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 | Title : Live at Blues Alley
Author : Eva Cassidy
Release Date : 19980728
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $16.98
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Editorial Reviews :
When Eva Cassidy is swinging her way through 'Cheek to Cheek' and getting down and bluesy on 'Stormy Monday' on this live set from 1996, it's nigh impossible not to get swept up in her voice's vast, barreling force. Her full range, though, becomes most obvious--and soul-shaking--on the slower side, as with Paul Simon's 'Bridge over Troubled Water,' Buffy Sainte-Marie's 'Tall Trees in Georgia,' and 'What a Wonderful World.' On these latter tunes, Cassidy's mix of aching clarity and rich warmth has a melting quality, speaking through the body to some evanescent presence that she seems to know all too well. She improbably makes Sting's 'Fields of Gold' an emotional powerhouse just as easily as she makes Billie Holiday's 'Fine and Mellow' an offhand declaration of feeling equal to nearly anything in the jazz vocal canon. In doing so she earns her place among the great singers--artists who could take any song and stamp it indelibly as their own. What Eva Cassidy had in her short life was an unbelievably perfect voice and a musical soul that grasped gospel, folk, blues, jazz, and all points in between as if they were mere stops on a single train ride. Alas, her ride ended in 1996, tragically early.
Buyer Reviews :
I was at work, with NPR in the background, when a voice cut through my keyboard's clatter with a clarity and poise that can best be described as stunning. I sat at my desk for the length of the story, unable to do anything but listen to the snippets of songs chosen as examples of this woman's incredible gift. And then to hear that she died such a short time ago, after an altogether too-short life - I suppose the best tragedy is poignant like that, though.
This is the first Eva CD I have purchased since listening to her voice coming from my radio, and I'm completely enraptured. I will buy each and every one of the other CDs, and not be disappointed by a-one of them. She is an inspired singer - she's able to turn a so-so song like 'Fields of Gold' into a masterpiece - whose voice is much bigger than her life was.
So, as another reviewer said, thank you to NPR for introducing this singer to me and countless other listeners. I'm sure she now has a whole new cadre of fans who, though saddened at learning she will never produce anything 'new,' are thrilled to be able to bask in the glory of the music she left us.
(by velosing)
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