I never will forget the first time I heard Eva....I had my PBS channel running one Saturday evening and I was standing in my kitchen making a sandwich...and this voice came out of the speakers of my television and I stopped the spreading of my mayonnaise and dropped the knife...the hair's on my arms and the back of my neck stood up on end...I immediately went into the living room and sat on my couch watching this beautiful women singing somewhere over the rainbow...the tears started flowing and just chills up and down my spine...I have been singing and playing the guitar since I was 11....been around music my whole life.... hearing her for the first time was a religious experience....of course I didn't know that she had already passed... didn't know anything about this beautiful angel sent from God to touch us...it's that way with all of the very special one's....it's like the Lord is saying ok you can have this one for a short time and then I'm taking her back...and we are so glad that he let us experience this wonderful talent....we are all better people because of it...💘💘💘💘
Absolutely. I couldn't believe what I was hearing the first time I heard I totally lost it. I am a professional singer and guitarist and he takes a lot to blow me away and be mesmerized. She had it I was so devastated when I heard she had passed cuz I wanted to go see her.
Wow, really? Go down the rabbit hole and enjoy her music because she has 'the gift'. She is probably one of the most beautiful singers I have ever heard.
Yes you can. We are shoveled mediocrity and award it so that when you come across a real artist you think its magic. She learned, practiced and crafted her art. Everything she's doing is pretty basic beside the guitar playing. But the timing of technique and finding the story behind songs she chose to tell and telling those stories humbly came from her appreciation of the song. Everyone else just belts notes
@@user-jm7se9cf3u She also had a remarkable instrument that she was born with, irrespective of what can be trained. You either have it, or you do not. Now STFU.
This is the first day in my long life that I have ever heard the angelic voice of Eva Cassidy. What a blessing. Am eager, now, to catch up with all the music she gave to this world in her short life.
Eva Cassidy is one of the most amazing musical talents I have ever heard...I would've loved to see her in concert at the Blues Club! She was so unique and real...that's what the stupid people at the recording companies try to beat out of musicians. They try to take their soul. Eva was a gorgeous soul. Rest in peace, Eva!
I never get tired of listening to her. She is a vocal pure gem song interpreter. The heart and the voice connected and poured out like magic. Touching hearts XO I didn't know of her until a neighbor said I reminded him of her (which I didn't know was probably the biggest compliment anyone would ever give me in my singing lifetime). He gave me her CD and I listened and listened and fell in love with her voice and everything about her. Love you Eva and will meet you one day in Fields of Gold. XXOO
I hope future female artists follow in Eva's footsteps.♥️ She refused to change who she was, and didn't need to. The record labels were wrong. The people loved her angelic voice, talent and heart. God bless her, may her memory live on forever in our hearts. 🙏 She sure did show our Music Industry what our people really want and need. RIP dear Eva 🙏♥️🙏
What Eva’s voice could do with lyrics to the songs she chose to sing made me stop dead in my tracks. I believe the first I found was Fields of Gold years back & I was devastated to learn that she lived so briefly. What gifts she gave to the world in her repertoire. I’ve had many of her songs on repeat through the years as listening to her is so soothing, soul searching, affirming & inspiring. Her delivery seemed so effortless yet the passion was in every phrase. She had me in the palm of her hand from the moment that songbird opened her mouth! Rest in God’s peace, Eva. And, thank you. Thank you so much for being true to yourself.
Until moments ago I had never heard of Eva. I had just finished listening to Sting sing Fields of Gold and I saw her thumbnail above it with over 16ml views so I figured she must be an up and coming beautiful young talent so I played her rendition and was blown away by how great it was. So I played it again, and then again. I started reading the comments and saw one in which the commenter said Sting himself rated Eva's version the most beautiful he had ever heard including his own. And then I read a few more comments and found out she had died years ago. Until moments ago I had never heard of her. Thank God for Eva and thank God for TH-cam and those who post here.
There seems to be so many of us who learned of Eva the same way you did. My experience was quite similar to yours and it still haunts me to this day, remembering the first time I heard Eva sing and then learning she had died.
Thanks Mick, it couldn't have been said any better by anyone. Eva was so very special in so many ways. She will be with us forever through her music. Well done.
There is not a song she couldn't make her own. She could instinctively extract every drop of meaning and emotion out of a piece of music and give it beautiful wings to fly straight to our ears and soul.
I heard her song, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" overhead in a bookstore at Christmas years ago. I froze in my tracks and asked the first staff member i could find who was singing. I raced around before the song was over. Her voice gave me chills, stopped me in my tracks. SO beautiful.
When Over The Rainbow was first played on BBC Radio 2 at 8:00 am on a Monday morning London stopped too. Traffic jams everywhere, folks at worked stopped. Then it became the most requested song on that station.
I will listen to Eva forever. It's 2019 & her songs will never be dated. Mick, - bravo. When an established legend has a jaw dropping experience, it elevates Eva to greatness. Eva is NO cover. She makes recognized songs NEW for the first time. She makes me cry wanting to fly never to die. I hate saying bye bye. I, too, am shy.
