Vocal Coach Reacts - EVA CASSIDY covers "Over the rainbow"
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- You might be familiar with this brilliant singer from yesteryear... Or, you may be one of the millions of people who have not heard of her before.
Evan Cassidy is definitely one of my favourite vocalists ever, especially when it comes to covering other artists' songs. She is absolutely incredible at making a well known song her own, as is evident in this live version of "Somewhere over the rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz", recorded at the famous "Blues Alley" in Washington D.C. Join me as I discuss this exceptional singer in her incredibly unique and powerful performance of a timeless classic!
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I was a sound engineer at Blues Alley when she was active. She was a kind, gentle soul. She was an impeccable human being, and deserved a far kinder end than what was given to her. I miss her to this day.
Thanks so much for sharing that little glimpse of Eva. Her sound is impecable! I would have loved to have heard her live. I do have all her CDs and just love to listen to her. Rest in ☮️ Eva!!💚
She is amazing!
Sending you love 🙏
@@michellemonet4358 just her. She was kind, and gentle. I was just a fly on the wall. She was nice to me, and made me cry when she sang.
You're lucky to have been a good part of her days at the Alley and a witness to her beautiful music.
In my opinion, Eva Cassidy was one of the best female voices of the 20th century.
indubitably
Absolutely
She died much much too early.... :-(
I'd say one one of the best since singing was discovered :)
one of the only voices I can give that "voice of an angel" moniker too. because its tragically true, as well. Hope if there is an afterlife she knows how appreciated she is.
Hands down
I am today pushing 70 years old. There are three musical moments that I at any time, can recall vividly and remember where I was and what I was doing when I first heard an artist. The first was in 1963 when I heard the Beatles sing, From Me To You, on my sister's upstairs radio. I couldn't move. I sat at the bottom of those stairs and just listened. I was entranced. The second moment was in 1970 when I was brushing my teeth while listening to a transitor radio in the bathroom, when Elton John's, Your Song came on. It blew me away, I was mesmerized. Many years later, I guess around 2000, Napster was a big thing. I was downloading all kinds of music for free. Someone tagged a file: "the greatest cover ever made", on a track called Fields of Gold, a Sting song covered by Eva Cassidy. I downloaded it, turned it on. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It was the most beautiful, heart wrenching thing I had ever heard. I first thought was, what a great new singer! I soon read her biography and learned that she was dead. Today, it is still devastating to me. I had them play, Eva's Over the Rainbow, at my mother's funeral. It fit my mood perfectly.
as good a singer as she was...it's often overlooked how good a guitarist she was.
The breathtaking dance between her vocal and her guitar playing ... unmatched. ❤🎵🦋
In a documentary about that Blues Alley recording, the band mates relate that they convinced her that they really needed her to play a little rhythm guitar to fill out the sound. And, Eva being Eva...........
Couldn't agree with you more!
I don't know how anyone could overlook her guitar playing, ãbsolutely impeccable!!
exactly - she matches her dynamic phrasing in her voice in guitar so dextrously and powerfully it's awe inspiring
In 2002, a college friend called me over to listen to the Blues Alley album: "You HAVE to come over and listen to this!"
What can I say? I had tears in my eyes. I had never - and still haven't heard anything - like, ANYTHING like her voice.
In memoriam Eva Cassidy.
I actually was lucky enough to see this performance. A friend told me about her and said how brilliant she was and we had to see her. I will never forget her. I've been listening since this show and have introduced her to quite a few friends. The emotion in her voice and her guitar playing is so instinctual and raw. She was taken from us too soon. Thank you for introducing her to a whole new audience. She was one of a kind!!!!
So lucky
"guitar playing raw". I am ok with that if you mean supple, ..well, no, I don't get it. It's a very elaborated and more than often subtly articulated guitar play. Anyway both of us feel an emotion and that's what matters.
What a wonderful memory for you. Eva was beyond Incredible!
Yes, I agree with you 100%. When I said raw I meant how, in my opinion, she is sharing her vulnerability in her singing and playing. And yes, for me it’s very emotional as well.
So lucky, such a beautiful voice. Listen to her when I am quiet and can enjoy her music.
I've sung in choirs all my life but I have no idea for the love of all that is holy how she is able to hit the head voice 'dreeeeeams' right near the end of the most intense section with such clarity, purity, mezzo forte volume with abandon - almost like you cross bred a flute, a bell and a Canadian loon calling over a still lake at night and then let it take flight.
