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Name: Colin Hewitt
Hometown: Fordingbridge UK
Songbird (thus far)
Autumn Leaves
Sent: 10:50 PM - 4/16/1999
Just to say thank you to Hugh, Barbara and Dan Cassidy for giving us your daughter/sister in song. I have never known music bring me to such a state of peaceful emotion before and I treasure her gift to us all.
Name: Simon Beards
Hometown: Ealing, London, UK
"Songbird" - the only one I've heard so far
Wayfaring Stranger
Sent: 12:46 AM - 4/17
I first heard Eva's music on the BBC Radio 2 late night Saturday show presented by the much cherished English DJ Bob Harris a few months ago. Just before Christmas 1998 my wife and I bough a modem and discovered first hand Bob Harris' "Whispers" page on his website and I began a fruitful correspondence with a certain Gerry Evans, who I eventually discovered lives a couple of miles away from us in West London. Gerry is an enormous fan of Eva's music and frequently puts up messages on the "Whispers" page to keep her profile high amongst us like-minded fans of quality music from all corners of this beautiful globe! It was my 48th birthday last Saturday and armed with the present of a music voucher earlier this week I managed to track down a copy of "Songbird" (released over here on the Australian 'Didgeridoo' label). It's totally brilliant and appreciated by all the family through from my 12 year old daughter to my 85 year old mother-in-law! "Wayfaring Stranger" I have in my album collection via a version by Joan Baez as a duet with her sister Mimi Farina on the "One day at a time" 1970 release, which I've always thought pretty good. Eva's rendition is simply outstanding! What a sad loss that her recorded musical contributions should be so relatively few but equally what a blessed and wonderful legacy she has given to us all in terms of the quality and maturity of her gifted performances. My friend Gerry provided the link to your site via a recent e-mail he has sent me. Well done on providing such a full, informative and sensitively arranged picture of Eva's life and music. Thank you and please carry on!
Name: Isabel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: How Can I Keep From Singing
Sent: 12:57 PM - 4/18
This is my favorite today. I'll have a new one tomorrow.
Name: Danny
Hometown: Washington D.C.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart
Sent: 4:54 AM - 4/27
I'm afraid I'm another latecomer to Eva's talent. I remember seeing her gig listings here and there in the local papers but at the time I had grown jaded and tired of the local music (an on & off again musician myself) and had pretty much quit the scene both as a fan and a player, plus I was always suspicious of any white artist identified as a jazz or blues musician. Then one day late in 97 I came across "Eva By Heart" at a listening station in a local music store. Before the end of the first verse of "I know you by Heart" I knew I had stumbled across something extraordinary, I was nearly in tears (not an easy thing to do to a jaded Rock'n'Roller). I quickly bought Eva's other recordings. My appetite for information about Eva's life became nearly insatiable. Thanks a lot for yours and others sites.
My preference is for Eva's pop, rock and folk oriented material. While jazz and blues was obviously Eva's preference I hope more of her aforementioned material will be released (Chris B. are you checking these sites???). I seem to remember reading somewhere that there is some original material of Eva's that might be released, I hope that is still part of future plans.
Besides "I Know You By Heart" my other fave songs are "Waly Waly", "Tall Trees in Georgia" and "Wade in the Water"
Name: Gerry
Hometown: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart (currently)
Sent: 1:14 AM - 4/30
Just getting into 'By Heart' recently after overdosing on
Songbird since November. Favourite song is a tough one. Mostly, I tend to gravitate to the more folksy stuff she did. Yesterday it was Waly Waly (see, it changes daily daily) but overall it is probably still Autumn Leaves or Fields of Gold. The repeated last line on 'Leaves' has it all for me--encompassing just about every vocal effect these ears could wish for...until the final word with the (involuntary?) crack in her voice on 'fall' which absolutely finishes me off every single time (and I may have heard it 200 times by now). If Whitney, Celine, Aretha or Mariah had done it, it would be an automatic Grammy. The thing is.... not ONE of them would know how to....Less is more, and none of the so-called Divas remotely understand this. They couldn't hold a candle to Eva.... ... Am I right?.... Agree entirely with Danny below...we could do with some more of the tapes being released even if it's just Eva and guitar...change that, ESPECIALLY if it's Eva and guitar. Thanks, Laura for a great job putting together this site in tribute to Eva!
Name: Alan Lowe-Jones
Hometown: Dukinfield Cheshire UK
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Sent: 11:46 PM - 5/2
Having only recently discovered the music and marvellous sound of Eva, I feel very much a relative newcomer to the scene. Having fallen in love with Eva's voice and talent, and then wondering how to find out more, I am so saddened to learn of her short life. Such a genius taken from us all. My heart goes out to Eva's family. My sympathies are with you.
I am musician/classical & folk guitarist/singer. I am so captivated by this lovely lady's music that I can't resist working out the guitar picks, virtually note for note.
I am presently working on 'Over the Rainbow', and it'll take a few weeks of studious listening and writing. I am not too sure how this sort of thing fares with copyright rules, but I'm hoping to make the music/tablature available for those advanced/intrepid guitarists out there. If this has gained your interest then please contact me. I am doing this purely for pleasure, voluntarily, and to allow anyone who wants, to learn Eva's music at home. Now as for singing like Eva....well, I doubt whether anyone could ever charm the angels the way that Eva now does. Eva, you will live on in our hearts. Thank you for your music.
Alan.
Name: Dorlyn
Hometown: Harpers Ferry, WV
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: How can I keep from singing
Sent: 11:57 PM - 5/2
I feel greatly fortunate to have met Eva and enjoyed her in several live performances. What a beautiful woman with an extraordinary voice. This is a great site, Laura.
Name: Barbara
Hometown: Bowie, MD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Sent: 7:45 PM - 5/4/1999
Terrific job, Laura. Thanks a lot
Name: Hugh
Sent: 7:52 PM - 5/4/1999
Hugh sez, pretty classy.
Name: Luis
Hometown: San Jose, Costa Rica
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Sent: 5:14 AM - 5/6
I started listening to Eva's music in 1997, while living in DC. I listed to part of "Live at Blues Alley" on a listening station at Tower Records in 2100 Penn. What a voice!!! I bought it immediately and has been one of my favorite albums ever since. Last year, I was back in DC working and bought a copy of "Eva By Heart" and "The Other Side" (as well as couple extra copies of Live at Blues Alley for friends who in their words "had to have it") only to learn of Eva's tragic death while reading the liner notes to one of them. Eva was truly one of the greatest voices of our time. Your site has done an excellent job of commemorating this outstanding singer. Sites such as this one may help her once achieve the wide recognition she deserved. Keep it up.
Name: Art
Hometown: Ayrshire, Scotland
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Sent: 8:33 PM - 5/23
"Fields of Gold" was the first song that I heard from Eva Cassidy and was captivated not only by her crystal voice but also by the intensity of feeling that it carried.
I have recently bought the "Songbird" c.d. and her portrayal of Autumn Leaves and Over the Rainbow as well as Fields of Gold paints a series of pictures of the same emotion, with her voice channelling you into living the experience that she's singing about. The other songs on the album are equally as brilliant in their own right.
On reading the available information about Eva it shows her as a person who seemed to encapsulate all of the fundamental decent things that we were taught at junior school on how we should be in this life and this was what was displayed in her beautiful voice.
Perhaps some things about Eva Cassidy, both in music and in social studies, should be taught in schools throughout the world, then maybe there would be some hope for future generations.
Name: David
Hometown: Milton Abbot
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at the Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wayfaring Stranger
Sent: 9:57 PM - 5/23
Firstly, what a marvellous site.
It is a great sadness that I was only introduced to Eva's music after she had died and I am just thankful that she was recorded. Her performances are to be treasured. Her singing is so honest, passionate and dynamic (also....what a band!).
Name: Amy
Time is a Healer
Sent: 10:25 PM - 5/24
Cannot say what an incredible effect Eva Cassidy's music has had on my life; heard "Time is a Healer" on local public radio in Connecticut and immediately scribbled the name of the artist in order to bring it to our local music wizard (Sally in Westport), because her voice and style were so unusual and quality. Accidentally, I miswrote her name, and Sally said she'd get back with me later in the week to find this mysterious artist.
Sally and I got to talking for the next twenty minutes about the type of music I'm into and that I'm learning to play guitar, that I write, etc...and she said, "Then you MUST listen to Eva." You must understand that anything Sally recommends is to be heeded; I went home, started listening to "Eva By Heart," and went numb when song number two played. It was the song I was searching for!
For so many reasons, I have needed time to heal me...and her music and voice definitely speak to my heart (she is also the only artist I can completely sing with...our voice range is the same, but her amazing styling has really inspired me).
I waited until I heard the entire CD before I read the liner notes, which was probably a good idea, since I proceeded to absolutely lose it (my boyfriend thought I was nuts)...Let's just say I relate to her in a lot of ways, and had to cry because her story is so beautiful -- it made me feel like dreams really can come true -- and has inspired me to live out my own gifts. Thank you, Eva (and thank you, Chris Biondo, for your part)!
Name: jo rochford
Wade in the Water and Fields of Gold
Sent: 5:54 AM - 5/30
Well, I only recently discovered Eva Cassidy and like someone mentioned before, the first song I heard of hers was a crystal clear sounding 'Fields of Gold'. What can you say? - Exquisite voice that never fails to give the listener goosebumps, sweets tunes and altogether a beautiful sound. Why do all the good ones die?
Name: Alan Pert
Autumn Leaves
Sent: 12:39 AM - 6/9
Eva's vocal genius is no more apparent than in "Autumn Leaves". Her rendition of this poignant song transports me to a timeless world of bittersweet memories, of those good times gone forever, but we are grateful that we had them. My favourite album is "Live at Blues Alley", with the Eva Cassidy Band in great form. his album is especially moving because of Eva's heartfelt introductions to 'Tall Trees in Georgia' and 'Wonderful World' and her generous thank-you to the audience at the end of the concert. How many performers's express such sincerity? Apart from her consummate technique, Eva's singing is so honest it just goes straight to your heart. Thank you Eva for a legacy we will always cherish.
Name: Shantel Major
Everyone is a gem in my book!!!
Sent: 12:38 AM - 6/25
I have always had a ear for beautiful ad honest singers and when I heard "Fields of Gold" on my public radio station I knew immediately that this woman had something that I loved. I immediately bought her CD "Songbird" and I can't wait to get the other two. She was truly a gem. I really miss her and all the beautiful music she could have made but then am happy that we have the songs we have. I know that she's surely bringing heaven to the angel's ears. Thanks Eva!!!!
Name: TONY BRAMWELL
Hometown: HOT Records
Sent: 12:36 PM - 6/25
it is my pleasure to promote Eva in the UK
and would like to thank everyone for
being so helpful
HOT RECORDS is releasing THE OTHER SIDE this week
Michsel Parkinson Terry Wogan and Bob Harris are
already on the case
Did anyone see the piece about Chris Evans and Eva in the Daily Mail?
cheers
Tony Bramwell
Sent: 1:42 AM - 6/26
What was the piece about Chris Evans and Eva in the Daily Mail? Surely 'The Ego has Landed' didn't make a fool of himself, did he?
ANSWER FROM LAURA: I have added the article (a paragraph,really) to the "What's New" section of the website.
Name: Derek Regan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Sent: 7:51 PM - 6/28
Eva Cassidy is the only singer ever to move me to tears! The lyric "I miss you my friend" in "Time is a Healer" just hit a nerve as I recently lost someone. But with every listen it gets more & more cathartic. For this I will be forever grateful to Eva Cassidy and her music.
Name: Paul Ainsworth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water
Sent: 7:47 PM - 7/14
Not much more can be said.
I wish there was more to listen to.
Does anyone know where I can get the words to all the songs?
Name: Gordon Gavin
Fort Atkinson, WI
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People Get Ready
Sent: 11:04 PM - 7/18
A friend in Scotland just recommended Eva to me and I purchased the "Live at Blues Alley" CD just yesterday. It is absolutely wonderful so much so that I started searching on the Internet only to discover that Eva is no longer with us ... what a tragedy. Her music will take pride of place in my collection for evermore. My condolences to Eva's family and what a sad loss to the world.
Name: Derek Rutherford
Hometown: -
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Tall Trees In Georgia/Say Goodbye
Sent: 9:34 PM - 7/22
I heard Say Goodbye one morning on Radio 2 (thanks Terry Wogan!) whilst driving to work and made a mental note to search out Eva Cassidy. I was puzzled as to how come I hadn't heard of Eva before - just that one song was more than enough to convince me that here was a major talent that surely everyone in the world except I must have already been aware of (especially as she was being played on Radio Two!). I experienced the same shock as so many other people when I bought the album and read the sleeve notes...And like so many others I now have all the albums and pine for more. A beautiful person, the finest singer I have heard in oh so long, and a sad sad story. Thanks Eva.
Name: gail grier lewis
Georgia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Sent: 12:43 AM - 7/26
thank you for doing this page and for the wonderful tape you sent me.
Name: Adrian
Blackburn, Lancashire
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Sent: 9:39 PM - 7/26
I heard Eva on Radio 2 and have just bought my first Eva CD, I shall collect them all.
I had never heard of Eva until her music was played on Radio 2, sorry Sting but Eva's version of Fields of Gold can move me to tears.
Why had I never heard of Eva before?
A sad loss to all.
Name: K.T. Mae
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Love them all.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Too many to note.
Sent: 4:03 AM - 7/27
I was very moved by Eva's music...I could write for ages and ages on what her music has done for me. But I will leave that for another time because if I were to really write something special about Eva I would have to sit down for a whole day and give it some serious thought as to what I would like to say about her. For now...all I can say is 'Thank you', to her and to all the people that made her recordings possible.
However, there is a really important question I need to ask and if anyone reading this has the answer, could you please e-mail me immediately.
On Eva's album 'Eva By Heart' there is a picture that Eva apparently painted/drew of a house. Half brown, half white. It is absolutely vital that I find out the history of this piece of art work. What inspired her to paint this picture? Is it in some way significant to her life? Does anyone out there know?
It involves a premonition of some sort. Please help me if you can.
Thank you, From K.M. (Australia).
ANSWER FROM LAURA: I will try to find out about this, and e-mail you directly. If any of Eva's friends happen to know about the painting, let me know!
FURTHER UPDATE: According to Chris Biondo, the painting is of a church on St. John's in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Name: Alan Sharratt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: only heard Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Sent: 5:55 PM - 7/27
I have just discovered Eva after listening to her on a
radio station here in the U.K. and just had to hear some more and bought Songbird.
Regards Alan
Name: Jerry Choi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Please don't ask me to choose
Home town: Norristown, PA
Sent: 3:33 PM - 7/28
Thank you so much for having this web page up. Back in September of 1998 I went on vacation in Bar Harbor, Maine with a friend. While up there we went into a shop that sold books, music, etc. While looking around, the cashier put 'Live at Blues Alley' on. First I noticed the piano and then that voice came on. I was totally in shock and was frozen, I could not believe what I heard. Without thinking, I bought the CD. When I came back home I listened to the entire CD and I could not stop playing it. When I tried to find out who she was on the net, I found out that she passed away. Like everyone else, my heart sank to find this out. But I also found out that Songbird and Eva By Heart also existed. So I got those as well, I love 'Over the Rainbow'. I could not believe that while I was going to school at GWU in DC from 1989-1993, that I never heard of her. And trying to find any info about her is next to impossible. I am so happy that I found your site. I so much want to be able to see all of her artwork. Is this possible? It is so sad that she was with us only so briefly, but thank you Eva for the wonderful gifts that you gave us.
Name: Jennie
Home town: North Wales, UK
Sent: 10:40 PM - 7/31
A couple of days ago I was driving along when I heard the Christine McVie song "Songbird" on the radio. I had never heard anything like it before. I am a music nut, music is m life and I have a huge CD collection. I have also seen and heard many great talents.
But nothing, I swear nothing moved me like this. The voice was amazing, it just totally blew me away. At the end the DJ said it was 'Eva Cassidy, who sadly is no longer with us'. I had to find out more.
Having tracked down the various web sites and discovered the tragedy of this wonderful singer's death, I was moved to tears reading about her ... the tributes ... and the fact that others have shared that experience I had that day driving along in my car.
I don't have any of her records, but needless to say I soon will have.
God bless Eva Cassidy ... she sings with the angels.
Name: Tony Bramwell
Home town: TOTNES DEVON
Sent: 2:08 PM - 8/3
I've just received confirmation
from BBC Radio 2 that they will make a One Hour Special
to be broadcast on Radio 2 on Tuesday 28th December
at 9.00 p.m. British time
Anyone having difficulty finding EVA's discs
can always call HOT records on+44(0)1903 783385
but the HMV stores and Our Price have all in stock !!!!
Cheers
TONY B.
Name: John Elliott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town: Montreal
Sent: 7:10 PM - 8/4
Strangely enough I discovered the magic of Eva Cassidy in exactly the same fashion as did Jerry Choi (a prior letter poster).,I was in Bar Harbour Maine on August1/2 1999 and walked into a shop called "Domus Isle" and Eva's CD "Live at Blues Alley" was playing. I was completely entranced by her remarkable, haunting voice and her ability to transcend the music. I talked to the owner, bought the CD, played it in my car during a tour of Acadia National Park (a wonderful fusion of music and nature occurred)and immediately returned to the store and purchased the two other CD's by Eva.
I have since loaned the live CD to friends who are all taken by the talent that she was. The tragedy of her passing is eased by the legacy of her music.
To paraphrase : "Eva, we hardly knew ye."
Name: Jennie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow (so far)
Home town: North Wales, UK
Sent: 8:06 PM - 8/4
I wrote to the guest book last week when I heard Eva on the radio for the first time. Today I drove into Llandudno and was lucky enough to pick up two albums in the record store there - 'Songbird', and 'The Other Side'.
Since I came home this afternoon they have been playing non-stop and I am on my knees!! What a voice .. it defies description. On one track she sounds like Aretha (only better) on another she sounds like a Celtic princess!
'Over the Rainbow' is not a favourite of mine. Only last week I was playing an album by the English singer/songwriter John Martyn which includes a cover of that song. He massacres it ... and every time it came on I would fast forward through it (sorry John)!
But Eva's version is something else. So beautiful ... I still can't believe what I'm hearing.
Name: anthony izzard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them
Home town: Liverpool, England
Sent: 9:04 PM - 8/11
I would just like to say thank you to radio2 for bringing the most enchanting voice I have ever heard into my life.
The first song I ever heard by Eva was somewhere over a rainbow. I went straight out and bought Songbird followed by all the other albums.
God Bless you Eva
Name: Dianne
Home town: Gold Coast, Queenland Australia
Sent: 9:49 AM - 8/13
A friend just handed me a tape and said, "you have to listen to this singer - unfortunately she passed away". Deja vu! I heard the haunting strains of another mystically-inspiring singer, sadly deceased, by the name of Jeff Buckley. The album 'Songbird' has just ended and my eyes are dry no longer. As an astrologer, researcher and writer, I'd be grateful to know Eva's date, place (and time if possible) of birth. A lovely site Laura.
Name: K.T. Mae
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: The Other Side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song If You Leave Me/Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town: melbourne. Australia
Sent: 2:37 PM - 8/13
Hi again. I just thought I would check in with all you Eva Cassidy fans. I am still really enjoying listening to all her recordings. Her voice absolutely blows me away. Her whole story does actually. I have yet to purchase a copy of 'Live at Blues Alley', but I am looking forward to sitting down with a bottle of red and getting into that one as well. Seriously people, what a voice!!! She sounds like an angel-or how I would imagine an angel to sound.
Laura and Chris...did you get my e-mails?
Speak to you all again soon.
I just love her!!!
Name: K.T. Mae
Sent: 2:44 PM - 8/13
I am such a dill. The reason I even re-visited this site and signed the guestbook again was to ask if anyone knows if Eva has any of her performances on video. She sings with so much passion, I would just love to see her expressions when she performs. Can anyone help me?
Name: Simon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town: Welwyn Garden City, UK
Sent: 8:18 PM - 8/15
I first heard "Over the Rainbow" on Radio 2 one afternoon while I was re-decorating my house. At that time a caring family friend stopped by with my frail and elderly grandmother, who was more ill than she would admit to. She was quiet and withdrawn but was moved to tears when Eva's version of the song was played. Sadly, this proved to be the last time I saw my gran, for she passed away a few days later. So, when I heard "Over the Rainbow" again shortly afterwards, the poignancy of the words moved me enormously. I just had to buy a CD with this song on. Since then, each of the other songs have become favourites of mine. Her voice and the feelings she conveys to the listener are just so beautiful. Imagine my renewed sense of loss when I read the sleeve notes about Eva's premature death. It isn't such a bad thing to be reminded of just how fragile life is.
Thanks Laura for bringing some of Eva's fans together. It's nice to know that other people have been as moved as I was when they first heard this incredible voice.
15 August 1999
Name: Jim Young
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Song Bird, so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town: Pitlochry Scotland.
Sent: 8:59 PM - 8/16
I am so sorry it took so long for me to discover Eva, what a sad loss to the world.
Name: Linda Stefkovic
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town: Mt. Rainier, MD
Sent: 5:23 PM - 8/19
The first time I saw Eva was at one of those Washington, DC
outdoors festivals. Literally five seconds after she began
her first song, I was stunned and almost paralyzed! I think it was Baby, I Love You, an Aretha Franklin cover. I felt so connected to her, too connected for having never met this woman. At her memorial service, I discovered we had the same birthday; I realize that doesn't mean much but it shook me because of my strange obsession with her. She was in my dreams a number of times. I have never figured any of this out, but I am happy to know Eva any way possible, be it her recordings or my dreams!
Name: Stuart Harvey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town: Germantown, MD
Sent: 4:05 PM - 8/21
Laura, Isabel pointed out this site to me. It's great! I've spread the word about Eva, and played her music every chance I get, for my friends. A dear friend from New Orleans, who is now an enormous fan, is going with me to visit Isabel & learn more about Eva. Thanks for this tribute to a remarkable spirit.
Stuart
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song really not able to choose
Home town: Yeppoon Queensland Australia
Sent: 1:56 AM - 8/22
I am in awe of her powerful voice and the way these songs make me feel. I often listen to her when driving and when I want to be on my own. I heard her first on the local ABC radio with "Fields of Gold" and of course I had to have the CD so I'm keen to gradually collect all of her music
Her music makes me happy ,sad, rejoiceful and at times full
of life. How can you feel all of these things at the same time? I'm listening to her while I write this and it's a little hard not to be swept away. Thanks for this space.
Name: barbara
Sent: 4:01 PM - 8/26
dear Laura, you've done a beautiful job. many, many thanks
Name: dan wash d.c.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Home town: tall trees in georgia
Sent: 9:00 PM - 8/27
thanks , Laura, for creating this wonderful website!
Name: Steven Digman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How can I keep from singing and Easy Street Dream
Home town: Jax Beach Florida
Sent: 10:54 AM - 8/28
Thanks Laura for the interview with Chris Biondo. Thanks Chris for even remembering me.
I always enjoyed working with Chris in his studio in Rockville Maryland... and having Eva sing for me was like listening to the Radio from Heaven!
Eva had the ability to make a bad song into a good song...a good song into a great song and a great song into something even Greater!
I will miss her!
Steven
Name: Sim Barr Fidel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (for sentimental reasons)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly, Songbird, Autumn Leaves, Tall Trees
Home town: Provincetown,MA
Sent: 4:01 PM - 8/28
Thank you Laura! Your site is truly wonderful. I especially loved the interview with Chris. How exciting to know that all these other songs are out there! Someday you should make your way to P-town . . . where everyone knows Eva's name . . . her CD's are in the juke boxes, and her voice can be heard every day coming from various shops on Commercial Street. The way it should be everywhere!
Name: Derek Taylor
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How can I keep from singing & Over the Rainbow
Home town: Portland, OR (originally Blackpool, UK)
Sent: 10:29 PM - 8/28
God gave Eva the purest singing voice I have ever heard; as soon as I first heard her she instantly became the benchmark against which I measure every other singer, and none of the rest of them come close. I find myself listening to my CDs of her incessantly; her music resonates deep within me. What a gift she had, and how well she used it.
To the creator of this website, many many thanks for providing the world with so much information about our favourite singer, and also for administering the Songbird site at onelist.com. I for one am very grateful for your hard work, and find it an invaluable reference.
Note from Laura: Thanks for your kind words. I can't take credit for administering the onelist.com information, though; that's done by Lola in New York.
Name: Reggie Elliott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart, How Can I Keep From Singing, Nightbird
Home town: Mitchellville, MD
Sent: 6:04 AM - 8/29
I just wanted to say no other musician has touched me the way Eva has. I was listening to I Know You By Heart one day and I just broke down in tears. Now mind you, not that I'm "macho" or anything but I never cry, not even at funerals. Yet here I was bawling, why? Because I realized my calling in life...to tell Eva's story on the big screen. I'm still committed to making a film about the life of Eva Cassidy. Thank you Eva for touching me.
Name: Simon Beards
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town: Ealing, London, UK
Sent: 11:43 PM - 8/31
I last left a message here in April. So it's nice to be back again! Such great news that Tony has given us that, for UK Eva fans, 'Auntie Beeb' is going to screen an hour long documentary over the Christmas period, presumably an 'Omnibus' or 'Arena' special or some such. I can't wait! Are you involved with this particular project, Laura, since your involvement and devotion to promoting Eva's extraordinary talent is so strong and well directed? Joan Baez, whom I mentioned in my last guest-message, is appearing in the UK soon but sadly I won't be able to catch her concerts this time. I'm glad that Eva was a fan of hers too. Well that's enough from me. Looking forward to the TV slot and any further CD releases that may possibly surface in the future. In the meantime I'll treasure the material currently available - jewels of a very special kind.Reply: Thank you for your compliments, Simon. The BBC program is for radio, as far as I know, not television, and I'm not involved with it. When they come to the U.S., I hope they will be interviewing Eva's parents, friends and musical associates, all of whom have more to say than I do! But it has been rewarding to know that I am helping Eva's fans around the world to find out more about her, through this wonderful international medium of the Internet. -- Laura
Name: Gerry Evans
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Still "Autumn Leaves"
Home town: London
Sent: 1:56 AM - 9/1
Just read your interview with Chris Biondo, Laura. Thanks to you both. Absolutely right, success isn't everything. "If you know you're good, that's enough". Eva's legacy will always be more substantial than the likes of Britney Spears or the Spice Girls etc. There's no substitute for that "emotional connection" Chris was referring to. Thanks for all your work on this website...I visit every week or so and it gets better and better all the time. Keep it up! I'm now itching to hear some of these other recordings! (Easy Street Dream, True Colours, Time After Time etc etc). Hoping it won't be too long.
Name: Susanne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Stormy Monday, Autumn Leaves, Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- it's hard to choose!
Home town: Salt Lake City
Sent: 10:54 PM - 9/2
As so many other people on this list have already posted, Eva was an incredible talent, and I feel very fortunate to have stumbled across her music. Recently when Salt Lake City was slammed by a freak tornado, I had the privilege? duty? of putting our radio station, KRCL 91FM, back on the air during my show, Thursday Breakfast Jam. I used Eva's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" to start sending our signal out again the morning after all that devastation, and lots of my listeners called to say how comforted they felt by that version of that song. Even after she's gone, she's still giving gifts to so many of us!
Name: Tisha
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I can't decide!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Golden Thread/Nightbird
Home town: DC
Sent: 4:52 AM - 9/7
Thank you for creating such a wonderful website! The only time I saw Eva was at the benefit show at The Bayou in DC where she performed "What a Wonderful World." Since then, Eva's music has been a big part of my life...Daily. Reading all the kind words in this guestbook has already brought me to tears! I will come back to your website often. Thanks again!
Name: Keith Emigh
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town: New Orleans, Louisiana
Sent: 9:15 PM - 9/9
Laura,
Stuart did indeed take me to Harper's Ferry to visit Cass and Isabel. I was quite moved by Isabel's surprise for me. I do my part in spreading the beauty. The albums are my favorite gifts to give. Thank you.