Some artists defy description, but we try. I never met her, but I know her. Mick describes her so well. No BS, just straight ahead heart from this woman. Look at her eyes, they speak volumes. When I first heard her sing, she reduced me to tears within 30 seconds. As a musician, you just know when you hear it, and you don't hear it that often. There's a top ten, but then occasionally, someone actually transcends that.
@JE: I'm not a musician but can say in over a half century of music appreciation, I've never been effected more by any artist; as the original comment wrote, her gift - to listeners - goes beyond "mere" music.
Amazing comment. Within 5 seconds of hearing her sing ‘Somehwere’ I was hooked...and when she sang the climax of that song, the tears were running down my face. No one has ever had the genius to achieve that. I am not religious, but ‘god bless Eva’.
Eva's "day job" for a long time was working at Behnke's, a local nursery. She was very fond of the place. My late wife worked there too, though not at the same time; I think she heard some stories about Eva. We both loved her music. I feel that you can hear in Eva's performances something elemental and close to nature: "unadorned" but deeply beautiful.
@Andrew Ongais Thank you very much for turning me on to Rhiannon Giddens. I had never heard of her before but that was something special. She is intense, the song was great and so was the band. I'm going to turn some of my music savvy friends on to her and I'll bet some of them have heard of her. (I don't get out much and I don't live in the U.S. Here is the version I listened to: th-cam.com/video/pztUZye5a-0/w-d-xo.html
So sweet. She had such a beautiful, amazing voice. Reputed to be terribly shy... and all her renown coming, sadly, after her death. Thank you, Mick. Thank you.
Glad that Mick has described who she was. I never had the privilege of meeting her but I am glad she did not sell out just to be famous. True to herself, true to her music. Love her even more.
This was an excellent explanation of the personalty and great singing voice that Eva had. I've been listening to her songs for many years. What a tragedy it was to the music world and those of us who endear such a wonderful talent that Eva passed away at such an early age. We just have to enjoy the music she left us.
In the UK Terry Wogan was given her CD and told about her story and how she had died so tragically young. He loved her voice and played her CD on his show. Many listeners phoned in asking about this girl with the beautiful voice and where could they get her CD. I was one of the listeners and had never heard of Eva before but her voice so pure and beautiful and her story blew me away and I became a huge fan of her's. She was a like a rare beautiful bird that you only a get a brief glimpse of before it flies away but you never ever forget just how beautiful it was.
A few years ago I was driving, listening to the dj Jonathan Schwartz. He played “Fields of gold”. I almost had to pull over. I was so absorbed by it. When I looked up her bio and found that she had died of skin cancer, I started to cry. My Mother had recently passed from the same illness. It is real hard to get me to cry.
I lose it when I hear her. It’s involuntary, the pain you feel because of the raw emotion in her voice. You know when life is so hard, you feel like you’re coming out of your skin? Listen to Fields of Gold and all that energy is immediately released
What a beautiful remembrance by another great musician. I had often wondered why Eva Cassidy wasn't a household word... and now I know. RIP, a voice that will never be silenced or forgotten.
Mick, The child-like "It" you referred to was correct. She was a small town girl with a big town talent. She retained her small town character and, apparently rejected the big town demand. Yes, God bless, the sweet, pure, small town talents. I think we all love these genuine artists. Personally, she moved me. That's the magic.
I heard her voice and saw her on TH-cam. I was instantly smitten. Every nuance, each and every phrase got to me, every note nailed. Who could this siren be? Then I learned of her cancer. How cruel to be taken from the world that would feel itself healing if only…. Now each time I hear Rainbow….Autumn….Fields…. I cannot feel anything except tears filling my eyes. Such beauty.
Thank you Mick for a lovely and genuine and certainly a heartfelt tribute to an amazing and talented singer as was Eva Cassidy! She was and still is just simply SWEET and SOFT MAGIC to my ears and my heart to this very day! Cheers!
Strange..... The beauty of her voice is so intense its sometimes painful. Whenever I hear her it stops me in my tracks. It makes me happy and sad at the same time. No other artist can make me experience this.
It's funny, her voice stopped me in my tracks also. I felt compelled to find out who it was like it was haunting especially when I found out she was deceased. It was like she was channeling from beyond to find fans. Well I feel like I'm mourning her death now, even thou I never met her. I am A forever fan now.
Thanks Mick. We will always love her. A friend visited Baltimore around the time she was working with Chuck Brown, I fell in love instantly with her voice and essence and will never forget her. She had it. ❤️🙏
I found her utterly spellbinding after hearing just one song coming out of the night in the wee small hours in my truck on a long nights linehaul. Such an appalling tragedy she was taken from us. Thank Eva for your body of music, it made the world a better place.
Steve Gibb, I've just today, first time in my long life, heard of Eva Cassidy, am listening to her beautiful music. And understand your comment. What an amazing discovery today. I hope to share her music with many more souls who've yet to be touched by her gift.
