EVA CASSIDY - album "Eva by Heart"

Eva by Heart is the debut album (third overall) by American singer Eva Cassidy, released in 1997. It is the first studio album released after Cassidy's death in 1996.

"Say Goodbye" 

 "How Can I Keep from Singing?"

"Blues in the Night"

 "Waly, Waly"

  The very last thing she [Eva] was working on was the song "Waly Waly." She wanted to put that on the end of the Blues Alley record, but we couldn't seem to make it the way she wanted it.

I didn't really like the song that much. It was a Buffy Ste. Marie song, I think it's a traditional folk song. I always made fun of it, I called it her "celtic favorite" which really made her mad because she loved the song. Now I think it's great, it's one of my favorites. That was the one thing I most wanted to do for Eva, out of all the things I could have done, I wanted to try to make things right since I had really said mean things about the song when she was recording it.

producer Chris Biondo in August, 1999 

"I Know You by Heart" 
I Know You By Heart" was written about someone who died and I think it was cancer, I don't know if it was a male or female.
 Eva did change one line of the lyrics, "I see your sweet smile" was changed from "I see your profile."
Eva's brother Dan added the violin solo to that recording when Eva was sick and he was visiting from Iceland, it was fitting to have him be part of "I Know You By Heart."

- Chris Biono

"Time Is a Healer"
"Wayfaring Stranger"

"Wade in the Water" 

"Songbird"
"Need Your Love So Bad"
"Nightbird"

EVA CASSIDY - album "Live at Blues Alley"

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" 

"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."  

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.

EVA CASSIDY - American songbird

 How Can I Keep from Singing 

Blues in the Night

Say Goodbye