Thank you for this post. I don’t know if you are aware, but she gave a last performance for friends and family shortly before she died. She was so heavily medicated for the pain that she had to be helped onto the stage. She wanted to give those that loved her a last gift. The song she chose to sing… ‘
It’s a wonderful world’. I’m a retired police officer and the last 23 years of my career I was a forensic investigator. I listen to her songs to help me through those days when memories are dark and sad. Her voice and ability to make the songs her own is a true wonder. Liked and subscribed. Cheers from Canada 👍🇨🇦🏹
Understandably, folks never talk about her guitar playing, but good Lord was she a fantastic guitar player as well. The stuff she played was very technical, had incredible feel, and her execution was flawless!!
Now, back to listening to her voice.
It's a spiritual experience listening to Eva sing this song. No one has ever come close to this cover. She is one very special, beautiful soul.
not just this song.. she has the voice of the angels
Absolutely, so glad you brought that up, one never doubts a higher plane of life after hearing her.
Sammie Cohen Sorry but young Lucy Thomas did a better cover version of this song, Lucy is a better more technical singer. Look her up and watch and listen to perfection on "Lucy Thomas Music" on You Tube !!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 will do. Never heard her name. I’ll try my best to keep an open mind!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 each and to his own! I found it technical and soulless! She can't touch Eva Cassidy's emotion, emoting, and soul! Also why didn't she playing her own instrument like Eva?
Her voice is impressive but nothing about it grabs me by my soul. I also hear a lot of reverb in it. Is that some kind of vocal assistance?
As another voice critic on TH-cam said of Eva, take emotional perfection over technical perfection every time. Other great classic composers have said something similar. So your person is good, but not better, at best different unless you are just a fan of professional training and technique.
Cassidy treats this song as a BLUES. That's why it brings so many to tears. It is about the realization of a dream that is forever just beyond reach. It is about LOSS. Ironically her interpretation directly applies to what happened to her.
It was the radio presenter Terry Wogan that brought Eva to the attention of the British public. Terry thought Eva had a beautiful voice and would frequently rave about her and play her songs on his radio show. I only had to listen to her singing Somewhere over the Rainbow, and I was hooked. A pure and beautiful voice that will live on.
My good friend from the UK said when this was played on the radio people, including him, pulled over to the side of the road to just listen to Eva sing this song.
Thank God someone recorded it. Stunning
Agreed, Elizabeth! Thanks for watching!
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The rest of the recording is excellent too. Live at Blues Alley.
the story goes that she nearly didn't do this gig because she was still getting over
a cold and thought her voice may not handle the gig. There are two moments when
the voice breaks off a little at the end of a line but still THE most beautiful version
ever made of this song.
I first heard Eva performing this song at the end of a Tim Allen movie, Joe Somebody. I was awestruck and went to the credits to see who the artist was and then went out and purchased two of her CD’s. Her ability to demonstrate emotion in the performance of her music is incredible.
Eva is my favorite singer of all time - could listen to her all day long - she takes me places no one else can
Agreed, Steve... thanks for watching!
It makes me sad to think she didn't know how talented she was for most of her life. She's probably one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.
Listen to young Lucy Thomas and you will change your mind.....IF you are honest with yourself !!!
You say, "She didn't know how talented she was." What makes you think that SHE thought in those terms? Perhaps a consideration like that simply didn't occur to her or if it did, it might have been a very fleeting thought with no real weight to it. She was so young and just lived her life doing what she enjoyed. The thought of "how good one is" is inherently ego based because it's suggests a comparison to others. If she were thinking like that, guess what...she wouldn't have been the singer she was.
@@howardrobinson4938 You can be conscious of your own talent and not have it affect your performance. It's a wonderful thing to have confidence and know you're good at what you do, even great. Or at least to know that others think that. And the reason I think that about her is because I've read articles that talk about how shy she was for a long time, how much she undersold herself because she thought she wasn't that special. She didn't understand how much she affected people until the end.
