Eva Cassidy - Nightbird
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- The new orchestral Eva Cassidy album I CAN ONLY BE ME is released 3rd March 2023 evacassidy.lnk.to/ICanOnlyBeMe
Previously unseen footage of Eva Cassidy performing Nightbird at the Blues Alley jazz club on 3rd January 1996.
Nightbird is one of 12 previously unreleased tracks that feature on the new 32 track/2CD Nightbird album.
evanightbird.com
Recorded by Bryan McCulley on 3 January 1996. - เพลง
I'M 71 I have seen and listened to all types of music groups and singers, but this simply is the best performance I have ever heard, considering it was made in a club with none of todays modern production methods it is sheer genius by an angel who flew away far to soon. RIP Eva.
My parents would have been 77 this year. Eva was played in our home. They taught my twin brother and me how to jitterbug to her cheek to cheek ❤️🙏🏼
I’m 66 years old now and I’m Hypnotized by her voice and songs
I’m 68 Years Old Now and still Blowen Away By You Eva Bless Your Angelic Soul
Amen 🙏
The More I Listen to her sing 🎶 the More I’m Blown Away
👼
Amen..🙏
Amen. so glad have the ability to watch this concert weekly. Amazing best female vocal talent imo
From an interview with Doug MacLeod, who wrote Nightbird.
Interviewer: Your songs have been recorded by many artists, so which are your favorite interpretations?
Doug: I have a couple of favorites. One was Eva Cassidy’s version of Nightbird. That song is about a prostitute, a prostitute that I used to live with who really watched out for me. I have no idea if Eva Cassidy knew what that song was about and I never heard it until my wife played it for me during a drive to Los Angeles from San Luis Obispo.
I’m a huge baseball fan and my team, the Cardinals from St Louis, were playing the Dodgers and I wanted to listen to the game. My wife said “I got something for you to hear”, and I said, “But the Cardinals are on” and she said “This is more important than the Cardinals” and she put this CD on of Eva Cassidy. I tell you, it moved me so much, I pulled over to the side of the road and I was weeping. I have never done that song again. When people ask me to do Nightbird, I tell them that if they want to hear THE version, she is the one to listen to. And then of course she died before I got a chance to meet her to ask her how she interpreted it like that.
Wow. Just wow.
She has a way of making every song her own.
Bob Crunch My God she can move ,one...
Thank you.
Harvey Bobb Fly, baby girl baby!
I read these comments and people feeling sad about Eva leaving us at such a young age...don't be sad people..99.9% of people born on this planet will leave no visible sign that they were ever here except they have passed their DNA on to a new generation. Eva didn't pass her DNA on, but she did leave a legacy that will mesmerise people for generations to come.
Thank you.
Like this morning.
Great way to look at it. We all would like to leave a mark, but most are quickly forgotten. 24 years later I am enjoying her music. Wish I had found her sooner when she was alive. Typical artist that is more famous after gone, and she was a real artist.
Ian Burry Greatest comment to a video I have ever read. God bless.
Don't be sad at her passing, rejoice that she lived.
I read Elton John said she had one of the three known perfect voices in the world. Her purity of tones and emotion bring me to tears more often than not.
My understanding is that the three are Eva Cassidy, Karen Carpenter and Judith Durham. And I totally agree with him.
I wholeheartedly agree! Over the Rainbow does it for me every time!
@@MarkJohnson-zy4fd Don't forget Patsy Mark
@@MarkJohnson-zy4fd Elton was a big fan of Dusty Springfield also.
@@MarkJohnson-zy4fd and Ann Murray, not to mention Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin who surpass everyone, albeit in a somewhat different style. Just my 2 cents.
Anyone else listening to this in lock down? Stay safe everyone this is where I had to come to stay sane
I'm with you Rachel.
We listen to Eva all the year round and have done for years...glad you have found this amazing woman...
