Songbird - Anita Carter

Advantages: A great mix of tracks
Disadvantages: None

...Eva Cassidy is a woman who had an amazing voice but it would not be until after her sad death from cancer that she would become world known. She spent years singing in pubs and recording backing vocals for more established singers and finally one of the producers at a studio she had sang at recognised what an amazing voice she had and would record heart every available opportunity. Eva made her first album in 1996, title The Other Side' but it would not become known publicly and outside of her community until after her death. Due to the amount of song she had recorder in the studio further albums have been made using these recordings and this one I am reviewing is called Songbird. This album has been made up using song which have already been released on albums including, The Other Side, Live at the Blues Alley and Eva by Heart... Read review

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Advantages: Samuel L Jackson
Disadvantages: Cliche

...era. Before Barak Obama they would get their inspiration from sport, music and the movies, the basketball feel good flick atop of that particular pile at the multiplexes, and I think its fair to say there's been quite a few of those B-Ball movies over the decades, Americas foremost black acting talent only too willing to be in them, an essential part of any 'right on' brothers acting CV. The world's coolest dude, Samuel L Jackson, is one of those brothers in question here; Coach Carter earning MTV films its biggest ever opening weekend at $25 million dollars. Black Americans love basketball because it's nearly always the classic rags to riches trip and one of the very few styles of film you can have an all black cast and soundtrack to, let alone the inspiration of the sport that offers one of the few ways out of the ghetto coming over... Read review

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Advantages: Beauty and sincerity in an angels voice.
Disadvantages: She died young.

...natural and her voice means what she says. 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 that love can give. Melodious and pretty. TRACK SIX 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... Read review

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