Name: Roger Crane
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Autumn Leaves"
Home town: Lomita, CA
Sent: 3:48 PM - 9/10
Given Eva's short life and tragic ending it is very easy to wonder if you are being moved by her voice or by her story. Well, when I first received and played her compilation album, titled "Eva Cassidy - Songbird" I did not know of her tragic short life. I simply assumed that she was a wonderful new talent. The magic was all in her haunting voice, in her impeccable intonation and in her control. It is one of the most extraordinary and singular voices I have heard in a very, very long time. Simply put, the lovely Eva had "magic." I love her and it saddens me to know that there will be no more "Eva music." /Roger Crane
Name: Frank Versace
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know you by heart
Home town: Melbourne, Australia
Sent: 3:01 PM - 9/11
We need to get this music to a wider audience- Eva's music makes me realise that life is all too short but that something so beautiful can last for eternity. "I know you by heart" sends a shiver down my spine and the occasional tear to my eye. I feel very fortunate to have discovered Eva's Music. Eva will live longer in our hearts due to the legacy left behind. I obviously didn't know her but somehow feel connected to her. We would be the same age if she had lived(born in 63)- thanks for a great page dedicated to Eva's memory.
Name: Peter Wyman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart
Home town: Montville, NJ
Sent: 6:17 AM - 9/12
Like two others on this thread, I first heard Eva's music at a shop in Bar Harbor, Maine....we immediately purchased Songbird, and fell in love with her music while driving through Acadia National Park. I became a "spread the word" fanatic...I emailed Vin Scelsa, a legendary radio voice on WNEW-FM in New York City, and after purchasing Eva's CDs, he has introduced her to many new fans by playing her music on his Sunday evening radio show. I also recommended Eva's music to Jay Lustig of the Star Ledger in New Jersey, and he named Songbird to his Top Ten best CDs of 1998.
Eva lives on through her wonderful music!
Name: Jennie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Not Sure!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Home town: Sussex, England
Sent: 9:20 AM - 9/12
Congratulations on the comprehensive interview with Chris Biondo, Laura. It made fascinating reading. Thanks too for all the work you put in on the site which is greatly appreciated. Eva's music continues to enthrall, and for me now ... all other singers pale by comparison. She was unique.
Name: Robert Tilt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town: Redditch UK
Sent: 6:39 PM - 9/19
First heard Eva`s singing on the radio only a few days ago...
Too late.
Name: Simon Forrester
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song keeps changing!
Home town: Welwyn Garden City
Sent: 5:33 PM - 9/21
Since I last wrote in mid-August, I have added 'Live at Blues Alley' to my collection and have listened to it many times already. I really love the sequence of Tall Trees In Georgia / Fields of Gold / Autumn Leaves. In
fact, having the applause adds something to the listening pleasure - I can shut my eyes and imagine what it might have been like to actually be in that audience and hear that beautifully powerful voice. Not many renditions of simple songs can send chills down the spine, but oh what I would give to be able to sing as well as that! God bless you Eva for the legacy you left behind. I only just realised through reading other entries in the guestbook that Eva and I were also born in the same year.
By the way, I recently discovered a lovely track called 'Dante's Prayer' by Loreena McKennitt which moved me almost as much as 'Over the Rainbow'. Anyone out there who likes music that goes straight to the heart might enjoy listening to it. ( I don't work for LM's record company or anything - I just love great music!)
Name: Richard Thomas
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town: Blaenafon, Gwent, United Kingdom
Sent: 10:09 PM - 9/21
I have only discovered Eva within the last two weeks - the impact Eva's precious contribution to music has made on me since this time is second to none.
Heartfelt thanks to all who have ensured that Eva is now internationally heard - she will remain an inspiration.
Congratulations on an excellent web-site.
Name: Hilary Yorke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town: Auckland, New Zealand
Sent: 1:51 AM - 9/22
My sister introduced me to Eva's haunting voice, she said Autumn Leaves made her cry. I have never seen my sister cry, so I had to listen to this music that evoked such emotion in her. It's easy to see why, Fields of Gold does it for me. A truly remarkable woman.
Name: Jimmy and Marie Campbell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Method Actor
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Stay", "Take My Breath Away", "Forever"
Home town: Pittsburgh, PA
Sent: 6:55 PM - 9/23
Laura.... Nice, really nice! I am so pleased to see the recognition that Eva truly deserves, and has so for years. Eva inspires me to sing... though, no one will ever hold half the light of a candle to Eva, I feel her in my heart when I sing.
My husband, Jimmy Campbell, played drums with Eva in the late 80's early 90's. I never got the chance to know her like he did, and I sure wish I had. I am envious of all who did get to know her and perform with her, but I am happy they at least were blessed with that pleasure!
A quick note to Al Dale, Chris Biondo, and Tony Taylor: Put "Emotional Step", and "Take My Breath Away" out there, I have her old demo tape with these and others on there, and they NEED to be heard by these 30,000+ fans! You owe it to us! :)
Thanks again!
Marie Campbell
Name: Jeff Morley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: The Other Side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a Wonderful World
Home town: Washington, DC
Sent: 9:05 PM - 9/23
Your site is a great way to keep Eva's music and spirit alive, Laura. The interview with Chris is terrific combining both his characteristic humor and honesty with affecting memories of Eva. I wonder if other musicians who worked with Eva might sit for similar interviews.
Name: Peter Fitzgerald
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town: Orpington, Kent UK
Sent: 5:35 PM - 9/24
Like many others, I have only become aware of Eva recently. A few weeks ago I attempted to sing her version of Over the Rainbow at a poetry and song evening. It was really difficult but I felt that I had to do it as a tribute to her unique voice, phrasing and ability.
I am writing this whilst listening to "Songbird" and its quite difficult to see the screen through the tears. I would urge anyone who appreciates music, honestly performed, to seek out her recordings. Seldom have I been so moved.
Name: Dave Mitchell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I can't decide!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How do you choose?
Home town: Great Sutton, Cheshire UK
Sent: 6:17 PM - 9/24
Thanks Eva for leaving a taste of heaven for all of us. Heck I thought I was on my own with these incredible feelings. It's so nice to find I'm in such brilliant company. Everyone who has taken the opportunity to express their feelings have done so in such beautiful ways. See there are an awful lot of really nice people out there! Well done Laura ... a truly moving website ... a truly moving tribute to an angel.
Name: Ian Topham
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird ( the only one so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold/ Over the Rainbow
Home town: Northampton, England
Sent: 7:21 PM - 9/28
I know that I have been blessed for having been introduced to one of the most remarkable and honest voices that it's ever been my pleasure to hear. My only real sadness comes from knowing that Eva died before the majority of the world had a chance to see or hear her. I know that anybody hearing her sing will be in awe of such a talent and hopefully everybody will realise what a loss we have to suffer in her tragic, all too early death. The fact that she gave us her recorded voice does not compensate for the loss of one so tragically young. God bless, Eva.
Name: Brigitte Hyam
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town: Penryn/Cornwall
Sent: 7:48 PM - 9/29
We were quite simply moved to tears when we first heard the CD. We realised we heard something very special when we heard a track on Radio 2 but hearing the whole CD without any distraction is out of this world! Saving up now to get all of Eva's CDs.
Name: Carly McQueen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Can't decide
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Can't decide
Home town: Corby, Northamptonshire, England.
Sent: 3:06 PM - 10/2
I was given 'Songbird' as a birthday gift. I had not heard of Eva at that time and I thought it strange that somebody would buy me a CD not knowing whether I'd like it.
I'll never forget the moment I sat down and listened and I will be forever grateful to the person who bought me that CD and introduced me to Eva.
As so many of the contributors to this page, I am haunted and inspired by such a perfect voice. I also crave to know and hear more. Eva has given us all such an incredible gift. Thank you Eva.
I tell everybody I know about Eva and there is nobody who isn't moved. I have four albums now and I feel as if Eva has changed my life. It's good to know so many people feel the same way. Let's keep spreading the word!
I actually present a programme on a community radio station in the small town of Corby in Northamptonshire. Since receiving the most amazing birthday gift of my life, 'Songbird', I have bombarded the listeners of Corby Radio with all of Eva's songs and so many of them have personally thanked me to introducing them to her wonderful music. The sales of Eva's albums in our one record store have gone through the roof and they've even had to order more. I also have all the other DJ's on the station play her songs. So, in Corby, thanks to Corby Radio and Radio 2, Eva has a large following.
I will be giving EVERYBODY I know Eva's albums for Christmas. Eva is like a precious secret that we all want to share with each other.
Name: Kirsty & Alice Johnstone
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold, Wade in the Water
Home town: Fleet, Hants, UK
Sent: 10:12 PM - 10/2
A friend of ours gave us the CD to record on to tape so he could take it on holiday with him. Being so much older than us he thought we would not like the style but Eva has a voice of an angel and a way of bringing a song like Over the Rainbow a whole new life, depth and meaning. We would very much like to build up a collection of her CDs as Songbird is all we have so far.
Name: Mary Lou Lord
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Each
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town: Salem Ma
Sent: 8:08 AM - 10/3
I have heard many singers in my day, but I think Eva's voice is the closest to what heaven must sound like, out of any other voice I've heard .Simply stunning. This is a beautiful page and I'm thankful Eva's recordings and her spirit live on...
Name: sheila
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Home town: bearsden
Sent: 7:33 PM - 10/4
I have only recently been introduced to Eva - what a wonderful voice - what a sad loss...
hope more songs can be released
Name: Dwight D'Aguilar-Gooden
Sent: 2:50 PM - 10/9
Having heard some of Eva's music on the radio, I am here to find out more about the lady behind the voice.
Name: Megan Gassert
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold, I know you by heart
Home town: Cincinnati, Ohio
Sent: 1:54 AM - 10/10
I first heard "Fields of Gold" on NPR one evening this week...I was blown away. I ran out the record store and purchased Songbird and have been listening to it over and over...just a few minutes ago I stopped to read the liner notes and was heartbroken to read that she is no longer with us. I felt as though I'd been punched in the stomach...I'd finally found a vocalist who sang right to my heart and now this powerful messenger is gone. Thank you for this wonderful website and I will continue to listen and love her music. What a voice...and what a loss.
Name: Keith Balaam
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Blues Alley if I had to choose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves if I had to choose
Home town: Weston Super Mare, UK.
Sent: 2:21 PM - 10/10
Heard Autumn Leaves on the BBC Radio and for the first time in years (since hearing Cat Stevens) I had to stop what I was doing.... A great site well done
Name: Wayne Alexander
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley - if I must choose!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get ready.
Home town: Worthing - UK
Sent: 6:02 PM - 10/11
There are no words to describe Eva's heavenly voice. But it is not simply her voice, it is her. She is not "just singing", she is singing with integrity, it comes through her voice so clearly, that just as we are moved incredibly as we listen, she is moved as she sings. I have never heard music like this, it blows my mind and moves me to my core. I have to introduce her to anyone I can. What an amazing gift to pass on. Although I yearn to hear more, she is in a better place now - God is cherishing her and enjoying the special voice that He created. Thank you to her family and everyone else involved in releasing her music. Most of all, thank you to Eva, you have given us something eternal and precious, I would have loved to have told you this to your face.
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird at the present
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song whole album
Home town: yeppoon Australia
Sent: 7:52 AM - 10/16
I love to visit this site, it's great to know that there are so many people who love Eva's music and are spreading the word. I plan to buy all that I can in the future and cherish it forever even my children 14 &17 enjoy her soulfulness and the sweet joy of her voice. It relaxes me so much and makes me feel .... .. I really can't think of the right words but I'm just so glad I found her.
Name: John Shaw
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart
Home town: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sent: 7:42 PM - 10/16
What can you say about Eva Cassidy that hasn't already been said in these messages? The remarkable thing for me is that so many other people have experienced the same feelings that I have on discovering Eva's music and subsequently learning of the tragedy behind her story.
I have never contributed my thoughts in a public forum such as this before and I think it is because of the effect that Eva's music has on me that I want to share my feelings with others. Usually when I am introduced to an artist for the first time I listen to their music so much that I tire of it and turn to something else. That has not happened with Eva. Since March, when I first heard "Songbird", I have listened to Eva's songs almost to the exclusion of everything else and never tire of listening to them. Like other fans I tell everyone I know who shares my love of music about the wonder that is Eva Cassidy. Nobody should go through life without enjoying her beautiful voice.
I, too, have wondered whether it is the sadness behind Eva's story that captivates as much as her music but then I realise that only the quality and honesty of her singing could sustain long term interest. Eva was the antithesis of the modern day spoilt rock star and it was that simplicity, combined with such a remarkable talent, that was refreshing.
I feel cheated that we have been deprived of this wonderful singer. I hope that Eva's family and friends take comfort in the knowledge that her legacy is appreciated by an increasingly large number of music lovers. Through this wonderful web site I realise that I am part of a community of fans that has been touched by something rare and very special.
Thank you, Eva. Thank you, Laura.
Name: Karen Borawski
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town: South Windsor, Connecticut
Sent: 5:25 AM - 10/21
To: Laura, Hugh & Barbara
How blessed you were to have had such precious time with Eva!! I was on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts last weekend and heard Eva's "Over the Rainbow" playing in a shop -- both my girlfriend and I stopped dead in our tracks to listen to her soft smooth voice -- she ranks right up there with Karen Carpenter!!! Unfortunately the store was sold out of her CD but I definitely plan on getting all of her CDs.
Thank you for this website. I, too, felt deprived when I heard of her passing. I do believe that her music will endure . . . Although I never knew or heard of Eva before this weekend I do feel a great loss as well. Again, thank you for giving me the opportunity to listen to such a wonderful voice. It is quite evident that she was born with a gift to interpret music as well.
Karen
Name: Ruud Rozemeijer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Over the Rainbow" since that was the first time I heard Eva sing.
Home town: Beverwijk, The Netherlands
Sent: 1:55 PM - 10/22
Hello Laura, thank you for the website and the guestbook.
I appear to be the first person to add a note to your guestbook from The Netherlands. I do not know if Eva has reached' our little country yet, although a Dutch on-line store has "Live at Blues Alley".
I usually listen to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 in the morning, and one morning December '98 he was playing "Over the Rainbow. I didn't realise it was this song until I recognised it half way through. Such a wonderful and amazing arrangement. I must admit I have never been a fan of female guitar singers, but song and voice just blew me away. Something like that only happened once in my life before, when I first heard the music of John Barry. Something just clicks in the right place and that's it.
When Terry Wogan mentioned the title of the album, "Songbird, I started a frantic search for the album in record shops here in Holland. To no avail. So I started a search on the Internet and bought the album on line.
At one time I was in an elevator with one of Holland's most famous and influential disk jockeys. But since I hardly ever listen to his programme, I didn't have the nerve to ask if had ever played Eva's music. Fool!
Last September I was walking through Harrods record department in London one morning, heard a voice singing over the loudspeakers, and I stopped at the very spot. That voice. It must be Eva's. I noticed the album and yes, it was Eva By Heart.
Now, I have all Eva's albums from on-line stores; Eva By Heart and Live at Blues Alley arriving today. And I don't know where to start or end playing them. Sadly, we have all the time in the world. As Alan Pert says below, Eva's singing "goes straight to your heart. I couldn't agree more. Thank you, Eva, for the music.
Name: john higgins
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song too hard to choose
Home town: east kilbride
Sent: 9:23 PM - 10/22
The greatest voice that I have ever heard. What more can I say.
Name: John Fenn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People Get Ready
Home town: Maidstone Kent.
Sent: 12:19 AM - 10/23
Great singer great albums, thanks to Paul Walters for discovering her for me.
Name: Marea Murray & Candis Gillette
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town: Boston, MA
Sent: 12:54 AM - 10/23
The reason Boston is such an Eva Cassidy town is that FRED TAYLOR, a living legend in the music promotion business, who by the way turned me on to "Manhattan Transfer" way back in 1971 when I was but a teenie-bopper, heard her CD and was blown away by her. He went back to read the liner notes after experiencing "Over the Rainbow". He wanted to hire her for his club "Scullers" and was horrified and saddened to hear she had died. The Boston Globe newspaper ran a story in its arts section sometime last winter (Feb?) based on Fred Taylor's experience and hordes of people, myself included immediately went to all the music stores and bought out all their stock (we bought over 20 copies of "Songbird" to give to friends and family). Every store in the area was on "reorder" mode within days! We have given this CD to many friends as a gift or token of thanks and enjoy sharing our discovery with them. As it gets close to the anniversary of her death Nov. 2nd,it is truly amazing how connected we feel to her, as if we knew her and feeling the loss without ever meeting her. My spiritual leader/mentor passed away in July of 1997 and it was difficult, still is, but I get a warm feeling thinking they are together in heaven or whatever! The song "Over the Rainbow" is a miraculous recording and yes, Sting, Eva improved on "Fields of Gold" but didn't she always make a song her own?
Name: T.M. Land
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird & Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town: South Portland, ME
Sent: 1:43 PM - 10/28
I instantly fell in love with her voice the first time I heard her sing. I have 2 of her CD's and I could listen to them everyday and never get tired. She is sadly missed by many and I hope that they discover more recordings. I have told many people about her and they too have bought her CD's. Even though she is not with us now, she will always be with us through her music and in our hearts. Thank you Eva.
Name: Claire Spinks
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town: London, England.
Sent: 9:27 AM - 10/30
I'm listening to her right now, as I try and find some words to describe the effect this incredible woman's' voice has on me. But, the language is inadequate. It was on a national radio station that I first heard her - some d.j. of rare good taste played "Over the Rainbow" and I just stood there, transfixed. I love music and am a fan of many different styles and genres, but, can truthfully say I'd never heard such a voice before ever. Eva's voice cuts through all the crap, all the trappings and seductions we like to wrap ourselves in- it's only concern, only aim is to get to the core- the truth. Conveying the spirit of the music from one soul to another. That's why so many of us who have signed these pages say that when we hear her we become rooted to the spot. It MAKES us listen.... .! and check ourselves. It would be too easy to lapse into eulogy, in the light of what happened almost 3 years ago and I wouldn't want to dishonour her beauty or courage or talent by getting too maudlin and focussing on that. This is so hard to avoid when people are taken too soon I know. But, from reading about her in several sites, about her spirit and passion, maybe she would have said to all of us.' just concentrate on the music'. So, Eva - that's what I'm going to do.... Listen and concentrate on your music for a very long time. I just wish, like all of us, there was a lot more of it around ...God Bless You Angel
Name: Leon Purdham
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All 3 that I have
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song everything
Home town: Hagerstown, Md.
Sent: 6:10 AM - 11/8
I first heard of Eva from the Wash. Post review and had to travel to D.C. to find my first CD and was awe struck. I believe that she could have ranged from blue grass to Broadway musicals. A great loss to the music world.
Name: Scott Bennett
Home town: Alexandria, Virginia
Sent: 8:46 PM - 11/8
I was lucky to be there, with Eva in many small venues. I fell in love with her and was consumed by the emotion she conveyed in her work. I remember walking up to her just to tell her how much I loved her voice. I'm so happy I did.
Name: Delyth Jones
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water
Home town: Bangor, North Wales, UK
Sent: 12:34 AM - 11/14
The first time I heard Eva Cassidy was on the radio singing Fields of Gold - I was so overwhelmed I just had to park at the side of the road to listen and catch her name ... since then I have been a big fan. A special thanks has to go to Radio 2 here in the UK who have promoted her music (Bob Harris in particular and Terry Wogan although I am not a great fan of his in general). And thanks Laura for this great site - it is especially heartwarming to find fellow Welsh fans among your devotees. Her untimely death was a great loss but her music will love on....
Name: Rob Harding
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Sent: 3:27 PM - 11/21
I have only recently been getting into Eva's work having never heard of her before. I read various reviews in specialist music magazines and decided to go out and buy something by her, that being the single What A Wonderful World. I was so moved by her voice that I went out and purchased everything else available by her! My favourite song choice was very difficult to make as I love them all, but Over the Rainbow gets me every time I play it. I never really appreciated it before, thinking of The Wizard Of Oz whenever I heard it, but Eva makes it all her own. Absolutely stunning. Such a sad loss at such a young age, one wonders what would have been had she lived. I doubt she would have avoided stardom for long. It is some comfort that her wonderful voice was discovered and recorded for posterity and that there is still more to be released. God bless you Eva and thank you.
Name: Rob Harding
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town: Wigston,Leicester U.K.
Sent: 3:35 PM - 11/21
I would love to hear from other Eva Cassidy fans. Please write to me at:-33 Ashbourne Road, Wigston, Leicester le18 1fe England.
Name: Graham Smith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Only have Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Too early to say for sure but "People Get Ready" or "Over the Rainbow"
Home town: Bruton, Somerset UK
Sent: 4:58 PM - 11/23
I heard the Songbird album being played in a music store and bought it on spec. It languished unplayed for several months and now I've finally dug it out I wish I played it so much sooner.
What a truly stunning voice, powerful yet gentle by turns and always crystal clear. Thank god somebody got this lady on tape and released this music.
Simply stunning. A great talent borne away far too soon.
Name: Stewart Kirk
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What A Wonderful World
Home town: Macclesfield
Sent: 8:40 AM - 11/24
I heard Bob Harris play What A Wonderful World a while ago now and I thought it was fabulous. Since then I've hunted out all of the albums. They seem to have been re-released recently so are easier to come by. She has a great voice and the arrangements are simple and effective so that you can hear everything that's going on. So thanks, Bob for introducing me to Eva's music. I think I'll be playing these albums for a long long time.
Name: Lola
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart, Time is a Healer, Waly Waly, all of them...
Home town: New York, NY (and soon, Oxford, England)
Sent: 3:24 PM - 11/24
Thank you so much for the beautiful site, Laura - I've been meaning to sign the guestbook since the summer. I came to Eva through my friend, Sim, who I worked with in a record store in Provincetown, MA. It was amazing to see how Eva's voice touched so many people. I find that her music gets me through some of my toughest times - a bit of peace in the chaos - some serenity. I hope everyone will join our Eva discussion list, Songbird on Onelist (http://www.onelist.com) We've been very quiet for awhile and it would be nice to be buzzing again! All my best...
Name: Paula DeMichele
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Sent: 1:20 AM - 11/25
Hi Laura
Your website is really great. Thank you for keeping the spirit of Eva alive. I got into her music through Lola, my dearest friend in the world. You know, with her and me, it was one of those cosmic moments when I heard Eva's voice. I had to go out and buy everything she has done (thank you, Sim, for helping me with this!). I think a lot of us like "Over the Rainbow" best of all -- but tonight is Thanksgiving Eve, which means I will be cooking. And I always put on "Blues Alley" for my cooking stints. I really enjoy the way she sings "Cheek to Cheek" and "Honeysuckle Rose." Makes me want to bake pies all day long!
Name: michelle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song i know you by heart & say goodbye
Home town: md
Sent: 3:31 AM - 11/26
What can I say, the first time I heard "I know you by heart" I was lying on my bed sobbing. It's a truly amazing song and is portrayed with such emotion that I've never heard by any other singer. Ever. I thank god for letting me stumble upon it. Just amazing.
Name: Therese Sandini and Rachelle Dargie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town: Marlborough, MA
Sent: 12:45 AM - 11/28
Enjoyed this website tremendously! First heard Eva while getting my hair done at the salon!!! Such a soulful and beautiful voice, and such a sad ending to a young life with much promise.
Name: Joe Moore
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live @ Blues Alley (As of Yet)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Tall Trees/Autumn Leaves
Home town: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sent: 11:50 PM - 12/2
My father and I live quite some distance apart. One way in which we stay connected, is to turn one another on to music that really moves us. He had mentioned Eva's name to me before, but it wasn't until my 25th b-day that I actually received "Blues Alley" in the mail from him. When I put it on, I found myself "Blown Away" by the beauty of her voice! I immediately fell in love with Tall Trees in Georgia, and Autumn Leaves! I found Fields of Gold so beautiful that I actually got Goose Bumps all over...Thanks Eva!!! Thank You Bill for turning me onto Eva...I am now a fan!
Name: Gareth Kelly
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Say goodbye
Home town: Winsford
Sent: 5:14 PM - 12/3/1999
Hello to all Eva fans worldwide. Why must it be that one of the greatest voices in the world only receives recognition when their time has been and gone. Whom ever I play Eva's song to, they have to stop and listen. I have never seen a reaction like this to any other singer. Just imagine what it must of been like to have seen Eva perform live. Those of you who were lucky enough too have seen her perform live, must have had a truly wonderful experience.
May her presence continue to spread across the world. Thanks and prayers to her family.
Name: Robert Paterson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town: Milngavie Glasgow Scotland
Sent: 9:50 AM - 12/4/1999
First heard Over the Rainbow on the radio in the car while in Belfast on business. Had to stop the car and listen I was so knocked out by it.
*****
Name: Tom...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold/ Autumn Leaves
Home town Glasgow
Found the website EXPLORER....
Sent: 10:56 AM - 7/10/2000
Eva.... your voice just blew me away....your music will live forever.... ..
Name: Jim Mcnulty
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them !
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Askett, Buckinghamshire, UK
Found the website internet explorer
Sent: 11:48 PM - 7/10/2000
What a brilliant find.
How sad that an artist of Eva's quality has to die to
become famous.
She is a musical inspiration and the more you listen to her
the more you realise what we've all lost.
I treasure every note I listen to as sadly, it will never be repeated.
Name: Ian Price
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Sheffield
Found the website Didgeridoo card
Sent: 11:27 AM - 7/11
Thanks for everything. She played the way I play, and sang the way my
partner sings. We could listen to her forever, and may do so
Name: Chris Symonds
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Dark End of the Street / Wonderful World
Home town Chesterfield, UK
Found the website Ask Jeeves
Sent: 10:20 AM - 7/12
I heard Dark End of the Street last year on Radio 2, which hooked me.
When they then played Wonderful World I bought the single and found your
website when searching for more information. I regularly come back to
the site. My wife bought me Live at Blues Alley and Eva By Heart for
Xmas and I then bought The Other Side. I'm not easily moved but Eva
manages it regularly. Definitely the best female singer ever!! Her band
don't often get a mention, which is a shame as they also do a
magnificent job in the background. Thanks to your website I was also
able to place an advance order for Time After Time, which includes some
more gems. I would be really interested to obtain Eva's music (in tab
format preferably)- I love the guitar work. Has anyone transcribed her
songs?
Name: Gilbert Lawrie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live From Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Take Me To The River
Home town Houston, Scotland
Found the website www.evaCassidy.com
Sent: 12:54 PM - 7/12
For me it is too little too late. The live album remains my favourite
even though I realise from reading sleeve notes that Eva only allowed
its release on the basis that she was allowed to record a studio based
follow up.
The live format captures the "soul" behind the voice and like all good
jazz and blues musicians this format hits home the best.
Like Jeff Buckley Eva has been taken from us too soon, I never got to
witness either live but can live and enjoy their music. If only Eva
could have been filmed live she could have reached out to the hearts of
so many more people, an equivalent release to Jeff Buckley's Live in
Chicago would have been a cherished thing.
As her loss is felt even by those who have only the CD's to connect, her
loss to those who knew her must be so over powering my thoughts are with
you all.
GL
Name: Patpatricis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Bolton Lancs
Found the website Eva Cassidy
Sent: 7:05 PM - 7/12
I first heard 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' on Terry Wogan - moved to
tears by it - made a note of the album, bought the CD and just couldn't
believe it when I read the cover notes - truly the voice of an angel ! I
tried to buy a songbook but no one had heard of her - just know that's
not the case now.... .. I did record the radio 2 tribute and have the
tape if anyone wants a copy
Name: Margaret Davison-Scott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Only heard Over the Rainbow and Kathy's song
and I am hooked!
Home town Driffield, East Yorks
Found the website Ask.com (with difficulty)
Sent: 9:56 PM - 7/12
Heard Eva on radio 2 on my way to work a couple of weeks ago, then again
yesterday, and I felt so moved, what a wonderful voice! I must hear
more. Can't wait to buy her albums.
Name: Helen Keniston Oney
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How Can I Keep From Singing?
Home town Huntsville, Alabama
Found the website evaCassidy.com
Sent: 9:10 AM - 7/13
I remember reading in the Washington Post about her when she died. Not
until January 2000 did I remember her name; I had a gift certificate for
Amazon.com and was looking for the best way to spend it....
I have now become a cheerleader for Eva Cassidy! I tell everyone I can
about her. I'll never forget the first time I listened to "Live At Blues
Alley" with tears streaming down my face. I decided right then to spread
her name around as much as humanly possible.
