Songbird - Eva Cassidy

Although this is not my favourite in all 9 releases of her albums this one seems to be the best known. This should be classed as her Greatest Hits album as most of the songs can be found on the other albums – Live At Blues Alley and Eva By Heart. Released in 1998 this CD eventually topped the charts. I have just read the Songbird book that I received and you could not belive how long it actually took for the album to get noticed. After being turned down by the BBC radio station several times, the CD was eventually heard by Terry Wogan who played some songs on Radio 2. He was inundated with e-mails asking who it was singing but she still didn't even make it to ...

Songird is a collection of songs recorded by the late Eva Cassidy, who tragically died of bone cancer back in 1996. Her music has now been brought to British audiences thanks to airplay on Terry Wogans BBC2 radio show, and more recently, an airing of her version of Garland's classic 'Over The Rainbow', on Top Of The Pops 2, accompanied by a simple video of her singing the song. The album features songs taken from three of Eva's albums; 'Live At Blues Alley', 'The Other Side', and the posthumously released 'Eva By Heart'. The album is a testomony to Eva's musicianship, in which she covers the styles of jazz, gospel, ...

Wow, What a truly amazing album. I haven't heard anything quite as moving and vocally powerful as this for a long, long time. The album seems strangely out of place at No. 1 in the UK album charts alongside Limp Biskit, Robbie Williams and Eminem, especially when you see the album cover, a simple photograph against a brown background, reminiscent of 'Tapestry' by Carol King. Yet despite looking out of place, to hear the album you understand it is there by merit and deserves to remain a the top for a very long time. I bought the album after seeing the video of 'Over the Rainbow' on Top f the Pops. It was such a beautiful and moving ...