Where else would you go....just listen to some honesty...Eva will always bring you to truth..
Always listen to Eva or Willie Nelson when a need some comfort...not his country stuff but the ballads..
GREAT CHOICE !!! I'M THERE WITH YA !!! STAY SAFE :)
My life is a whole lot better after finding Eva Cassidy.
Who else can sing like this? Many can belt out the power lines, but few can pull off the soft parts with such emotional intensity. No one compares. Why wasn't this obvious to all the record execs? That she was never signed to a major label is just scandalous.
If only she knew how much the world would fall in love with her, taken far too soon.💔
She knows :) And we will ALL get to meet her someday!!
💔
She opted out of fame and turned down a lot of offers. She valued her private life and her ability to sing her favorite songs in her way regardless of genre. The big time music business pigeon holes people.
@@RossM3838 fair play to her, it does show, there’s a real sincerity about all of her work that I’ve heard.
Feel silly that I am just finding her and her music.....My life is a little better for it.......thank you Eva
Welcome friend; I felt the same.
well said. i feel the same. thank you.
She had a voice that could soothe every nerve in your body. Gone way too soon
Tim Glover same
Better late than never!!
Dang! Her voice goes directly to the listener's heart. ❤️
The angels gather round and listen when she sings.
Said it before and I'll say it again. NEVER oversings the narrative. THAT'S why she's the greatest singer in recorded history. No other great singer in any genre can cover the ground Eva does. She's not only the best at what SHE does, but she's as good or better than them at what THEY do. Singular. There never was before nor will there ever be another like her. RIP, Eva.
Jeff Jones Only Aretha Franklin is on the same level. She has always been the singer I considered the very best
in my lifetime - until I heard this incredible singer, Eva Cassidy, in 1998. Aretha’s still the top of my singer’s totem
pole, but Eva is on the same rung, no question. It is amazing to hear.
Absolutely! She even blew Judy Garland away with her version of "Over the Rainbow"!
@@larrypower8659 Aretha is amazing but lacks the tenderness, and thus the chill-evoking quality, for me at least. The first time I heard Eva it summoned Robert Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, that pure, unadorned, ethereal delivery of a vocal. That song undoubted influenced Eva's development.
@larry nash. Eva’s “Rainbow” is the best version ever, imho. Brings tears to my eyes every time. In fact, I can’t watch it that often because I get too
emotionally involved. Truly amazing.
@quarter_moon and_a_guitar. The difference may be, Aretha sang more with the verve and energy of her personality and outlook on life. I’ve always felt Eva did
the same thing but with that said, Eva’s outlook and personality seemed to be quite different from Aretha’s. The Queen of Soul was brash, supremely talented, and
she knew what she wanted. Eva didn’t seem to want much of anything from her music, much less her career. Her singing seemed to come from a place of melancholy.
You can always hear that touch of sadness in everything. It’s really that blue feeling we all get but Eva seemed to have it in spades. In music, we all play or sing who we
are; it’s one the eternal truths of Art. Both of these fantastic ladies sang and played WHO they were. In Aretha’s catalog there are many instances of downright sad-
ness and vulnerability, but that is certainly not what she was known for, nor did she want to be portrayed as such. Aretha experienced the prejudice of racism and
misogyny (hope I spelled that right). She fought to rise above it, which is revealed in her music. Eva, I think, just wanted to BE. She showed who she was through her
music and that was enough for her. It’s really kind of existential, not that either of them considered themselves “existentialist.” Lau Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, wrote
that, “The way to do is to be, and the way to be is to do.” We love both of these fantastic women of song. They WERE, and that’s all they needed to BE ... Stay safe and
take good care, Mister 1/4 Moon.
Such a pure, talented voice. She was so special. At 79 I've heard a lot of music but she was the best.
Smiles, hello Kathryn 🌺 😊
@@georgemelvin7187 think i have all her CDs now. A voice for the ages❤
@@kathryn9930 yeah yeah, feels really great listening indeed, how are you doing?