As I was saying to a friend of mine," I never knew her, but I miss her
every time I hear her voice."
Name: Jim Buchan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Haven't heard one right through yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song rainbow
Home town Shawlands, Glasgow
Found the website dogpile
Sent: 2:24 PM - 7/13
Thanks to old Tel Wogan I discovered the rare talent of Eva Cassidy a
few months back. I recorded the BBc2 programme and was knocked out by
each track as they in turn unfolded throughout the show - each one more
breathtaking than the last. I would welcome any info on Eva from fans
throughout the world. Let her talent reach out to music lovers
everywhere and may her name be mentioned and songs be heard by people
with a genuine love for music of quality and charm.
Name: James Potts
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Must I?.... .Over the Rainbow
Home town Wolverhampton, England
Found the website Friend's info..
Sent: 3:53 PM - 7/13
What can I say that hasn't been said already? Eva touched my heart,
spirit and soul with her voice and attitude towards life. She has had me
in tears on many, many occasions, such a sad, sad loss, but has left
behind a truly great legacy! I do and will continue to spread the Eva
Cassidy word.
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album at the moment "Time After Time"
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song too many for this space
Home town Yeppoon QLD Australia
Found the website on my favourites list but originally Yahoo
Sent: 10:20 AM - 7/14
I went shopping last week with my daughter and as we checked out the
music as usual I look under C and could not believe my luck in seeing
one copy of Time After Time I had ordered all the others through the
local music and book shop
but it was great to be able to buy straight up. I can only say the same
thing again as in the past but Eva's voice has so much power. I some
times wonder if other artists have or could affect me the same way as
she does I sometimes feel that same sense of soul when listening to
Billie Holiday I know it's sooo different but it touches me a little as
Eva does. It's great to see so many people have such great taste . A day
cannot go by without playing one if not all of her CDs . The best thing
I ever did was to stop the car and find out who was singing on the radio
about 3 years ago write her name down and start looking for her recordings.
I am very grateful for this site. Thanks Laura.
Name: Carrol Hall
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves ... if I have to pick just one ...
Home town Perth, Western Australia
Found the website through the evaCassidy.com page ...
Sent: 4:33 AM - 7/16
There seems to be a spirituality behind the interpretations that is even
more than the quite breath taking voice and musicianship, the beautiful
lyrics, the interpretation. I find myself intrigued as to what EC would
make of so many other songs I love ... and hoping they'll be on the next
compilations ...
It was wonderful too, to hear the friends and family speak on the BBC2
interview ... is Raice McLeod an Aussie??
Will continue to bring Eva into other lives ... ch
Name: Doug
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People Get Ready
Home town Stettler, Alberta, Canada
Found the website Stumbled onto it.
Sent: 6:01 AM - 7/16
Last year I was cruising north on Alberta Highway 56. I was listening to
my usual station, the finest public radio on the planet, CKUA FM. Fields
of Gold was introduced and set up by the announcer. I almost drove the
van into the ditch. Such a pure voice. A voice like none I'd ever heard.
On my next trip to Edmonton I found Songbird. At home I was, once again,
stunned, stunned into tears. Since then I have loaned that CD, and Live
at Blues Alley to anyone who'd take them. There are many converts.
Name: Marianne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I don't know yet,
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town London.
Found the website Alta Vista
Sent: 4:49 PM - 7/16
Listened to Fields of Gold one morning and wrote the name down hoping to
find out more, then found an article in a
paper. It is top of my must do list - buy all the albums.
Name: Lesley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Haven't managed to find one yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song don't know yet
Home town Bridgend UK
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 11:36 PM - 7/16
I came across Fields of Gold on the Terry Wogan show last week. I
thought the record was really brilliant and had to find out more about
Eva. I am desperately trying to get hold of a CD but until then I have
made do with the Internet download samples.
Will let u know when I get a CD
Byee!!!
Name: Michael
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time After Time
Home town Sheffield
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 4:38 PM - 7/17
What a talent, a wonderful voice that makes your hair raise on the back
of your neck. Eva is very popular in the UK and played on a regular
basis on both national and local radio.
I just ordered up the Songbirds album, looks like it is out of stock on
one of the big on-line stores....
well worth the wait for sure.
Regards to everyone
Mick
Name: John Babcock
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Easy Street Dream
Home town Bangor, Maine
Found the website Blix Street Records Website
Sent: 9:14 PM - 7/17
I am a volunteer disc jockey at a small Community Radio station and I
listen to tons of CD's of relatively unknown artists. After awhile, my
ears become rather jaded and so much music sounds the same -
uninspiring. Enter Eva Cassidy. Wow, that woman can sing! She has such
subtlety one moment and the next she's exploding with emotion. I try to
put together an album feature each week - guess who I'm featuring this
week... it is so rare and gratifying to stumble across a hidden gem like
Eva and I am thrilled to know that others really connect with the person
that shines through her beautiful music, like I do.
Name: Jill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird-- but I haven't heard Time after
Time yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Chicago
Found the website Excite
Sent: 10:08 PM - 7/19
When my roommate played Live at Blues Alley, I found myself crying. The
next day I ordered Songbird. There is a lot to be said for true talent.
Eva's gift of music is truly a gift.
Name: Preethy Kolijivadi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town West Palm Beach, Fl
Found the website www.ask.com
Sent: 11:32 PM - 7/19
A girl in my a cappella group arranged I know you by heart for us to
sing-it is the most beautiful song I have ever heard-I cry every time I
listen to it.
Name: Sarah Morgan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Cannock
Found the website CD inlay
Sent: 12:13 PM - 7/20
The first time I heard her voice I wept, and have done ever since. Never
before have I heard a voice of such beauty, and as a singer and voice
teacher myself I have been deeply touched and inspired by her sound. She
died tragically young but her serenity, spirituality, and emotion
carries through so strongly in her voice, I'm just relieved she was
recorded for people like me to be so personally affected by her. I hope
to include some of her wonderful interpretations and arrangements of
songs in my gigs someday as a tribute to her. I hope it goes some way to
spreading the word.
Name: David Blake
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Basingstoke, Hants., UK
Found the website Alta Vista
Sent: 8:14 PM - 7/21
I was first intrigued by the labels stuck on the Eva Cassidy CD's in my
local record store - "Greatest voice" and so on. So I checked out the
details of Eva's career on the Web, and was saddened to read about her
early death. I bought "Live at Blues Alley" just to see what I thought -
and bought the rest of the CD's on the following day. She is a truly
magnificent singer - and I love her delicate touch on the acoustic
guitar (particularly the minor chord work on "Autumn Leaves").
Name: John Martin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blue Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song each better than the last
Home town kingston, Mass USA
Found the website link from Blix Street
Sent: 8:16 PM - 7/21
I am 66 years old and felt like an absolute fool when a lady friend of
mine played Eva for me. I cried. I actually cried. Not only for the
Heavenly voice but for the terrible loss I felt that She is no longer
among us mortals. Perhaps She never was.
I have just purchased Time After Time and do not like it as much as the
others, but that doesn't mean it isn't better than anything I have ever
heard EXCEPT Her other albums.
Billy Holiday, Etta James, Marva Wright--all magnificent and Eva is
there alongside. I feel a personal loss and am saddened. I shall espouse
Her music everywhere from now on.
Is it possible to convey these feelings to Her family?
Name: MaryBeth Bernui
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album everyone out there
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song too many to mention
Home town Nashville, TN
Found the website link through Renata
Sent: 11:58 AM - 7/22
My husband Tony and I met Eva when she was first starting to sing in
public- she had only recorded in the studio. She was recording songs for
a friend of hers, Dave Christopher (hi Dave if you read this!)for a band
called "method actor". She needed some singers to sing back up for her
live and we did. The first time we rehearsed she was so shy she sang in
the other room and the band and us played in the other. The first time
we played live at a showcase in D.C. she made us stand up front next to
her because she was so afraid of singing before an audience. We couldn't
believe it - because she was and is still the best singer we have ever
heard. I always thought I was a pretty good singer until she opened her
mouth and I was immediately humbled. She sang all the way up from her
toes and listening to her sing still makes me cry. We even thought about
naming our youngest daughter after her but thought it would be too much
pressure on our daughter to live up to the Eva sound (she's 15
months-and what if she can't sing at all?) Anyway - living in Nashville -
we meet quite a few up and coming singers and always play Eva's music
for them, mostly as something for them to aspire to. Every time I hear
"natural woman" I think of her because she used to sing it with us in
our band, and we recorded the backgrounds to it with her one day in the
studio. She was one of the sweetest, most humble people I've ever known.
I guess God needed a "kick-butt" angel in the choir and the rest of us
have to live with her CDs now. . . looking forward to "no boundaries" . . .
Name: Kate
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Solihull, England
Sent: 7:13 PM - 7/23
I have only just discovered Eva Cassidy and bought the 'Time After Time'
album for my boyfriend. We both loved it and bought 'Songbird' today!!
Every single song is fantastic. I am sure we will purchase every one of
her albums as her voice has touched us both.
Name: thomas barrett
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album the collection
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town belfast northern ireland
Found the website baldey
Sent: 8:53 AM - 7/24
The other day while just waking up the radio DJ played this hauntingly
beautiful song that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand. So I
rang the station and got some more info on the artist Eva Cassidy and it
saddened me to find out that this beautiful person had died. But she
lives through her music. Then I got some albums of a friend words cannot
explain how her music has touched me so thank you Eva
Name: Tamsin Nunley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I've only got one so far!(Songbird)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You by Heart
Home town London
Found the website Excite (surprisingly couldn't find any UK fan sites!)
Sent: 10:54 AM - 7/24
First encountered Eva's music at my Mums house. Usually she's got some
sort of harmless but ultimately tripey dirge on in the background (well,
that's what all children think about their mum's music, isn't it!!) but
as we were all chatting over dinner I kept hearing this lovely voice in
the background, and I was like, what IS this? And Mum (Radio 2 listener)
outlined a bit about Eva - like a lot of people I was surprised to find
that she was white, and so sad to hear that she was dead. Anyway, by the
time I'd pinched Songbird off my mum and played that about a million
times, and recorded it to play in my car, and THEN worried that the tape
might mangle up, I thought I might as well cut my loses and get my own
copy! So that's where I am now. I have to listen to it by myself,
because as soon as 'I Know You by Heart' comes on, I am reduced to a
snivelling heap! 'Songbird' is such a gentle, serene song isn't it?
Would really like it played at my wedding (tho' I don't intend to get
married until I'm about 40, so that's about a 16yr wait. Maybe someone
else should play it at theirs first!) And '...Golden Thread' makes me
wish I could sing soooooo much! When she hits those high notes, she just
lifts you up with her. I'd defy anyone, whatever their musical tastes,
to tell me she hasn't got an exquisite voice. Then you find out what a
lovely person she was, and it's just the icing on the cake!
Anyway, thanks Mum for introducing me to Eva, and thanks Eva for, err,
helping me use up a lot of tissues. What a talent.
PS: has Sting ever commented on Eva's cover of Fields of Gold? Does he
like it better that his own version?!?
You're website is great by the way. Cheers!
Name: Paigambar
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Mandurah/Australia
Found the website I went looking.
Sent: 2:31 PM - 7/24
A friend suggested we play one of Eva's songs at the funeral of my old
mother-in-law, Mavis Norris. When that magic voice, singing 'Over The
Rainbow' drifted through the small kirk I'm sure that wee Mavis must
have thought she had arrived in paradise.
Name: Ann Davidson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Seattle, WA, originally Bowie, MD
Sent: 2:48 PM - 7/24
My husband Bruce Davidson was mentioned on this CD, he was one of the
Johns Hopkins patients who also had melanoma. Bruce passed away 3 1/2
years ago. I always think of Bruce when I hear Eva's song I know you by
heart. It has a special place in my heart just as her family has a
special place in my heart. Margaret was Bruce's friend and Eva's parents
were a great support to me after Bruce passed. I was pregnant with twin
boys at the time of Bruce's death and Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy always checked
on me. It's good to know that Eva's music and presence will always be
felt. I heard Eva's music one day in a little store here in Seattle and
had to share her story with them. It's good to know that she has
impacted so many people with her beautiful music.
Name: Bryan Kaveney
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song what a wonderful world
Home town Devizes
Found the website followed links from album cover
Sent: 2:46 PM - 7/25
Well, I thought I was the only one that cried at Eva Cassidy
albums.... .obviously not, I've been trying to buy Songbird for ages but
no-one seemed to stock it, then just when I had almost forgotten about
her I came across a stall at the Village Pump 2000 festival and they had
4 of her albums, no-one that I was with had heard of her but I'll
introduce them one by one!!!!.
What can I say6 about her voice that hasn't been said already, it makes
shivers run down my spine, it makes me sad that and glad that I never
knew her, sad for the obvious reasons and glad cause if I had known her
I would have fallen (even more) in love with her and I wouldn't have
been able to sustain such a loss as not seeing and listening to her in
this world any more....god bless you Eva xxx
Name: Marianne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know you by Heart
Home town London
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 4:57 PM - 7/25
Wrote a while ago, next day I managed to buy Eva By Heart and Live at
Blues Alley. Play `I know you by heart` at least once a day . Thank you
for this site it's so good to know just how many others are enjoying
Eva's beautiful voice. I am telling every one about Eva's music and
playing it when ever I can.
Thank you Laura.
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town East Yorkshire England
Found the website Freeserve
Sent: 6:52 PM - 7/25
I was given Time After Time by my daughter last month as a birthday gift,
although I know that my wife had suggested it as I had said that I had
been impressed with the little that I had heard of Eva on the radio. I
responded to this web page about a month ago and said that I liked
Kathy's Song best which I have played on my guitar since the 60's when
it was released on Paul Simon's first album. HOWEVER since then I have
bought more of Eva's work and I have to say that I have never heard such
an interpretation of Waly Waly as the one that Eva sings on Eva by
Heart. I can only suggest that you all listen again - pour a long glass
of deep red wine, turn down the lights, turn up the volume and close
your eyes: this is too emotional an interpretation to be described in
words, it has to be appreciated at its rawest edge
Name: aimee beech
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I wish I was a single girl
Home town birmingham England
Found the website www.dogpile.com
Sent: 3:11 PM - 7/27
I'd just like to say that eve Cassidy has the most fantastic voice I've
ever heard. She has been a huge influence on me and my music. She's given
me a new outlook on life and my music career. She has given me
inspiration and encouraged me to go for my dream of having my music
played by other people. Even though she is not with us anymore through
her music she will be in our hearts forever. Every album that I hear gets
better her vocal range is brilliant and I hope someday I will be as good
as she was. To her family if they ever read this you did a terrific job
raising this remarkable woman even though her life was cut short she
still lives on through her music. To Chris Biondo you did a brilliant job
keeping her music alive for people to hear , keep it coming man. And last
but by no means least to Eva herself where ever you are we love you and
your music keep smiling on us, all my love and hugs Aimee
Name: anne billingsley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all CDs
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song over the rain bow
Home town florence sc
Found the website Eva Cassidy.com
Sent: 12:03 AM - 7/28
I would like to have sheet music for guitar Autumn Leaves, over the
rainbow , how can I obtain?
Name: Scott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song presently -- Tall Trees
Home town Winston-Salem, NC
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 12:13 AM - 7/28
I had the pleasure of knowing Eva in high school in Glen Dale, Maryland
and had the greater pleasure of singing with her in a small choral
group. Often one doesn't recognize great talent amongst 7 other singers
but everyone recognized Eva's capacity for humility and compassion. As a
very quiet person she tried to blend in. She did not seek center stage
and shied away from requests to do solos. Even though she was an
excellent choral member, every so often the power and beauty of her
voice would overshadow everyone else in the room. One particular moment
stands out in my mind when our director was frustrated in trying to get a
certain passion and depth of sound from us and, being typical teenagers,
we were unwilling to put forth the effort. During the next pass through,
however, one voice rose above all others, strong, passionate, and with a
pristine clarity I'd never heard before in that room. To everyone's
surprise, perhaps even to herself, it was Eva. She immediately turned
red, looked to the floor, and timidly offered "I guess I took in a large
breath and it wanted out". Our performance of that song gained new fever
and became one of our best. She had shown us just how good it could be.
I guess few of us really understood the depth of her talent and her
ability to communicate through her singular voice. Even as a teenage
person, she was as beautiful and sensitive as her voice. Personally I am
blessed to have known her, together we are all fortunate to have these
remembrances of her talent and sensitivity.
Name: Tania Wehlan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird & I Know You By Heart
Home town Montreal
Found the website LookSmart? I think??
Sent: 7:50 PM - 7/28
I too am a singer & a friend of mine from England told me about an Eva
Cassidy. He said I must hear her. Well he lent me his Songbird CD and I
was forever changed. Just from listening to her CD I know that she was a
special, humble, beautiful & extremely talented person. I would have
loved to not only meet her but perhaps sing a duet with her someday. Her
voice and music has captured my heart and it's very rare that I am moved
this much. She truly was an angel. I read that she was very close to
being a star but in my opinion she already was since the day she was
born. She is a guiding star and light. The people that knew her were
blessed and I am so fortunate to have been introduced to her music. I
honestly believe that she had one of the greatest voices I have ever
heard in my entire existence (even though I'm only 21). I fall asleep to
the serene sounds of Eva and wake up to her Wade in the Water so that I
may start my day. What relation do you have to Eva? Are you a fan, a
friend, relative? Has there ever been a tribute concert to her life and
her music, because if not I think one should be arranged either by her
family, friends or fellow musicians because I don't think her music or
memory should ever die. We must keep her alive. She is one of music's
best kept secrets. If there ever would be a tribute concert in her name
I would be so honoured to sing at least one of her songs. She has
inspired me and I am forever touched by her angelic voice. I feel
blessed to have her CD.
These days it is very hard to find a unique and special voice like hers.
My heart goes out to her family & friends because they lost such a
beautiful person so early. But what she left behind is just as beautiful.
Anyway I am truly touched and inspired but such beauty.
Her spirit will live on forever in my heart.
/Tania
Name: Brian & Irene
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album The other side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Dark End of the Street
Home town Harrogate UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 4:17 PM - 7/30
One of the most astounding, versatile and musically exciting voices we
have ever heard. We are totally amazed at each new track we hear.
Name: Eric Vautrin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Montreal
Found the website A friend
Sent: 11:46 AM - 8/1
Now that I have discovered Eva Cassidy I can't imagine what my life was
like before her. Each time I listen to her voice it touches my heart and
makes me feel lucky to be alive. Thanks to Eva I have also met the most
beautiful and inspiring person. She is the one who introduced me to Eva,
she was also deeply touched by Eva's music. For me Eva's music opens
your heart and eyes to what life is all about, beauty, simplicity,
friends, family, love.... life! Eva's music has also opened my eyes to
how special this person is. She also sings so beautifully. She has a
heart as deep as the deepest river and inspiration like the most
beautiful sunset. I only hope that she will one day realise her life
long dream. Thank you Eva for everything I feel when I listen to your
music.
Name: catherine bell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Toronto
Found the website on purpose
Sent: 12:22 PM - 8/1
I heard about Eva Cassidy from a friend who was visiting me from
Scotland, she was going on and on about what an amazing voice that Eva
had, I had to find out for myself and bought her Songbird C.D. I am
delighted that I did as I think that Eva was truly an original, her
voice is a gift from heaven for us to listen to. She will always be with us.
Name: Jan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I wandered by a Brookside
Home town Middleton, UK
Found the website none
Sent: 11:59 PM - 8/2
Eva Cassidy broadcast dates The Netherlands:
3 Aug 21:00-22:00 CET (introduction)
10 Aug 21:00-22:00 CET (1-hr special)
7-13 Aug, all week (individual songs)
Ether: 105.9 MHz
listen on http://www.lokaal.net/nunspeet
(needs Winamp media player from http://www.winamp.com)
Please enjoy.
Name: pat dargan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Walsall, England
Sent: 4:13 PM - 8/3
Reminder !!!!!
Anyone requiring radio 2 tribute on CD. ( free of course)
E mail patdargan@talk21.com
Hoping Laura is OK with the baby !!!!
God bless Barbara and Hugh and we love you Eva.
Hi to Bill in the States !!
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Name: Martin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Ain't No Sunshine
Home town Broughty Ferry
Found the website BTClik
Sent: 2:07 PM - 8/5
A mate of mine heard the radio 2 hour and raved to me about Eva's voice.
I'd forgotten all about this until last week when visiting the
Lighthorseman pub in York. The barman was playing his own CD over the
pub's stereo while Real Madrid -v- AC Milan were on the big screen. I
was so taken by the girl's voice that I had to ask the barman who the
singer was and it was only then that I remembered my mate's comments.
Anyway, when I got home, the first visit I made was to my local Virgin
(the shop - not the lady) and got Time After Time. Great sounds and I
feel the rest of her catalogue coming....
Name: Joan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Corbridge
Found the website askjeeves.co.uk
Sent: 3:50 PM - 8/5
I first heard Eva about a year ago on Radio Two, her voice haunted me,
and I just had to buy her album Songbird. When I got home with the CD, I
played it and read the inner cover. Tears ran down my face as I read
about her tragic illness. I could not believe that Eva had died with the
identical pain and symptoms which took my brother's life in 1994,age 39.
he would have loved her too.
Name: Maria
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time After Time
Home town Portland, OR
Found the website on purpose
Sent: 1:59 AM - 8/6
My husband brought home Time After Time - it is the only one we've heard
yet. Believe me, we are getting the rest. We manage an art gallery here
in Portland and today I played it all day. I had to keep the CD jacket
out on the counter because so many people asked me who was singing. The
emotions of our customers were incredible. 99% of the people that walked
in today were touched and I know they are all out buying Eva's CD's. I
need not say more-her voice speaks.
Name: Lisa Murphy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Torquay, Devon, England
Found the website Ask Jeeves
Sent: 8:39 PM - 8/7
Songbird was the first Eva Cassidy I had ever heard when it
was played on Radio 2 here in England. I just melted into that song and
had to hear more. I now own the Songbird CD
and have yet to hear the other ones. The CD has been circulated amongst
my friends and colleagues and everyone is amazed that we haven't heard of
her before. I have recently attended a funeral of a school friend who
died of cancer aged just 31. I play Eva and think of her, I think of her
- and I want to play Eva! Thank you for your wonderful website Laura.
Name: Dave Hatfield
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Dark End Of The Street
Home town Truro Nova Scotia Canada
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 6:10 PM - 8/8
I first heard the beauty of Eva's voice on "Anniversary Song" I was
captivated by her voice. I since have acquired all her CD's that I know
of. If you could merge the talents of Aretha Franklin, Janis Ian,
Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, you would almost create an Eva
Cassidy. She has become my favourite female vocalist and I keep
searching for all the information on her available because Eva was truly
a very gifted and special person and I feel her spirit will kept alive
by those of us who truly love her. ~ Dave Hatfield
Name: Linda Robinson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Know You by Heart
Home town Laconia, NH
Sent: 4:10 AM - 8/9
Our family was introduced to Eva by a client of my husbands'
and we were hooked immediately. Can anyone really sing like that? My
daughter (age 17) has a similar singing style and now Eva is her role
model. Can't tell you how disappointed we were to find out she passed
away. Would have loved to have heard her in person. I still get a lump
in my throat every time I listen to one of her CDs. They are all my
favorite, it's not fair you make us choose one! Her song Over the
Rainbow is almost surreal. I imagine angels have such voices. We
continue to turn our friends on to this excellent artist. In closing I'd
like to say thanks, Eva, for staying purely you. You are a blessing.
Name: Lorry Cole
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Stormy Monday
Home town Perth, Western Australia
Found the website CD Cover "Didgeridoo" www
Sent: 1:28 PM - 8/9
It is unfair to have to choose one album and one track. As a Blues fan I
must select a blues track. I was searching the ABC Shops in our land
Down under for some Blues & Jazz material, and stumbled across "The Other
Side". That was 2 months ago in late May 2000. Since then 4 of Eve's
CD's have come home to a place of Honour at the top of my CD shelves.
[there are over 400, so to be at the top should tell you my feelings
about Eva's music. Her CD's are played day and night, and every friend
who comes over, hears it and hurriedly goes out to buy a copy for
themselves. What a fabulous legacy to leave behind so that we may be
privileged to hear this Artist. I am now looking for "Eva From The
Heart" to complete the present collection. I say thank you so much for
providing this site so that we can share some of the magic that is Eva
Cassidy. I have no doubt that she rests well in the highest place of all.
Again...
Thank you,
Ciao,
Lorry
Name: Jennifer Hale
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get ready/ how can I keep from singing?
Home town West Jordan Utah
Found the website AOL search
Sent: 7:55 PM - 8/10
My sister Becky got me into Eva Cassidy's music several years ago. I am
originally from the D.C. area, and am always looking for good music to
listen to, especially non-commercial and local sounds. I loaned my Eva
CD's to my friends who now are fans. I am very pleased to hear our
wonderful KRCL here in Salt Lake is playing her new CD. Her music is
beyond beautiful and I have been blessed by being lucky enough to hear
it. Thank you for making this lovely website, it is a wonderful tribute.
Name: jimmy c
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Pittsburgh, PA
Found the website Renatamusic.com
Sent: 8:50 PM - 8/10
I am originally from the D.C. area, and was fortunate to have worked
with Eva, Live and in the studio. From the first day I meet her at Black
Pond Studios, I knew she was one of a kind. She still is.
Method Actor was the band at that time. My good friend David brought me
in to record drum tracks for this project, I was a hired gun, but ended
up staying in the band. What an incredible, god given voice!! Beautiful,
yet very shy lady, the most humble person I have ever meet. We ended up
recording 2 albums of material. We also played out a few times. Her
voice was so powerful and strong. I remember her walking on stage,
herself and guitar, and the room falling completely silent as she started
singing. She could do that. Only Eva. I'm rambling... sorry... I do that
when I talk about her.... okay, one more thing that is very dear to my
heart...a birthday present....she sat down with her guitar and sang me
"Over the Rainbow"...just for me...I cry now every time I listen to that
song. Sorry Miss Garland, Eva's got you beat!!
Find everything...every album, compact disc, every article, every
picture...everything, and pass them down to each generation of ALL our
families...We owe it to them...We owe it to her. She HAD No
Boundaries... She still doesn't!!
I miss her very much.
Name: adrian
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town London UK
Sent: 11:07 AM - 8/11
As a musician of many years standing I was amazed at the beauty, &
maturity of Eva's voice and style. When an American friend sent me
Songbird I was galvanized, When I then learned of her tragic death ,I was
so saddened. I lost my only brother when he was 27 and so I identify with
her family's pain. to them and her friends I send my heartfelt
prayers. sincerely Adrian Barbieri
Name: Rod Allen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Everything
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Coventry. U.K.
Sent: 8:18 PM - 8/13
I first heard Eva sing on the way home from a gig. I'm the lead singer
with a band called The Fortunes and I know a great singer when I hear
it!! She deserved much more.
Name: Teri Fitzgerald
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Norcross, GA
Found the website hotbot
Sent: 3:29 AM - 8/14
I stumbled upon Eva Cassidy in a little shop in Indiana. They were
playing the Songbird CD, "Fields of Gold" was playing. I had to buy the
CD, and I love every song on it. I have turned a few people onto Eva,
and they all love her. I only wish I could have seen her perform live.
Name: Terry Lawrence
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song easy street dream
Home town Narrandera NSW Australia
Sent: 12:17 PM - 8/14
My family and I are big fans of Eva's music. I have a daughter who has
been singing professionally for about 2 years now and can understand the
dedication and hard work that goes into the finished product. Thank you
for allowing my family and I to get to know Eva a little better.
Name: Phil Hearne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album The two I've heard so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wonderful World
Home town Southampton UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 12:46 AM - 8/15
first heard her on the BBC radio 2 profile and wept buckets because of
the sheer waste. Just wanted to join in the gladness and the sadness - I
know just how you feel....
Name: Maxine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Manchester
Found the website askjeeves.co.uk
Sent: 8:16 PM - 8/15
As soon as I heard Songbird I was hooked, I play this song every day.
Thank you for this site.
Name: Rosanne B
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song not one in particular
Home town VA
Found the website YAHOO
Sent: 1:30 AM - 8/17
I love Eva Cassidy so much. As an amateur musician I look up to her. I
admire what she has done with her life and am very enthralled by her
music. My mother and I both buy her CD's every time a new one comes out.