@@meghanmonroe It's likely that really great performers are not affected by their consideration of how talented they are because when they are really great, they are lost in their performance, giving it their all. They are not thinking, "Damn, I'm killing this!" Watching Eva, one can see that this is definitely the case. You say she undersold herself. Not sure what that means? Maybe you think that means she didn't actively get out there with sexy revealing clothing and dance all over to "entertain" a crowd and "try" to become famous. You know, really, this singer was so good and left us with the body of work that exists for people to enjoy for as long as our species lasts. And that is good enough. There was and is no better, no more honest singer. There may never be another. It would be nice if folks would keep their "opinions" and interpretations of "the Greats" lives to themselves and let their art BE. BE. BE. Eva Cassidy allowed herself to Be. To simply Be.
You, Meghan, say, "She's probably one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard." That word "probably"? Why would you use that? Is it because you fancy yourself an authority on voices? And why just say "voices"? How about "singers", because Eva had the voice, the phrasing, the excellent interpretation, and very, very, deep feeling. Meghan, it sounds like you believe she was short-changed in life by not having her ego stroked. I don't think she cared for that. And I think there probably are many reasons a person could be stage-shy beyond thinking they're not good enough. Don't be sad for ANY reason about Eva Cassidy. It was HER life. And she lived it just fine.
@@howardrobinson4938 This discussion and your assumptions about me and my opinions are making me tired. Have a great life Howard.
Vulnerable. Wispy. Intimate. Tender. Inspiring. Melancholy. Angelic. Hopeful. Heart-rending. All are words to describe her vocals, and the range of emotions I get listening to this track. And I usually listen alone, with a box of kleenex at the ready, because she demolishes me. Every. Single. Time. And I've listened to this, the platinum standard of this song, at least a hundred times or more. This is Eva's song, all other versions pale in comparison, there are none finer.
Well, get yourself a Case of Kleenex; for you will Surely need one.
Try “Nightbird.” She sang it so well, that the actual Writer stopped performing it. He said, “What else can I Do with this?” He just Loved it.
She covered so many Classics; written and performed before I was even born.
R&B, Jazz, Blues, Gospel. She did it all.
She was gone before I even heard of her.
Miss her anyway.
RIP, Songbird.🙏🏾♥️🕊
(Btw: your description of her singing this one was Spot On. It describes the way she sang Many more songs with these very qualities. Enjoy.🥹🕊)
She demolishes me. Every. Single. Time. (You nailed it!)
i like also a what a wonderful world cover by her.Eva Cassidy.
Amir Fazadh I would suggest YOU look up young Lucy THomas here on You Tube and listen to Lucy's version of the cover of this song and you WILL change your mind about there being none finer than Eva's...because Lucy's version is !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Yes, Lucy is a good singer, now let her sing and accompany herself on guitar, then we will judge. Check out Emily Linge who sings beautifully and accompanies herself on guitar or piano. Now she is a real artist.
Eva's version of this brings tears to my eyes every single time. Clearly not the song itself, but the way she sings and pulls the emotion out of me. She was amazing.
Eva gets the Golden Buzzer for the best cover performance of this song - WOW!
Her guitar is an extension of her voice. It sounds like a guitar version of her own voice. Absolutely beautiful. So moving. I get emotional every time I hear her sing, whether it’s this or Fields of Gold or Autumn Leaves or any of the beautiful works of ART she left us.
I actually love her running out of air at the very end....it's so natural and beautiful and vulnerable. Rest in peace. What a talent she was!
Someone from Britain heard this and got a DJ to play it. It went to number 1 on their charts. I've been listening since the 90's when I found Songbird at a used bookstore. She has the purest voice I've ever heard... and effortless.
Her voice and guitar mastery is what Heaven must sound like 💖
over the Rainbow was the first song i heard by Eva. I was shopping in a little gift shop and they were playing this. I stopped in my tracks to listen. Went directly to the clerk and asked who was singing. They had a couple of her CD's. Bought both. That was about 20 years ago. I have at least 10 now. She has become my favorite singer and i never thought i would find a singer i loved as much as those i listened to in my youth. Wish she was still with us. ❤️
‘A singer who connects with my heart…” very much sums up why she is so special.
Love your comments and agree 100%. I played lead guitar behind Leon Smith and many other artists, but NONE of them made me weep like Eva does. I have spent so many hours analyzing WHY she has this effect on so many people, and I have come up mostly blank besides the obvious: her dynamic range was unreal -- she could belt with the best and sing softly like no one else. Her vibrato was soooo smooth and effortless, and her phrasing, OMG. Peerless. One of a kind. My favorite vocalist of all-time and it's not even close. Thank you for this excellent reaction video.
