Eva isn't in a recording studio or on an elaborate soundstage, but on a dinky little club stage with drinks clinking and ppl milling around. She had a cold and was at about 85% of her normal self, according to Keith and Chris. And yet, somehow, some way, on January 3, 1996, she turned in what many of us regard as the single greatest night of vocals in human history. It's one vocal masterpiece after another! Indeed, many of her covers have supplanted the originals and become the gold standard (at least for many of the ppl who have heard them). When you stop to consider that Eva was never in the music business full-time, and in fact spent most of her work life as a plant propagator at a nursery, you begin to realize just what a genius she was. And "genius" is the right word. I played lead guitar behind many singers, on stage and in the studio, but none of them had 10% of Eva's gift, and the gift wasn't just her fabulous voice. She wasn't a technically impressive guitarist, but she would have made a better studio player than I was due to her unerring sense of what sounds good - she never lost sight of the very point of music. Her arrangements themselves are works of art and will eventually be studied for their simple and elegant perfection. Eva's sense of how to build a song dynamically, and to use the guitar as almost a duet partner, along with the employment of more vocal colors and textures than we've ever heard from anyone else, puts her in a class all by herself. Eva Cassidy is the greatest and most complete singer who ever lived.
Eva should be in the Hall of Fame where she is the ONLY member. She's in a class all by herself. Eva Cassidy, I was not aware of you when you were alive... and I will regret that for the rest of my life.
She died the year before I was born, and she looks identical to my mother. My mom would sing her to me as a child. It always warms my heart to listen to her.
Fraser Henderson What a talent she was. Not only her angelic voice but the ability to maintain the essence of the song yet totally make it her own. Sings songs in so many different genres. Amazing. Taken too soon.
I was literally saying this today. The record companies could not put her in a box and as a result she never got nearly the amountof recognitionin her life she deservedwhile she was alive♡...fools
"Eva Cassidy" The brightest star in our UNIVERSE. A gifted musical singer of Songs. Eva accompanied herself with a 'GUITAR. Our Sun. Was. PAIE to. The. Warmth EVA radiated. "Schlom" EVÀ You. gave me the 'JOY of thé music. Schlom EVAN the
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