WE have been excited and satisfied with each one. I just wish that she
could be here to experience her success. I love EVA!
Name: Kevin Herrington
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Maidstone, England
Found the website www.google.com
Sent: 1:17 PM - 8/18
My wife and I enjoy Eva immensely and would love to get some of her
musical arrangements so we could play them as well - I found guitar tab
for Over the Rainbow but does anyone know of any songbooks or other
songs available?
Name: Joseph Sowerby
Home town Romford, UK
Found the website Hot Records website (album sleeve)
Sent: 7:51 PM - 8/18
The tribute on BBC Radio 2 was my introduction to Eva Cassidy - I had
probably heard her on the radio before but without it registering. Her
life and music are so moving. I have enjoyed reading other peoples
reactions to the BBC programme and to Eva's music in general. Many
thanks for the guestbook!
Joseph
Name: John Skene
Home town Canberra, Australia
Found the website Alta Vista (I think)
Sent: 8:05 AM - 8/20
I hope you are interested in this little story. It is cold and dark in
Canberra at this time of year (July) and I am in my car outside the
supermarket waiting for my wife Lynne to do some quick shopping. To fill
in time I turn on the car radio, and it is a chance in a million that I
am listening at all really. The program is an interview/music session:
they speak with someone about their field of work at some length, and
this is interspersed with some pieces of music that the interviewee
chooses. The person being interviewed is an authority on environmental
problems in Australia. I listen. Then they play a track without any
pre-announcement. It is Fields of Gold and of course it is Eva Cassidy
and in the back-announce the radio interviewer says that that was just
beautiful (and it is clear that she means it), and that the artist was
completely unknown to her until that time. To me it doesn't seem so cold
and dark anymore, either. Back home I am on the Web to find out more. I
have read that this happens around the world; someone plays a track and
so it goes on. Thanks for your site; you tell the story beautifully. And
here in Australia, after that single track, Eva Cassidy has one more fan
and probably a lot many more.
Name: Billy Dickinson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song The Letter
Home town Ballaugh, Isle of Man
Found the website via Didgeridoo
Sent: 5:00 PM - 8/20
About four weeks ago I heard this singer on Radio 2 and the announcer
said "Eva Cassidy"....I wrote the name down on the back of my hand
because I hadn't heard such a voice before, I can't even remember the song.
So on to the Amazon website and ordered Songbird...I wept all the way
through it....a week later I have Time After Time and what a track The
Letter is ( I think originally sung by the Boxtops but I maybe
wrong).its a real tour de force fantastic... Vie never heard anything
like it. I'm looking forward to my next Eva CD. It may sound silly but
I'd love Eva to be played at my funeral...she's an angel.
Name: Lance Jones
Home town London Ontario Canada
Found the website From EVA's site
Sent: 11:49 PM - 8/20
I had never heard of Eva prior to today. Right now as I write this she
is filling the air with the rainbow of her voice and the gold of her
interpretations. This woman was a class act. It is so tragic to find
out that the world is limited to so few songs she recorded. Wow! Not
very articulate in one sense, TOTALLY articulate in another... because
it is purely emotional. Thanks for your efforts in keeping her beauty
alive. Now how does someone in Canada get to buy her stuff? I'm
listening to it thanks to Napster. Gosh there is a good reason for
Napster to stay alive. My friend, who introduced me to her music says he
has tried every where he can think of but no luck.
Name: Reid McLean
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Saint Paul, MN
Found the website link from Blix Street
Sent: 6:22 PM - 8/21/2000
In case you haven't seen it, there is a recent review/feature by the St.
Paul Pioneer Press music critic Jim Walsh at this address --
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/columnists/docs/WALSH/docs/004690.htm
I believe he has one or two previous articles or reviews on line at the
same site.
Name: Tom Devlin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Killough, Ireland
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 7:31 PM - 8/21
I had never heard of her. Fields of barley was announced on the radio
and, about to turn it off, I was stopped in my tracks by the first
notes. Spellbound....that's the nearest I can come to expressing my
state. Some time later I heard "Over the Rainbow" which I didn't believe
could be rivaled. It wasn't.... ..it was brought to a different plane.
Songbird is my first Eva CD. I am devastated that this gift to the earth
is no more. This is neither singing nor mere artistry. This voice goes
beyond anything I have ever heard. A singer myself I know that this is
not simply vocals....this is a spiritual expression by Eva. It emanates
from her soul. I wept openly and continue to do so when I listen and
remember that this gift given to the earth has been brought back to its
origin.... for it is truly celestial.
Name: nat challis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time After Time
Home town Melbourne Australia
Found the website go eureka
Sent: 11:37 AM - 8/23
after hearing Time After Time at a cafe I just had to purchase the CD.
since then I've introduced my mother to Eva and we now have three of
Eva's CDs. she is awesome. Eva's voice is that of an angel. after
finding this website I will definitely be keeping up with all the going
ons. sensational cheer's, Nat!
Name: Allan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Bedford, England
Found the website Google
Sent: 7:16 PM - 8/23
I first heard her album in a large music store, I was searching for some
Diana Krall material when I noticed this most fantastic voice being
played in the background. I went over to the service desk, asked
what/who it was playing and found it was this unknown singer, Eva. I
bought the album there and then and just had to play it on my way home,
I couldn't wait. I was totally captivated by her voice and interpretation
of music, some familiar but which she made sound fresh and somehow, all
of her own.
It was some months later that I had found Eva had died almost 3 years
ago. I now have all of her albums, but hope that more of her material
can be released (without compromising her own standards on quality.
Everyone I play the music to (often as background at diner parties etc)
remarks immediately on her voice...'who IS that?' and many have gone out
and bought her music after hearing.
Your site is a fantastic source of information and gives an insight into
what Eva was like as person. It is obvious she is deeply missed by all
who met her.
Thanks again and keep up your good work and help us bring Eva's work to
a greater audience.
Name: Bernadette
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town San Francisco
Found the website I looked under Eva's name
Sent: 9:11 PM - 8/23
I only heard about Eva last week when I was browsing in a book/record
store, and they had her album "Time After Time" on a listening station.
Her eyes haunted me, so I decided to listen to the CD to find out what
she was like. My God, after the very first song I was hooked. Her voice
is so clear, so beautiful - she just draws you in. I bought the album,
and also found "Eva By Heart" and bought that one too. I have listened
to "Eva By Heart" several times, but haven't found the right place
(somewhere quiet, perhaps near the ocean) to listen to "Time After
Time". I will send my love out to her, wherever she is, when I listen to
her. I am just so thankful that the big stores (Borders, Barnes & Noble)
are putting her music on their listening station, so that those of us
who never had the privilege of knowing her could listen to her music.
Eva, wherever you are, thank you for your beautiful music! I am sure you
are still singing wherever you are - perhaps as an angel.
Name: peter a j harris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town hoddesdon herts england
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 10:13 PM - 8/23
her spirit lives on in the music she made and fills me always with total
bliss such a sad loss, sad that the true appreciation of her talent had
to come after her passing .
Name: peter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album live
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song too hard... right now people get ready
Home town Minneapolis
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 3:14 AM - 8/24
In Minneapolis the critic at the St Paul Pioneer Press wrote a lovely
article about Eva last Monday. Decided that I should check out her CDs.
Wow! Incredible and cannot stop listening. I usually don't fall for
stuff like this but my god what a voice!! Great. Amazing. When I read
the CD notes who could cover people get ready? It's like a new
song...Same with Somewhere Over the Rainbow etc....Glad she was around
to share. An amazing talent.
Name: John
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart
Home town Wolverhampton, UK
Found the website From friend, Anita (a.k.a. Ooohwebaby)
Sent: 7:04 PM - 8/24
With all the stresses of life today, it is so refreshing to hear such a
beautiful singer, who can inspire such emotion and have the heart to
touch so many in such a positive and thought provoking way. She is sadly
missed.
Name: DAGON DANGERMAN
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL OF THEM
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song WOODSTOCK
Home town NAVARRE, FL.
Found the website IWON.COM
Sent: 6:34 PM - 8/25
I HAVE BEEN PLAYING GUITAR FOR 30 YEARS, AND HAVE TRAVELED AROUND PARTS
OF THE U.S.A. PERFORMING PROFESSIONALLY FOR MOST OF THOSE YEARS. AT ONE
TIME I WAS THE LEAD SINGER/FRONTMAN FOR "THE O'KAYSIONS" (I'm A
GIRLWATCHER)[a one-hit wonder]. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, THE WAY MUSIC HAS
CHANGED, I RETIRED FROM THE MUSIC BUSINESS. I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW
REFRESHING IT IS TO BE ABLE TO GET LOST AND DRIFT AWAY TO EVA'S PERFECT
TALENT. I TELL YOU WHAT...GOD REALLY BLESSED US DOWN HERE WITH THE
EXTRAORDINARY TALENT HE ANOINTED EVA WITH FOR US TO ENJOY. I GUESS
THAT'S WHY HE CALLED HER BACK HOME SO SOON. PLEASE TELL ME, WHAT TRAGEDY
TOOK PLACE FOR US TO LOSE SUCH A GIFT FROM GOD AT SUCH A PREMATURE TIME?
I APOLOGIZE IF THIS QUESTION IS A LITTLE OUT OF THE ORDINARY, BUT IT'S
IMPORTANT FOR ME TO KNOW. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW WHAT EVA'S FAVORITE
BRAND NAME OF GUITAR WAS THAT SHE PLAYED. GOD BLESS YOU AND FIND COMFORT
KNOWING THAT EVA IS HAPPY AND QUITE FORTUNATE TO BE BACK HOME WITH OUR
FATHER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. DAGON
Name: Todd Carton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Just can't choose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Probably "Over the Rainbow" but...
Home town Wheaton, MD
Found the website iwon or dogpile
Sent: 1:23 AM - 8/26
There's simply not a lot of need to write a great deal about Eva. If
you've heard her sing and you have a soul then already know all you
need. When Eva sings "Oh, do Lord, Oh do you remember me?" The answer
is simply that the Lord realized that without your voice it was an empty
place "way beyond the blue."
And Laura, thanks for maintaining this site. As a Washingtonian, I enjoy
watching the legend grow.
Name: Anna Willey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Annandale, VA
Found the website link from CD
Sent: 4:14 PM - 8/27
Thank you for such a wonderful web site! I was introduced to the
Songbird CD by my sister. She got it from a friend who heard of Eva at a
conference for breast cancer survivors.
My sister told me that I would love the music and she was absolutely
right. I sing for myself, around the house, in the car, etc. and I adore
Eva's voice and music. I am too shy to share my voice, but have been
given encouragement by reading about her life and love of song. I can
sing almost not for note along with her CD and I try to imagine how she
must have felt during recording. I grew up listening to my mother's
beautiful voice and am trying to tap into the ability she passed to me.
I only hope that one day, I can be like Eva...God was truly sharing one
of his treasures, when he sent her. Thank you again for this site.
Sincerely,
Anna Willey
Name: Liz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ...Over the Rainbow
Home town Boulder, CO
Found the website YAHOO
Sent: 1:47 AM - 8/28
Holy Moly! Heard "Time After Time" on KUNC radio and called the station
IMMEDIATELY saying WHO IS THIS GIRL??? and they told me and I went on
Amazon and ordered it ASAP and have not stopped listening to it. Then I
called my friend Rick and told him and he totally freaked and I sent him
a copy and we just sit around and listen and cry.
Clearly Eva was a major talent and a great spirit. Can you tell me more
about her life? A boyfriend? Girlfriend? How are her parents holding up?
Name: Jan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Ain't No Sunshine, At Last, Somewhere Over
the Rainbow.
Home town Arvada, CO
Found the website evaCassidy.com
Sent: 6:32 AM - 8/28
I found Eva's music when visiting a Barnes and Noble store. I didn't buy
the CD immediately but returned to listen to it again and found the CD's
to be sold out. I went to another record store today and purchased Time
After Time and The Other Side. Then I read about Eva. I am sitting up
late tonight because I can't get over the fact that she is gone. I do
some singing, myself. Many of my friends are Jazz Purists. I loved
finding Eva because she can do any type of music brilliantly. Also, I
was a folk singer in college--so it seems, I appreciate many categories
of music. I have many debates with my friends over categories of music
and which is the best. Eva can put this debate to rest because every
song she touched is moving-no matter the category. I am so very sad
tonight. Jan
Name: Greggy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Glasgow, Scotland
Found the website Freeserve.Uk
Sent: 6:43 PM - 8/28
Sorted ! What a voice . It really makes a change to hear someone with
real talent shine through . I'm going to recommend her to everyone I know .
Name: Roger
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song The letter
Home town South Windsor
Found the website Goto
Sent: 10:23 PM - 8/29
I heard an Eva Cassidy CD, Time After Time for the very first time three
days ago and am convinced she is one of the greatest performing artists
of all time. I only learned of her death after purchasing the CD and my
condolences go out to her family and friends. Every time I hear her
music it puts me at ease and at peace and makes me reflect on how
precious life is. Eva I'm sure was a wonderful person and has made many
people very happy with her music.
Name: steve monell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album live from blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song her version of "what a wonderful world."
Home town atlantic city, nj
Found the website blixstreet.com
Sent: 3:54 AM - 8/30
A new friend and musical collaborator introduced me to her music. "Wade
in the Water" was the first song I heard, and I was hooked. I accessed
the web site listed on the back cover of the CD, which linked me to
amazon.com, from which I ordered all of her recordings.
My hearing her voice 4 years after her death is quite bittersweet. Just
hearing that first song (Wade...) was stirring enough, but hearing that
her voice was silenced so early was heartbreaking. God bless her, and
God bless you all for keeping her memory alive. Rest assured, I will be
sharing her music with others, as my friend did for me. Eva's voice is
one that should never be silent, and thanks to all of you, it never
will. Thank you.
Name: Jim Turner
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Basingstoke, UK
Found the website Excite
Sent: 5:39 PM - 8/30
I've just bought my first EC album. I know it's a compilation but WHAT
an introduction to Eva's beautiful voice. I shall certainly purchase the
other albums, in particular 'Live at Blues Alley' if I can get hold of
it in the UK. I am amazed that the US record industry failed to
recognize early on what a very special talent Eva had. It's sad that
it's taken until now, four years after her passing, for her music to
start to reach a wider audience. I wish I had seen one of her live
performances but her legacy is her beautiful (although small in number)
collection of albums. One thing I really want to say - she left the
world a better place.
Name: CATHERINE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album DEPENDS WHAT DAY YOU CATCH ME ON.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song FIELDS OF GOLD
Home town BELFAST
Found the website FROM EVA'S SITE
Sent: 6:19 PM - 8/30
HER VOICE SENDS SHIVERS OF INSPIRATION THROUGH ME. LISTENING TO HER
SINGING GIVES ME A SENSE OF HOPE THAT THIS WORLD TRULY CAN CREATE AND
PRODUCE BEAUTY.
Name: Jess Lambert
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold, Time After Time, Somewhere...
Home town Royston, UK
Found the website site was on CD casing
Sent: 6:34 PM - 8/30
I first heard 'Fields of Gold' on a compilation album and sang it at a
school concert. I really enjoyed it, people just sat and listened. I had
to find out about her. I wish sometimes that I had her talent and wonder
what she would have been like live. But my imagination is all I have and
it makes me so sad and angry to know that I will never experience her
music like that.
Eva, you make me laugh and you make me cry and sometimes you rip my
heart to shreds. I know you live on in people's hearts.
" I love you, and goodnight...."
Name: yvonne chatfield
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town South Petherton
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8:28 PM - 8/30
I first heard Eva on the Terry Wogan Radio 2 Programme, her voice stayed
with me for days, and I wanted to find out more about her, I now have 3
Albums, they really are a joy to listen to, it is good to know that she
is giving so much pleasure to so many people the world over.
Name: Connie Dzurick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Stillwater, Minnesota
Found the website Eva's Site
Sent: 6:10 AM - 8/31
I have never had a song touch me in this way! I just heard of her this
past week through a friend @ work. I had to learn more about her. She
sings like an angel. No wonder God called her home so early. I thank Him
though for letting her leave a part of herself with us.
Name: Deana J.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfarin' Stranger, Wade in the Water, and
all the others too!
Home town Plymouth, MA
Found the website AOL keyword Eva Cassidy
Sent: 2:37 AM - 9/1
I walked into a gift shop in downtown Plymouth yesterday and before I
got completely in the door I heard the most soulful and angelic voice
I've ever heard singing the old spiritual, Wade in the Water. I asked
the woman behind the counter who it was and she handed me the CD cover
of Songbird. As I read I was stuck by the beauty and tragedy of her life
and death. I am 36 years old, my passion is singing, and I've never been
so completely overcome with joy and sorrow listening to a singer in my
life. I bought Eva's CD on the spot for $20,(even though I knew I could
probably find it cheaper elsewhere) because I absolutely HAD to hear
more of her immediately. Her spirit and her gift touch my soul and
inspire me. I'm telling everyone about her and I will own every one of
her CDs by the end of the week. Thank you for allowing me to express
myself and for keeping her gift and her memory alive!
Name: Keith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Nottingham England
Found the website Google
Sent: 7:32 PM - 9/1
First of all thanks for the website its inspirational. I first heard
Eva's voice about 2 years ago on BBC radio 2 on the breakfast show. The
song was "Over the Rainbow" my morning stopped, never before or since
have I heard such a perfect voice, the version of the song was so unique
that you forget the original. I had to order "Songbird" from one of the
larger music stores in Nottingham as it was not then available. how
times have changed. I have a quest for any of you out there who can (or
think you can sing) try and sing along to Over the Rainbow without
getting a tear in your eye or a lump in your throat, I can't!. finally is
there any guitar tab available for any of the songs on Songbird. thanks
again for this website Keith.
Name: Mike Kane
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Swindon
Found the website compuserve
Sent: 9:24 PM - 9/1
I first heard Fields of Gold on Radio 2's Bob Harris programme and was
so glad that finally there was this rare talent around. I was devastated
to find that she had died some years previous.
Name: Brecken
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Home town Grand Rapids, MN
Found the website Google
Sent: 2:02 AM - 9/3
I love music and to sing, but I wasn't good at showing emotion. My dad
downloaded some songs of Eva's and told me to listen to them. I fell in
love! We bought all of the CDs, I listened to her all the time. I
exposed my high school friends to her, they then bought some CDs. Now,
at college, I am thousands of miles away from home, and all I have to do
is listen to her and I feel at home.
Name: David Rumble
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town East Dean U.K.
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 1:55 PM - 9/3
I also am a newcomer to Eva and her impressive talent. Like others, I
don't believe it's possible to listen to "Over the Rainbow" without
getting a trace of a tear! Check out the version by John Martyn as well,
as it's equally stunning. Ironic how people get discovered after death,
but I guess it is often the case. What a tragically young age, and on a
par with how I felt after Jeff Buckley, and indeed Tim Buckley died.
Great site, keep it running
Regards
Name: Paul Herring
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Banbury,UK
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 9:22 PM - 9/3
My daughter was married recently and as a thank-you to me she asked a
friend to sing my favourite Somewhere Over the Rainbow at the reception,
in the style of Eva. The guests were stunned at this version and many
people asked about her afterwards, so Eva's voice is now being listened
to by a few more people.
Time After Time is a great album too especially the last track which I
think incorporates all her musical talents.
Her voice will always be with us even though she cannot be.
Name: Jeff Craddock
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow, Autumn Leaves, Blues in
the Night
Home town Silver Spring, MD
Found the website Google
Sent: 4:33 AM - 9/5
I first heard Eva at my stereo dealer, who played "Autumn Leaves" for
me...I was stunned by the beauty and heart of her voice. I couldn't hold
back my tears...and listened to the song, over and over. Later I heard
her story, which made her music that much more poignant. Eva moves me
like no other, bar none...I can't think of any singer who takes me
straight to my heart every time...no matter what kind of day it's been,
no matter what else is going on, putting on Eva bring me back to a place
of kindness and a real belief that it really is a wonderful world.
Name: M.Miller
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water, Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town holiday
Sent: 5:02 PM - 9/5
thanks to public radio I was introduced to the beauty of Eva on a
morning ride to work. went out right away and bought Time After Time -
shortly thereafter Songbird. And I still am wanting more.
Name: Beks
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Penny to my name, Time After Time
Home town Northwich, Cheshire
Found the website Google
Sent: 10:18 PM - 9/5
I'm returning to this great site again, I came the first time after
buying Songbird when I just needed to say how amazing it was. I'm back
now after buying Time After Time and I'm amazed again! I'm even more
touched than I was before. Three of my favourite songs EVER are on
there, Kathy's Song, Woodstock and Time After Time and I just had to come
and recommend it as the most incredible album of all time ever!
If any other stunned Eva fans want to drop me a line please do, Eva's
magic lives on..
Name: annie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird, Fields of Gold, all of them
Home town albany, new york
Found the website lycos
Sent: 12:34 PM - 9/6
Heard her in a shop while vacationing in Maine....
When I heard her voice I was stopped cold in my tracks and had to find
out who possessed such a beautiful voice.... .
Luckily for me the owner was a fan of Eva's and sold her CDs....
I am one content woman....
Name: Nick Dance
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Oxford
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 9:46 PM - 9/6
I first heard Eva sing "At Last" on Radio 2 one weekday afternoon. I was
left speechless as I had never heard such a wonderful voice before. I
again heard her on Radio 2 one sunny Sunday afternoon singing Over the
Rainbow. Behind my sunglasses my eyes became blurred as I was driving
home. Her voice and musical arrangement is unique and I am so glad that
I have been blessed by finding her music. I like others was devastated
to know she had been so tragically taken from us at such a young age.
She must have been called to be in Gods choir - bless those who knew her
and those who have found and take comfort in her voice - may her music
and memory be eternal.
Name: Bob Hoeynck
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Only got one just last night...Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song The one that's playing
Home town St. Louis, MO
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 12:40 AM - 9/7
A friend from NYC sent me the Songbird album through amazon.com. After
he had it sent, he phoned and told me about her a few days before it
arrived: "you won't believe this, etc." I thought, yeah, yeah, okay...
Got a package in the mail yesterday and put the CD on after I got the
kids to bed. WOW! Played it again for my wife when she got home later.
Same reaction. WOW. E-mailed all my musically-inclined friends,
especially the musicians, to tell them you might as well pick up the
whole catalog at one time. God-given talent expressing sheer musical
joy. No hype necessary. God's choir is a perfect description.
Name: Carl Berner
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Herman
Found the website ?
Sent: 1:51 AM - 9/7
After hearing Eva sing so many "gospel" type songs, I just
wondered, did she believe in Jesus as her Savior?
Name: Anna L. Giberson
Home town Edmond, OK
Found the website After listening to CD - looked up Eva Cassidy
Sent: 2:56 AM - 9/8
I listened to Eva Cassidy at Barnes & Nobel last weekend - her CD was
one of the featured CD's. Could not believe my ears. Fabulous voice -
very easy to listen - very unexpected voice with the picture you get on
the CD - I'm going back this weekend and buy it. I'll be back after I've
listened to it and let you know the results.
Name: Chris Smith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All, but particularly fond of "Penny to my Name"
Home town Haywards Heath, UK
Found the website Visited before
Sent: 11:04 AM - 9/8
Second time of writing and still just as entranced by Eva's music. The
reason for this update is to pass on information sent to me about a new
album, apparently called "No Boundaries", which I am told is due out
sometime in September and contains some of Eva's self-penned work.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of this as I don't know the informant
personally but apparently it can be pre-ordered at Amazon.com
Name: charlie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song walking thru a field of gold
Home town whyalla south australia. australia.
Found the website on c.d. case
Sent: 6:47 AM - 9/9
Eva Cassidy has one of the most beautiful voices I know.
I have use afield of gold. Time is a Healer. i know you by heart. at my
late wife funeral. i thank you..
Name: Tom Bandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Washington DC
Found the website Google
Sent: 1:32 AM - 9/12
We all know what a genius Eva was and will stay under her spell. Can you
imagine what she would do with Mark Cohn's "Walking in Memphis", for
example? But we owe so much thanks to Chris Biondo.
My Eva CDs never come back when I loan them out. I doubt that I'll get
the 2 now playing in Marketing.
Name: Maaike Dirkx
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Woodstock
Home town Amsterdam
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 11:24 AM - 9/12
Kathy's Song was played on the radio here and I was hooked by its
subtlety and intensity. I needed to hear it again, so got Time after
Time. What is so astonishing about the songs is that there is no
difference in the directness of interpretation between the live and
studio recordings. Almost always studio recordings are too polished and
lose immediacy, which is why I always prefer live music - but here there
is no such difference. I love the intelligence and musicality of Eva's
interpretations, the versatile arrangements, the beautifully executed
guitar accompaniments. All too familiar songs like Time After Time and
Ain't No Sunshine acquire a new acuteness and she makes you really
listen to lyrics, draws you inside the songs. Knowing now that Eva died
so young and hearing here what she could do I wonder, had she lived, how
her musical talents would have developed, whether she would have
explored new directions, fusing styles maybe. I am grateful for the
precious gift of music that she left us, music so vibrantly and vitally
alive. I will absolutely get more of her CDs and secretly hope there's
some undiscovered live performance tape somewhere that will someday also
find its way onto CD.
Name: Arlene Chalmers
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly, Waly
Home town Edinburgh
Found the website bcmcculley@earthlink.net
Sent: 7:50 PM - 9/13
All the messages sound so familiar. First heard "Over the Rainbow" on
radio 2's terry Wogan show and couldn't believe my ears - such pure
talent - the voice of an angel. Like another contributor, I've always
wanted to sing but could never aspire to anything like this. Have all
the albums and can never hear enough of them. Thank you for a thoughtful
and interesting website.
Name: DAGON DANGERMAN
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I LOVE THEM ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM
Home town NAVARRE, FL.
Found the website FREQUENT GUEST
Sent: 7:16 PM - 9/14
DEAR LAURA,
I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO RESPOND TO MY MESSAGE.
AND ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW ADDITION TO YOUR FAMILY. HOPE THE
BABY IS HEALTHY AND YOU BOTH ARE DOING OKAY. GOD BLESS YOU, YOUR NEW
BABY, AND THE REST OF YOUR FAMILY. TAKE CARE.
Name: Barb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Maidstone. UK
Found the website CD Inlay
Sent: 2:09 PM - 9/17
I only discovered Eva's music yesterday, but have already
ordered Time After Time - she has a stunning voice.
With all best wishes to you and your family.
Barb
Name: Stephen Urquhart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Lemoore, Ca.
Found the website CD cover
Sent: 3:53 AM - 9/20
I met a wonderful woman on line in October of last year. I lived in New
Brunswick Canada, and she lives in Lemoore Ca. We met in Bar Harbor
Maine, in June, where we found this CD of Eva's. I now live in Lemoore
with her. Eva's music spent the night with us, I just want to thank God
for the beautiful woman that I have found and to thank Eva for her
beautiful music. Thank-you
Name: Richard Thomas
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town Blaenafon, Gwent, United Kingdom
Sent: 7:01 PM - 9/20/2000
Has anyone any information on the release of "No Boundaries"
An announcement appeared on the "What's New?" page several weeks ago but
have been unable to track it down
CDNow has its US release date as 19 Sept (yesterday); Amazon.co.uk say
it will not be released here until 1 Jan 2001; CDUniverse & HMV have no
listing
It was supposedly to be released on the Renata label (see
www.renatamusic.com)
Having downloaded some short MP3 samples of the tracks it sounds amazing
Has it been released and how can you get hold of it in the UK
Thanks everyone
Name: Brian Starr
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley (only one so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Gosport, Hampshire. England
Found the website CD Cover
Sent: 9:37 PM - 9/21
A pure voice which I was introduced to by Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2.
This is my first Eva CD. I will get the others very shortly. Excellent
informative web-site. Thank you.... ...Brian :-)
Name: Don Demulling
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album the one I'm listening to at the time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song the one that's playing
Home town Mahtomedi, MN
Found the website Blix Street. com link in article by Jim Walsh (St.
Paul Pioneer Press)
Sent: 1:49 AM - 9/23
A friend gave me a cassette compilation but the recording was a little
poor so I HAD to buy everything Eva has done on CD. I am a musician so I
prefer the whole enchilada when listening to artists. Diverse playlists
(multi-genre)are uncommon in this day and age, but that voice....