I don't think..nor feel!! I could express through written word. The absolute magic of this beautiful lady's voice! So I will continue to bathe my soul within the gift &. blessing she gave to us through song. My absolute go to on days my soul seaks peace! Thank you is an understatement! @Eva Cassidy ❤ who left the planet way to soon. Fields of Gold 🤗
Eva was gifted with the most angelic, soul filled, jazzy vocals and guitar I’ve ever heard. Sadly a life cut too short on this earth but what a beautiful legacy she left us with. What a blessing to hear any song she performed. RIP 🙏🏻💕🌟🎶
I grew up in Bowie MD which is where Eva is from. She was older than my crowd by 6 or 7 years or so. Her voice like golden silk of which was also as powerful as any instrument. I fell in love with her music and quite honestly with her back in 2012 or so. What a talent gone way to soon. God must have needed her vocals in heaven is all I can think of. What a beautiful person she was/ is. She’s all around us.
Excellent interview. Mick got it completely right... When I heard her, singing in Washington back in the 90's, I loved the way she could make a song her own...
Incredibly special singer and human being. She was a consummate vocalist and sang directly from her heart and that's what made her one of the greatest singers of all time. We lost her too soon. But, her music lives on in our hearts and the many singers she's touched. I'm a singer and still get chills and a tear when I listen to her Over the Rainbow and I Know You by Heart. She transcends her art and you feel her soul talking directly to your heart in all of her recordings.
I think her artistic restraint is one of the biggest components of her amazing ability. If you take some of the great female singers like Aretha Franklin, or Céline Dion… they almost always manage to find a way in their vocal performances to go ‘over the top’, whereas Eva goes right to the edge of it, but she never goes over - beyond the bounds of good taste. She is practically unerring in that ability... to push the music as far as it will go, but not beyond it. I believe (and feel) that her music is a fantastic gift to the world. ❤️
Yes! She never begged for attention, tried to impress, or overwhelmed with over-the-top emotion. She was musically perfect, she was real, she felt every note, her interpretation is flawless - brilliant even. She was vulnerable and herself. No fear. I love her.
You perfectly described just what her talent was. She so aptly recorded the song of hers that I love the most, ‘You take my breath away’. Her rendition of this song really takes my breath away.
Beautiful way Mick Fleetwood described Eva's soul and all Her. Eva's voice was divine, specially her performance Autumn Leaves is like a medicine for non-healing wounds. Thank you Eva for being, thank you very much, I'm crying as tears started flowing by themselves.
Her voice and music is timeless, sweet, soulful, skillful. She made those songs her own like no other singer I have ever heard. Andy Williams sang Autumn leaves years ago, and it moved me, She sang it and it made me cry. May she fly over the rainbow, and rest in blessed peace.
The first time I heard her was on the radio in my car in a grocery store parking it. Her singing Fields of Gold brought my to tears ....first listen in the middle of a parking lot on a Sunday afternoon. Incredible.
An absolutely gorgeous woman with the voice of an angel I don’t know of anyone else that could sing these songs with more love and affection than she does. My favourite singer by a mile. RIP Eva x
All I can say is she's my very favorite female singer.......she brings out emotions I can't control, when I hear her......what an amazing voice, guitarist, and human.
When I hear the name, Eva Cassidy, I always feel the strong spiritual bliss that flows in my heart. And, I cannot listen to this song, and, I know you by heart, without pausing what I do. And it gives me the strength to believe in power of love in many ways she showed in her music.
Eva was the best interpreter of lyrics, I have ever known. She sang from her heart and it was brilliant. These days singers promote song thru almost pornographic packaging. If you are a good singer, you don't need that. And Eva's longevity proves that
Great conversation with all of us that heard her. Loved Mick way back at the Swing Auditorium w/Peter. Long before Buckingham Nicks. For 40 yrs Linda Ronstadt was my favorite female singer until the day I heard Eva. RIP...!!!
Mick is an amazing well of musical intuition How else could he have spanned five decades and made brilliant music in each of those. His comments regarding Eva therefore carry tremendous insight. Eva obviously moved as well as impressed this man who had seen so much in his time. His comments speak volumes. In her short time she made some amazing music that is so deep per her renditions and interpretation. Truly a musician's musician who was all natural and all heart. Thankfully it shows in her recordings.
When you think you have heard all of the talented and skilled singers..you may become one of the lucky one's to be introduced to Eva Cassidy. Eva had a rare gift of a special kind. Her music is beautiful in a way that goes straight to the heart and touches long forgotten feeling. Sad that she was taken away so young. Eva shares her rare and beautiful gift with us even today years after her passing.
A beautiful voice,a beautiful soul which was taken from the Earth far too soon. Rest In Peace Eva your voice carried my mum to the after life and I will be forever in your debt for that. 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
The first time I ever heard Eva's precious voice was on CHFI FM Toronto, and she was singing, "Over The Rainbow". I was totally captivated, and have been ever since. How does one define vocal perfection? Just think, Eva Cassidy, and you've defined it!
In all fairness, the vice president of Blue Note, whom Eva auditioned with realized the mistake that he had made. He did reach out to her but it was too late. She had already died. He did go to apologize to her parents and friends. And most importantly he most likely was responsible for sending a copy of OVER THE RAINBOW to BBC Radio2 with a note saying, "play immediately". When it was played at 8:00AM on a Monday morning it stopped London in it's tracks. And the rest is History.
