In 2001, Songbird: Eva Cassidy: Her Story By Those Who Knew Her, a book on the life and work of Cassidy based on interviews with close family and associates, was released in the UK. Eva Cassidy has achieved 10 UK Gold albums, a feat only matched by 10 other female artists including Madonna, Kate Bush and Kylie Minogue, 4+million UK album sales, 10+million worldwide album sales, more than 1. The performances are at the historic True Reformer Building on U Street in DC, where Duke Ellington gave his first public performances, on June 1st and 2nd at 7 pm. The most recent, I Can Only Be Me, a collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra, was released in 2023 and charted at number 9 on the UK album chart. I drove around listening to her cassette in my car for months before contacting her parents about marketing their daughter’s music”.

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If you’re one of the fans who wants to get to know Eva better, you’ll find that this gives wonderful insight into one of her many aspects. Blix Stree Records Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Eva Cassidy's 'Songbird' CD Reaching number 1 on U. I must not neglect to mention the bumper sticker (see below), which you absolutely need for your car, bulletin board, and/or guitar case.BYGONE DC’ DOCUMENTARY: One of the public television stations in the Washington DC area, WETA, has been showing a new documentary, “Bygone DC.

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Further tests found that cancer had spread to her bones, causing the fracture, as well as to her lungs. Three years later, Eva had released the album that everyone thought would make her the star she deserved to be, LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY. as a response to the sad story of the singer's abbreviated life rather than as a measure of her artistry. Her father, Hugh Cassidy, is a teacher, sculptor, musician, former army medic, and world champion powerlifter of Irish and Scottish descent, while her mother, Barbara ( née Kratzer), is a German horticulturist from Bad Kreuznach. I’ll never forget her comment: ‘When I’m dead and they find me, there’s going to be boxes of these in my basement,’ she said.The differences in the performances of the other songs range from folk versions of Wayfaring Stranger and Wade In The Water, to three extra verses in the included version of Paul Simon’s Kathy’s Song, to the more subtle nuances that grace every individual performance.

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These solo performances were first heard on the Simply Eva album, having surfaced long after the original Songbird was released. All album tracks are available in hi-res 48 kHz/24-bit stereo along with Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 immersive audio formats, a first for Eva Cassidy recordings. Cassidy had only a very small following in her hometown, and was essentially unknown outside the Beltway.The project combines cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a 400-year-old musical tradition and a beautiful singer who died in 1996. The new orchestral arrangements are by Christopher Willis, except Autumn Leaves is by William Ross and Jochem van der Saag. I remember recording [the title track] ‘I Can Only Be Me’, in a little room right next to a furnace that was roaring because it was winter and we were freezing,” he says. Audio restoration technology developed by filmmaker Peter Jackson was used to strip Cassidy's voice from her original recordings, with the orchestrations being produced in 2021. FAR OUT MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Mick McStarkey, writing for the UK’s Far Out Magazine, gives what he terms “The ultimate beginner’s guide to Eva Cassidy” in his description of “Six definitive songs.

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The European version of the CD package also includes a DVD including 12 video performances from the Blues Alley concert. During the summer of 1983, Cassidy sang and played guitar six days a week at the theme park Wild World. You may have heard most of these classic Eva songs before but, as sure as less is more, you have not experienced anything like this collection of previously unreleased Eva-only, guitar/vocal performances. If you listen carefully, you can hear that both Eva and Keith Grimes are playing guitar, and it sounds somewhat improvised to me.For Cassidy, such a project would have been impossible to finance at the time, nearly a decade before she would have two UK number one albums, a number one single with “What a Wonderful World” and a cover of Sting’s “Fields of Gold” that would stream 68 million times on Spotify.