Name: Maggie Daniel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Sevenscore
Found the website Details from CD
Sent: 8:12 AM - 9/23
An angel singing! Terry Wogan has a lot to answer for! He played it one
morning on my way to work and I just had to buy the CD. I play it over
and over again and now must buy the others. A pure voice.
Name: Lenny Moore
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town oakfield, Wi
Sent: 1:55 PM - 9/23
I am just mesmerized by Eva's music...
When I first heard her wonderful voice on a Sunday morning
jazz/acoustic radio show (acoustic cafe) I said who is this
singing, "Ain't No Sunshine"?? I said to myself, please
Mr. radio man, please tell me who she is.. He did..
The very next day I had 2 of her CDs..
They are wonderful.. The most beautiful voice I have ever heard.. She is
an angel, and a gift to everyone on earth..
I hope everyone will be able to hear Eva.. Someday
She has touched my Life..
Very Sincerely
Len
Name: ANGUS MACINTYRE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album TIME AFTER TIME
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OVER THE RAINBOW
Home town GLASGOW
Found the website IE5
Sent: 7:11 PM - 9/24
As a music professional and teacher I am supposed to remain detached
when listening, most of the time I succeed. With Eva's voice I cannot
help but be drawn into the performance shutting of all that is happening
around. I hope there is yet more material to be released. When the last
track appears there will be a large hole in my musical experience.
Name: Nicole Evans
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Bridge Over Troubled Water and What a
wonderful World
Home town Baltimore
Found the website Hotmail
Sent: 5:31 PM - 9/25
Wow! Words just can't express! I have been a fan of Eva Cassidy, a
legend in her own right, for 4 years now. My wedding song was her most
beautiful version of What a Wonderful World and 2 months ago I gave
birth to Eva Torianna, my angel named after this angel. This is what
it's really all about. Much love to everyone.
Name: Marilee Johnson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Minneapolis, MN
Found the website Microsoft Internet Explorer
Sent: 10:13 PM - 9/25
I was driving home from visiting my mother (she's 83) in northern
Minnesota on a sunny summer afternoon. I had just ejected the tape I had
been listening to and the radio came on. It was tuned to public radio. I
caught the last verse of "Over the Rainbow". I think I stopped breathing
until it was over.... the voice, the phrasing, the spirit of this song
was so lovely. You know how you're just driving along, listening to the
sound of the car engine, the wind, whatever and not really listening to
anything? Then you hear this voice and your mind snaps to attention and
you say, "My God, who is that?? I must hear more." I grabbed a pen from
the dash and wrote Eva Cassidy on the back of my hand so I wouldn't
forget. When I got to the edge of the city I stopped at a Barnes &
Noble. The only CD they had of hers was Live at Blues Alley so I bought
it and ordered Songbird. The clerk said they usually sold out the minute
they got in a new shipment of her recordings. Amazing voice.
Name: Jane Carlson-Pickering
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Woodstock" & "Over the Rainbow"
Home town West Kingston, Rhode Island
Found the website Dogpile
Sent: 12:46 AM - 9/26
I was introduced to Eva's music while attending a party at the home of a
friend. He simply turned on the CD to the song "Over the Rainbow" and
asked me to listen. After playing several more of her songs, I begged
him to tell me who owned this incredibly beautiful, angelically passionate
voice. Afterwards he let me borrow his four CD's. I jumped onto the
Internet to learn how I could acquire my own copies, and searched to
learn more about her and her music.
Recently I traveled all the way across the country (overnight!) to see
Barbra Streisand in concert. I think I would have traveled across the
world to see and hear Eva! Those angels in heaven have nothing on her!
Name: Steve Bridges
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time (so far!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Manilla NSW Australia
Found the website Google
Sent: 5:47 AM - 9/26
Well, better late than never, I suppose. I first heard Eva singing on
the local radio. I live in a small country town, so it's unusual to hear
'good' music. The song was Fields of Gold. I waited 6 months before I
could get my first CD of her, simply because after I heard the song and
asked around, no one had heard of her. Then by chance, a newspaper
review in Brisbane (capital of Queensland) mentioned her recordings.
Thankfully, I was able to track down Time After Time & Songbird. Eva has
a voice that, while never 'raw', still has great 'soul'. A real treasure
and clearly a great loss to family, friends, and the music world.
Name: Peter Williams
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Cambridge England
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8:32 PM - 9/26
There are not many artists who can bring tears of emotion to my eyes but
Eva does, every time. She brings a new level of sheer beauty to an already
beautiful song. I only wish I had found her music years ago. Well done for
keeping her alive in our hearts.
Name: Adrienne Franklin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I love each & every song on the CD!
Home town Los Angeles
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9:26 PM - 9/26
I learned of Eva's music through a co-worker who told me "you have got
to hear this." Boy was she right. I needed to hear it. I am a very
spiritual person, and Eva's music moved me. My co-worker shared her
experience when she first heard Eva while visiting England, and her story
nearly moved me to tears; as does Eva's music. It does not move me to
tears because she is deceased, but because her voice and the music come
together in a way that leaves me wanting more. I am grateful to have
found Eva's music. It is truly a shame that she is not around to produce
more of what the music industry needs more of ....real talent that comes
from the heart. Thank you.
Name: Pat Dargan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Walsall England
Sent: 5:28 PM - 9/27
REMINDER !!!!
Anyone wanting CD of radio 2 tribute please let me know
(free of course )
patdargan@talk21.com
Eva's music must be continued to be enjoyed by as many people as
possible....
God bless Eva, Hugh and Barbara and of course Laura and " new arrival".
cheers everyone
p@
Name: Simon
Home town Maldon, Essex, England
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 10:54 PM - 9/29
I, as yet, have no albums/tracks/music by this lady having only recently
heard her songs on the radio - Over the Rainbow is my current favorite -
like others I have heard her being championed by "the Togmeister" on
Radio 2. What a beautiful, beautiful voice she had and what a sad loss to
us all. I intend to order her back catalogue so I can further enjoy her
music at my own time and pace
Name: Paul Denley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time After Time
Home town Bristol, England
Found the website Yahoo!
Sent: 10:34 AM - 9/30
Reading through the messages I'm not sure I can add much as to why I
find Eva's work so moving - I just think that the songs so beautifully
sung and I love the guitar playing. In fact that is why I was doing a
web search - to find if there are any more tab versions of songs around
apart from what is on OLGA.
I was one of the people who got hooked by Terry Wogan and just had to
get the albums. It's great to see that Eva is getting some recognition now.
PS I think the website is really great - not too 'clever' but told me
what I wanted to know. Well done!
Name: stephenhardy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town belfast
Found the website supanet
Sent: 7:31 PM - 9/30
I first heard Eva sing on BBC Radio Ulster ,What a wonderful voice she
had ,she could sing almost any type of song, it is a great sadness that
one so talented should have to die so young.
Name: stephenhardy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town belfast
Found the website supanet
Sent: 7:32 PM - 9/30
I first heard Eva sing on BBC Radio Ulster ,What a wonderful voice she
had ,she could sing almost any type of song, it is a great sadness that
one so talented should have to die so young.
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song oh, had I a golden thread
Home town Glasgow
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 1:21 PM - 10/1
I've never heard a voice like Eva's before. She really brings home the
emotional content in whatever she sings. Anniversary Song on Time After
Time is the most moving song I have ever heard. And I would be interested
to know what people think of the new album No Boundaries - it is not
released in the UK yet and very little info is available about it.
Name: emma
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Tauranga NEW ZEALAND
Found the website excite
Sent: 11:08 PM - 10/1
my god, her purity and love that radiates throughout all of her songs
has touched me in a way that I cannot describe. it's my album to pick me
up when I'm feeling down and to help me put life into
perspective....she's definitely an angel and I wish her voice could
touch everyone as it has done to me....
Name: John Moore
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Welshpool, Wales
Found the website Google
Sent: 8:22 PM - 10/2
A voice with depth and meaning!
Name: Sandra
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbirds
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Redmond, Washington
Found the website just used Eva Cassidy
Sent: 10:04 PM - 10/3
A month ago, I did not even know who Eva Cassidy was. A special friend
introduced me to her music. I now own 5 of her CDs. Her music has
touched my heart like no other singer has ever done. The way she sings
Autumn Leaves, and Songbird, sends chills down my spine, every time I
hear them. I have shared her music with family and friends and they have
all fallen in love with her music, just as I have.
We are all blessed that she shared her music with us, even if for a very
short time. Now she has been called home to sing with the angels.
My thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. Thank you Laura
for a wonderful web site, that gives all of us a place to stay connected
with each other and with Eva.
Name: Baden Harrison
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song people get ready
Home town Nottingham, England
Found the website excite
Sent: 3:02 PM - 10/4
I heard Fields of Gold at a relatives funeral I don't think there was a
dry eye in the church and I was determined to find who sang this
beautiful song I'm so glad I persevered
Name: John Carter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Ain't No Sunshine
Home town Liverpool
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 9:03 PM - 10/5
I was walking past a listening post in my local record shop and I had
some time to spare. I was flicking through the different albums on the
post one of them being Time After Time. On listening to Time After Time
I realised I had come across one of the finest voices of the 20th
century. I immediately purchased Songbird and Time After Time. I knew
nothing of Eva and on reading the liner notes and discovering she was no
longer with us I felt a real sense of loss.
Name: michele
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird - so far-ordering them all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water, Somewhere Over the Rainbow,
Home town weymouth
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 10:08 PM - 10/5
thank god for public radio - heard Time After Time and on a lonely
stretch of highway - got home and ordered that CD right away - then
Songbird soon after that - waiting for another CD to arrive. Her voice
somehow reaches right into your soul - entrancing - comforting - making
you want to share it with everyone else - and I do.
Name: uwe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Rorschach
Sent: 11:13 PM - 10/6
Eva ist great, very great! Her voice is a wonder!
Name: Ian Hawley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Redclffe Australia
Found the website Exite
Sent: 12:24 AM - 10/7
I buy most of my music through Amazon UK. I kept seeing rave reviews
about her music.
I listened to a couple of real player snippets of her songs and finally
ordered my first album. I was very cynical about reviews having bought
music that way before. What a surprise! No one before has impressed me
more at first listening. The clarity and perfection of her voice are
overwhelming. Eva's interpretation of all the music she made was simply
wonderful.
A fan for evermore.
Ian Hawley
Name: Gary R Hosey
Found the website been before
Sent: 9:33 AM - 10/8
Laura, is there anywhere I can buy Eva's Gran's writings?
hope you can help.
regards Gary
p.s. Time is fabulous can't wait for the next one.
Name: Cliff Dixon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Bedford
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 12:01 PM - 10/8
Eva Cassidy was introduced to me by a special friend. Having never heard
her before I was immediately hooked. Her evocative singing is so
emotional, especially "I know you by heart" Does anyone know the origin
of the song? I am now enjoying hearing more and more of her music as I increase my collection. I am also busy learning her songs as they lend
themselves so well to solo vocals and guitar, if only I could perform
them half as well as she could. I am sure that her following will just
carry on increasing as more and more people are exposed to her
incredible talent.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song At Last
Home town Edmond, Oklahoma
Found the website Microsoft Internet Explorer
Sent: 2:56 AM - 10/9
Shortly after I wrote the first time, I went and bought the above CD. I
feel a mix between being so happy to have discovered her - and being so
sad that her life ended so abruptly - just when things were beginning to
come together. Her voice is so wonderful - so many different moods to
it. I feel a loss and I didn't even know her - but I do feel we are all
the luckier for the recordings that were made - so part of her lives on,
and that part is expanding as the audience of "Appreciators" (?) grows.
Name: Bill Rokicki
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet.
Home town Perrysburg, Ohio
Found the website America Online
Sent: 5:47 AM - 10/14
Heard this wonderful voice on a Cleveland radio station, WRMR. The hosts
were right. Have set aside all four CD's that the store had, and will
pick them up tomorrow. I could not pass up this chance to hear this
voice again. Vera Lynn is my favorite, but the beauty of Eva's voice is
oh so close to Miss Lynn's. Thank you for this great web site.
Name: Tony Lamantia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Need Your Love So Bad
Home town Laurel, Maryland
Found the website dellnet
Sent: 11:28 PM - 10/14
I've seen a couple of messages lately asking about 'No Boundaries'. It
is available through www.Towerrecords.com as a special order item. I
bought it across the counter at Tower Records in downtown Washington,
D.C. a couple of weeks ago. Since it is Eva it is, of course, a good
album (can I use that term these days?). However, as these are older
recordings, my opinion is that whoever produced these sessions was more
interested in showing off the power of her voice rather than the
subleties you get on the later recordings. In a nutshell, it seems
'shrill' to me in places when compared to the other albums. But let me
stress that it is still worth having. In fact, I almost feel like a
traitor for saying it is less than perfection. After all, it is Eva. If
anyone else out there has heard the album I would love to know what you
think of it. Also, I was looking for No Boundaries in Borders Books and
Music. They didn't have it but the clerk told me that Chuck Brown's
Christmas record (with Eva on lead vocals on some tracks) is being
reissued this coming holiday season.
Name: Margaret Davison-Scott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Driffield, E Yorks
Found the website Ask.com
Sent: 3:40 PM - 10/15
Still spending many happy hours listening to this wonderful voice. Never
tire of it. Pleased to see so many more people around the world have
discovered her too.
Name: Becky
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song tall trees in Georgia
Home town G;burg, MD
Sent: 6:33 PM - 10/15
A friend turned me on to Eva's voice just after she passed. I couldn't
believe that I had missed her. I love to support local music, but
somehow wasn't fortunate enough to experience her live. I am so thankful
she recorded as much as she did. She gives me goosebumps, makes me cry,
and feel so many emotions. Thanks for the site.
Name: Kevin Green
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 11:47 AM - 10/16
HELP ME PLEASE.... .... .I have just heard a track by Eva Cassidy on the
radio....perhaps the title was Missing You or I Miss You. It was
fantastic.... .which of her CDs is it from and is that the actual track
title? I suspect I am going to be as drawn to her music as everyone else
who has listened to it has been. Thanks for your help.
Name: Deb Zimmer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold & Over the Rainbow
Home town Tampa, FL
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 12:55 AM - 10/17
A few years back, a dear friend played the "Songbird" CD for me and I was
blown away by Eva's voice. I immediately bought the CD and listened to
it hours on end. I felt that I had received such a gift! I wanted to
hear more and learn more about Eva. I knew there would never be another
singer as special as Eva in my lifetime. Then I read the inside CD liner
and learned of her death. I literally wept on the living room floor.
While I am saddened by her premature passing, I am grateful to have
found her and will honor her memory by cherishing her music as much as
she did. She is in a league all her own.
Name: Arthur Hilgersom
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time After Time
Home town Delft, The Netherlands
Found the website northern light
Sent: 10:25 PM - 10/18
This morning I read an article about her in 'Ode', a Dutch magazine, and
curiously this evening I Napstered some of her music: I'm impressed,
such a clear voice
Name: David Christopher
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album No Boundaries
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song You Are
Home town Centreville, VA
Sent: 2:02 AM - 10/19
For anyone with questions about No Boundaries, All answers can be found
on the F.A.Q. page at www.renatamusic.com
Name: Keith Rowntree
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time After Time
Home town Townsville , N.Queensland, Australia
Found the website From Kpfk and the Heartfelt program
Sent: 3:40 AM - 10/22
I discovered Eva by accident when looking through our station's playlist
for something interesting to play on our new late Sunday World Music
Show. The album had been written off as uncommercial but the acoustic
nature attracted me. Played Ain't No Sunshine and was hooked. Reading
the liner notes as the song played I was shocked to find it was
posthumous. What a wonderful talent. I wish I'd heard her earlier and
been able to say that while she was around to appreciate it. The album is
now a staple on the world and folk shows.
Name: Tim Burton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song too difficult to pick just one
Home town Alexandria, Va.
Found the website Eva Cassidy
Sent: 7:01 PM - 10/22
I have all her CDs - just bought No Boundaries two days ago
Oct.20 at Olssen's Books in Old Town. While it is worth it alone just for
Eva's glorious voice, I agree with a previous guestbook reviewers
assessment. What made Eva special was the way she could reach into your
emotions with the simplest of arrangements, minimal instrumentation, and
that pure voice, a voice so beautiful without any hint of
pretentiousness and no slickness whatsoever. Her choice of songs was
also very special - many very simple and noncommercial, rendered in the
most heartfelt manner. On No Boundaries she sounds like she would have
sounded if the recording industry had discovered her - still an
incredible talent but with her specialness diminished. The recording has
slick background instrumentation and most of the songs are nothing out
of the ordinary (excluding Natural Woman), made special only because of
her voice. It is unlike her other CDs but still good -maybe it will grow
on me more with repeat listening. I hope more unreleased material can be
found similar to the previous CDs - she's just that good!
Name: Peter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town East Ham, London, UK
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7:07 PM - 10/22
Have to thank Mick Fleetwood and Mojo for finding out about Eva. Her
voice and phrasing put her up there with Ella, Aretha and Nina. What a
beautiful instrument her voice is.
A question: on the track Songbird I can hear what sounds like a click
track. Is this right or should I change the disk or my hi-fi?
Love and peace
Name: Lyle Jowerthy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album No Boundaries
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Natural Woman
Home town New York
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 9:50 PM - 10/22
I just picked up No Boundaries at Tower and I must say I like it. It's
different, but in a positive way. More uptempo, less melancholy and yet
very beautiful. My hat's off to Mr. Taylor for an outstanding job.
Name: Alison Couch
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Crowborough
Found the website MSN
Sent: 3:23 PM - 10/23
I first heard Eva this summer while working on a yacht. For two weeks
the cook had "Songbird" playing almost constantly. I am now hooked!
Name: Bernie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Anniversary Song
Home town Melbourne
Found the website Google
Sent: 11:20 PM - 10/24
Very few singers ever have the ability to paint in your soul and on your
heart with their voice, as Eva can. The voice of the shyest and most
insecure angel, who has returned to sing with them.
Name: Jorgen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Stockholm
Found the website Google
Sent: 7:41 PM - 10/28
I read an article about Eva Cassidy in a Swedish magazine this week, and
after hearing some of her songs on the web I must say...well, I am
overwhelmed...
Name: Edward J. Wolfrum
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Royal Oak, Michigan USA
Found the website Northern Light
Sent: 8:24 PM - 10/28
I am a veteran recording engineer (37 years) and am rather jaded when it
comes to talent. Having worked at Motown Records and United Sound in
Detroit in the 60's and 70's I thought I had a chance to experience,
first hand great many talents. Today, my friend Dan Burns brought over
the Eva Cassidy "Songbird" album for me to review. I was astounded.
What a wonderful voice. What astounding interpret!! What a loss to the
music industry. Our loss may be heaven's gain.
When someone dies this young it is God's will and in his wisdom he makes
the best decisions. I can hardly wait to hopefully, get to heaven to see
her and hear her. I think she will fit well as a human soul in the
"angelic choir".
Name: Paul Harwood
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Cardiff, South Wales
Found the website Google
Sent: 6:43 PM - 10/29
I discovered Eva Cassidy through listening to Wake up to Wogan on Radio
2. What can one say, such a great talent, a fantastic soulful voice, so
sadly missed.
Name: Alex Morgan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Stormy Monday, Tall trees in Georgia (I
especially like that one) and Fields of Gold
Home town Cinderford, Forest of Dean, England
Found the website I found the address on the back of the CD
Sent: 8:12 PM - 10/30
Hey,
I literally just listened to 'Live at Blues Alley' 5 mins ago. I'm
listening to 'Time After Time' as I write this. I'm 15 and I also play
acoustic, electric and classical guitar and sing. I've always loved
blues but Eva Cassidy takes it to a whole new level. Put it this way I
was VERY impressed!!! I would love it if someone could send me the score
of 'Tall Trees in Georgia'. It sent shivers down my spine!!! Well good
luck in the future Eva, who knows it might be my name in stars one of
these days!!!
Name: Lisa Murphy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird & Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Torquay, Devon, ENGLAND
Found the website ask.com
Sent: 9:44 PM - 10/30
Laura,
Hi, hope you and your family are well. Just to say this is my second
visit to the guestbook because on Sept 19 (my birthday) my husband
surprised me with 'Time After Time' CD. WOW!! A bigger surprise thought
is that two days ago we were sunbathing on Coralia Beach, Coral Bay,
Paphos, CYPRUS and the small Taverna there was playing - TIME AFTER TIME
- It made our holiday! Bye for now.
Name: Debbie Stevens
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town New Zealand
Found the website Yahoo!
Sent: 6:55 AM - 11/1
There are no words in my repertoire that could truly express how I feel
listening to Eva's voice and interpretation of ALL her songs. Hers is
the most versatile and 'true' voice that I have ever had the pleasure of
hearing. I will treasure her CDs forever.
Name: Larry Wiegand
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water/Autumn Leaves
Home town Minneapolis
Found the website e-mail to Blix Street
Sent: 5:49 PM - 11/1
I was smitten the very first time I heard Eva's voice. Something there
that was able to reach out and touch me like very few other singers have
been able to do. Having been playing Bass professionally for many years,
I know the gift she had was very special. I am thankful for this gift.
All those who knew her personally were very lucky.
Name: H.D.Tomlinson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold & Autumn Leaves
Home town Preston, England
Found the website www.tt.net/hot - Eva's record label here
Sent: 10:41 PM - 11/1
I wonder what Eva would have made all this?
She had a voice that uniquely haunts and moves. in '94 I found Mary
Chapin Carpenter and her lyrics were the only music that made me cry
till I heard Eva - whose voice can move me to tears. I would have loved
to hear her sing something of Chapin's. A staggering talent I would have
gladly crossed an Ocean to hear. God bless you Eva for touching my heart
and life.
Name: Paul Roper
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Whatever I'm listening to.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold/Time After Time
Home town Sunninghill.
Sent: 11:22 AM - 11/4
Just received No Boundaries CD from Renata (del in 5/6 days)
really good CD. Different to other CDs but this shows another side of
Eva's music. Go out and get it.
Paul Roper
Name: ricky nicholls
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song dark end of the street
Home town buckingham, england
Found the website Google
Sent: 11:33 AM - 11/5
I have only recently discovered Eva Cassidy after hearing her songs on
the radio, from the first moment I heard her voice the hairs on the back
of my neck stood up and continue to do so whenever I hear her sing.
she has got to be one of the best singers I have ever heard.
I was totally gutted when I heard she had passed on before she really
had a chance to make her mark on the music world
however, her music seems to be doing just that now she's gone. I'm sure
her music will continue to touch peoples hearts as it did mine and in
our hearts she will remain.
thank you for this site it has enlightened me.
Name: Uwe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Berlin - Germany
Found the website looking for Eva Cassidy
Sent: 2:21 PM - 11/5
Songbird is one of my favorite love songs.
As I heard the most beautiful version of Eva Cassidy it broke my heart
that she is dead. A musical light is gone - what a shame for this world.
Name: Uwe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Berlin - Germany
Found the website looking for Eva Cassidy
Sent: 2:21 PM - 11/5
Songbird is one of my favorite love songs.
As I heard the most beautiful version of Eva Cassidy it broke my heart
that she is dead. A musical light is gone - what a shame for this world.
Name: Aimee Beech
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album TIME AFTER TIME
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song TALL TREES IN GEORGIA/WALY WALY
Home town BIRMINGHAM
Found the website YAHOO
Sent: 3:05 PM - 11/5
HI ,I FIRST HEARD EVA CASSIDY ON MY LOCAL RADIO STATION SINGING FIELDS OF
GOLD. I KNEW THERE AND THEN THAT I WAS LISTENING TO SOMETHING SPECIAL. she
BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYES
I KNEW THAT I HAD TO GET HOLD OF HER CD SO FAR I HAVE NEARLY EVERY ONE
THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT OUT .IT PLEASES ME TO SEE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE
WORLDWIDE ARE ENJOYING HER MUSIC .YOUNG AND OLD .SHE HAS THAT TYPE OF
VOICE THAT ALL AGES CAN LISTEN TO. I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHAT
GOOD MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE. I HOPE THAT EVA IS WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN
HERE AND KNOWS THAT WE LOVE HER AND HER MUSIC AND MOST OF ALL TO KNOW
HOW MUCH SHE IS MISSED. TO THE PERSON WHO STARTED THIS WEBSITE THANK YOU
FOR KEEPING EVA AND HER MUSIC ALIVE GOD BLESS YOU AND EVA THANKS . AIMEE
BEECH SHIRLEY ENGLAND
Name: Tanya
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Okotoks Alberta Canada
Sent: 7:34 PM - 11/5
I heard Eva for the first time last month while I was downloading some
song off of Napster for a Jazz Improve class, I thought that it'd be fun
to hear what some free-lance artist were doing, to hear the difference
between the profession and unprofessional talent. I was quite surprised
to hear such an amazing purity, and controlled tone. I'm not saying
controlled meaning that it's forced or ridged, but am instead trying to
imply that she used techniques that invokes passions in the listeners.
(Whether she was aware of it or not remains a mystery, likely she was
unaware) Anyway, what I really came to say, is that I'm using Eva voice
as a source of reference for stylistic appoarces to for my own singing.
I'm studying her the same way I would Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday ,
Sarah Vaughan, Ernestine Anderson, Dinah Washington or any super
influential jazz vocalist. I think that Eva has created a link
incorporating the soul of rock with the eloquence of jazz.
Name: Mary Gehly
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I just can't narrow it to just one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How Can I Keep From Singing
Home town Herndon, Virginia
Found the website Blixstreet.com
Sent: 1:24 AM - 11/6
My husband and I received Eva By Heart as a Christmas present last year.
"How Can I Keep From Singing" simply electrified me. I was addicted to
her voice and had to hear more. I recently purchased Time After Time and
again am filled with such emotion each time I hear the songs she sings.
I have shared and will continue to share her music with family and
friends. I thank God for blessing Eva with an incredible gift that will
always touch the lives of the hearts that hear.
Name: Dan MacKenzie
Home town Waltham, MA
Sent: 3:51 PM - 11/6
My wife purchased "Songbird" after we read about Eva Cassidy in a Boston
Globe article in 1999. Her voice is incredible. The songs are a gift to
the world. Hers was a life well spent for somebody who died at 33.
Name: Mercedes L Vasquez
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song By Heart
Home town Las Vegas Nevada
Found the website yahoo.com
Sent: 9:35 PM - 11/6
I heard about Eva a local Jazz station here in Las Vegas. I heard her
agent state that "If the recording executives would pass up a talent
like Eva's, It explains the state of affairs are in music at this time".
I agree with this statement after hearing Eva for the first time last
week, I believe the world has lost a great talent. SO glad her friends
have saved her music for ones like me. I understand unknown talent gems
because I am married to a man with a gorgeous voice. Too bad music execs
are so blind.
Mercy Vasquez
Name: Mercedes L Vasquez
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song By Heart
Home town Las Vegas Nevada
Found the website yahoo.com
Sent: 9:39 PM - 11/6
I heard about Eva at a local Jazz station here in Las Vegas. I heard her
agent state that "If the recording executives would pass up a talent
like Eva's, It explains the state of affairs in music at this time". I
agree with this statement after hearing Eva for the first time last
week, I believe the world has lost a great talent. SO glad her friends
have saved her music for ones like me. I understand unknown talented
gems because I am married to a man with a gorgeous voice. Too bad music
execs are so blind.
Mercy Vasquez
Name: Noel Dowling
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song At last
Home town Dublin, Ireland
Found the website MSN
Sent: 8:45 PM - 11/9
I read a review in the British music magazine "Q" about 'Time after
Time'. On the off chance that it might be good I bought the album the
next day. I haven't stopped listening to it since. It's terrific. She
could sing in any style and bring out the true essence of any song. Like
most other people, I'm sure, I asked myself why hadn't I heard about her
before now.
Name: Frank
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All Of Them!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Toronto
Sent: 6:00 PM - 11/10
Maybe ones in a lifetime your lucky enough to hear a voice that
bypasses your ears and go's directly to your heart. Eva Cassidy's
voice not only communicates to your heart, it's soul lifting.
Coupled with her steadfast morel convictions and strength of
character your left with PURE emotion, I think the lord
was paying particular attention to his work the day Eva was
put on this earth, so much so she was taken from us so
prematurely. God speed to Eva's family, and Thank You
for one of life's special people!
