As soon as her vocal came on, I felt it was extraordinary,” he said. “By the time I finished the album, I came to the conclusion that this was one of the best singers ever.”

Once she began to sing, however, he was instantly taken with her natural skill. “A lot of people take lessons to learn music theory and how to do harmonies,” he said. “She could just do it. I watched her come up with three- or four-part harmonies out of nowhere. She would hear it in her head and then sing anything she heard.” Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. On the 17th of September 1996 a young woman, accompanied by a few dozen family and friends, attended her own tribute concert in a small club in the Washington, DC area. Transcending the effects of chemo-therapy and morphine in that moment, the singer abandoned her walker and was helped onto the stage for what would be her final performance, What a Wonderful World. A few weeks later Eva Cassidy passed away, having been diagnosed with melanoma months earlier. a b c Peaks in Australia: "Australian Charts > Eva Cassidy". australian-charts.com Hung Medien . Retrieved 2011-07-24.

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Official Albums Chart Top 100 10 March 2023 - 16 March 2023". Official Charts. 10 March 2023 . Retrieved 10 March 2023. Refusing to bend her music to the industry's conventions and expectations, Eva was known only within the DC area during her lifetime. She left behind one live album, a duet album, and various studio demos and live recordings. In these intervening 16 years, Eva's music has proven timeless and universal. Crossing all boundaries – musical, cultural, geographical – her voice survived and is finding new listeners every day in every corner of the earth.

On the other hand, Biondo said Cassidy “thought that was kinda cool,” an attitude that underscores her focus on the performance rather than its reception. “She just liked to go out and sing,” he said. “She didn’t want anybody to jump up and down.”In addition to including Eva’s previously unreleased, re-defining version of San Francisco Bay Blues, Simply Eva is the first album to include the Blues Alley guitar/vocal performance of Over The Rainbow embodied in the Rainbow video that triggered Eva Cassidy’s rise to the top of the British Pop Charts in March, 2001. Recorded five years after the 1991 version heard on Songbird, Eva’s fully evolved Rainbow literally redefined this all-time number one popular song (according to a BBC radio poll). More than 25 years after Cassidy's passing, her dream has finally come true. The 'new' I Can Only Be Me* album represents a kind of séance in song in which the late singer's original vocals have been paired with the London Symphony Orchestra via rich new arrangement." ( Jim Farber - the Independent) On a higher level, the overall experience of the first top to bottom Eva-only album transcends specific differences. My personal opinion that less is more in this instance is not meant as criticism of the supporting musical performances contained on previously released Eva Cassidy recordings. It was simply time to focus on the core of Eva Cassidy recordings, namely, the voice of “one of the greatest interpreters of popular song of the last 30 years” ( Mojo magazine) and Eva’s superb guitar work which had been a bit lost in the shuffle of other instruments. In doing so, I literally heard Eva for the first time, again. That I was hearing mostly the same songs in a different way actually added to my sense of re-discovery. With more than 11 million in worldwide sales and critical acclaim such as the Wall Street Journal praising her "perfect pitch, impeccable timing and vulnerability" and USA Today citing her "emotional ability to reach the depths of any song," her unerringly tasteful sense of material continues to propel interest in her recorded work all these years later.

At times, however, the subtlety of her approach, and the quiet intensity of it, could fly over the heads of some audiences. “We never played loud which was a problem for us,” Biondo said. “One time, we played this club in southern Maryland and we were doing ballads, country tunes and the clientele was into Lynyrd Skynyrd, so people were leaving. The guy who had hired us to play said, ‘How about I pay you and you guys go home?’ It’s never a good thing when someone pays you to leave.” Matrix / Runout (DVD): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk DF10023-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH At one point, Blue Note tried pairing her with a smooth jazz band on the label, Pieces of a Dream, for a few songs but the singer despised the result. A more pleasing proposal came from Apollo Records, run by civil rights activist Percy Sutton, a label connected to the vaunted Harlem-based theater. “They sent her a contract which meant she could have quit her day job (in a plant nursery) and gotten a yearly salary,” Biondi said. “That was a dream come true.”a b "ARIA Charts > Accreditations > 2005 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on December 21, 2008 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY, the only solo album released during the late singer Eva Cassidy's short lifetime, released on December 3, 2021 as a specially remastered 25th Anniversary Edition from Blix Street Records. Available in CD and digital formats as well as a 180g 45rpm double LP set created to fully showcase the recordings' phenomenal sound. This marks the recording's first appearance on vinyl. Matrix / Runout (CD2 Variant 2): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-02 manufactured by optimal media GmbH Matrix / Runout (CD2 Variant 1): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-02 manufactured by optimal media GmbH

Biondo believes that skill is what freed her to bring so much emotion to the songs. “There are a lot of components to someone trying to pull off a tune,” he said. “They have to think about the technical parts, about what the next note is and what the phrasing will be. But because those things were so natural to Eva, it allowed her to go right to the next level, which was to go inside the song and feel the lyrics.” This article is a discography of Eva Cassidy, an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics.Doug Macleod, the artist who sang the original version of this song, had this to say about Cassidy’s rendition during an interview with earlyblues.com in April, 2009: Matrix / Runout (CD1 Variant 2): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH Matrix / Runout (DVD): www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk DF10023-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH R Cassidy remained equally cool when it came to meetings with record companies. “Maybe half a dozen companies came down to talk to her,” Biondo said. “But she never did the kinds of things the people who think they’re going to get a contract do, which is to act all giddy and make fast friends with the A&R people. I don’t think they were too impressed with her enthusiasm level.”