so finely deserves should have lived a full life. It is a tragic story and so sad that ...
...This album ‘Songbird’ is a compilation of tracks taken from 3 of her other CD’s. I, like many others, first heard of Eva from watching BBC2’s Top of the Tops 2 programme. At the end of one of the shows they played a video recording of Eva singing ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’, with just her guitar for accompaniment. This was not a professional video recording, but one taken during a live gig of hers. The beauty, ...

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...and quite deservedly so! Songbird is almost a greatest hits album as it compiles songs of 3 other CDs Eva had recorded before her death in November 1996 from melanoma. Painfully shy as a singer and public performer, friends and family’s encouragement to take her singing any further than local clubs brought her to the attention of the area where she lived (in D.C., USA) and, after her death, the rest of the world. I listen to a wide variety ...
...of empowerment. Songbird is a slow and beautiful declaration of a love that hasn’t changed over time, as the songbirds know (hence the title!). It is slow and beautiful. Time Is A Healer has a slow beat with a back up chorus, sung in gospel style. Strangely it is a song of wisdom about how time heals broken hearts, and there’s a glimmer of hope in there that time may have healed the wounds to allow her to rediscover her lost love. Again, ...

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This CD is totally amazing; it is so good, so mellow and so peaceful. I got listening to her when my Mum bought the CD. I didn’t really like it at first, but now it is a CD to be treasured. This opinion is remembrance of Eva Cassidy who tragically died of cancer many years ago, it is just lucky someone found her music before it was too late. This CD is a mix of Jazz, Gospel, Pop, Classic and Soul! 1. Fields Of Gold What a great track to start ...
...does sound like an angel is signing the song. Her voice is so powerful and strong. It isn’t strong like Anastacia; it is peaceful strong like the wind. It is so Powerful, but still amazingly peaceful. It is a pleasure to be allowed to listen to it. The backing is also very good, the instruments are great and she holds the long notes very well. 2. Wade In The Water This is a more upbeat song; it has a great opening, a really jumpy, feeling. ...

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Well, first of all let me just explain something to you. I am a fan of all music, mainly dance music, even heavy metal so I was completely surprised at how this C.D came into my collection. Slotted in my rack next to "Paul Oakenfold" and "Sander Kleinenberg" mix C.D.s, Eva Cassidy looked out of place and alone. However, I have listened to this C.D. more time than most of my others. How did I find out about it, basically a video of Eva was played ...
...was simply sat down with a guitar, singing. I was stunned, I cant remember what I was doing at the time, but what ever it was, I stopped! No fancy drum machines, no flashing lights, just a plain ordinary looking lady with a guitar. Absolutely brilliant. Eva Cassidy, was influenced by such people as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. She loved to sing, but didnt do it for fame, just simply, because she liked to. It was her freinds who talked ...

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...easy to find! Songbird is a complication of tracks from three separate albums. Five tracks are taken from the album 'Eva by Heart' (Wade in the Water, Wayfaring Stranger, Songbird, Time is a Healer and I know you by Heart). Four songs are taken from a live album entitled 'Live at Blues Alley' a showcase of her songs sung accompanied by her own guitar playing (Fields of Gold, Autumn Leaves, People Get Ready and Oh Had I a Golden Thread) with one song, ...
...Chuck Brown entitled 'The Other Side' It was only when reading the insert hat I found out that Eva Cassidy died of cancer in 1996. The album 'Live at Blues Alley' was recorded in January 1996, and Eva returned to Blues Alley in July to promote the albums release, this time walking with a stick due to a sore hip. She was diagnosed with cancer the next month and died on the 2nd November 1996. Only after her death did her records begin to sell insignificant ...