I am 79 and I feel exactly the same way! This one of my favorite songs. Love Eva forever !
Smiles, hello Mary 🌺 😊
My goodness,
......there really are no words...........
My prayer is everyone gets to hear this beautiful angel...........
I have been a fan for yrs. Thanks to FB. I am always going back to her music. She was so special. Had a unique natural gift
She’s sings all her songs with so much ease. Her voice is so calming. Leaves me speechless.
When you watch this you must and need to understand that this vocal ability is NOT normal, she has been gifted by the Gods. xxxxx
Been a musician all my life and consider myself somewhat of a musicologist. Recently discovered Eva ..... and I can't believe what I've been missing all these years. What a pure, beautiful tone to her voice and she delivers the song with such passion and soul. The best singer that nobody knows about I guess.
She's a angel
Well …. Welcome to real classic music….from an old soul full of grace…
No Diva …. Just Eva….♥️
Singing from her heart ♥️
Gone to soon…💔
It’s so heartbreaking that most of us discovered her after she passed.
If you haven't heard it yet, check out Eva's Blues in the Night!
@@ratroute8238 I just found her tonight, wow 😳
Does she have the most perfect voice and delivery ever?
+Alison Chapman: Y.E.S.
I'm with Wes....YES!!!!
@@Mark.H.9192 And she was sick with a head cold. She cried at the thought of releasing this album (live at Blues alley). She's has high standards I'd say. :)
Yes:)
Alison Chapman did you ever met her
What a night that must have been.
One comes along every hundred years to show us our forgotten soul, and for a moment we remember what we really are.
One of the greatest female singers of the 20th century.
She could interpret songs with a depth of meaning that brings tears to the eyes
Dad-1
Only one better, ARETHA FRANKLIN.
In my top 5 of all time, Eva, Lara fabian, shelby lynne, caitlyn smith and rosetta tharpe. Can't put them into any order.
@@kennethgustjr.2798 Aretha had that same humility, as well. Would have done a duet with her in a heartbeat. Wouldn’t that have been Something? The Queen and The Songbird. Rip, ladies. 🙏🏾🕊♥️😢
I think you meant THE greatest.
Listened to Eva over the years and it's only just struck me that you can tell every word she sings, that's a rarity today , beautiful voice
Best singer ever.
She's done it to me again. First the goosebumps then the tears.
You, and everyone else who knows EVA....RIP Sweet Songbird
Same bro. Same You can’t turn the water works off when she starts to sing. Not many singers grab your heart instantly like she always does.
Fist time hearing her and my goodness her voice!!!! Literally brought tears to my eyes. You can feel her soul in her voice, beautiful. I wish I could have had the opportunity to see her live.
I thank Terry Wogan and Radio 2 in the UK for introducing this wonderful singer into my life
AVE Eva Cassidy, love you so much, like never before.❣
Truly the songbird....
I’m sure this amazing talented beautiful soul is still singing up there with the angels. I can only think that God wanted her to come back home because he missed her so much. 🙏🏼🇬🇧
Here I am 5 years later still listening to Eva and will forever. Beautiful tragic loss. 'For her memory now she's gone' That nightbird and songbird still lives on through her music. Rest in peace beautiful talented Eva. You were a jewel.x
ONE OF THE GREATEST SINGERS WHO EVER LIVED PERIOD....
EVERYTIME!!!!! whenever I hear her sing.. its like my chest just gets full of emotions.. pulling me out of reality into something else.. like I am floating or something!
Definitely tears the more I hear this song..
Found myself with a tear slowly falling as I heard her sing. That's just plain ole God given talent pouring out of her soul.
I can plan to listen to a song or two of Eva's songs, and easily end up listening to more and more and hours have gone by. Breath taking, often find myself with welling tears not of grief but of awe and being touched by her heart filled songs.