What lovely way you spoke I don’t know her history . .but thank so sad we lost great singer .what you said made me have tear in my heart .cheers .a u ant very good drummer .from Charles in wales .love to buy you pint if u every in wales thank you good heart Eva in the end so sad .but she in my heart 🙈
@@dantescave1 That's was i say, it was like from beyond the grave miracle, like she was reaching out for me to find her song. Sounds crazy, but that's honestly how I feel
I only heard of Eva yesterday, which is to say long after she passed this existence, but her magic endures.Thank you Terry Sgambati Evdokimoff for the tip.
And I just heard her amazing voice today. Am catching up with the music she blessed us with & am thinking my discovering her now, during this pandemic, was meant to be.
Several years ago I was driving listening to Sirius XM tuned to “Coffee House” channel. I heard a cover of “True Colors” that just blew me away. I had never heard a more amazing voice from someone I had never heard of. Eva Cassidy was an awesome talent.
19 thumbs down.....kidding. RIGHT? WHY? First time hearing EVA I was stunned into silence. Beyond talented. Tone, phrasing,timing ALL so unique. Will always love Miss Cassidy's work. REST EASY EVA.........................!
Eva was soo beautiful outside and in. She didn't sell herself out by becoming a pop star who used her body and sex appeal. She stood by her Christian values . We need strong women like her. Xx
She was before my time but I absolutely love her voice. She seems to calm me and I’m quite stressed most of the time so I usually listen to her and I also really like Katie melua. The lyrics to fields of gold just reminds me what life is really about and she sings it the best.
Mick you are an incredible talent sir and to hear you speak so highly of Eva well that says it all me and I'm sure millions of others why did she have to leave so soon
Just found her music! I Love her voice, I love "Autumn Leaves" so much. I'm a singer, and just recently sang her version of that song. Amazing song, haunting and Beautiful.
You don't hear great voices with your ears, you hear them with your heart and Eva Cassidy's voice has my heart
Well said.
How fitting ❤️
Perfectly said ❤
I never will forget the first time I heard Eva....I had my PBS channel running one Saturday evening and I was standing in my kitchen making a sandwich...and this voice came out of the speakers of my television and I stopped the spreading of my mayonnaise and dropped the knife...the hair's on my arms and the back of my neck stood up on end...I immediately went into the living room and sat on my couch watching this beautiful women singing somewhere over the rainbow...the tears started flowing and just chills up and down my spine...I have been singing and playing the guitar since I was 11....been around music my whole life.... hearing her for the first time was a religious experience....of course I didn't know that she had already passed... didn't know anything about this beautiful angel sent from God to touch us...it's that way with all of the very special one's....it's like the Lord is saying ok you can have this one for a short time and then I'm taking her back...and we are so glad that he let us experience this wonderful talent....we are all better people because of it...💘💘💘💘
the same here.
Extremely well said!
Absolutely. I couldn't believe what I was hearing the first time I heard I totally lost it. I am a professional singer and guitarist and he takes a lot to blow me away and be mesmerized. She had it I was so devastated when I heard she had passed cuz I wanted to go see her.
amen
Beautifully put, i echo your words. 💗
Today is the first time I am learning / hearing of Eva. Feb 13, 2024. wow.
She was an absolutely amazing talent/angel
Wow, really? Go down the rabbit hole and enjoy her music because she has 'the gift'. She is probably one of the most beautiful singers I have ever heard.
@AnnLippert1
This was always my favorite song of hers. th-cam.com/video/9UVjjcOUJLE/w-d-xo.html
The Rabbit hole is not as deep as I had wished for but it is so very fulfilling and wholesome, love her and her legacy so very much x
Listen to her cover of Who Knows Where the Time Goes ❤
You cannot teach what Eva had. Godspeed for one of the finest voices of the past forty years.
40 years? Nope, since Adam and Eve.
Yes you can. We are shoveled mediocrity and award it so that when you come across a real artist you think its magic. She learned, practiced and crafted her art. Everything she's doing is pretty basic beside the guitar playing. But the timing of technique and finding the story behind songs she chose to tell and telling those stories humbly came from her appreciation of the song.
Everyone else just belts notes
@@user-jm7se9cf3u She also had a remarkable instrument that she was born with, irrespective of what can be trained.
You either have it, or you do not.
Now STFU.
@@user-jm7se9cf3u Hmmmm , ...Can you Sing?! Just like her?! HAh! ....Didn't think so.
This is the first day in my long life that I have ever heard the angelic voice of Eva Cassidy. What a blessing.
Am eager, now, to catch up with all the music she gave to this world in her short life.
Eva Cassidy is one of the most amazing musical talents I have ever heard...I would've loved to see her in concert at the Blues Club! She was so unique and real...that's what the stupid people at the recording companies try to beat out of musicians. They try to take their soul. Eva was a gorgeous soul. Rest in peace, Eva!
My favorite by her is her cover of Fields Of Gold.
@@xbrandi12345x oh yeah…that’s gorgeous! My favorite is Danny Boy! And ya gotta love Fever!!
