EVA CASSIDY - pearl of music, album 'The Other Side'

She sang jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. 

The Other Side is an album by D.C. go-go funk legend Chuck Brown and American singer Eva Cassidy. It was first released in 1992 by Brown's label Liaison records. The album comprises jazz, blues and soul standards and contains a mixture of solos and duets. It is the only studio album by Cassidy. 

"Fever" Eva's solo

 "Fever" with Chuck Brown

 Both version are very good.  

  

"Drown in My Own Tears"

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"Over the Rainbow" 

I heard many version of this song, but Eva's version is the best.

Nobody seems to remember when Eva started singing "Over the Rainbow," but Chris Biondo says that "Eva had been doing that song for years. She had already recorded it once when she was in high school, I think it was Ned Judy who recorded it for her on his four-track. I remember we were driving to Ikea Furniture one day, she pulled out a cassette and she wanted me to hear 'Over the Rainbow.' And when we'd go places she would sing it in the car. A couple of times I had to pull over, I was crying so hard, it was brutal. It was all her own version. There was a note she changed that was really good, the word 'far,' she changed the note, it's better than the way Judy Garland sang it."

In the early 1990s, when the band was recording the album THE OTHER SIDE with Chuck Brown, Eva and Chris spent a few days in his studio working on "Over the Rainbow." The planned album would consist primarily of duets, but Chuck and Eva would each be featured on solos as well. Knowing that Eva's "Over the Rainbow" was something special, all the band members urged her to record that song for THE OTHER SIDE. Eva played every note on the recording herself, Chris Biondo says. "First she went in and played acoustic guitar, that took the longest. After she finished that, she did the lead vocal, and then the other instruments. We had a Korg T-1 synthesizer, which at that time was brand-new, the most sophisticated equipment. It belonged to Marcus Johnson of the Marcus Johnson Project. I was doing some recording for him, he had left it there and said we could use it. She hooked it up and scrolled through the different sounds, which are called 'presets.' Eva picked clarinet and several others, she played three or four different sounds for that middle section. She just played along and I kept rewinding the tape. That was the first time she really got into messing around with keyboards."
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"You've Changed" 

   "Let the Good Times Roll"  

"You Don't Know Me"
"I Could Have Told You So"
"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You"
"I'll Go Crazy" 

"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Chuck Brown solo)

"God Bless the Child"  (Eva Cassidy solo)

"Red Top" 

"Dark End of the Street"  (Eva Cassidy solo)

"The Shadow of Your Smile" 

Another track from these sessions, "Need Your Love So Bad", appears on the Eva Cassidy album Eva By Heart.