Eva Cassidy-Songbird-CD-FLAC-1998-DeVOiD
Description :
Artist…: Eva Cassidy
Album….: Songbird
Type…..: Normal
Genre….: Pop
Label….: Blix Street
Language.: English
Year…..: 1998 Source…: CDDA
R.Date…: 05-11-2013 Grabber..: EAC Secure
S.Date…: 00-00-1998 Encoder..: FLAC 1.2.1 Lossless
Quality..: 792 kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels
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/ Track List .
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01 Fields Of Gold 4:42
02 Wade In The Water 4:02
03 Autumn Leaves 4:41
04 Wayfaring Stranger 4:26
05 Songbird 3:43
06 Time Is A Healer 4:16
07 I Know You By Heart 3:59
08 People Get Ready 3:16
09 Oh, Had I A Golden Thread 4:49
10 Over The Rainbow 5:00
Total Size.: 10 Files/254.3MB/42:54 min
Release Notes
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4.5/5 on Allmusic:
Though many recording artists meld and straddle a variety of genres, few if
any defy categorization by excelling in so many disparate styles as the
late Eva Cassidy. The diverse offerings from the evocative thrush from
Washington, D.C. — who died tragically of melanoma in 1996 at age 33 –
run the gamut from the radio-friendly pop cover of Stings “Fields of Gold”
to a jazz chanteuse rendition of the standard “Autumn Leaves” to the
soulful R&B of Curtis Mayfields “People Get Ready” to her spine-tingling
gospel delivery of “Oh, Had I a Golden Thread.” Cassidys mastery of each
is perhaps best evidenced by the fact that the Washington Area Music
Association honored her (in 1996) as Best Female Vocalist in four separate
categories: blues, contemporary jazz, traditional jazz, and roots
rock/traditional R&B, in addition to naming her Artist of the Year, and her
then-current release, Live At Blues Alley, Album of the Year. Songbird is a
posthumous anthology culled from that album and her other solo release, Eva
By Heart, along with one track from her 1992 duet album with Chuck Brown
titled The Other Side. Though the production value on several songs falls
well short of state of the art, the shimmering beauty of her crystal-clear
voice, combined with her seemingly limitless range and imaginative
phrasing, cuts through to both heart and soul. Whether she beckons a
soothing timbre for seductively restrained passages or shakes the rafters
by unleashing her formidable power and gorgeous falsetto, Cassidys
warblings always fuse her purity of tone with a purity of emotion and a
palpable connection with the lyric. Though the songs described above are
luscious, the coup de mare is the albums finale — surely one of the
great recordings in popular music of the time — Cassidys stunning version
of “Over the Rainbow.” Recorded with only her own accompaniment on acoustic
guitar, keyboards, and synthesizer, Cassidys voice swoops and soars over a
musical panorama — though with a wistful, melancholic shading that almost
seems to betray a premonition of her own demise, despite the fact that it
would be nearly four years before she would be diagnosed with her terminal
illness. Cassidy more than rearranges the Judy Garland classic — she
reinvents it. The song is immediately familiar, yet the beautiful colors
that arc the sky are very much hers. In an eerie coincidence, if one
inverts the two words contained in the albums title, Songbird (which was
taken from her straightforward rendition of the Fleetwood Mac cut), the
result is “Bird Song.” The irony is that “Bird Song” is the title of the
Grateful Deads ode to another phenomenal woman singer whose melodious
flight was tragically cut short: Janis Joplin. One could argue that its
lyrics and sentiment are equally apropos of Eva Cassidy.
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