I never get tired of listening to her. She is a vocal pure gem song interpreter. The heart and the voice connected and poured out like magic. Touching hearts XO I didn't know of her until a neighbor said I reminded him of her (which I didn't know was probably the biggest compliment anyone would ever give me in my singing lifetime). He gave me her CD and I listened and listened and fell in love with her voice and everything about her. Love you Eva and will meet you one day in Fields of Gold. XXOO
I hope future female artists follow in Eva's footsteps.♥️ She refused to change who she was, and didn't need to. The record labels were wrong. The people loved her angelic voice, talent and heart. God bless her, may her memory live on forever in our hearts. 🙏 She sure did show our Music Industry what our people really want and need. RIP dear Eva 🙏♥️🙏
What Eva’s voice could do with lyrics to the songs she chose to sing made me stop dead in my tracks. I believe the first I found was Fields of Gold years back & I was devastated to learn that she lived so briefly. What gifts she gave to the world in her repertoire. I’ve had many of her songs on repeat through the years as listening to her is so soothing, soul searching, affirming & inspiring. Her delivery seemed so effortless yet the passion was in every phrase. She had me in the palm of her hand from the moment that songbird opened her mouth! Rest in God’s peace, Eva. And, thank you. Thank you so much for being true to yourself.
She was a true artist. With a magnificent voice.
Until moments ago I had never heard of Eva. I had just finished listening to Sting sing Fields of Gold and I saw her thumbnail above it with over 16ml views so I figured she must be an up and coming beautiful young talent so I played her rendition and was blown away by how great it was. So I played it again, and then again. I started reading the comments and saw one in which the commenter said Sting himself rated Eva's version the most beautiful he had ever heard including his own. And then I read a few more comments and found out she had died years ago. Until moments ago I had never heard of her. Thank God for Eva and thank God for TH-cam and those who post here.
...glad you found her...
There seems to be so many of us who learned of Eva the same way you did. My experience was quite similar to yours and it still haunts me to this day, remembering the first time I heard Eva sing and then learning she had died.
There are no more beautiful "rabbit holes" to fall into then discovering Eva Cassidy!
Thanks Mick, it couldn't have been said any better by anyone. Eva was so very special in so many ways. She will be with us forever through her music. Well done.
This is one of the best, if not the best, commentary about musician I have ever heard or read. Right on MIck Fleetwood.
There is not a song she couldn't make her own. She could instinctively extract every drop of meaning and emotion out of a piece of music and give it beautiful wings to fly straight to our ears and soul.
Fantastic assimilation Bob!
well said
True 🙏❤️🙏
What he said ^^^
Eva was our gift from above!
I heard her song, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" overhead in a bookstore at Christmas years ago. I froze in my tracks and asked the first staff member i could find who was singing. I raced around before the song was over. Her voice gave me chills, stopped me in my tracks. SO beautiful.
Makes me cry every time I listen, knowing she's now over the rainbow.
Her version of that song is so special
When Over The Rainbow was first played on BBC Radio 2 at 8:00 am on a Monday morning London stopped too. Traffic jams everywhere, folks at worked stopped. Then it became the most requested song on that station.
what a greaat tribute Mick.She is incredible.
This is one of the best, if not the best, commentary about musician I have ever heard or read. Right on MIck Fleetwood.
I will listen to Eva forever. It's 2019 & her songs will never be dated. Mick, - bravo. When an established legend has a jaw dropping experience, it elevates Eva to greatness. Eva is NO cover. She makes recognized songs NEW for the first time. She makes me cry wanting to fly never to die. I hate saying bye bye. I, too, am shy.
Can you send a youtube link on ALL of Eva's songs? MANY THANKS!
Some artists defy description, but we try. I never met her, but I know her. Mick describes her so well. No BS, just straight ahead heart from this woman. Look at her eyes, they speak volumes. When I first heard her sing, she reduced me to tears within 30 seconds. As a musician, you just know when you hear it, and you don't hear it that often. There's a top ten, but then occasionally, someone actually transcends that.
So true. Her voice had the same effect on me too.
I too am a musician and have been reduced to tears by Eva Cassidy. Must be a musician thing.
Perfectly stated.
@JE: I'm not a musician but can say in over a half century of music appreciation, I've never been effected more by any artist; as the original comment wrote, her gift - to listeners - goes beyond "mere" music.
Amazing comment. Within 5 seconds of hearing her sing ‘Somehwere’ I was hooked...and when she sang the climax of that song, the tears were running down my face. No one has ever had the genius to achieve that. I am not religious, but ‘god bless Eva’.
What an amazing singer, so happy that I can hear you.,..
Eva's "day job" for a long time was working at Behnke's, a local nursery. She was very fond of the place. My late wife worked there too, though not at the same time; I think she heard some stories about Eva. We both loved her music. I feel that you can hear in Eva's performances something elemental and close to nature: "unadorned" but deeply beautiful.
An amazing local talent we lost way too soon. We are so fortunate to have her music and her spirit live on with these recordings.
She was a pure soul who would not sell out. Now we discover her true essence without the industry machinery, thank GOD.
The first time I heard her voice I knew what it sounds like when angels sing...
Quite simply the best singer I`ve ever heard!
I didn't know Mick Fleetwood was a singer. I thought he was a drummer with some band.
I agree!
I have met many people that feel EXACTLY the same about Eva as you and I do.