If angels could sing, they would sound like Eva Cassidy. Her vocals is an absolute gift, it's music that touches my soul. Thank you sharing this video 🇿🇦
oh my goodness - reading these comments just affirm that i'm not the only one who feels so much emotion listening to Eva! i never could explain why or how she could move me with her voice. the power of the human voice, and of beautiful music. what a talent - and to think that she is singing in heaven now, makes me cannot wait to go! RIP sweetheart
Normally can't stand these kinds of reaction videos, but THIS is spot on. Completely agree with pretty much every single point you make!
I moved to Annapolis (where she lived and often sang) in 1996, the year she died. I never got a chance to see her live, and I kick myself every day for that. She's the most emotional singer I've ever heard. I never tire of her music.
Wow, Matt.... at least it was recorded for all of us to enjoy over and over 🎶
I lived in Washington, D.C. when she was performing there but didn't know of her and never saw her. I regret that SO much.
She sings like where did she get her emotion? Very mysterious. Very deep.
The most beautiful rendition of this song.
Truly unpredictable. Can’t describe.
I feel the same as you, Divina!
Happy birthday Eva. You would have been as beautiful at 59 as you are here.
God bless you gal.
She sing a sad version because she was dying of cancer !!! But a better version, yes better is young Lucy Thomas, here on You Tube and her CD !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 are you just a big fan of hers or are you in some way being compensated or in the promotion game?
I’m with you. how do you put into words what is obvious total authenticity and connection to her heart when she sings. An incredibly rare gift, and I hear it every single time I listen to her. And Marvel, in gratitude. Thank you Eva. I’m a full-time musician and this is what most of us are striving for.❤
This is Eva’s alone. It is the version that everyone copies now. Not knowing Eva, they give credit to the artist copying this version. I was blessed to see Eva at Blues Alley in Georgetown. Heaven listens to her now and forever. I hope you know how loved you are Eva 💖💓✨🎶. We miss you 🌸
Amen! And wow, you were blessed indeed to hear her live 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
labradoreadore Sorry but Young Lucy Thomas did a better cover of this song, and acknowledged it was Eva's version, then sang the song and claimed it !!! Lucy out sings Eva and has a happy version. See Lucy's version on you tube and enjoy and be impressed !! !
It is NOT Eva's alone as Lucy Thomas did a cover as a tribute to Eva and did her own happy version, out singing and performing Eva in the process !!! A fantastic version !! !
@@wilburfinnigan2142
Wilbur, I guess that’s why they make chocolate strawberry and vanilla everyone has a different flavor and opinion!
After listening to Lucy Thomas, sing over the rainbow numerous times, I’ve come to the conclusion she has a splendid voice, but doesn’t do justice compared to Eva!
One of the greatest things about Eva’s performances and singing is that she owns the songs that she sings even though they are covers.
Keep spinning and enjoy the music 🔊🎶🎶🎶✌🏻
Just ran across your review of one of my absolute all time favorite artists. She is often overlooked and I so appreciate your respectful comments. Eva was truly a gifted singer and guitar player. Thank you for sharing her lovely voice!
Thanks so much for your comment!
Yes, she was a genuine, rare gift to the music world. After discovering her, I was so very sad to learn at the same time that she had already left us. Eva was a rare gift and blessed us all with often forgotten emotions.
I've grew up listening to her. My Uncle Lenny playing piano Performed and Recorded with her. My Favorite Song is this one and also "Tall Trees in Georgia"
The emotion she expresses makes me as emotional as she is.
I am a late comer to Eva 3 years ago at 58 years of age and as far as I am concerned she is the greatest female singer I have ever heard as well as a fantastic guitar player. I listen often to Eva and also Pavarotti the greatest male singer ever they lift my mood and make me happy. Is there a biography about Eva as I would love to read her story. GOD BLESS ALL.
Judy Garland sings it like she's been there (somewhere over the rainbow) and it's so amazing she has to sing about it. Eva sings it like she's in a very sad place and she wishes so much that she could go away there. Brings me to tears every time.
Nice way to put it... Thanks for watching, James!