@@victoriakirchner4371
Yes that exactly what happens when I listen to Eva, one angelic voice
RIP Angel
Immaculate performance. What a star! Her voice is liquid gold. So beautiful.
Neil Booth I agree. Immaculate is the right word so far as my heart can tell. In music or elsewhere she is the only person that brings on goosebumps and tears whenever I hear her. She something else, a phenomenon, everyone of us that's affected by her knows it.
Neil Booth I agree. Immaculate is the right word so far as my heart can tell. In music or elsewhere she is the only person that brings on goosebumps and tears whenever I hear her. She something else, a phenomenon, everyone of us that's affected by her knows it.
Neil Booth I discovered her today.
I'm right behind you - just found out about Eva tonight! Immaculate and liquid gold are both perfect, with a lot of packed emotion in every note she sings. It's hard to get enough ....
how can any female vocalist top this angelic voice.
I listened to the two discs of Nightbird today. Greatest one night performance of any singer ever recorded.
So agree
It just really doesn't get much better than this in music!!!! Incredible!!!!
I'm 61 now. I feel Eva Cassidy's music, every aspect of it, emotion, delivery, true essence of her notes, and certainly her sweetness will be part of my last decade or perhaps 2 Lord willing.
An Angel with an amazing gift to touch peoples hearts. Can't listen to her voice without getting tears in my eyes... RIP!
RIP? no. . . . . i just discovered her
@Christopher Ross 😢
Eva you gave us something we today cherish, sorry you didn't feel the way you have left us now. Thank You.
Don't know if I've ever heard Eva sing without chills, goosebumps.. They say great voice about many people, but she just gets straight into your heart somehow in a way that is so uniquely Eva Cassidy..
Totally agree..she gets me very emotional and the songs she sings also give me hope.
props to the guitarman... very fine solo. Helluva band behind this great singer.
I was listening. First rate!
His name is Keith Grimes... damn fine playing
@@laylahofficial Agree 👍
I first heard her while I was sitting in a Starbucks, and Fields of Gold came on.I got chills, and asked the barista who was singing. She went and found out, then gave me the name of Eva Cassidy. I later found the CD Songbird in my dad's collection after he passed away, as well as a couple of her jazz CDs. I've listened to them all several times over. Never get tired of hearing her, and the music never gets old. Legendary talent, gone way too soon.
My Friend who was a great guitarist, he taught when he was too old to play. He said she was an Angel, I said the Angels weep at the beauty she emanates when she sings. She knew she was dying of cancer when she did this set. Such talent, such a loss.
It never ends here listening to her voice. Just so a temple of tears
What a voice God gave her....she used His gift well!!!!🥰🙏♥️
She is my new favorite singer. So amazing. I was so disappointed to find that she had passed away in 1996.
We All were.🥺💔🕊
Smiles, so so amazing Carolyn, feels really great listening, how are you doing? 🌺
i just found Eva... didn't even know she flew away. now i'm sad. but i'm glad i found her. God, thank You, for Eva Cassidy and her beautiful voice and her music. may she be resting in Your Perpetual Light.
When Eva does a song, consider it done. Her flawless delivery has rarely been equalled and never surpassed. A true musical genius and a voice that will echo through the ages to come.
Une pure merveille
Merci Eva
Tu me berce tu as bercé mon chéri avant qu'il ne rejoigne son père céleste
J'espère qu'il te rencontre...
Comme j'espère aussi le faire au moment voulu
Pas de tristesse
Juste un excellent partage
Là où tu es
As she did for so many already wonderful songs, she "owns" this one and then gladly gives it to us for free so wonderfully. True talent.
As amazing as Over the Rainbow and Fields of Gold are, I think this one is just as special and underrated
Yes, I think it's the best.
So do I! I love 💕 this song and Eva!!!
So do I...absolute class...
This is the BEST!!!
My #1
For her memory now, she's gone. You are an angel, eva.
