Live at Blues Alley is an album by American singer Eva Cassidy, originally self released in May, 1996. This live album was recorded at the Blues Alley in January, 1996. It is the final album by Cassidy before her death.
Live at Blues Alley serves as a good example of Cassidy's eclectic tastes, covering classic and contemporary artists from Billie Holiday to Sting, including Al Green, Pete Seeger, Irving Berlin and more.
"Cheek to Cheek"
"People Get Ready"
"Autumn Leaves"
"Fields of Gold"
Eva’s Fields of Gold was a popular radio song and record companies used it to promote her material and in 2001 Michelle Kwan danced to the music of Eva’s version of this song.
"What a Wonderful World"
What A Wonderful World, the last song she ever performed live, retains one of the rare introductions on the album that wasn’t edited out in which she dedicates the song to her parents.
"Stormy Monday"
"Oh Had I A Golden Thread"
Golden Thread, by Pete Seeger, was declared by Eva as her favorite song in the albums liner notes and the song she felt had turned out the best on the album. It actually wasn’t performed live at Blues Alley but was prerecorded months earlier
The rest of the songs:
"Bridge over Troubled Water"
"Fine and Mellow"
Blue Skies"
"Tall Trees in Georgia"
"Honeysuckle Rose"
"Honeysuckle Rose"
"Take Me to the River"
The album inspired attention from audiences outside of her local following in Washington D.C. Before and during the albums recording, Cassidy suffered many physical health problems, whose causes, at the time, were unknown. A month after the album was released, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Unfortunately, she died three months later without experiencing the peak of her musical career, which would come after her death. "Her posthumous success," writes William Cooper, "has been astonishing, with worldwide critical acclaim and extensive exposure on British television that helped her album Songbird climb to number one on the British album chart in March, 2001."
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