Name: Frank
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Toronto
Found the website Google
Sent: 6:15 PM - 11/10
Maybe ones in a lifetime your lucky enough to hear a voice that
bypasses your ears and goes directly to your heart. Eva Cassidy's
voice not only communicates to your heart, it's soul lifting.
Coupled with her steadfast morel convictions and strength of
character your left with PURE emotion, I think the lord
was paying particular attention to his work the day Eva was
put on this earth, so much so she was taken from us so
prematurely. God speed to Eva's family, and Thank You
for one of life's special people!
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Home town Lublin, Poland
Found the website Google
Sent: 7:33 PM - 11/10
Hi! First time I heard about Her in Polish Radio 3, 2nd of November
1998... I love Her music. But it is impossible to buy Her CD's in
Poland... I know Her music from InterNet - without it I'll never heard
all of Her Albums...
Name: Laura
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Pittsburgh, PA
Found the website Yahoo!
Sent: 10:03 PM - 11/10
Well I heard Eva's cover of "Fields of Gold" on Dawson's Creek, I
downloaded it right away on napster. I immediately fell in love with her
voice and found out more about her. I was so saddened to find out about
her passing at such a young age. Her music has touched me, and her voice
soars to places I have never heard any other singer go. She gives
singing everything and I can only hope to be as amazing as she is
creatively.
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song too hard to name one
Home town Toronto, Ontario Canada
Found the website was a link
Sent: 8:03 PM - 11/11
A month ago a friend introduced me to a radio station, KTAO out of New
Mexico. Last Sunday during the jazz program, a song came on that stopped
me in my tracks. I knew it was "At Last", but I couldn't identify the
most beautiful voice that was singing it. I emailed the station, who
were great enough to provide me the information I needed. I found a
music site that let me know that Eva had a number of CD's. Then the
Napster provided me with several beautiful songs, which I have been
listening to now for hours. I hoped there might be something about Eva
on the net, so I gambled and won plugging her name into the web. And
here I am, listening to Autumn Leaves, wanting to cry, feeling the
goosebumps that happens to me when I hear really amazing music, and
grateful that piece by piece I was led to discover this incredible
talent who left such a wonderful gift behind. I'll go out and get the
CD's, crank up the volume, light the candles, and enjoy.
Thanks for having a place to write my thoughts and feelings.
Name: Gary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Ain't No Sunshine
Home town Manchester, England
Found the website Voila
Sent: 8:36 PM - 11/14
I've got very mixed feelings about listening to Eva's music. I'm a great
fan of female vocalists (please check out Christine Collister if you
haven't already), and so Eva has become an immediate favourite, even
though I have only been familiar with her work for a matter of weeks.
Although her sheer class shines through, I can't help but feel sad that
we have been robbed of a very special person. I can only liken it to
the feeling of watching Richard Beckinsale, the brilliant English comedy
actor who died aged 31, and feeling sad at his early parting. I feel sad
that I will never see Eva or meet her. Reading the sleeve notes on her
albums, it is obvious that she must have been a really nice girl, and
that all of her friends and family must have thought the world of her.
My heart goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy, having lost such a special
daughter.
Name: Christine Hill-Byrne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Golden Thread, Tall Trees, all songs!
Home town Rockville, MD
Found the website AOL looking for Eva
Sent: 6:47 PM - 11/15
I met Eva in the studio when she was recording Method Actor songs and
played in She's Melting with her. I can't listen to any song without
crying. My son has been able to identify Eva's voice since he was 4. I
consider myself blessed to have known her and cherish my memories of
her. I miss you my friend.
Name: Bill Thompson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Other Side - Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song God Bless the Child
Home town Rochester, NY
Sent: 9:52 PM - 11/16
I discovered Eva Cassidy last March 31 by way of the Songbird album and
I remember it vividly. Time stopped for a while. Her music and her story
moved me more than anything else in a long time. They still do and the
experience has brought an odd mixture of joy and sadness that doesn't
seem to fade. I've since tried to pass the word where I could and have
found quite a few new fans. I listen to something of Eva's almost daily
and she still brings a tear to my eye. She is my favorite singer of all
time.
But Eva was more than a musician. Two weeks ago on the fourth
anniversary of Eva's passing, I sent a fifty dollar contribution to the
Eva Cassidy foundation and received a print of Eva's artwork "Boy in the
Nest" in return. I had guessed that looking at Eva's art in detail would
be every bit as moving as listening to her music and its true. Her
spirit shines in all her work, musical and otherwise and it is not at
all diluted by a good reproduction. I feel very privileged.
I was surprised to see that I have the seventh out of one thousand
prints that were produced. I strongly encourage anyone reading this to
make a contribution and receive one of these prints. It would help the
foundation aid music education in the Washington DC area schools and
spread Eva's legacy. In return you will receive something you will
cherish. If you have a friend who is an Eva Cassidy fan, a print could
make a nice Christmas present. Follow the link on the home page of
Laura's web site for details.
The focus so far has been mainly on Eva's music and rightly so. She was
in a musical league of her own and most of her recordings tower over big
selling commercial products. However Eva was also a brilliant artist. If
this project is successful, perhaps there could be reproductions of her
other works. I sure hope so.
Help people learn about Eva Cassidy. May God bless Eva, her family, and
friends.
Name: tori
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them!
Home town Cardiff, Wales
Found the website um I think it was through Icq
Sent: 11:53 AM - 11/17
Um, I just wanted to say I heard Eva Cassidy at the end of this summer.
I was casually flicking through the radio stations, kinda bored, and I
caught the end of "Over the Rainbow". At once it touched me, she's got a
voice that brings tears to your eyes! After that I went out and bought
Songbird, and I don't think I've ever cherished an album so much in my
entire life! I've now just got Time After Time, and again, my tissue box
is empty :)
Name: Bevan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold, Autumn Leaves, wayfaring
stranger
Home town Wellington, New Zealand
Found the website friend
Sent: 9:42 PM - 11/17
It's hard to choose a favourite. Most of her songs and her voice seem to
envelop me, taking me to a place that I've always longed to be in.
It does that to me every time I spin her CDs. Her version of Fields of
Gold is enough to make the hardiest man of steel fall to his knees. The
presence of her in some songs is so gravitational I feel like I'm
floating. And floating I will continue to do...
Thank you Eva, for one of the purest inspirations of my life.
Name: Dave McLane
Home town D.C.
Sent: 7:39 PM - 11/18
Wow! It's just today that my wife introduced me to an album I couldn't
believe! When things like this show up in your life like this, you must
be doing something right. I immediately heard a voice from a "white"
girl who must have had the blues equivalent of an operatic training. Now
we know where music can go in the future!
Name: GEORGE WIDDOWSON
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold (At Present)
Home town Castle Douglas (Scotland)
Found the website Excite
Sent: 8:50 PM - 11/18
Well, I wasn't able to read too much of the tributes, too sad, but I'll
come back. I first heard Eva on our national radio station BBC radio2, I
was just sitting having breakfast still waking up when this voice came
through singing Fields of Gold, I was spellbound. The clarity, the
emotion, the range was amazing, I knew I had never heard a voice like it
before so I listened carefully for the name at the end and thankfully I
got it. But not the fact that Eva had died. That was so sad when I heard
that and I didn't even know whether she was Black or White. I just wish
that I could have sent it to Eva personally. With any luck she's looking
and listening somewhere and seeing the joy she is giving everyone in her
absence.
Name: Tim A
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Wandered By a Brookside
Home town Denver, CO
Found the website ask.com
Sent: 5:10 AM - 11/21
What a gift this lady had. I melted when I first heard "I wandered by a
Brookside". I had to learn more about the person behind this achingly
beautiful music. I wept again when I learned that she had passed away.
That voice was all life and spirit...such life, such spirit. How could
she be gone? And then I became angry; not just because she could have
made more beautiful music, but because she seemed like the kind of
person who deserved....really deserved...to live a long, long life. But
now, every note of her music is even more important to me because it's
what we still have of this precious soul. She had a glorious gift, but
she gave it to us. Thank you, Eva.
Name: Maureen Richardson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How Can I Keep From Singing
Home town Cuprona, Tas. Aust.
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 11:08 AM - 11/23
I walked into a small store recently looking for Christmas presents for
my daughter, and heard the most inspiring music. I listened to half the
track playing (How Can I Keep From Singing)and bought the CD. I am
completely mesmerised by her voice, and there is something else I cannot
put into words. She has me spell-bound by her presence in a most unusual
way. I feel so very lucky that I walked into the store at the moment,
otherwise I may never have come across such a beautiful artist. I, like
so many others, wanted to know more about this lady. Thank you for the
effort in putting this site together, and thank you for allowing us all
to be able to express our emotions regarding Eva and her music. I look
forward to listening to more of her music and sharing the joy with my
family and friends.
Name: Patty
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Gaithersburg, MD
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 10:52 PM - 11/25
I first heard Eva Cassidy at Borders. They were playing this incredible
beautiful music and I just had to have the CD. I since have bought all
of Eva's CD's and only feel sad because there won't be any more. Her
voice is something to be cherished, it stirs emotions within me that no
other music or artist has very before. Her song "Songbird" fills me with
joy and sadness as it reminds me of my father who passed away a few
years ago. In my quest to expose her music to others I have found that
every time I play her music people are drawn to it and they seem to want
to know more about who is behind that beautiful voice. Eva's music
brings joy and sadness and moves the listener to feel something, sad or
happy, doesn't matter as you are moved to really listen to the words of
each song. If you have never listened to her music, start with the CD
"Time After Time". Try out "At Last" and "Time After Time". Although I
have never met Ms. Cassidy I imagine that the person behind the music
must have been as beautiful as the music itself, I feel blessed that I
have found this music and thank God that I was at the right place at the
right time to hear this angelic voice.
Name: Boyce Jackson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Golden Thread
Home town Harrogate, England
Found the website Link
Sent: 7:58 PM - 11/26
I'm pleased to discover I'm not the only one who would like to tell the
world about the wonderful voice of Eva Cassidy. I came across her
listening to someone's tape and demanded to know more. I was so affected
by her power, range, subtlety and control. No other sound arrests me in
quite the way her top note does in 'Golden Thread'. She was the most
naturally gifted singer I've heard with an ability to glow in different
genres from folk to blues and gospel. I know the love within her voice
and her memory will continue to be a profound influence on us all.
Name: big toe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of em
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song depends on the weather
Home town southport
Found the website ask!
Sent: 10:09 PM - 11/26
the perfect accompaniment to a bottle of scotch and manic depression
Name: Adrian Barry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town London, England
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 12:18 AM - 11/27
Having heard Eva's rendition of Over the Rainbow on local radio for many
months now, coming onto the Internet was the ideal way for me to try to
locate information about this talented and gifted singer. I was
devastated to discover that Eva had passed away and at such an early
age. Having now found a recording of 'Over the Rainbow', this will
surely help me keep the spirit of Eva alive in my heart,
Can anyone tell me the date of Eva's birthday?
Name: Michael L. Robinson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Lexington, Ky
Sent: 5:44 AM - 11/27
I have only recently been turned onto Eva by a friend and have all four
of the albums I am aware of. My favorite is the Songbird album which has
five of my favorite songs she sings right at the top of the disc.
I have never heard a more soulful and beautiful voice. Eva was blessed
with one of the most beautiful and soulful voices I have ever heard. I
can listen to the music for hours and never get tired of listening to
her voice. The musicians who accompany her do an excellent job of
complimenting her talent. She was very fortunate to work with some great
people who could bring out her fabulous talent.
I will keep enjoying the recordings I have of Eva and can only say that
the world suffered a great loss at her demise.
One can only imagine her singing so many of the beautiful songs that
would only be made more beautiful by her renditions.
Thanks for the page,
Michael
Name: Brad Etter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song FIELDS OF GOLD
Home town Ft Wayne In USA
Found the website Blix Street Records Web Site
Sent: 7:23 AM - 11/27
Whew, Can Eva Sing! Her radiant voice is so clear and filled with such
emotion, that I am still drawn to tears by listening to her! I have all
of her recordings starting from Chuck Brown's THE OTHER SIDE, to the
"Latest Release" NO BOUNDARIES on the Renata Label.
Speaking of "NO BOUNDARIES" - - Has anyone else heard this new CD? It
features Eva as a "SESSION VOCALIST" and is not one of her better
recordings, BUT - It is still has Eva belting and singing her heart out!
I would appreciate any other opinions on this new EVA CD... Thanks! Brad
Etter Better5111@aol.com
Name: Brad Etter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album NO BOUNDARIES
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song NATURAL WOMAN
Home town FT WAYNE IN USA
Sent: 7:59 AM - 11/27
NEW EVA CD - - NO BOUNDARIES - - Has anyone else heard this brand new
CD? It is by no means a "Great Work!" It MAY be a very early recording
session(s) of Eva's, where she is featured only as a vocalist. The songs
are not always quite as touching and as memorable as her earlier
recordings, an exception of course being the Carole King song popularised
by Aretha Franklin,
"Natural Woman." - PLEASE Post your comments about this NEW CD! Thanks
(Again) BRAD
Name: Miles
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album No Boundaries
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I've Got This Feeling
Home town Santa Fe
Found the website Google
Sent: 11:25 PM - 11/27
I read what Brad said and felt I had to chime in. No Boundaries is my
favorite Eva CD. It was the CD that introduced me to her (I bought it
after I heard "Natural Woman" on the radio. I have since bought Time
After Time and Songbird but I find that I don't enjoy them as much even
though she is great on them. I might be in the minority on this board
but I guess my tastes are different.
And I'm sure we would all agree about her talents.
Name: Tom Heie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Minneapolis
Found the website www.Blixstreet.com
Sent: 9:03 PM - 11/28
I'm afraid the message was sent before I typed it in. Just recently I
heard Eva singing Over the Rainbow on the radio & jotted her name down
since I wasn't familiar with her. I was in tears by the end of the song
& knew Eva was something very special. Today I bought Blues Alley & sit
here listening & just discovered this website & was shocked to hear she
had died. I see others mention Over the Rainbow too, but I haven't been
able to locate what CD it's on. Can someone help. What a gift she has
left us!
Name: AIMEE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song WALY WALY, AIN'T NO SUNSHINE, AUTUMN LEAVES
Home town BIRMINGHAM , ENGLAND
Found the website DOGPILE.COM
Sent: 5:25 PM - 11/30
HI TO ALL YOU EVA FANS OUT THERE I THINK ITS GREAT TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE
WHO THINK HER MUSIC IS GREAT. I THINK SHE HAS THAT TYPE OF VOICE THAT
CAN MAKE PEOPLE FEEL 100% EVEN WHEN THERE DOWN THERE LOWEST. I WAS FIRS
T INTRODUCED TO EVA WHEN I HEARD HER VOICE ON THE RADIO AND STRAIGHT A
WAY I WAS A FAN. WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT EVA HAD DIED I COULDN'T BELIEVE
THAT ALL THAT TALENT HAD GONE TO WASTE, BUT AFTER LISTENING TO HER VOICE
I KNEW THAT SHE WILL LIVE ON FOREVER IN HER MUSIC. I NO THATS SHE WITH US
WHEN I HERE HER SING. ALL I CAN SAY IS THANK YOU EVA FOR INSPIRING ME TO
PROCEED WITH MY MUSIC CAREER AND NEVER TO GIVE UP FAITH EVEN WHEN THINGS
LOOK BAD. I HOPE THAT PEOPLE ONE DAY WILL BUY MY MUSIC AND I HOPE THAT IT
MAKES PEOPLE AS HAPPY AS EVAS THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song God Bless the Child
Home town Waldorf Maryland USA
Found the website Excite
Sent: 1:28 AM - 12/1/2000
Well I must admit when I first found out about Eva I was at work and
checking the internet found a song on the Washington Post web site and
listened and was instantly a fan. There are few voices that can touch
you innermost soul out there today and Eva had that type of voice. Very
Powerful, yet very sweet and touching. Can't wait to get my hands on the
new album "Time After Time" Sure its going to be great. Please tell your
friend/family about this voice and person that needs to be heard and
really listened to in order to appreciate. Whenever I am having a not so
good day I can put any of Eva's albums on and things don't really seem
that bad after all. Unfortunately I was not able to hear Eva sing live
as I moved back to the Maryland area after being away since 1978. I will
do my best to promote and enlighten people who love to hear a brilliant
voice. Please keep her spirit alive and I am sure it lives through all
of us that are willing to listen. Well I could go on and on. Just
appreciate what your ears hear and what you feel in your heart when you
listen to Eva. Take care and God Bless.
Troy G Batson
Name: Timothy Li
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (only EC CD I have)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Toronto, Canada
Found the website Google
Sent: 2:32 AM - 12/1
I was immediately attracted to her voice when I heard "Fields of Gold"
in a local record store in downtown Toronto about a week ago. Bought
Songbird right away and has been listening to it almost non-stop, at
home, in the car.... My whole family fell in love with the CD. (My 12
yrs old daughter's favourite is "Wade in the Water".) I played "Over the
Rainbow" to my children's choir at church(I am one of the directors) and
the kids loved it too. I wanted to buy her other CDs but they are hard
to find. She is the best and most versatile singer I have ever listened
to....Ella, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Karen Carpenter all-in-one.
Amazing voice, feeling, technique, phrasing, musicianship. What a
talent! It's sad that she died young.
Name: Marty J.C
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Plymouth U.K.
Found the website netscape
Sent: 6:24 PM - 12/2
I first heard Eva Cassidy by coincidence as I was browsing in record
store. The track playing was Wayfaring Stranger, what a sound & what a
voice. I bought the album immediately and have bought everything since.
I'm just grateful I was in the right place at the right time.
Name: Margaret L.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird/Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ...Wade in the Water but, anything really
Home town Lloydminster, Alberta
Found the website netscape
Sent: 10:21 PM - 12/2
I first heard Eva on a radio show on the CKUA 97.5 FM in Edmonton. The
cut was "Wade in the Water". Hers is a voice of rare, original quality
that is simultaneously soulful, melodic, expressive, raunchy, angelic.
Stunning. She stands out as distinct in a world full of singers.
I am puzzled that I have only heard of Eva in the last year, 4 years
after she left us.
Name: Scott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Springfield
Found the website Excite
Sent: 11:14 AM - 12/3
I discovered Eva in the spring of 2000, not knowing she had passed away
in 1996. Being from the Washington DC area, I searched the blues and
jazz clubs' coming events up to about two months ago when I was told the
awful news. I was broken-hearted. Tuesday night, I will be attending
the Eva Cassidy Memorial Benefit Concert at Zanzibars in DC. Now, at
least partially, I will feel as if I will have "met" her through artists
she worked with. She IS special to me and is very much missed.
Name: Imogen.Wierzan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow and For you
Home town: Greenford England
Found the website: none
Sent: Sun December 24 2000 06:10 AM
Thank you very much for making a lovely tribute to Eva Cassidy. I think she sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow better than Judy Garland. I am only 13, and while all my friends listen to Boyzone and the like, I think that Eva Cassidy is a million times better. Some of her songs make me cry while others make me want to get up and dance. The world lost a wonderful person when she died.
Name: Daria
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: So far... Live at Blues Alley...but I still have to buy the rest of them!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Haddam, CT
Found the website: AOL's keyword search
Sent: Sun December 24 2000 03:49 PM
I just learned of Eva this week while listening to NPR in the morning.
Through my tears, I managed to write her name down, and call a local music store.
I was the 3rd caller asking about Eva and it was only 9:00 a.m.
Thank you NPR for introducing me to a rare find!!
Eva will live forever in my home, and the homes of all of my friends!
Though Eva has moved somewhere beyond this life, her gift is eternal.
Her voice is truly heaven on earth!!
Name: ruffrider2001uk
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: rainbow
Home town: durham uk
Found the website: AOL
Sent: Sun December 24 2000 05:04 PM
brilliant touching TOTP2 first time never forget
Name: Steven
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley, so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold/Songbird
Home town: Kidsgrove, Staffs, UK
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Mon December 25 2000 01:10 AM
My wife & I saw "Over the Rainbow" on TOTP2, absolutely brilliant, such poignance. Rushed out to get "Live at Blues Alley" for Xmas, we have been playing it non stop since then. My New Years resolution; to spread the word about Eva.
Name: Glenda Manuel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Mishawaka, IN
Found the website:
Sent: Mon December 25 2000 03:23 PM
I also heard about Eva on NPR. I didn't get to hear the entire interview but when she sang "Over the Rainbow" I knew she was special. I've been thinking about her often. I've told all my friends about her and have been enjoying her music. What a wonderful talent she had. She's very special.
Name: jim shipton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: canterbury
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Mon December 25 2000 11:30 PM
I first heard Eva on BBC r2 and made a note of her name
then saw her on top of the pops2.what word can describe
that haven't already been used. I look forward to getting
the rest of her albums many many thanks Eva.
Name: Brian Wall
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time will tell (no, not an unheard of album - just my personal observation)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: As changeable as the chameleon timbre of her voice
Home town: Near London, UK
Found the website: Google
Sent: Tue December 26 2000 03:28 AM
When you 'discover' someone special that has evaded you all of your life, you hold on to them, but gently. They become an integral part of you, yet they must be shared with sensibility. To take away what they then give to you would be almost to remove a vital part of the self. Yet you long to reciprocate what has been so personally and universally surrendered. Eva has become such a person inside so many people. Long may we celebrate the rare tenderness and beauty of spirit that was her.
Name: pete shurmer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird(up to now)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: connahs quay, North Wales
Found the website: Jeeves
Sent: Tue December 26 2000 09:12 AM
I had never heard of Eva until I heard the end of the broadcast on Top of the Pops, December 16th. I heard enough to make the hair on the back of my neck stand on end and I managed to catch her surname and the name of an album. I told my partner and she bought me the album for Christmas. I put it on straight away and began to read the insert about her. It was only then, as I was listening to her singing "Fields of Gold" that I discovered that she had died so tragically.
It brought a tear to my eye.
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: At the moment "Fields of Gold"
Home town: Waldorf MD
Found the website: Excite
Sent: Tue December 26 2000 10:50 AM
Have been listening to Eva NON STOP over the holidays and it seems to get better every time I listen. Tried to get my wife to understand what makes her voice so special, she was not interested and I went on listening not wanting to force her to hear great singing. I think what she didn't understand was that the songs she is singing are all familiar but done a way that only Eva could do. I will remain vigilant in trying to pass on to people what music is and should be. Eva touches all of us in different ways but the one thing that we all have in common is what a truly great vocalist she is. Well all the best to everyone for the new year. I still have a few albums that I need to purchase. Take care and a prosperous New Years to all. If anyone would like a copy of the BBC 2 radio tribute to Eva, please reply to my e-mail addresses listed. Either - tgbatson@uu.net or batman3030@hotmail.com and I will make arrangements to get you a copy.
God Bless
Name: Karl Haight-Boyd
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time After Time
Home town: Sherman Oaks, CA
Found the website: NPR led me to Web Ferret
Sent: Tue December 26 2000 11:53 AM
What pleasure to listen to this touching angel and experience a renaissance in tenderness.
Name: Bill Hess
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know You By Heart
Home town: Kinsman, Ohio
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Tue December 26 2000 03:28 PM
While driving to work this past week I heard the short 8-minute segment on NPR about Eva Cassidy. Eva's beautiful voice and story really touched my heart. Although tragic in many ways, I believe that her passing must have been for a reason. Her music is now bringing joy to many and her story hopefully will help to raise awareness and funds to find a cure for skin cancer. I have sent a donation in memory of Eva Cassidy to the Johns Hopkins University Fund for Melanoma and Skin Cancer Research . Based on the many comments in this guestbook, a small donation from every new Eva Cassidy fan would surely have a dramatic impact.
Name: BRAD ETTER
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ALL OF THEM (Except for the latest)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: FIELDS OF GOLD
Home town: FT. WAYNE, INDIANA
Found the website:
Sent: Tue December 26 2000 06:25 PM
Having been a HUGE fan of Eva for the past one and a half years, I was subjected to a very shocking development recently after entering our local Borders Book & Music Store. Just a few short days earlier, there were over thirty copies of Eva Cassidy recordings on the shelves for sale.
Hmm, I thought that maybe Eva's records were moved to a more prominent location for display for the Christmas Holidays. Then I spoke with the Border's staff and they informed me that all of Eva's records had "SOLD OUT in just one day!" WHEW - - The wonders of Radio! Many Thanks to Laura, to NPR, BBC Radio 2 and to Bill Thompson.
To all of the "New Eva Admirers" - - WELCOME ABOARD To THE EVA TRAIN! - - You just "HAVE TO LISTEN" to the almost one hour long EVA CASSIDY BBC RADIO 2 TRIBUTE SHOW! If you have an opportunity to listen to this wonderful and beautifully crafted documentary, DO IT!
From one, of many thousands of Eva Emissaries, BRAD
Name: D
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ..Over the Rainbow, Fields of Gold, Autumn Leaves, Songbird
Home town:
Found the website: Google
Sent: Wed December 27 2000 03:20 AM
I heard the NPR piece, and was in tears, the sadness of her story partly, but mostly because I had just heard a few notes of a voice I knew was the most beautiful voice I have EVER heard. After work, I battled Christmas crowds and traffic to get here CD's. I listen to Songbird ALL day long, ..Over the Rainbow, Fields of Gold, Autumn Leaves, or Songbird, I have to stop working for lack of concentration...her music overwhelms me. My wife thinks I'm nuts...so I just keep her CD's at work. When she "Over the Rainbow" peaks, I just can't help growling with gritted teeth "IT SUCKS SHE'S GONE!"
Name: Len Britton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart
Home town: Hornchurch
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Wed December 27 2000 03:29 AM
I had to pick Songbird as my favourite album as it is the only one that I have at present. I completely missed out on Eva, I didn't see TOTP2 I didn't hear radio 2 plays. However my wife bought Songbird for me as a Christmas present. I must admit that I was a bit taken aback as I had never heard of Eva but I was told that I should just listen to it. It was put into the portable CD player in the kitchen as we were preparing dinner. It was absolutely awesome from the first moments of Fields of Gold onwards and a what a surprise as it moved from pop to folk to gospel etc etc. there were several mementos that made the hair stick up on the back of your neck. Wonderful, I thought, then I was told that tragically she had died. I have to say that that this touched me deeply even though I had only been in her company for the duration of the CD. I now have the other 4 CDs on order from jungle - I do agree that their site is irritating.
Name: JOHN BURGESS
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: ARNSIDE
Found the website: B.T
Sent: Wed December 27 2000 04:56 AM
I was lucky enough to hear one of Eva Cassidy's songs the other day, well how do you express what she makes you feel like, when you hear those songs, I have never in my life heard a song as beautiful as Over the Rainbow, and what makes it more feeling is she is now no longer with us, I believe her music is now only being born.
Name: Neil Patten
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Houston, TX
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Wed December 27 2000 06:45 AM
I didn't know about Eva Cassidy before I heard the NPR report last week on my way into work. By the end of the story tears were rolling involuntarily down my cheeks. I immediately logged-on to my computer and bought Songbird. I got it three days later and have been mesmerized. Her music is astonishing; what a gift that we have the opportunity to experience it.
Name: Deb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold & When Autumn Leaves Fall
Home town: Columbus, OH
Found the website: AOL
Sent: Wed December 27 2000 11:15 AM
As many others, I too heard the piece on NPR about Eva. When I heard her sing, I knew I had to delve deeper into her music. She has left us with a truly beautiful gift. A big thanks to the folks at NPR for sharing her story and music with us here in the States.
Name: celina trevino
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: probably all!
Home town: alameda, CA
Found the website: netscape
Sent: Wed December 27 2000 01:51 PM
I'm thankful to NPR for blessing my ears with Eva Cassidy's voice. my words cannot describe what my heart felt when I heard that voice, only the tears came quickly. her albums are sold out everywhere I've been, needless to say, I'm buying them all...
Name: Dan Palermo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow/Fields of Vali
Home town: Kalamazoo, MI
Found the website: Google
Sent: Wed December 27 2000 04:15 PM
I'm not a particularly religious person, but hearing Eva sing Over the Rainbow on NPR convinced me that there must be a greater power capable of winning our feeble hearts not through fear, but by allowing us a brief glimpse into the intense beauty that humans can create. When my 14 year old son asked me if we really have a soul, I played him Eva's music. I think we both believe now.
