Eva Cassidy was taken from us far too young. She died in 1996 at the age of just 33. At the time, she was largely unknown outside her native Washington, D.C. area, even though she was already a remarkable singer.…
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Songbird (Fleetwood Mac song) 1997- Eva Cassidy
Songbird is the third Eva Cassidy song to appear here after her previous entry Over the Rainbow. Her version of the Christine McVie-penned track from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was added to her posthumous albums. It was released on her first solo studio…
Over the Rainbow (1992) – Eva Cassidy
She really had reinvented this standard, adding a strong jazz influence. To my ears, she cleaned up some prominent melodic embarrassments. For example, she sings both syllables of the first word “Somewhere” on the same high A flat, rather than…
Autumn Leaves (1998) – Eva Cassidy
This mournful minor-key melody was written by the French-Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma for the ballet Le Rendez-vous, performed in Paris at the end of the second world war. The song transcends genre and has been covered hundreds of times in…
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