During the last word she sings on this performance "I", it is emotion that caused her to have a little break up in enunciation. You can see her surprise at that, especially in her eyebrows. I think that display of emotion makes it much better.
@Bobb Grimley Yikes.... Good point!!!
A really great observation, James, well said.
Great analogy
This gentleman understands Eva’s singing.
Thanks Andrew! Really appreciate your feedback 🤗
Great reaction. She makes me emotional every time I hear her. Especially this song and Songbird as well as Fields of Gold. The latter cover brought Sting to tears. He did not like people covering that song, But Eva totally owned it.
LOVE her "Fields of Gold" 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
After Sting heard Eva sing his song .... yes, he WAS brought to tears and thereafter said that hers was the better version, the better sung. Yes, tears.
Wonderful to hear someone recognize that a softer singer such as Eva, Alison Krause, and others have a lot of control. 💐
Stunning performance. I have a story. Many years ago I was at a record store in suburban Adelaide and I heard a female singing American Tune. I asked the Sales person who is this? Oh that's Eva Cassidy. I had seen her CD's around, but never heard her sing, or her story. Guess what I did? I bought the CD Immediately. And I think Mr Simon loved her version.
She was amazing, and I love her with all my heart.
Purest voice ever! Liquid gold vocalized. Life taken too soon! Genuine artist - making this her song - so gifted.
Year's ago the first time I heard her singing on the radio. I had to stop what I was doing. Stand at my radio and just listen. It was music love. I'm a big big fan.
Me too, Cynthia! Thanks so much for watching 🌸
@@JohanBesterYourVocalCoach You're very welcome.
Her guitar arrangements are first rate and always on point. They compliment so beautifully and show a suppoerior level of musicianship. She makes changes from the originals always in such tasteful ways. I think they infuenced her vocal choices to great effect. Her guitar doesn't get as much attention because her vocal performances are so out front and unbelievable. Still can't listen to her sing this track without welling up. The overshadowing knowlege of her untimely loss and combined with the performance always makes me feal a mixture of inpsiriration, sadness and appreciation.
What a beautiful comment, Danienl... Couldn't agree more 🦋
Thank you. I've been an Eva Cassidy fan since the first time I heard her, and it was a song on this Blue Alley performance that hooked me. I knew immediately, that she was something very special. She so completely inhabited a song in a way that almost didn't seem like a performance. Her delivery seems to come from her soul, as if it was an expression of something deep inside her that needed to be expressed. Unlike many performers, who's style comes across as passionate and expressive, but feels to me like.all the vocal embellishments are meant to impress, Eva's singing always feels deeply personal, authentic, and completely unforced, natural. Among some of my other favorites are "Autumn Leaves", "Tall Trees in Georgia", and "Fields of Gold". I too wonder what she would have achieved had her life not ended so early, but I am grateful that there were recordings made we can still enjoy!
She sing effortlessly, so beautiful, I get chills everytime I listen to her sing this song.
When you hear her sing, it's no longer her doing a "COVER" of other songs, it's like she puts ALL THE PAGES in the BOOK and the other songs then become the 'COVER' [🎤mic drop]...
Her singing is very personal, like a mother singing to her child as the child is going to sleep. She sings directly to the listener.
Her performance of Autumn Leaves (Blues Alley) brings me to tears listening to it. How many vocalists can bring such emotions out of their listeners, ever notice the end of this song, the last notes... If you sense Eva's getting emotional and you feel for her.
Thanks so much for your feedback!
My brother played with her and his girl friend painted murals with she was also a good artist
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've been an Eva Cassidy fan since the mid 1990s.
Hearing this song for the first time was very emotional for me....
I always thought Eva sang this song as she did because she was IN the rainbow.
Her voice is perfection. Her rendition of "Fields of Gold" is the best. Simply sublime. Thank you for remembering her. New sub here, longtime fan of Eva.
I just found out about this artist . I'm dumb founded, I never heard of her 'till tonight. she's absolutely amazing. I mean I like and adore everything I've heard. I'm so glad my friend introduced her. she is the real deal. also I love how she sings over phrases. and with such commitment, precision and bravado. like it's the way we should all sing!!!!!! killer Chord choices!!!!!!! what function.!!! thank you for appreciating this artist. I'm humbled.