I really can't believe this, just listen to the production, it is perfect, Eva Cassidy, it makes me want to cry, the pure genius, lost to us.
I love Eva Cassidy. Gem in time. She’s the songbird. Beautiful
Smiles, so so beautiful Pam, feels really great listening, how are you doing? 🌺 😊
Everytime she hits that high note, it sends chills down my body.
So effortless... So incredible! Eva you were amazing and I weep that you are no longer with us. I know you are in Heavens Choir and I know I will get to see you someday! A Lady for the Ages!
Thank you so much Eva for touching me right in my Soul,
So many time's ❤
RIP
Rock Goddess.
RIP
I found my home, my favorite songs sung by a voice so incredible it will make the angels sit down and weep. God must have wanted her in heaven for all our loved ones who passed to hear her as their reward.
Smiles, hello Diane 🌺
Music has always moved me emotionally to some degree, but Eva Cassidy's unfathomed vocal abilities profoundly affect and mesmerize me like no other. I'm forever grateful for Eva Cassidy and those who have preserved Eva's music!!!
The candle that burns brightest 🔥 only burns half as long... RIP Eva. ⚘❤💯
This is an angel forever in my heart such a songbird.
Smiles, hi Linda 🌺 😊
A truly beautiful and rare sound -, what a voice!, Sadly missed today but living on in our hearts
Man. What a talent. What a soulful talent. Never be another like her. Just such a gift to listen to anything she sings.
Smiles, hello Maureen 🌺 😊
What an angel - so sad she's no longer with us - I could listen to her 24/7
To sing with such felling and in a small club wished i was there Fantastic.
The tone of Eva’s voice is so gorgeous.
the guitar solo is one of the most touching ones i'v ever heard, and her voice takes me to heaven
My God! What a Loss to life and music. Eva Cassidy One of the VERY greatest singers!
She had such a presence. I wish we could have watched her continue on. RIP love.
I just discovered her a few years ago. I take her departure as a personal loss. What a voice.
Amazing how one person can affect, so many lives.
Thank you Eva
Sweet Eva...can't ever get enough of this angel.
This hit straight to my heart with enough tears to fill the Mississippi River perhaps it was 20 years over due. My last live performance on Beale Street at Silky O Sullivan's and then over to BB Kings. This is the song I last sang in 1995 I had lost my biggest fan my little 10 yr old son in a tragic accident and felt that was the day the night bird flew away and took my little boy to perhaps sit down and meet the man in the moon (yes every time I watch a movie with the little fishing off the moon I smile and think of my son). I walked away from singing that night after Beale Street and have never been back to visit the Blues on Beale until right now I have always been a fan of Eva Cassidy but never knew she sang this song until tonight it popped up my suggestions for music thank you TH-cam for the incredible moment you gave me.
Condolences.🥺 Now our Songbird can sing to him All The Time.🕊
I know her voice, but when she starts singing the beauty and feeling startles me every time.
If you haven't heard it yet, check out Blues in the Night!
You were taken from us far too soon , I think you are in heaven now . God bless you
This cuts right to your soul.
Smiles, hello Tina 🌺 😊
I lost my mom 2 months ago and she always listened to Eva Cassidy "People Get Ready"... Im always getting tears when i hear her beautiful voice!
Sorry to hear about your mum and your English is perfect
Erik Höggren
People who care to read, will understand each and every word. They read with the heart......
Sorry, never a good time to lose your mum.
Sorry for your loss. Your Mom must have been super special. She got to hear Eva while she was still with you. Now she gets to hear her All The Time. What a Blessing.🙏🏾🕊♥️
How would you even give this pure perfection a thumb down?...
Lovely, beautiful, amazing, brilliant....the list goes on! Eva was mesmerizing! The band also incredible.
The Man who wrote this Never sang it again after he heard Eva doing it. THAT SAYS IT ALL! Never heard a Voice so touching and Never will do again. A pure Goddess. And Props to the Band aswell.