@Andrew Ongais Yours is one of the best comments I have ever read on youtube. However, for me personally, Eva was the best I have ever heard.
@Andrew Ongais Thank you very much for turning me on to Rhiannon Giddens. I had never heard of her before but that was something special. She is intense, the song was great and so was the band. I'm going to turn some of my music savvy friends on to her and I'll bet some of them have heard of her. (I don't get out much and I don't live in the U.S.
Here is the version I listened to:
th-cam.com/video/pztUZye5a-0/w-d-xo.html
The first time my ears heard her voice, tears came to my eyes. I was overcome with emotion by the beauty of her voice.
So sweet. She had such a beautiful, amazing voice. Reputed to be terribly shy... and all her renown coming, sadly, after her death. Thank you, Mick. Thank you.
Glad that Mick has described who she was. I never had the privilege of meeting her but I am glad she did not sell out just to be famous. True to herself, true to her music. Love her even more.
Except he said she was a plain Jane which she absolutely wasn’t.
Thank you Eva when I listen to your voice you take me to a place of overwhelming PEACE within. A voice of an Angel xxu
Exactly!
This was an excellent explanation of the personalty and great singing voice that Eva had. I've been listening to her songs for many years. What a tragedy it was to the music world and those of us who endear such a wonderful talent that Eva passed away at such an early age. We just have to enjoy the music she left us.
She has the most soulful, bluesy, beautiful voice ever!!🥰
Simplicity is the key to brilliance and she understood that
Some of us can see through the precious eyes of a child even when we are old.
groningen73 Simplicity is the most difficult quality to achieve.
In the UK Terry Wogan was given her CD and told about her story and how she had died so tragically young. He loved her voice and played her CD on his show. Many listeners phoned in asking about this girl with the beautiful voice and where could they get her CD. I was one of the listeners and had never heard of Eva before but her voice so pure and beautiful and her story blew me away and I became a huge fan of her's. She was a like a rare beautiful bird that you only a get a brief glimpse of before it flies away but you never ever forget just how beautiful it was.
Well said!
Time to applaud Martin, my friend who gave Terry Wogan's producer the record to listen to.
Beautifully written.
It was fields of gold on a uk advert but she gives chrissy a run for her money with songbird
Three years later your wonderful tribute is still alive . God bless!
I am mesmerized by Eva s beautiful spirit and it shows in her music!
A few years ago I was driving, listening to the dj Jonathan Schwartz. He played “Fields of gold”. I almost had to pull over. I was so absorbed by it. When I looked up her bio and found that she had died of skin cancer, I started to cry. My Mother had recently passed from the same illness. It is real hard to get me to cry.
She has no health insurance partly because she was a musician and couldn’t afford a checkup
The truest voice of my lifetime.
I lose it when I hear her. It’s involuntary, the pain you feel because of the raw emotion in her voice. You know when life is so hard, you feel like you’re coming out of your skin? Listen to Fields of Gold and all that energy is immediately released
Beautiful video Mick! Respect!
Thank you for helping us understand who Eva was while here on earth.
What a beautiful remembrance by another great musician. I had often wondered why Eva Cassidy wasn't a household word... and now I know. RIP, a voice that will never be silenced or forgotten.
Mick, The child-like "It" you referred to was correct. She was a small town girl with a big town talent. She retained her small town character and, apparently rejected the big town demand.
Yes, God bless, the sweet, pure, small town talents.
I think we all love these genuine artists.
Personally, she moved me.
That's the magic.
She was too pure for the industry.
The industry is a vampire.
@@martinsundland7614 sent to drain
Love love love her singing. Today no one compares!
I was lucky enough to see her at Fleetwoods, on a night when Mick sat in with her for a bit, and Chuck Brown. MAGIC
Lynne Finch wow! You must cherish those moments!
I heard her voice and saw her on TH-cam. I was instantly smitten. Every nuance, each and every phrase got to me, every note nailed. Who could this siren be? Then I learned of her cancer. How cruel to be taken from the world that would feel itself healing if only…. Now each time I hear Rainbow….Autumn….Fields…. I cannot feel anything except tears filling my eyes. Such beauty.
Thank you Mick for a lovely and genuine and certainly a heartfelt tribute to an amazing and talented singer as was Eva Cassidy! She was and still is just simply SWEET and SOFT MAGIC to my ears and my heart to this very day! Cheers!
Thank you for discussing one of the great voices of our time. She is new to me and I love the experience.
Strange..... The beauty of her voice is so intense its sometimes painful. Whenever I hear her it stops me in my tracks. It makes me happy and sad at the same time. No other artist can make me experience this.
beautiful explanation.
Best comment I've read for a long time.
Eva along with Karen Carpenter is my all time favourites.
It's funny, her voice stopped me in my tracks also. I felt compelled to find out who it was like it was haunting especially when I found out she was deceased. It was like she was channeling from beyond to find fans. Well I feel like I'm mourning her death now, even thou I never met her. I am A forever fan now.
Ditto that ! 💯
Sometimes when I listen to her, I almost forget to breathe. Truly breathtaking.