Name: Tony Lamantia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Dark End of the Street
Home town: Laurel, Md.
Found the website: Craignet
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 03:09 AM
In today's Washington Post Weekend magazine, in a review of the "Best of 2000" critic Richard Harrington
picked 'Time After Time' as the second best record released last year. Among his comments he writes:
"This set collects a dozen previously unreleased tracks, and no matter the ostensible genre - folk, rock, pop, blues, gospel - Cassidy transports these standards to a higher plane with a pure, soulful voice that was one in many millions". I think we would all agree that that pretty much says it all.
Name: Hugh Cassidy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: rainbow
Home town: Bowie, MD
Found the website:
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 07:33 AM
Impressive technology. Impressive website! THANX!!!!
Name: Graham Cousins
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: none yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (so far)
Home town: Sevenoaks
Found the website: msn
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 07:38 AM
Yesterday I bought Eva By Heart. I don't know why, I'd never heard of her or anything by her. After playing the CD I rushed straight back out to the record shop and bought Live at Blues Alley, The Other side and Time After Time. I can't believe that just over a week after we lost one of our finest female singer/songwriters in Kirsty MacColl, I discover a singer of such rare talent as Eva only to find that she is no longer with us.
Name: Glynne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I know I am going to love them all.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow (so far).
Home town: Doncaster
Found the website: W.O.L.
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 08:23 AM
I first heard Eva sing "Over the Rainbow" on TOTP2 - and was mesmerised, luckily I'd taped the programme and I promptly rewound the track and listened to it again, noting down the name of her album (Songbird). Today I tried to get it but the shop had just sold out. I ordered it, thinking she had only made the one album. Lucky for me the lady in the next queue was buying three albums by her. I bought 2 and tomorrow I am going to buy any more I can find. Excellent. Not only will I be recommending her albums, I shall be buying them for special fiends.
Name: Michael
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow and others
Home town: West Chester, PA
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 09:37 AM
Thanks to NPR and pure serendipity I was introduced to Eva Cassidy and will not soon forget her marvelous ability. I shared her unbelievable talent with my wife who is fighting for her life against cancer. To say she was uplifted was an understatement. For myself, I cannot adequately describe my sadness at the loss of such a gifted person, and the possibilities that will never be. Indeed, I am thankful that my dial was tuned to the right place last week permitting me to hear her for the first time. Ii will be my fortune to share Eva with others, and I will.
Name: Deidre Hawkins
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: whichever one I happen to be listening to!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: "How Can I Keep From Singing"
Home town: Harford, Anne Arundel, and Howard Counties, Maryland, USA
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 09:47 AM
Eva and I share the same birthday, February 2nd. As soon as I heard her voice for the first time, I was overcome with the purity her music conveys. I consider her to be my angel. When I sing her music, it's as if she is right there with me and I am transported to another place. I appreciate her even more for providing me with the song I consider my "theme song"--"How Can I Keep From Singing". I am truly a music lover, but Eva holds a special place when she says, "My life goes on in endless song, above its lamentations...above the tumult and the strife, I hear its music ringing. It sounds an echo in my soul---How Can I Keep From Singing!!"
Eva Lives!
Deidre
Name: DAWN
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: LEICESTER.UK.
Found the website: AOL
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 11:17 AM
TOTP STOPPED ME IN MY TRACKS. HAD TO FIND HER ALBUM AND MY CHILDREN BOUGHT "EVA BY HEART" FOR ME FOR CHRISTMAS. CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT. MUST NOW GET HOLD OF SONGBIRD! STUNNING VOICE!
Name: Matty
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town: Peterborough, UK
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Fri December 29 2000 11:04 PM
I bought Songbird as a Christmas present for a friend after seeing 'Over the Rainbow' on TOTP2 here in UK. I wasn't sure if I'd made the right decision (my friend's a bit of a clubber/raver, although still a music lover) so I put the CD on. From the opening notes of Fields of Gold, I knew that she would love it; by the end of the CD I loved it, and had to tape it before I gave it at Xmas. My friend later told me that the album had made her cry - I know what she means.
Name: Geoff Espin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time is a Healer
Home town: Lincoln UK
Found the website: msn
Sent: Sat December 30 2000 02:43 AM
Just thanks, Eva
Name: Kathy O'Neill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Only have 1 so far...Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: How can anyone pick just one !
Home town: San Francisco (and a one-time resident of Bowie, MD)
Found the website: AOL Netfind
Sent: Sat December 30 2000 12:16 PM
Like other fans, I heard the interview with Barbara Cassidy, Eva's mother, on NPR and I knew the world lost a real talent when I heard some clips of her music. I want to hear more and share her music with others.
Name: Lee Norrish
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town: Hainford, Norwich
Found the website: Ask Jeeves
Sent: Sat December 30 2000 10:37 PM
I first heard Eva singing Fields of Gold on Radio Two and loved it. My first thought was what a beautiful voice. I now have two of Eva's albums, but intend to buy some more shortly. When I found out that Eva had passed away at such a young age I was shocked and upset, I think it makes the albums even more special. I nearly always get a tear in my eyes when listening to Eva's lovely voice. What a very sad loss.
Name: Colin Howard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I only have 'The Other Side' with Chuck Brown so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Shrewsbury, England
Found the website: msn
Sent: Sun December 31 2000 03:49 AM
Her voice is the best Christmas present I've had. A great discovery - and I'll be visiting the website often to get to know the legacy of this amazing woman. Thanks Eva.
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wayfaring Stranger, People get ready
Home town: Shoreham, New York
Found the website: Google
Sent: Mon January 01 2001 06:56 AM
I was browsing on Amazon and found a link to Songbird. Today I'm going out to by the Blues Alley CD (If I can find a store open, It's New Years Day). I wish she was here so I could listen to her live, give her a hug and thank her. Her voice and songs have made a difference in my life and the timing is perfect. God Bless you Eva. Thank you.
Name: Barbara King & Chris Glenn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Only have Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Still listening!
Home town: Austin, Texas
Found the website: MSN
Sent: Mon January 01 2001 10:59 AM
Like so many others, Barbara heard the piece on NPR.
She came home that day talking of how she had cried at
the stunning voice and the untimely death of a singer
named Eva Cassidy. It became my charge to find one
album for Christmas--but they were all gone from every
store in Austin!! I finally got Time After Time on the
30th, and we have been entranced ever since. We just
placed an order on Amazon to get everything else she
has out! Austin would have loved Eva's refusal to stay
in one musical box, her insistence on singing whatever
song she liked, whether it be folk, blues, or even a
standard. And God, what an amazing voice!!! We WILL be
fans from now on, we WILL tell everyone we know about
Eva, and we WILL be back to visit this site!! Thanks
to those who run this site and help keep the music and
the vision of the Songbird, Eva Cassidy, Alive!!
Eva Rules! Chris & Barbara
Name: Anne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Lockport, NY USA
Found the website:
Sent: Mon January 01 2001 01:20 PM
Just a few words of thanks to Eva's family and friends who continue to share her extraordinary gifts with us!
Name: Ronald Smith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird - so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves - so far!
Home town: Stowupland
Found the website: Google
Sent: Tue January 02 2001 07:37 AM
I'm 79 and my son bought me Songbird for Christmas saying that he thought I'd love it. I played it through once and promptly ordered Time After Time which I now have, with Eva By Heart and Live at Blues Alley on order, so he was right. In one of the reviews someone said "she grabs your heartstrings and won't let go". That about sums it up. She has the gift that only great artists have to go beyond a wonderful voice and perfect technique to re-create the songs and then share them with us rather than putting on a performance. Her parents must be very proud of her though they will always mourn her loss - as will the rest of the world.
Name: Renate
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: It Seems Every Song
Home town: Australia
Found the website: Was looking for more about her
Sent: Tue January 02 2001 06:34 AM
It's 4.26am in the morning and I was fine typing away miles away until I heard her voice again on the radio(I have Songbird) I just heard the song Time After Time and burst into tears, What a Voice, What a Heart, What beautiful emotion she allowed to live through her voice and I can't believe that she's no longer here. I guess I have to feel lucky to have heard such a voice in my lifetime. I have over 800 albums and No One comes close to her.
Name: Robert J McGeoghegan (20)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold (so far)
Home town: Manchester (England)
Found the website: CD Case
Sent: Tue January 02 2001 10:37 AM
I was flicking through TV stations when a caught the word 'somewhere' and my finger just stopped flicking and for those 2 minutes that I caught of "Over the Rainbow" I was in a trance. When the song finished I was hooked on this voice that I had never heard before. I spent the next two weeks going from record shop to record shop trying to find this album "Songbird" I did not know who the singer was and I was fighting a lost cause until I was Christmas shopping. I walked in to a music shop and the same song was playing in the shop. I asked at the counter if they knew the artist and they kindly got the Songbird album for me. It was the best Christmas present I could ask for. The other albums are already on order and I can not wait to hear them. The voice of an angel is all that needs to be said about Eva.
Name: cristen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: every single one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town:
Found the website:
Sent: Tue January 02 2001 05:27 PM
Name: Mike Baines
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart/Over the Rainbow (in fact, most of them)
Home town: St Helens,ENGLAND
Found the website: GOOGLE
Sent: Wed January 03 2001 05:17 AM
There is no one like Eva, I will recommend her music to whoever will listen. She has touched me deeply and with the rest of the band has left us a treasure to last a lifetime Thanks for a great website.
Name: Jean Mikhail
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart
Home town: Athens, Ohio
Found the website: Dogpile
Sent: Wed January 03 2001 09:38 AM
Thank you NPR for introducing this singer to me. She has touched my heart, and sings about things others would not dare to...my fiancee died of cancer in the same year. I wish I had known of this music then.
Name: Rach
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Time is a Healer so far
Home town: Staffordshire
Found the website: ask jeeves
Sent: Wed January 03 2001 11:02 AM
This is the second time I've signed the guestbook but I just have to say that the more Eva songs I listen to, the more I love her. I just can't stop listening to her, her voice is addictive. Thanks Eva and thanks for this web page
Name: sandy abbott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town: girvan
Found the website: Google
Sent: Wed January 03 2001 11:33 AM
for me there is no greater singer than Eva. I think her singing is oh so beautiful it makes me want to cry. "Autumn Leaves" is simply awesome, the greatest performance ever recorded but only just ahead of "Over the Rainbow" and "I wandered by a Brookside". thanks for this website, I intend to keep watching to see the legend grow. Sandy.
Name: barbara lutz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: everyone
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wade in the Water
Home town: ptpleasant beach, nj
Found the website: excite
Sent: Wed January 03 2001 05:07 PM
during the Christmas holiday I was visiting my sister, her daughter is in school at UT at Austin. we were discussing the music scene. I mentioned Eva and my sister freak, she had also heard the story on her local NPR station. She had gone out the next day looking for any album but none were available. we were both touched by the story but also by her voice. There are so many people I want to give these songs too. Thanks Eva for your pure and simple message in this crazy hectic world.
Name: duncan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Any
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Depends on the mood
Home town: Australia
Found the website:
Sent: Wed January 03 2001 06:23 PM
Hi,
I read about Eva in a local paper. I heard one album and purchased the rest. Easily my favorite artist.
If any Eva Fans in OZ taped her performance on PAY TV could they contact me. I was on holidays at the time.
Thanks
Duncan
Name: Karen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town: Australia
Found the website: dogpile
Sent: Wed January 03 2001 10:56 PM
Bought Songbird for Fields of Gold, which is beautiful. How special, then, to discover I Know You By Heart, which makes one's soul ache with its loveliness. This is my first Cassidy album - will definitely acquire the others to complete my Eva experience. Thank you to the friend who pointed my way to this wondrous voice.
Name: Ally
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: intend to buy them all and find out
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time is a Healer (so far)
Home town: Manchester, UK
Found the website: From Didgeridoo Records
Sent: Thu January 04 2001 09:42 AM
From hearing Over the Rainbow on the radio just once, I set out to find this album - I would have bought it for that song alone, but what arrived immediately became my most prized possession. Her voice is just sublime, capturing every mood. It is so refreshing that her music is not constantly played on mainstream radio (with terrible remixes by euro-DJS) but nevertheless has the enormous popularity that it deserves.
Name: BF
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Undecided
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Undecided
Home town: Rural Georgia
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Thu January 04 2001 10:47 AM
I heard a piece on National Public Radio featuring Eva's music. I'm am a fan of various genres. Her voice just mesmerized me. I probably would not have been introduced to her music if not for her untimely passing. What an immense tragedy! Yet she continues to touch so many lives.
Name: Regina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time (only one I own so far!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Tall Trees in Georgia, Woodstock
Home town: Madison, WI, USA
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Thu January 04 2001 10:53 AM
Wow was this woman amazing or what? I heard about her on NPR, woke in the morning to hear this angelic voice out of my radio/alarm. Went out that very day and bought Time After Time. I can't wait to get back to the record store and buy some more. I have listened to her every day since. Not a more heartfelt voice have we heard since Billie Holiday, makes you believe in life.
Name: Dennis Elgie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: London
Found the website: fastsearch
Sent: Thu January 04 2001 12:28 PM
It's a long time since music so beautiful has made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. I came across Eva's work by accident while surfing through the internet. Today I bought both 'Songbird' and 'Time After Time' and the absolute pleasure that I have had listening to these albums is saddened by the knowledge that this beautiful artist has been taken from us at such an early age.
How could a talent like this have gone so long unrecognised ?
I hope there's a heaven - she must be singing for the angels !
Thank you Eva. I which I had got to hear of your work earlier.
Dennis Elgie
Name: Kurt Nelson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all
Home town: Minneapolis
Found the website: Google
Sent: Thu January 04 2001 04:53 PM
Tears flow when I listen to Eva sing, I just recently heard about her on an NPR morning edition program. That afternoon I went out and got as much of her music as I could find. She is truly a gift to us and I very much enjoy sharing her music with my friends.
Name: Patti Clancy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: have only heard Songbird so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold but love them all
Home town: Marquette, MI
Found the website: Dogpile
Sent: Fri January 05 2001 05:36 AM
I am in awe of her singing. Every song is sung with emotion and meaning and there is a purity about her voice that one doesn't hear very often
Name: Peter Goodwin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Anniversary Song
Home town: Horsham, West Sussex. UK
Found the website: Found the website looking for everything about Eva
Sent: Fri January 05 2001 08:48 AM
The whole UK is buzzing after the video clip appeared on BBC2TC on 'Top of the Pops 2' last month, and we're all busily engaged in acquiring the whole of Eva's discography. Why have we had to wait so long? I have been collecting records of all the great female singers for the whole of my lifetime, but never a voice like this. Has anyone out there produced a book of the lyrics? Will be paying regular visits to the site from now on, and - thank you, Eva and all those who are doing so much for her today
Name: Ed Chaban
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town: Livermore, CA
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Fri January 05 2001 09:08 AM
I was in my car driving to work the morning the NPR story came on. within in seconds of hearing Eva's voice I knew I had to have a copy of everything she ever recorded. When I got home from work I became one of the hordes making an assault on her catalog at Amazon.com I came out of the den to tell my wife I had spent nearly $100 on CDs. When I told her who the artist was, she smiled. She heard the NPR story too while driving our son to school. What a talent! What a loss! How do you classify Eva's Music? Bonnie Raitt with a Joni Mitchell glaze? Celine Dion meets Rickie Lee Jones? A female Van Morrison? We can make comparisons, but none of these truly do her justice.
Name: ran
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: Inverness
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Fri January 05 2001 02:43 PM
Found this album in a record shop and bought it for the version of Fields of Gold but the version of "Songbird" touched the heart. x
Name: Fitz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I have only heard Time After Time so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all
Home town: NYC
Found the website: Blix Street, Crosstown Arts
Sent: Fri January 05 2001 07:11 PM
I want to hear all of her work.
My friend Theresa heard a report on NPR radio in Syracuse NY and bought the last copy of Time After Time. It had been handing around in the store for a while, until everyone heard the NPR report.
Name: Simon Pegg
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: Leicester U.K
Found the website: Freeserve
Sent: Sat January 06 2001 06:21 AM
Fantastic, inspiring. Picked up my own guitar and wanted to play the album. I can't keep this secret to myself and need to tell the world.
Name: Ronnie Graham
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Cloughey Newtownards N Ireland
Found the website:
Sent: Sat January 06 2001 09:21 AM
Her voice is wonderful full of love and passion. A voice to pick you up when you are down. What a lose to us all.
Name: donald maccheyne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wayfaring Stranger
Home town: Lodi, New York
Found the website: Netscape
Sent: Sat January 06 2001 05:12 PM
I first found out about Eva at a music store in Provincetown 2 years ago. Songbird was playing and I bought the CD and since have bought Time After Time. I really shouldn't say I have a favorite song I love all of them .her music makes you feel a whole different range of emotions. happy, sad ,calm, hopeful, content, etc. I have never cried listening to anyone's music until I heard this CD. what a loss to her family friend sand music lovers every where.
Name: Laura
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: How Can I Keep From Singing
Home town: Richmond, VA
Found the website: Altavista??
Sent: Sat January 06 2001 05:17 PM
I have been listening to Eva for about four years now. I bought "Live at Blues Alley" shortly after her death and was mesmerized by her voice. I have acquired every album since. I listen to one of her songs at least once a day and have never grown tired of them. Her voice reaches me on a spiritual level. When I read that she is to be profiled in Billboard I burst into tears. It as if one of my closest friends is finally getting the recognition that she deserves. I hope this isn't too sappy (I'm usually not a sappy person.) I have been meaning to contribute to this site for over a year. Thanks for keeping me updated and for having a site where fans of Eva from all over the world can contribute and get more info. on her!
Name: William Miller Jones
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Anglesey
Found the website: Alta Vista
Sent: Sat January 06 2001 11:58 PM
Watching T.V one night I heard this voice it was so pure and clean I was captivated. A tear running down my face I bought her Songbird album and soon the others, it was fantastic. Wanting to know more about Eva, I read about her life, she was like an every day girl, with a wonderful voice and maybe that what was attractive about her. She was taken in the prime of life, but has touched all who have listened to hear music. Thank you Eva. We hope your watching over us.
Name: Margaret Haven
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Annapolis, MD
Found the website: friends
Sent: Sun January 07 2001 08:23 AM
As Eva's friend, I know she would feel gratified that she has reached so many people on a personal level with her music. That was her goal. She grabs my heart strings and shakes them alive again when I start to feel emotionally dull.
Eva's approach to people and relationships reminds me to keep the peace when my inclination might be otherwise. But I do feel the need to say something now which may raise some hairs:
To those of you who had questions about "No Boundaries" .. yes, this is an album released without the approval, blessing or support of the Cassidys, despite the misleading implication on the liner notes. Eva's parents have an exclusive contract with Blix Street Records, giving Cassidys approval rights, and assuring them that what they believe to be Eva's wishes will be honored. Blix Street Records also did not approve this release.
"No Boundaries" is a re-worked release from old studio recordings made years ago and is not, in my opinion, a reflection of Eva's own musical inclinations, let alone her mature skills. At the very least, the original recording dates should have been indicated on the liner notes because without them it is misleading. Many singers agree to sing on demo recordings of new artists' music when they're young and "hungry" .. (Eva recorded some rap music once, too, and while she enjoyed the artists and the experience, the style did not reflect her own musical taste.) The writers' original promotional recordings apparently did not catch on, and now that Eva's music is popular, the tunes have been re-worked and released to appear as a full-blown "Eva Cassidy" CD without her permission and despite the protest of those who represent her interests. I think this does her an injustice, I feel it misrepresents the mature Eva, and I believe that Eva would not have wanted this CD released as it stands.
Name: Margaret Haven
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town: Annapolis, MD
Found the website:
Sent: Sun January 07 2001 10:39 AM
After having said what I did about "No Boundaries" I want to say that Chris Biondo's "Eva By Heart" is the most beautiful CD I have ever owned in my entire life. It was an inspired act of love on his part and it honors Eva in a way perhaps no one else could have. I still cry when I hear it and my heart swells til I feel it will burst.
The other day I thought I'd put Eva on to inspire me, as I had hit a dry spell with painting. I chose "Eva By Heart"... and a lot of good it did me. I had to sit and just listen to her. Forget the painting! Eva is not one to be used as background music, that's for sure! Thank you, Chris for bringing me Eva in that incredibly wonderful way! God bless you!
Name: CF
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Undecided
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: Upstate NY
Found the website: MSN
Sent: Sun January 07 2001 01:20 PM
I heard an NPR radio story and have been hooked. What an amazing voice. What a shame she had to go so soon.
Name: David Christopher
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You Are
Home town: Centreville, VA
Found the website:
Sent: Sun January 07 2001 06:18 PM
Having read Margaret's note regarding No Boundaries, I felt it necessary to respond as she brings up some interesting points without the facts to give correct answers.
There was a great deal of thought that went into the concept of No Boundaries. Many of the people who knew of these recordings thought they should be made available and that people would enjoy them (One example: reference the interview with Chris Biondo on this site and you will see he mentions "Emotional Step" )Tapes were sent to some of the Eva fans found on this site to ask for opinions. They all agreed that this was something that should be released.
There is a misconception that these are old songs. I have two problems with that. First is that you imply that Eva's ability was inferior when she was younger which I can assure you was not the case. Second is that the songs are not that old. Most were recorded around the same time she was recording The Other Side. She recorded "Little Children" the same week she recorded "God Bless The Child". I got to play on "God Bless The Child" because the session got started after ours and I was asked to sit in by Chris (as was Jim Campbell-our drummer). "Way Beyond The Blue" from Time After Time is older than anything on No Boundaries.
Would Eva have wanted these songs to be released? Well some of these songs were used to interest Apollo records (who she wanted to sign with). Had that happened, she would have had a very different body of work (Much more like a hybrid of her Blues work and No Boundaries and no folk at all). Any opinion you offer about inclusion would have to include the other posthumous releases as well (any bets about her reaction to Time After Time and songs like "The Letter" being released?) otherwise you're just left with the one valid criticism you have. It doesn't appeal to your musical sensibilities.
We always said No Boundaries was different. Listen before you buy. You can hear it at www.renatamusic.com
Sorry Laura if I am too longwinded here.
Name: Norma Dalgleish
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (only one, but more due)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow, but it's a close thing
Home town: Edinburgh
Found the website: Mirago
Sent: Mon January 08 2001 06:23 AM
I agree wholeheartedly with everyone about the phenomenon that is, or sadly was Eva Cassidy.
My friend called me from the Borders the other Saturday mid TOTP2, to tell me he had seen the earlier programme and that the last clip was not to be missed. As I was in the middle of decorating, the video was elsewhere, but the TV was within reach. Rarely have I ever been so moved in such a short space of time - the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when I heard her sing. I am also cursing that I didn't hook up the video player, since I have the feeling that when I'm telling people about it, they just reply with a patronising 'Yeah, bet she was good'.
I swiftly ordered the Songbird album, and today I have ordered 3 more albums. I'm so glad to have found an appreciative Eva family, it's a crying shame she can't be around to share this with us.
Norma
Name: Laura Barnhart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: haven't decided
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Morgan Hill, Ca
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Mon January 08 2001 06:46 AM
Eva is like a star who graces the heavens, eternally shines, and surrounds us with a voice that touches all corners of the world. And will I ever not cry when I hear her?
Name: Laura Barnhart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: haven't decided
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Morgan Hill, Ca
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Mon January 08 2001 06:46 AM
Eva is like a star who graces the heavens, eternally shines, and surrounds us with a voice that touches all corners of the world. And will I ever not cry when I hear her?
Name: Steven E
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Dark Side of the Street
Home town: Rushden England
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Tue January 09 2001 05:02 AM
She has changed my life in many ways and will probably continue to do so. I have just found this site after looking for a Bulletin board on Eva. Would like to get some good pictures or posters. Does anyone know how?
Eva's message is spreading with friends and colleagues but not the wife! Lets hope she eventually reaches everybody and the world will truly be a better place
Name: Steven
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Dark Side...
Home town: Rushden Northants
Found the website: Alta
Sent: Tue January 09 2001 05:17 AM
Sad Man that I am if anyone can help me over Eva re pics and posters please E me at Sweeper5@Bigfoot.com
May her music never die!!!
Name: Steve Elliott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Waly Waly
Home town: Pocklington England
Found the website: Freeserve
Sent: Tue January 09 2001 08:34 AM
I am a regular viewer to this web site, but seldom contribute to it. However having read many messages over the past 6 months, there is a connecting thread that runs through many of them. That is, that so many listeners to Eva's music find themselves crying! I mention this because I do not find this with any other singer alive or departed. The songs are not sung by Eva to wring out the last drop of emotion; they are sung naturally and beautifully. So why all the tears? I have to add however that I have not escaped this effect either; but what is it that touches the emotion in a way that other singers do not? Any simple ideas anyone?
Name: Sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Waly Waly
Home town: girvan
Found the website: Google
Sent: Tue January 09 2001 11:10 AM
Having purchased "No Boundaries" I must say I was disappointed. it simply is not very good and I can quite understand why the Cassidy family would be upset at its release. the songs are very poor and Eva sounds as if she is simply going through the motions.
Name: MATTHEW. S
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: There is too many to choose a single one
Home town: Suffolk, England
Found the website: Netscape
Sent: Tue January 09 2001 12:56 PM
Like so many other people Eva's voice just seems to hit the spot so to speak. I don't know what it is but I am not able to read more than about 5 entries on this or any of the other pages, before the tears start to roll. I can't listen to particular songs before I start crying again, I am in my mid 20's a van driver, and would say I was one of the boys and am only moved by some things on rare occasions. But Eva gorgeous voice and the kind and loving words written by the people on this page, just seem to touch a certain nerve!!!!!
It is really nice to know that so many others are getting the chance to hear the most beautiful voice you will ever hear in your life, my thanks goes out to Terry Wogan and his team at Radio 2, where I first hear Eva Cassidy.
I have all her albums and not a day goes by without on of them being played, but like others will the tears ever stop????
My only wish is that Eva was still with us and for her to see what joy she has brought to so many people. ( A tear is rolling down my cheek as I write this!!! )
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Waldorf Maryland USA
Found the website: excite
Sent: Tue January 09 2001 02:03 PM
Just checking back in to read and it seems that most people really appreciate great singing. Eva has left us treasures to enjoy. Enjoy the music and spread the word. The voice will move you like nothing else you have heard and is to be appreciated. Hope that everyone had a great holiday season. Keep Eva's spirit alive and pass the message of music and love along to others to enjoy.
Name: Dick Crane
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird/Other Side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Annapolis, MD
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Wed January 10 2001 06:30 AM
I guess I better weigh in on Eva. I first met Eva through my friendship with Jackie Fletcher. I had the pleasure and the honor of hearing Eva sing "live" on many occasions. Was I an Eva groupie? I suppose you could say so, but that characterization would probably have annoyed Eva. She had no pretensions and was as real as real can be. I'm reminded of the time Jackie and I dragged her down to the "Open Mic" night at a local restaurant in Annapolis. We tried every angle to get her to go up to the open mike. Each time she politely but firmly declined. In fact it took three visits before we could get her to finally go to the mike. The results were predictable. She brought the house down. The one song she planned to sing turned into three or four more.
Like the others who knew Eva, I fell blessed that she was a part of my life albeit brief. Every time Jackie and I see each other, we remember something about her. Mostly we realize, as did many of her friends and family, that someday she would be recognized for the wonderful person and magical talent she is. I say "is" purposely, because for many of her old and now her new friends Eva "is" still a part of our lives.
Funny thing is - the one person who likely would be most uncomfortable with all the attention and notoriety would be Eva.
Thank you Eva for all you were and all you are!
Love Dick
Name: kevin o'neill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: tall trees in georgia
Home town: dublin , rep of ireland.
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Wed January 10 2001 08:37 AM
one week before Christmas and Dublin city was buzzing I was driving home on the motorway and this song ( Songbird ) came on the radio, wow it blew me away I had pull over, that evening I went back into city centre and after trying a few music stores I came home with both Live at Blues Alley and Eva By Heart, its heartwarming and heartbreaking.... .... kevin
Name: Richard Feguson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Belfast Ireland
Found the website:
Sent: Fri January 12 2001 05:57 AM
Recently discovered Eva. Love all the songs. Have Blues Alley and Songbird and hoping to complete the collection this month... Music for the wilting soul...