Even more, he wrote the song about his life. He was the young man taken in by the Nightbird. Yet, now, when asked to play it, he tells them that's Eva's song now.
Who is the man that wrote it? What a treat their paths crossed! A great heart can share with others.. ✨
@@moniquemannaert3468
Doug MacLeod
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_MacLeod_(musician)
Interview with the writer of the song, Doug Macleod:
Alan: Your songs have been recorded by many artists, so which are your favourite interpretations?
Doug: I have a couple of favourites. One was Eva Cassidy’s version of Nightbird. That song is about a prostitute, a prostitute that I used to live with who really watched out for me. I have no idea if Eva Cassidy knew what that song was about and I never heard it until my wife played it for me during a drive to Los Angeles from San Luis Opisbo.
I’m a huge baseball fan and my team, the Cardinals from St Louis, were playing the Dodgers and I wanted to listen to the game. My wife said “I got something for you to hear”, and I said, “But the Cardinals are on” and she said “This is more important than the Cardinals” and she put this CD on of Eva Cassidy. I tell you, it moved me so much, I pulled over to the side of the road and I was weeping. I have never done that song again. When people ask me to do Nightbird, I tell them that if they want to hear THE version, she is the one to listen to. And then of course she died before I got a chance to meet her to ask her how she interpreted it like that.
The other song of mine that I think was a great version was Albert Collins doing Working Man Blues. It’s on his Cold Snap album and I think he just nailed it.
Una voz maravillosa. Es un placer y un honor escucharla. Que lástima que se fuera tan joven. Gracias Eva. Descanse en paz.
It never fails. Every time I listen to Eva do this song, I end up in tears.
Her voice and her life were one thing. Such power and purity.
What a gift to hear a new track. Eva you still get to me. Xx
The soul in her singing. Wow.
Such a beautiful voice....... heart breaking to know she passed away ,so young.........her music and lovey voice will never pass away. .........l.. am tuned to all her music,, once I hear her Can’t stop listening ..each one is a winner. God Bless you Eva...."..you left us treasures........
Eva was the best of the best. What a voice and what great treatment of the song.
I have no words other than passion with precision rest in peace we all still hear you
This wonderful woman was amazing, so much talent was robbed from this earth.
The best Female Singer in history.
Amen
Truly one of the most gifted singers ever. Never 'over sang' like so many today, just perfection.
I cry every time I hear her sing ..So deep so soulful so real
No one like her then and no one like her now !!!
When your happy you enjoy the music. When your sad you understand the lyrics ❤
Well put.😉
True❤
Who's listening right now? October 2019
I am but why is that information important to you? :/
Me, in Argentina!!
Rochester , NY
Amen! Albania.
Aye Matig-a we have been listening to this beauty for years...never gets old.
She always leave me breathless. She can sing any type of music flawlessly.
more amazing than anything is this is an unretouched live performance. there is no artist living or dead that compares. eva cassidy should be required listening..
I’m 42 years old and have listened to a lot of music of all genres. How have I not heard this lady sing until now? 🤷🏻♂️
This LADY makes my heart bleed. Reminds me of my ex of 30 years ."MAW " .⚘💔
I still LOVE HER so much & miss her to no end. .💔🙏⚘❤
Will always love you marcia ann williams your locked in my heart ,.🙏⚘❤💔
Thank you Eva for bringing such soulful music ❤️🙏
My spirit just lifted , flown over the rainbow to Eva to say thank you for the six minutes of my time that wasnt wasted...god needed you guys there...love you Eva, and your uniqe voice, may you live foreverxxx
Thank you Bryan McCulley for recording all these magical performances by Eva. I can't even imagine what privilege it was to actually be there in person, but if I close my eyes I feel like Eva is singing next to me for me and me alone.
Emotional and beautiful! "For Her Memory, Now She's Gone..."