Music so beautiful it hurts
Thanks Mick. We will always love her. A friend visited Baltimore around the time she was working with Chuck Brown, I fell in love instantly with her voice and essence and will never forget her. She had it. ❤️🙏
Such passion without trying, pure and perfect in her singing, and appearing laid back.....that is what geniuse's do!
She was beautiful and very very special. I'm so grateful for her music 🎶 thank you Eva ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wonderful story about Eva Cassidy, appreciated! Thanks to Mick Fleetwood for his candid share!
I found her utterly spellbinding after hearing just one song coming out of the night in the wee small hours in my truck on a long nights linehaul. Such an appalling tragedy she was taken from us. Thank Eva for your body of music, it made the world a better place.
Steve Gibb, I've just today, first time in my long life, heard of Eva Cassidy, am listening to her beautiful music. And understand your comment. What an amazing discovery today. I hope to share her music with many more souls who've yet to be touched by her gift.
I don't think..nor feel!!
I could express through written word.
The absolute magic of this beautiful lady's voice!
So I will continue to bathe my soul
within the gift &. blessing
she gave to us through song.
My absolute go to on days my soul seaks peace!
Thank you is an understatement!
@Eva Cassidy ❤
who left the planet
way to soon.
Fields of Gold 🤗
Eva was gifted with the most angelic, soul filled, jazzy vocals and guitar I’ve ever heard. Sadly a life cut too short on this earth but what a beautiful legacy she left us with. What a blessing to hear any song she performed. RIP 🙏🏻💕🌟🎶
I grew up in Bowie MD which is where Eva is from. She was older than my crowd by 6 or 7 years or so. Her voice like golden silk of which was also as powerful as any instrument. I fell in love with her music and quite honestly with her back in 2012 or so. What a talent gone way to soon. God must have needed her vocals in heaven is all I can think of. What a beautiful person she was/ is. She’s all around us.
An amazing voice and gifted artist..RIP
Excellent interview. Mick got it completely right... When I heard her, singing in Washington back in the 90's, I loved the way she could make a song her own...
Incredibly special singer and human being. She was a consummate vocalist and sang directly from her heart and that's what made her one of the greatest singers of all time. We lost her too soon. But, her music lives on in our hearts and the many singers she's touched. I'm a singer and still get chills and a tear when I listen to her Over the Rainbow and I Know You by Heart. She transcends her art and you feel her soul talking directly to your heart in all of her recordings.
My favorite female musician, amazing voice. Wish you were here. She got me through college.
I think her artistic restraint is one of the biggest components of her amazing ability.
If you take some of the great female singers like Aretha Franklin, or Céline Dion… they almost always manage to find a way in their vocal performances to go ‘over the top’, whereas Eva goes right to the edge of it, but she never goes over - beyond the bounds of good taste.
She is practically unerring in that ability... to push the music as far as it will go, but not beyond it.
I believe (and feel) that her music is a fantastic gift to the world. ❤️
Yes! She never begged for attention, tried to impress, or overwhelmed with over-the-top emotion. She was musically perfect, she was real, she felt every note, her interpretation is flawless - brilliant even. She was vulnerable and herself. No fear. I love her.
You perfectly described just what her talent was. She so aptly recorded the song of hers that I love the most, ‘You take my breath away’. Her rendition of this song really takes my breath away.
Still listening..still crying.Listen to Over the Rainbow and Fields of Gold.
Beautiful way Mick Fleetwood described Eva's soul and all Her. Eva's voice was divine, specially her performance Autumn Leaves is like a medicine for non-healing wounds. Thank you Eva for being, thank you very much, I'm crying as tears started flowing by themselves.
Songbird brought me here. What a wonderful young Lady with a magical Voice. RIP.
Her voice and music is timeless, sweet, soulful, skillful. She made those songs her own like no other singer I have ever heard. Andy Williams sang Autumn leaves years ago, and it moved me, She sang it and it made me cry. May she fly over the rainbow, and rest in blessed peace.
Amen 🙏
The first time I heard her was on the radio in my car in a grocery store parking it. Her singing Fields of Gold brought my to tears ....first listen in the middle of a parking lot on a Sunday afternoon. Incredible.
It is amazing that her voice still brings out the same reactions in so many people.
Her voice is absolutly stunning.
An absolutely gorgeous woman with the voice of an angel I don’t know of anyone else that could sing these songs with more love and affection than she does. My favourite singer by a mile. RIP Eva x
I fell in love with her 20+ years ago.. "I know you by heart" leaves me speechless every time I play it.. I miss you, Eva.. forever..
I remember her in the halls of Bowie High School 1981.
All I can say is she's my very favorite female singer.......she brings out emotions I can't control, when I hear her......what an amazing voice, guitarist, and human.
When I hear the name, Eva Cassidy, I always feel the strong spiritual bliss that flows in my heart. And, I cannot listen to this song, and, I know you by heart, without pausing what I do. And it gives me the strength to believe in power of love in many ways she showed in her music.
Wow..beautifully said 💙
Eva was the best interpreter of lyrics, I have ever known. She sang from her heart and it was brilliant. These days singers promote song thru almost pornographic packaging. If you are a good singer, you don't need that. And Eva's longevity proves that
Alongside Eva Cassidy, Jose Feliciano could interpret a song as well as anybody.