Thank you for your heart in evaluating this song from this voice gifted by God
her version of this is truly the best version of this song.. nobody does it better .. ♥
Her voice is absolutely sublime. One of the best vocalist I've ever heard. Stunning voice control
Agreed! Thanks for watching!
And her intonation is spot on. Perfect pitch
Thank you for this thoughtful video. Eva's voice and her connection to the lyrics is amazing. And as a guitar player of many years, I am blown away by her her choices of chords and melody lines. Genius.
Genius, indeed. Thanks for your comment 😊
She had me at "-where." I almost wrecked my car hearing it on an NPR piece just before I saw the ABC Nightline story.
Rarely has an artist ever touched my heart, my deepest emotions so intensely like Eva Cassidy...
I'm a Classically trained singer and I've loved her since 2001...she is ANGELIC...ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS VOICE AND HER MUSICALITY BEYOND BRILLIANT....😇
I am obsessed with her songs , I listen to over the rainbow every day , such a golden voice , she was gone too soon ! 😔
Maybe the most complete singer I've ever heard. She could be ethereal and delicate as a feather but also belt with chilling power.
She might be my favorite singer ever. I’ve listened to this a million times. It never gets old. She’s amazing.
Her voice always touches a place so deep it brings me to tears.
Interesting, never predictable, just a hint of the blues. That unexpected reach or turn that touches the heart.
I believe this beautiful singer had caught a glimpse of heaven over the rainbow when she performed this! ❤❤
She takes my breath away.
She was one of a kind. The pureness of her voice. Her musicality, and the effortless way she delivers the notes and phrases are unparalleled. When she drops out of the last note it just adds heartbreaking emotions with such subtle elegance. This is vocal art, almost impossible to pick apart.
Your comments reflect how I feel and what I express to others about Eva. I can tell you, like many, have been touched at such a deep level by her gift. A fellow musician and I were introduced to her through a friend asked to arrange a instrumental version of her cover of Time after Time. I think of her ever time we play it. As a fingerstyle guitar play myself, she arrangements are inspiring. Thank you for sharing her gift to others.
100% agree. She kills me every time.
She was the best female vocalist to live. Her version of any song becomes iconic. She was a gift to the world of music and she was just gone to soon.
I think she's the best...Karen Carpenter comes close.
I discovered Eva Cassidy about 20 years ago and realized I found a genius. Crystal clear vocals and emotion woven together to create an unmatched package.
Another singer I think you may enjoy is Angelina Jordan. She is now 15 but was discovered by the world at age 7 when she won Norway's Got Talent. She is a jazz and classic singer for the most part but can sing anything. She has over 140 recordings of covers and originals on TH-cam! A great place to start is with her cover of I've Got a Spell on You which she did in the studio at age nine! You will find it to be the most profound recording of a 9-year-old ever. It is the black and white video. I hope you get a chance to react and then explore her discography.
Thanks so much for your feedback!
Mir geht es genauso. Ich habe sie vor ein paar Monaten entdeckt und muss sagen: amazing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Greetings from old Germany.
My daughter is an opera singer, and and her voice is so beautiful that I have seen people weep when she sings. And I do too. A few years ago she told me, "Oh mom, you need to listen to Eva Cassidy sing Over the Rainbow!
Absolutely heavenly! The feelings she delivers make my soul smile and my heart melt. Thank you so very much for this video!
I found Eva Cassidy about 8 years ago. I absolutely love this woman!
All the America's Got Talent videos that does well, they play Eva Cassidy's rendition of Over The Rainbow.
Yep, I've noticed that, too!
Her vowel shapes and overtones leading into the next phrases are magical
I can tell you are as taken with her as I am! Never heard such a phenomenal singer with such emotion!! My absolute favorite!
Wow! Thank you so much for the in-depth analysis of Eva Cassidy. Your sensitivity and your appreciation of her voice truly brings such emotional satisfaction to me and to your viewers. I am now a devoted fan. God bless you and continue on!
This is an amazing and beautiful performance. What's really interesting is that she ends it straight, but decorates it with a super tasty guitar modulation. Wow.