Name: Stephen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: see below
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: see below
Home town: devon
Found the website: Google
Sent: Fri January 12 2001 06:16 AM
for every moment, every emotion there is a song and the lady to sing it was Eva.
I cannot have a favourite song or album as with each changing day and emotion my favourite changes, enough to say the lady and her voice are special. Thank you
Name: Debra
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I can only choose one?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: well Fields of Gold was what I heard first...
Home town: Boston, MA
Found the website: excite
Sent: Fri January 12 2001 08:29 PM
After seeing an episode of Dawson's Creek which featured Eva's cover of Fields of Gold, I frantically searched napster for the source behind the song that moved me to tears in seconds. Eva Cassidy's music is a drug to me... I can't get enough of her and her voice...it is magical...it hits a part of my soul I hadn't even come in contact with myself... She is a beautiful soul, with the voice of an angel... I pray she watches down on her millions of fans and feels at peace with her beautiful music and her fantastical talent... rest in peace, angel...
Name: Debra Pt. 2
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: see below
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: see below
Home town: Boston
Found the website: excite
Sent: Fri January 12 2001 08:32 PM
I would also like to say that I have been listening to Eva's music for about 4 months now, and it wasn't until tonight that I searched the web for ways to see her in concert, and subsequently found out of her passing... I was devastated... speechless... the music community has suffered a loss...a paralyzing loss.
Name: Devon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town: Ireland
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Sat January 13 2001 06:20 AM
Bored and channel flipping is how I discovered Eva Cassidy. Such a powerful and mysterious voice it made me stop and take notice. The song has been done before, as familiar as an old shoe but somehow this was different. Moving is the only word I can think of. I searched the net for 'SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW' as I had missed the artist. It took me ages to track her name down and when I did was both happy and sad. Happy to put a name to that incredible voice and sad to realise that she had passed away. What a loss! I've not been able to track down her albums yet but I do desperately want to hear more of her. The world is full of talented people; so many can carry a tune and sing a song, play a guitar. But it is so rare to be touched that deeply by a voice that has so much to offer....
Name: Andy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town: Cleveland
Found the website: Google
Sent: Sat January 13 2001 09:44 AM
I have only recently learned of Eva's work through local airings on WKSU's weekend folk music program (you can replay at www.wksu.org). As I opened to her depth of expression, I remembered a talented friend, Shelly, also a singer/songwriter, who left us many years ago while still very young. We keep her music and memory alive through friendship and sharing, much as you are doing with Eva's music. Thank you.
Name: Ian Daniel Morton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
Home town: San Diego, CA
Found the website: AOL
Sent: Sat January 13 2001 02:19 PM
I, too, found out about the achingly beautiful gifts of Eva Cassidy after she had passed. Never have I been as moved and impressed by the crafting of a vocal composition as I have with Eva. I encourage all to spread her music to those who may be unfamiliar. A friend did that for me and my life has been forever enriched!
Name: Ray Curtis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Impossible to choose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All (at the moment)
Home town: Doncaster
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Sun January 14 2001 08:31 AM
I was in the supermarket a few weeks ago when a friend of mine, another Hi Fi nut, said that I had to listed to an album by a singer called Eva Cassidy (Songbird) he said it would blow my mind, eventually when I had some spare cash I bought Live at Blues Alley, I now have all the others. He was right I can honestly say I have never in the whole of my (listening to music time) come across a more (I cant put into words, what I am thinking)personal voice, Eva belongs to the world, but when you are listening to her she is singing for you personally. Any way I honestly did not realise Eva died in 1996, until a few moments ago, I was shattered to think such a voice is lost. I realised then I wanted to tell someone what I was thinking. (sorry to whoever to ramble on so).
Name: Samantha Carter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: The Other Side with Chuck Brown
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Other than Over the Rainbow- God Bless the Child
Home town: Broward
Found the website: aol.search.com
Sent: Sun January 14 2001 02:52 PM
I was given this CD as a Christmas gift from my uncle, and I fell in love with it immediately. She truly was a remarkable woman!!!
Name: Rick Russell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: only one? probably Over the Rainbow
Home town: Reno, NV
Found the website: yahoo search
Sent: Sun January 14 2001 07:23 PM
What can I say about Eva's music that hasn't already been said more eloquently by those who've posted before me? Her voice was a gift from God. She had a way of taking a song and making it her own-----"...Rainbow" and "Fields of Gold" are but two examples of that. There are many more. What a unique talent! What a great artist!
Name: colette Mowat
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time is a Healer
Home town: Reading Berkshire
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Mon January 15 2001 04:31 AM
Listening to an Eva Cassidy song is like rediscovering
music all over again. After a hard day with the kids
and work I just put on one of her CDs and I'm in heaven.
Name: Gail Maffett
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: How can you pick just one!
Home town: Stuarts Draft VA
Found the website: WebFerret
Sent: Mon January 15 2001 10:31 AM
I didn't come to Eva's music until recently when I heard a bit about her on NPR. Wow, was I blown away! I immediately ordered Live at Blues Alley and The Other Side that very same day. Both have quickly become my favorites.
Name: David
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Every Single One!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town: Frederick
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Mon January 15 2001 08:22 PM
Eva's family was musical too, I learned from reading the liner notes on one of her disks. Do any of them have anything recorded and published? Are any of them still making music? Are her parents still living?
Name: Deanna Cullen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (only one I have so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Memphis, TN
Found the website: Netscape search
Sent: Thu January 18 2001 08:22 AM
I have enjoyed looking through this website so much. Thank You! I first heard Eva's beautiful voice on NPR just before Christmas 2000. I was so moved, I cried. Her story and the emotion in her voice reminded me of my father, whom I lost the Summer of 1998 to leukemia. He was my inspiration. My heart has been lost for such a long time and hearing Eva's angelica voice has helped so much. Close your eyes and feel the sounds coming out of her voice, really feel them with not only your ears but your complete body. You can almost touch and feel the texture of each note. The softness and hardness, the echo and response, the strength and weakness. We discover beauty in many forms, not by chance, but because it is meant to be. I believe Eva is still singing. Singing to the loved ones we have all lost and hope one day to be reunited with. Her beautiful voice continues to live on here. I look forward to collecting more of her work. Thank You again.
Name: Steve Elliott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Waly Waly
Home town: Pocklinfton, England
Found the website:
Sent: Thu January 18 2001 08:32 AM
I posted a message on this guestbook recently 9th Jan wondering why so many of us find ourselves moved to tears by Eva's voice. I have received several replies to this and it seems clear that we all are capable of shedding tears of joy when we experience great artistic beauty. Listen to Puccini's Nessum Dorma, or Verdi's Requiem and you will see what I mean. Never have I experienced such tears of joy with a non classical singer as I have with Eva's work.
Name: Vince Fisher
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Kingston, NY
Found the website: From a friend
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 05:00 AM
My wife's cousin brought us the Live at Blues Alley CD when she came to visit from DC. We couldn't stop playing it. We've acquired more albums and continue to be amazed by her range and pleased by the sound of her voice. I especially enjoy her guitar playing. We loved her so much that when Cousin Sheila told us she was no longer with us, it broke our hearts.
Name: kevin o'neill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: By Heart (maybe )
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: impossible
Home town: dublin rep of ireland
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 08:14 AM
what is the world coming to , my 20yr old son came home this evening with Time After Time ...what's unusual is he likes guns"n"roses etc etc after the fight to get it off him ( I won ) I went to the study and played it over and over, it's beautiful and Woodstock is superb,
now I have a ?? when the billboard copy comes out can anyone from the states forward me a copy as I can't get it here thanks and "keep on believin"
kevin
Name: Howard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: Caernarfon. N.Wales. UK
Found the website: EvaCassidy.com
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 11:01 AM
I first heard the title track from the 'Songbird' album in the early hours of the morning, driving my car, on radio 2. Only once before in my 40 years had I been brought to tears listening to a song. This is now a regular occurrence, not just through the sadness of losing Eva so young, but the pure sound of her voice sends a shiver down my spine. Thank you Eva, where ever you are.
Name: Andy Roberts
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town:
Found the website:
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 12:19 PM
This lady's voice has touched my soul, why did she have to die.
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: depends on the day and the mood
Home town: Waldorf Maryland
Found the website: Excite
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 12:55 PM
Just checking back in to read new entries, you really get hooked when you hear the first note from her voice. She has one of the most soul stirring voices you will ever hear. Enjoy and enlighten your friends and family. Waiting for my copy of no boundaries to arrive now. Well until next time take care everyone.
Name: <fir100_bolen@yahoo.com>
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town:
Found the website:
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 02:35 PM
brand new fan, "through the thicket I go.... "on what CD?
Name: Peter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: What A Wonderful World
Home town: Tower City, PA
Found the website: alltheweb.com
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 03:19 PM
As others have said I first heard that beautiful voice on NPR one morning singing "Tall Trees". I couldn't wait to get the Blues Alley album..."Wonderful World" stirs up much emotion...difficult to maintain composure. In fact I'm listening to it right now.
Thanks for the site...
Name: Marv
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: At Last
Home town: Chattanooga, TN
Found the website: Sherloch 2/Excite
Sent: Fri January 19 2001 07:11 PM
In my 60+ years, always heavily into music, only twice, maybe three times have I heard a voice which stopped me in my tracks. I first heard Eva on public radio (WUTC) while driving, and I had to pull over and stop the car. I needed a 100% "connection" to this angel, this voice, and strangely, this person. I wasn't being "entertained", I was being physically touched in a strangely personal way. I felt, well, embarrassment. I felt as though I was a voyeur - an uninvited presence while an angel exposed her soul in a song I had heard hundreds of times (At Last) yet was hearing for the first time. I memorized her name when the artist was identified, continued home and hit the internet. Only then did I discover that I WAS being touched by an angel. She IS (not was) extraordinary.
Name: carol
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Edinburgh, Scotland
Found the website: Google
Sent: Sun January 21 2001 12:40 AM
simply unique.
Name: George
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Jarrow
Found the website: surfing
Sent: Sun January 21 2001 01:25 AM
on January 2 1996 I was in the audience at Blues Alley, never heard of Eva before that but that evening will stay with me forever! What a talent!
Name: Toni Elliott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Blue Skies/Cheek to Cheek
Home town: Sydney, Australia
Found the website: Google
Sent: Sun January 21 2001 02:55 PM
I am a jazz singer and I am always looking for new CDs for different interpretations and inspiration. About six months ago I found a copy of Blues Alley in a record store, even though I had never heard of Eva Cassidy before I decided to buy it. When I got to my car I immediately put it on, I sat in my car mesmerized and drawn in by her voice and phrasing. It was like I was in some sort of trance the first time I heard her, she really affected me. I have listened to her over and over and I am so inspired by her, she is amazing. I found your site this morning 22 Jan 2001 and have just learnt of her passing in 1996. With a very heavy heart.... ...thank you Eva, you truly are a wonderful inspiration to me.
Name: Tim Campbell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Hard to choose, Blues Alley I guess
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Stormy Monday
Home town: Haverhill, MA
Found the website: Lycos
Sent: Sun January 21 2001 12:11 PM
Great site! thank you so much
Also I would like to thank Robin Young for turning me on to Eva.
Name: Christa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Wandered By a Brookside
Home town: Palm Desert, CA
Found the website: link listed on www.evaCassidy.com
Sent: Sun January 21 2001 05:36 PM
I am in awe of the beauty and grace projected in Eva's voice. I had learned of her through the Beth Neilson Chapman email link. As much as they raved about Eva's voice, I had to check it out. The first I heart was "I know you by heart", then "Songbird", I played these over and over again and was mesmerized by her voice, and purity. It was then I found out the sad truth of her passing. I then recognized what I heard was a special spiritual, a message that I was drawn to, but couldn't put my finger on, until then. My goal is to obtain each of her recordings, the 2 I have haven't come easy.
During the holidays, I brought Eva By Heart into the office to play, since the bosses were gone. Shortly after playing the 1st couple songs, a co-work came over, wanting to know who this angel was. She had chills from her voice, and when I told her the story she was in tears, knowing she was hearing an angel.
The song "I Wandered By a Brookside" provides the truth and power in spirituality, in knowing what ever our we suffer, the pains, and difficulties incurred, we are not alone, and now I know if I listen and believe I too can hear 2 hearts beat.
So though Eva may be gone physically she has guided me and reinforced me spiritually. Thank you Eva, you are a true Angel!
Name: Kenny Gair
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Not settled yet...all I've heard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: So far...Autumn Leaves
Home town: Lanark, Scotland.
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Sun January 21 2001 10:43 PM
Only just came to find Eva Cassidy in the last few months and I am both saddened and incredibly excited. What an amazing talent!
I too sing a bit (although I admit this very humbly) and have been completely captivated by the strength of emotion in Eva's voice. I can't say enough or put into words how I feel other than blown away! I will make it my mission to spread the word and bring Eva to the ears of as many as I can.
Thank you for letting me enjoy your music. I wish you were here.
Name: Doug Roach
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Still to discover all albums
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wonderful World
Home town: London
Found the website: Google
Sent: Sun January 21 2001 11:47 PM
I heard Eva sing for the first time yesterday (thank you Radio 2)and was deeply moved. Rarely has a voice had such an effect on me, to send shivers down my spine and to take a complete hold of me. I look forward to discovering each and every song Eva left us.
Thank you Eva.
Name: paul limbrick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: o.t.rainbow
Home town: barry south wales GB
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Mon January 22 2001 12:42 AM
Dear Laura, I recently purchased the Eva album "No
Boundaries" via Amazon. Surprisingly there has been
no promotion for this as far as I can see, and the
sleeve notes don't reveal much either. Do you have any
further info that could shed more light on this
project? Any help would be appreciated. Many thanx.
Name: keith hull
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Nottingham England
Found the website: sorry forgot
Sent: Mon January 22 2001 01:34 AM
This is a bit of a long shot, but for anyone who sees this in time it might be useful. There will be a repeat of Eva Cassidy singing "Over the Rainbow" on Top of the Pops 2 on BBC 2 at 6pm ( UK only ) on Wednesday 24 January 2001. This was originally shown at Christmas (twice) but I, like many others missed it. So make a note in your TV guide and pass this on .. if you are reading this after the above date (I am writing this on 23/01/2001) you might like to contact the BBC and ask if it could be repeated again, but this time with a little more forward notice. all the best everyone ..enjoy.. if you get to see it you might like to let me know what you think of it ..keith.hull@ntlworld.com
Name: keith hull
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Nottingham England
Found the website: ??
Sent: Mon January 22 2001 07:34 AM
URGENT CORRECTION... URGENT CORRECTION...URGENT CORRECTION... Please ignore the next entry below this one (it is also from me but the information is incorrect)Terry Wogan gave out the date for the Eva Cassidy video clip on top2 this morning as Wednesday the 24th Jan 2001. Following a phone call to the beeb I have discovered that it is in fact the following Wednesday The 31st Jan 2001 and also repeated on Saturday 3rd February both on bbc2 (check your TV guides for exact times.) please accept my apologies for the mix up but at least it may give a few more of you the chance to see this and then see it.. so all's well that ends well... and as Wogan would say "mustn't grumble" I have emailed the said Wogan so you might here his correction in the next few mornings. once again if any of you get to see the clip I would be interested to know what you think of it. keith.hull@ntlworld.com
apologies again...
Name: Jennifer Kopacz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: New listener- I only have one album- Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All of them
Home town: Elmira, NY
Found the website: MSN
Sent: Mon January 22 2001 09:16 AM
Thank you for sharing your memories with those of us who were unfortunate enough to find her music after her death. What a blessing her music is.
Name: Dave
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: only heard song bird so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You by Heart
Home town: Hexham, Northumberland, UK.
Found the website: Lycos
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 03:34 AM
It was a wet evening in December last year (2000). I was busy setting a fire in our wood-burning stove when I turned on the TV to watch the BBC¹s Top of The Pops 2 programme, ( for those who don¹t know this is a weekly retrospective which mainly serves to remind you of all the awful pop that has charted in the last few decades)!
On screen was a woman singing and playing guitar. She stopped me dead in my tracks. She was of course singing Rainbow. The image of Judy Garland in Technicolour gingham exploded into the ether as the final chorus reached it¹s climax and my emotions were dragged from within. I had been so entranced by the performance that I failed to notice the info that this show always runs in caption form, but I did spot two crucial things: the name Eva Cassidy and the phrase check out the Album Songbird¹. As tried to de-mist my glasses I announced to an empty room, ³that was absolutely superb², I was hooked, only the cat remained unimpressed as I had failed to finish lighting the fire!
That night I couldn¹t sleep thinking about Eva¹s singing, being a bit of a cynic and not having taped the show I thought maybe I was turning into an emotional cripple at age 45! Thank goodness for the internet, next day I logged on and ordered Songbird from amazon (my first ever bit of e-shopping). Three days later the album arrived and I prepared myself to be disappointed. Most albums I have bought when listened to, have a pattern, you buy on the strength of a track that is instantly likable but when you have listened for a while the more serious stuff on the record becomes favourite. Not so with Eva, all the tracks on the Songbird CD (I have thought long and hard about this) represents the most complete and greatest vocal performance I have heard to date (Eva¹s other albums are at the top of my shopping list). Like many people I have listened over and over and the music just gets better, favourites apart from ¹Rainbow would be Autumn Leaves for it¹s simple beauty and ¹By Heart as it demonstrates Eva¹s incredible range and feel for the song. Thanks to this website I have discovered much more about Eva, superlatives abound and she seems to have effected the emotions of many, from ordinary guys like me to hard nosed record company bosses (even my partner Suzanne who is not much of a music fan melted¹ when she heard ¹Rainbow). I think good music is all about emotion, Eva Cassidy¹s musical arrows hit the gold every time.
Name: Pat Dargan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Walsall England
Found the website:
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 07:47 AM
** Reminder **
Anyone requiring CD of Radio 2 Tribute to Eva please E mail... Patdargan@aol.com
Fantastic to see the reactions recently to the NPR broadcast in the states and the TOTP 2 video on BBC TV.
Let's trust the " Billboard " feature will provoke the same feeling...
Everyone should get to hear Eva's gift.
This music should be played to children as early as possible in their lives and they should be told " This is music...this is how good it can be.."
Best wishes to everyone...we are all fortunate to have discovered Eva
cheers p@
Name: Lydia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Bridgnorth, England
Found the website: www.evaCassidy.com
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 08:16 AM
I first discovered Eva on Radio 2 and have been affected by her haunting and beautiful voice ever since. Reading all the messages above has warmed my heart knowing how many people, from all over the world, keep finding her music. It is a tragedy knowing what a great talent was cut off so quickly, but I like to picture her up in the sky shining as one of the very brightest stars. Her sound is heartbreaking, warming and very, very special. May her music live on.
Name: Rick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Ringgold
Found the website: MSN
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 10:28 AM
I remember the first time that I heard Eva's rendition of Sting's "Fields of Gold". I was instantly captivated by her beautiful, haunting voice. Imagine my surprise when I heard her sing "The Letter". Pleasant whiplash!! It is a shame that she died so young. I forever will be a fan of Eva!
Name: Ian Sadler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: Hartlebury England
Found the website: www.didgerecords.com
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 10:30 AM
Like many of you in the UK I first saw Eva on TOP2 just before Christmas. I managed to get the Songbird CD just after Christmas and now play it every moment I can. It is incredible! Desperate for my delivery of two more CDs
Name: Ruth Watson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: People Get Ready
Home town: N Ireland
Found the website: Alta vista
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 12:12 PM
Quite simply the voice of an angel.
Name: glynne@tinyworld.co.uk
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Found the website:
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 02:12 PM
Sorry Laura that last message was from me....any chance of the full version of Springtime?
Name: Richard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I don't have just one
Home town: Hummelstown
Found the website:
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 05:51 PM
Thank-you NPR for introducing me to this wonderful lady. I would have missed one of the most beautiful enjoyable voices had it not been for that show. I know why God took her from this world. It was so he could hear his angel better.
Name: alejandro
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: blue alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: just about all of them
Home town: comox,bc canada
Found the website: Google
Sent: Tue January 23 2001 10:14 PM
I could feel Eva's voice through the veins of my heart.
I will worship her songs FOREVER... THANK YOU FOR THE SONGS EVA...
Name: Mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Hermosa Beach, CA
Found the website:
Sent: Wed January 24 2001 03:06 PM
I first heard this voice when I went to the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas January 2000. I went into this one booth and they were demonstrating speakers. I just stopped and sat there for a couple of hours. I was very moved by her passion, still not knowing the tragic part of her story. Once I learned more about her it just made me cry to know of such talent and the purity of her love to sing from her heart, never concerned with popularity. It was amazing to see, in her story, that she couldn't understand why anyone would want to pay to hear her sing. I try to live my life in a way where I really experience the beauty in nature, music and art with a depth that I feel is special. Listening to her always is overwhelming to me, but I am very glad it is so.
Name: Connie Cole
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart (it's the only one we've got!!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time is a Healer
Home town: Yateley
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Thu January 25 2001 05:59 AM
Hi I'm only 10 years of age and I love Eva Cassidy and I think all children should be able to have the opportunity to listen to this FAB music. We are saving up to get the other albums!! I can't wait to here her sing on Top Of The Top 2!!Thanks for the web site
From Connie
Name: Julia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: only heard Songbird so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow/Autumn Leaves
Home town: Newcastle
Found the website: freeserve
Sent: Thu January 25 2001 12:06 PM
Thanks to Wogan, Radio 2, what an absolute pleasure this CD is. Eva sings so beautifully. Will be buying more.
Name: Sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town: Raleigh, NC
Found the website: dogpile.com
Sent: Fri January 26 2001 03:14 AM
Thank you for this wonderful web site. I stumbled across "Songbird" by accident and ordered it because I wanted to hear her version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." I loved her voice the first instant I heard her sing. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to get to meet Eva in a different way than through her songs. It makes me realize she was indeed a special person with a gift of a voice that will always be alive.
Name: Sue-Yin McMahon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: GUERNSEY, Channel Islands
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Sat January 27 2001 04:15 AM
At long last my copy of Songbird has arrived, and has been played virtually non stop. My little boy, aged 16 months keeps pointing to the CD player and asking for more!!!! What great taste for one so young!
I have never come across some-one who has moved me so much, and even after playing Songbird and Time After Time (the only two CDs I possess at the moment)over and over again, I never fail to wonder and marvel at Eva's voice. She moves me to tears and I'm not ashamed to admit it!
We have a friend staying with us at the moment, and I played him my recording of Eva on TOTP2 - he's also amazed by her voice - another convert!
I also would love to know more about her poetry and art - is there any chance of this?
Best Wishes! Sue-Yin
Name: Adrian Goodall
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Woodstock
Home town: London, UK
Found the website: Google
Sent: Sun January 28 2001 01:29 AM
I have never been moved by a vocalist in the way I am by Eva Cassidy. I have sung a lot in my time, I have listened to huge amounts of music all my life - all types - but nothing comes close in the 'pop' world. She's up there with Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto, Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, Tallis's Lamentations for sheer emotional power. I stumbled across her music - recommended by Graham's HiFi in North London - and have been riveted ever since. She will bring such pleasure to so many millions of people over the coming years - it is so sad she will not be able to see it. Or perhaps she will.
Best wishes to all who knew her.
Name: TONY BRAMWELL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
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Home town: ENGLAND
Found the website:
Sent: Sun January 28 2001 03:27 AM
PLEASE REMEMBER TO WATCH TOP OF THE POPS 2 this Wednesday and Saturday cheers TONY B.
Name: Chris Francis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town: Sydney, Australia
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Sun January 28 2001 11:18 AM
Like so many others, I stumbled across Eva in my record store and after listening to one track I bought all 3 albums there (except Time After Time. Like many others I have been in the music business as a performer, writer and listener for more than 20 years and have never heard such a pure and haunting voice. I cried the first time I listened to People Get Ready and sat dumbstruck through the 3 albums. I wouldn't like her to become a "cult" figure like Nick Drake. She deserves the attention of everyone who can listen to an impeccable talent. Simply wonderful.
Name: Andy Blyth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Maidstone
Found the website: Google
Sent: Sun January 28 2001 09:51 PM
I was introduced to Eva Cassidy by the old Togmeister himself, El Tel Wogan, who played Over the Rainbow. I was so stunned by what I was hearing that I had to stop what I was doing and just listen to that soaring pure voice with the simple but magical guitar accompaniment. I have written and sung a few humble tunes in my past and the hairs on the back of my head just went into overdrive, which always happens when something incredible is heard. As soon as it had finished and I found out who it was, I went straight to the record store to search out this fabulous track, and finally found it. Then of course, found out more of the history behind this special lady, and her tragically cut short life.
This timeless song, sung so well, is a classic example of a great melody and lyric, married to a perfect performance, producing sheer magic!
Name: Diane
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Home town: Towson, MD
Found the website:
Sent: Mon January 29 2001 04:17 AM
I am just beginning to listen to Eva. She has an amazing voice.
Name: Laura Mckinney
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: Aberdeen
Found the website: Lycos
Sent: Mon January 29 2001 04:29 AM
I have been listening to Eva for a while now and I would love a copy of the lyrics for the songs on the "Songbird" album. If any other fans have the lyrics I would really appreciate a copy. Thank you. X
Name: Norma Sinclair
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird - it's the only one I've heard so far.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Love Heals The Wound It Makes
Home town: Edinburgh
Found the website: Google
Sent: Mon January 29 2001 04:50 AM
My younger brother gave this CD to me as part of my Christmas present on Christmas day. I had never heard of Eva Cassidy before! He just put it on my stereo before we sat down to our family Christmas Dinner and said Merry Christmas Sis. What a wonderful gift to receive on Christmas day - the voice of an angel! I can't remember since my teenage years, a time when I have re-played an album over and over and over again (who remembers leaving the arm off your record player??!!). I'm insatiable, I just can't listen to it often enough. When I've had friends over to my home, I've deliberately put her CD on and said nothing - on four different occasions I've been asked Who's That? They've all commented on her incredibly wonderful voice. I've already bought a copy for my sister, best friend and ex-partner. You know I still wonder at life - when you think you've almost seen, done and heard it all, it's amazing that now and then something comes along and tugs at the strings of your soul and connects you with your fellow beings - past and present.
Name: Dan Chrenka
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town: St. Louis
Found the website: Google
Sent: Mon January 29 2001 01:06 PM
Thanks for putting this site together. I first heard Eva Cassidy on NPR. A few days later (a week before Christmas) I went to the store to get her CD and they were sold out based on the response from that radio show. Last week I listened to Songbird at the store. It is so beautiful, spiritual. I think I will be listening to her the rest of my life. I know I will never forget her.
Name: Victoria Hayden
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: It's not possible to choose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ditto
Home town: Manalapan, NJ USA
Found the website: AOL
Sent: Mon January 29 2001 03:50 PM
I have a perpetual lump in my throat, realizing that I will have listened to all of her recordings and there won't be any new ones. I am heartened by the realization that every time I listen to her voice, I hear something new. I want to send her CDs as gifts to everyone I know, with the unspoken message being "I love you" and "beauty transcends the span of just one lifetime" Her voice reaches across time and touches my soul. I am grateful she chose to share her gift.
Name: Gene Fitzgerald
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (for now)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow (still brings tears to my eyes)
Home town: Salt Lake City, UT
Found the website: excite
Sent: Mon January 29 2001 07:12 PM
Like many I heard the NPR report on Eva Cassidy and when I hear the Over the Rainbow piece her name was burned into my mind. I asked my son to get me one of her albums for Christmas, which he did. It was Songbird and glory be it had Rainbow on it. In the meantime I have bought all the rest, including No Boundaries which got a terrible review on Amazon.com but I am listening to it right now and while I like other albums more I still like it very much. Being a professor of Russian I have a streak of Irish/Russian sentimentality and Rainbow passes the goosebump test every time I listen to it, and Eva's voice is one of the most glorious instruments I have ever heard(and I am an opera fan). I have only heard one rendition of Rainbow-- are there others? Thanks to all who have brought Eva to my attention and I now, I, along with many others I expect, grieve over her untimely death.
Name: Gene Fitzgerald
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Sent: Tue January 30 2001 03:53 AM
Just reread my message and I apologize for the typos. I hope the sincerity of my sentiments came through anyway.
Name: Helena Jones
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley/Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves/