Music CD - Eva Cassidy: Live at Blues Alley

	Music CD: Live at Blues Alley Artist: Eva Cassidy List Price: $16.98 Our Price: $8.94 Your Save: $ 8.04 ( 47% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Blix Street
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Tracks: 1. Cheek To Cheek 2. Stormy Monday 3. Bridge Over Troubled Water 4. Fine And Mellow 5. People Get Ready 6. Blue Skies 7. Tall Trees In Georgia 8. Fields Of Gold 9. Autumn Leaves 10. Honeysuckle Rose 11. Take Me To The River 12. What A Wonderful World 13. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0739341004629 Format: Live Label: Blix Street Manufacturer: Blix Street Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blix Street Release Date: 1998-07-28 Studio: Blix Street
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: great old songs-full of memories Comment: Lots of great old songs done with a wonderful voice. I love the quality of Eva's voice & gobble up everything of her's I can find. This purchase was up to her usual top notch standards, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Customer Rating: Summary: Live at Blues Alley - Eva Cassidy Comment: An amazing voice! It's a shame we had to lose such a great talent at such a young age. This album highlights more of her work than any other offered. Customer Rating: Summary: Really great CD Comment: Another star in my collection! I love Eva's songs and this is just another collection, albeit live, of her wondrous voice. Customer Rating: Summary: Best of Eva !!! Comment: There are no words to describe this CD. The live recording is astonishing, you can hear every detail on the instruments. Her voice is fantastic and the song selection could not be better. A+ for this CD. Everyone should hear this CD. Best of Eva Cassidy in my opinion. Customer Rating: Summary: Straight from the Heart Comment: There's a lot to like about Eva Cassidy. Her indifference to the expected route to success in the music business. Her determination to sing things meaningful to her no matter where they came from. Her ability to sing from her heart. And her respect for nature. I'm no musician. I cannot respond to those who dot their reviews with two or three miserly stars. I will simply say I respect Eva's work because to my (undeveloped)ear I hear her songs coming directly from her heart. That is purity in its best sense. Thinking about buying this CD? Listen to: "Fields of Gold" and "Tall Trees in Georgia," especially. Then skim through the various songs she tackles here. Don't buy this CD because Eva died tragically. Buy it because she sang magically. More Reviews
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. --Andrew Bartlett