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Eva Cassidy's is, without doubt, one of the most magical voices that I have ever heard. If there is one album I would recommend for pure vocal quality it would be this one. Now comes the hard part of trying to explain my love of her music. I believe that most people came to hear of Eva Cassidy either through Terry Wogan on Radio 2 or by watching Top of The Pops 2, in which the only video footage of her was played. I was watching TOTP2 during the ...
...Rainbow". A while later I saw her album in the shops and snapped it up immediately. And that I certainly don't regret! If anyone doesn't know by now, the tragedy of the Eva Cassidy story is that she died in 1996 from skin cancer at the age of 33. At this point she hadn't been heard of outside her hometown. The beauty of Eva's voice is that it has the ability of evoking emotion just by listening. When you hear an Eva Cassidy song, it is sung in a ...

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...for reference, I later bought Songbird whilst staying in Blackpool with my aunt. Now this type of nostalgic ballad and blues isn't really my scene at all, but I listen to music of all types and you can't help but admire the ability that this lady has. -- Fields of Gold -- Originally written and performed by Sting, this has always been a fave song of mine and now Eva has stamped her own authority on it. The album itself doesn't to my knowledge contain ...
...consummate ease. -- Songbird -- Back to the ballads again then lol. The only thing I don't like about this is that it has a mildly electronic sounding drum backing - you would have expected the superb drum work of the past track to be continued throughout but oh well … "For you, there'll be no crying, for you, the sun will be shining cos I feel that when I'm with you, it's all right I know it's right." Yes, an extremely nostalgic affair this one ...

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Eva's captivating vocals have a warm, husky quality to them which can soothe anyone to sleep. The calming effect her voice has is similar to that of Tracy Chapman, another great artist. They both have a fantastic creativity that means that no chorus they sing ever sounds the same as the ones they've sung before. This versatility is great, even if it does make singing along a little difficult. However this album contains many songs that have a similar ...
...little same-y if you listen to this album for hours on end. In comparison to Tracy Chapman's music, Eva's is a little more folksy, with traditional songs such as Wade in the water, and there's obviously a little bit of a blues element in there too. This album includes the songs: 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 had I a golden thread and Over ...

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In 1996, Eva Cassidy sadly died of skin cancer. Five years later, she’s number one in the UK album charts. Why? Rather clever promotion from small Brighton-based record company Hot Records is the answer. They sent out the CD to the local BBC radio station, and many DJs started to play tracks from her album, encouraging their listeners to buy the album. Then the country’s most listened to radio station BBC Radio Two started playing it, ...
...helped her achieve a posthumous number one hit. It’s a very pleasant album to listen to, and is very relaxing. From ‘Fields Of Gold’ to the classic ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’, it’s a perfect record from a lady who had an amazing voice, who finally gets the attention she deserves. However, it’s not the sort of album you can just listen to all the time. Although the songs are nice, too much can get boring. ...

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...Listen to her album - Songbird - and I promise you will never forget that name again. Her voice is powerfully haunting, beautifully defined and also peculiarly uplifting. It really is a spectacular album, and I can never possibly grant it all the praise that it truly deserves. Eva released her album in the early 90's. It didn't flop, but did not enjoy the success that it should have. It went, more or less, unnoticed until very recently when 'Top ...
...rendition of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' (So, so much better than the original). Suddenly, the phones at the BBC offices did not stop ringing - people wanted to know who this haunting voice belonged to. Their answer, of course, was Eva Cassidy. But, there was another twist to the remarkable story. Eva had tragically died some years earlier. She never saw her album climb back into the charts and finally reach, and stay, at the number one spot. That ...

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...it, and some songs like songbird itself can reduce me to tears, the passion the songs draw out is very strong! Eva cassidy's voice is hauntingly beautiful, and my personal favourite tracks of the album include her version of 'Over the Rainbow' which is more commonly know with those who do not know much about Eva Cassidy. Also 'Songbird' is also a personal favourite, as it reminds me of my dad, which just goes to show the emotion stirred up by the ...

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...a golden thread and Over the Rainbow. The 3 tracks I prefer and have on very loud are; Fields of Gold, Songbird and Over the Rainbow, the sort of songs that make you want to lie back and close your eyes and relax and listen to the beautiful music ...

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