Great conversation with all of us that heard her. Loved Mick way back at the Swing Auditorium w/Peter. Long before Buckingham Nicks. For 40 yrs Linda Ronstadt was my favorite female singer until the day I heard Eva. RIP...!!!
I am in love with her songs! She was amazing and I am glad she did not compromise with what others wanted from her but was unnegotiably herself!
Beautiful words about Eva Cassidy, ty Mick Fleetwood 🦋
Beautifully said Mr Fleetwood,
Thank you Eva for staying Eva throughout your life here on earth 💖💖💖
Mick is an amazing well of musical intuition How else could he have spanned five decades and made brilliant music in each of those. His comments regarding Eva therefore carry tremendous insight. Eva obviously moved as well as impressed this man who had seen so much in his time. His comments speak volumes. In her short time she made some amazing music that is so deep per her renditions and interpretation. Truly a musician's musician who was all natural and all heart. Thankfully it shows in her recordings.
Simply haunting and perfect..........
With just her guitar accompanying her voice.
She was masterful, impeccable, genius.
When you think you have heard all of the talented and skilled singers..you may become one of the lucky one's to be introduced to Eva Cassidy. Eva had a rare gift of a special kind. Her music is beautiful in a way that goes straight to the heart and touches long forgotten feeling. Sad that she was taken away so young. Eva shares her rare and beautiful gift with us even today years after her passing.
Music for your soul ♥️
This is just wonderful testimony.
A beautiful voice,a beautiful soul which was taken from the Earth far too soon.
Rest In Peace Eva your voice carried my mum to the after life and I will be forever in your debt for that.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
The first time I ever heard Eva's precious voice was on CHFI FM Toronto, and she was singing, "Over The Rainbow". I was totally captivated, and have been ever since. How does one define vocal perfection? Just think, Eva Cassidy, and you've defined it!
Thank you. For helping us learn about Eva.
In all fairness, the vice president of Blue Note, whom Eva auditioned with realized the mistake that he had made. He did reach out to her but it was too late. She had already died. He did go to apologize to her parents and friends. And most importantly he most likely was responsible for sending a copy of OVER THE RAINBOW to BBC Radio2 with a note saying, "play immediately". When it was played at 8:00AM on a Monday morning it stopped London in it's tracks. And the rest is History.
What a huge mistake. She is one of the purest singers I’ve ever heard.
A great homage to a great artiste.....
And you can believe every word Mick Fleetwood says.....he knows what he is talking about......
Wonderful Talent taken to soon...Very Glad I was Introduced to Her Music a few years ago.
What lovely way you spoke I don’t know her history . .but thank so sad we lost great singer .what you said made me have tear in my heart .cheers .a u ant very good drummer .from Charles in wales .love to buy you pint if u every in wales thank you good heart Eva in the end so sad .but she in my heart 🙈
It was pure luck that I tuned into Eva singing Early Morning Rain years ago. I was mesmerized by her voice
74Voyeur
pure luck I found her 'Autumn Leaves' as well...a miracle...
@@dantescave1 That's was i say, it was like from beyond the grave miracle, like she was reaching out for me to find her song. Sounds crazy, but that's honestly how I feel
I only heard of Eva yesterday, which is to say long after she passed this existence, but her magic endures.Thank you Terry Sgambati Evdokimoff for the tip.
And I just heard her amazing voice today. Am catching up with the music she blessed us with & am thinking my discovering her now, during this pandemic, was meant to be.
Several years ago I was driving listening to Sirius XM tuned to “Coffee House” channel. I heard a cover of “True Colors” that just blew me away. I had never heard a more amazing voice from someone I had never heard of. Eva Cassidy was an awesome talent.
19 thumbs down.....kidding. RIGHT? WHY? First time hearing EVA I was stunned into silence. Beyond talented. Tone, phrasing,timing ALL so unique. Will always love Miss Cassidy's work. REST EASY EVA.........................!
I give those who give videos of Eva's music a thumbs-down the benefit of the doubt.
They probably can't see the buttons well through their tears.
One of a kind, singular and unique , and she stole my heart the first song out . O way above the chimney tops that's where you'll find her ♡
Beauty comes from within and I think that Eva was a beautiful soul
Eva was soo beautiful outside and in. She didn't sell herself out by becoming a pop star who used her body and sex appeal. She stood by her Christian values . We need strong women like her. Xx
She was before my time but I absolutely love her voice. She seems to calm me and I’m quite stressed most of the time so I usually listen to her and I also really like Katie melua. The lyrics to fields of gold just reminds me what life is really about and she sings it the best.
🎼🖖😌💘💋
One more star in heaven 🌟
I am so sorry she is not here anymore...
🎼Thanks for the music "it"! & co 💋
Love to the people Eva left behind 🖐💘💋
Mick you are an incredible talent sir and to hear you speak so highly of Eva well that says it all me and I'm sure millions of others why did she have to leave so soon
Just found her music! I Love her voice, I love "Autumn Leaves" so much. I'm a singer, and just recently sang her version of that song. Amazing song, haunting and Beautiful.