When Eva was playing clubs in DC she opened for some bands I liked and was always great. But DC was a funk music town and what really made headlines was when Chuck Brown, the Go Go master made a duet album with Eva. Go Go is hardcore funk with no breaks between songs. A Chuck Brown concert was two or three hours of pounding funk. When he announced and then actually released a duet album with Eva (that included Over the Rainbow) that was news. There were interviews since Chuck was probably the best known DC based musician in the 70's, 80's, and 90's and Chuck was cool. He just said she's a great singer and I want people to know there is more to me than Go Go. Mick Fleetwood had a club near DC and I think she played there every time he was in town. Fleetwood and Brown tried to give her the opportunity for a bigger career but it never seemed like she wanted a bigger music career. I think the Chuck Brown record was the only record released while she was alive. At least it was the only one I knew of until years after she died.
The record with him, The Other Side, was released in 1992, 4 years before Blues Alley. She also did two songs on his Christmas album.
Eva’s live rendition of this classic is perfection, even the break at the very end is perfect. I can’t get through this song without tearing up, again this rendition is perfection!
I enjoyed your commentary on this video. I have been a musician for over 40 years and never had the priviledge of working with someone like Eva Cassidy. As a gifted instinctive singer, she has a tremendous magnatism that most singers fail to understand. She conveys that raw emotion. The incredible feeling. As you mentioned, the beauty of the simplicity. I have heard this version of the song many times myself and I am moved by it every time.
Thank you for your genuine words of appreciation for Eva Cassidy and this particular song.
Eva Cassidy got me thinking a lot about life. A perfection of a human being, a talent rarely found and to have gone so soon from this world. The same happened with my brother. There is something wrong with the design of our lives.
Im sooo happy that Ive found Eva Cassidy and her incredible singing! Im a new fan and am so saddened to know that she's not around to continue her incredible singing for the world to know and hear! My favorite song has always been "If" by Bread and would have loved to hear her take on that song? Im sure she would have just killed it, big time! Im a Eva Cassidy fan for life!
Eric Clapton said her version of 'Fields of Gold', is best he ever heard, and liked it far better than his original. Paul McCartney wanted to work with her, but it was too late. She is an astounding performer. She was hugely popular in the UK helped along by radio host, Terry Wogan.
Hi Trisha ... Clapton or Sting ?
No wonder superstars like Sting and McCartney recognised her mind blowing gift....
Sting himself said that fields of gold was hers.
Sting wrote Fields of Gold not Clapton
A sensitive appreciation of Eva, and her musical gifts. She was absolutely genuine and unaffected, and put her heart and soul into
her performances. No image, no artifice. Just Eva. And oh, my God, what a beautiful voice.
how so very very delightful and respectful you are talking about that sweet soul. Thank you
This song never fails to moisten my eyes; she has an angelic quality that touches the hearts of all who hear this.
What a lovely insight into one of my favourite singers. Her melancholy take on this always stops me in my tracks....I also love he version of "What a Wonderful World"
Yes, Wonderful World, Autumn Leaves, Fields of Gold, Time After Time, Danny boy, so many done like nobody else has done them.
So do I!
Eva could do any genre -- and very well. I personally love her jazz interpretations. Do us your analysis of "Cheek to Cheek". She might have had a recording contract with Blue Note, but she wouldn't just focus on Jazz. Her repertoire was very wide and she wanted to keep it that way. If you're moved by her recordings, just imagine how much those of us in the DC area who saw her regularly miss her. She touches my heart, and always will. You probably know Eva had a cold that night and, always the perfectionist, decided to toss out this and several of her other recordings. Her band members wouldn't let her do it.
That's so interesting, Mikki.... what a privilege you had to see her live 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
What's beautiful about Eva Cassidy she doesn't over sing. She doesn't need to impress us we are hooked from the start. By the purity of her voice the power is just a bonus. Still got her book in my bedside table. And that's where it will stay.
beautiful reaction, and Eva's voice is different and beautiful with this song, but so soft and elegant.
Her power is to make you feel the song which is rare quality and she was so gifted.
The dynamics in this performance are incredible, and her guitar playing is fantastic - rising and falling perfectly in the right places to allow her voice to shine. There is a ton of compression on the vocal track to get that amount of detail and clarity in the soft passages but her mic technique was also fantastic. Such a sad loss of a beautiful talent.
No matter how many times I hear her, she always makes me cry. An angel.
Absolutely love this beautiful singer of such deep emotion.. check out her cover of “People Get Ready” … damn fine gospel singer .. she could sing the phone book and it would be amazing!
Your comments about how Eva connects with one's heart and her amazing, beautiful gifts is well said. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.