Thank you for reacting to Eva Cassidy! I wish she could have given us much more of her wonderful music before leaving us much too young! What an incredible voice!
Fields of Gold, Time After Time and Autumn Leaves are similar slow, heartbreakingly beautiful songs, and essential Eva. Sle did songs in other styles too. Anything she did is better than almost anything you will ever hear. Thank you for keeping her music alive. Everyone should enjoy the heart stopping joy of discovering Eva Cassidy.
Thank you Lyle for another Eva song. I love watching someone's reaction to hearing Songbird for the first time. She has such sweetness and such power in her voice. Mention must also be made to what a skilled guitarist she is also. Great reaction!
Eva's version of this song broke me the first time I heard it. It's a beautiful song, but Eva's voice is the catalyst. Her cover of Sting's Fields of Gold is hauntingly beautiful. What a huge loss!
Thank you so much for reacting to Eva's magnificent voice once more. I think it is so important that young people today can appreciate her incredible talent as an artist.
Thanks for checking out more Eva. I will second other's suggestion for "Autumn Leaves" but my favorite is "I Know You By Heart" which I believe is the song that Eva's mom says reminds her most of her daughter. I agree about your comparison of Eva with Karen Carpenter and for me there is a 3rd singer I hold in the same esteem in terms of purity and 'emotionality' - Linda Ronstadt.
What else is there to say about the incredible Eva Cassidy truly gifted beyond words just amazing. She is one of those big what if scenarios I always wonder if she didn't die what else she could have done in her life. Such a tragic loss RIP angel.
You're right on the money. There's only one other voice that compares and that's Karen Carpenter and yet, Eva's delivery is a step up from Karen's. Please play "Who knows where the time goes" live version Please.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee My dear Eric, the statement was,"she was 'one' of the greatest singers ever". That is someone's opinion, just as the assessment of Wunderlich(?) is. We are comparing apples and oranges here. One opinion is just as valid as the other. I'd be willing to bet that most people here have never heard of Wunderlich. I wonder if those assessing him ever heard of Eva Cassidy. This is not a competition-just a feeling- a subjective opinion.
Absolutely agree. Both Eva and Karen had voices like no one else and they can take a listener places of deeper depth and feeling unlike any other. Magical .
An amazingly difficult song for me to listen to. We played this song at my mum's funeral 11 years ago. It was one of a few songs as she came to the end of her life that brought her peace x
This song was what my daughter chose to dance with my dad to at her wedding but my dad suddenly passed away a few weeks ago so it was played at his funeral as he was being carried into the chapel and he was carried in by his grandchildren including my daughter because she said it was the only opportunity she had to hold him to this song as you can imagine how emotional it was Eva Cassidy was my dad’s ultimate favourite but now this particular song is so special to me but can’t listen to it without crying
She learned guitar from her dad since age 9 or so and then her bandmates claim they taught her a few things. It's a kind of minimal style of playing that you can wrap a narrative around the notes or rather, accompanies the narrative minimally - very different than the standard, customary way of guitar accompaniment. Unique is the word here. Dont' ask why she never wrote her own, sung her own. She's from a German heritage, church going gospel singing background. sorta like Elvis, eh?
A true shooting star…her spirit is for sure in the great beyond singing in Heaven. She’s probably singing with the Allman Brothers and making them cry as well.
Okay now you've heard Eva Cassidy. Now try digging a little deeper. Listen to "You Are" by Eva Cassidy. The prerecorded backtrack is not so great, but her vocals will give you a far better portrait of what her voice can do. Also try "Won't Be Long" an Eva cover by Aretha Franklin. You won't regret it.
I like Eva Cassidy and her covers of different songs are definitely worth hearing but no one sings this song like Christine McVie, obviously because she wrote it, but also because she really knows what it's all about. There's just a little too much embellishment to this for what is best just simply sung. The original: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y9Hqn8x6a8s.html
