Music CD - Eva Cassidy: Imagine

	Music CD: Imagine Artist: Eva Cassidy List Price: $16.98 Our Price: $9.54 Your Save: $ 7.44 ( 44% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Blix Street
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Tracks: 1. Guess It Doesn't Matter 2. Fever 3. Who Knows Where the Time Goes 4. You've Changed 5. Imagine 6. Still Not Ready 7. Early Morning Rain 8. Tennesee Waltz 9. I Can Only Be Me 10. Danny Boy
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0739341007521 Label: Blix Street Manufacturer: Blix Street Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blix Street Release Date: 2002-08-20 Studio: Blix Street
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Imagine Comment: What a voice will order everyone of her cd's. Too bad her life was cut short. Love, Love her music Customer Rating: Summary: What a Songbird! Comment: Eva Cassidy had an amazing voice and style. It's a joy to hear her voice and so sad to know she died before claiming the fame that is rightfully hers. Customer Rating: Summary: Eva Cassidy Music Comment: This is the second CD by Eva Cassidy and I hope to find everything she recorded. She left the world too soon but she left behind a beautiful voice. Customer Rating: Summary: Still in the top Comment: All seven CD`s I bought with Lady Eva Cassidy is a tast of heven. Fantastic entertainer, world class. I am sorry not to be able to have the experience to see her live on stage. Customer Rating: Summary: Majestic Comment: Ms. Cassidy's death at such a young age left a large gap in American Music. Gifted with a pure, clear voice (which she could dirty up when the song called for it), perfect intonation, and a feel for lyrics, she was a singer's singer. She rarely fails to disappoint. On this album, check out her version of Danny Boy. Danny Boy is one of the most beautiful ballads in the Western canon. Of course, Danny Boy has been sung umpteen times, some excellent, some not so excellent, but I think Ms. Cassidy's version is one of the most touching I have ever heard. She stays very close to the melody, her guitar playing is simple yet effective, and her tone is suitably plaintive and mournful. If you don't have a tear in your eye at the end of the song, Irish or not, you must have a heart of stone. Parenthetically, another Washington, D.C. resident, with whom Ms. Cassidy recorded on occasion, suffered an untimely death, by his own hand. Danny Gatton, Wizard of the Telecaster, committed suicide in 1994. The two of them had much in common. Both were perfectionists, and more important, both were eclectic in their musical tastes, refusing to be pigeonholed in one genre. Jazz, bluegrass, soul, country, it was grist to both of their mills; maybe that is why they worked with each other. Two geniuses of the D.C. area who died too young, with so much more music to give to the world. Pity. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: For anyone who suspects that record companies will soon be releasing Eva Cassidy's voice mail messages, it's extraordinarily pleasing to note that Imagine is more than just a bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping exercise. All of these tracks are previously unreleased and most are live recordings, but listeners who already own Live at Blues Alley know just how refreshing Cassidy's live performances were. Check out her take on Sandy Denny's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" to feel a shiver of delight at another effortlessly ideal cover, or listen to her laid-back "You've Changed" from the Blues Alley sessions to experience more of her soulful jazz. Elsewhere, the solo acoustic reading of Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" shows off her guitar skills, and if "Imagine" doesn't ever scale the heights of Songbird's "Over the Rainbow" it still demonstrates how she always had something new and uniquely compelling to say when performing a familiar standard. Studio recordings "Still Not Ready" and "I Can Only Be Me" are, oddly perhaps, the least successful cuts. Happily, the album concludes with another lovely solo standard, "Danny Boy." The recording quality varies noticeably from track to track, and there are a few awkward fade-outs--presumably to remove audience noise--but still the sparkling music comes across quite vividly. Imagine may not be the best way to discover Eva Cassidy for the first time, but established fans will warmly welcome this new collection. --Mark Walker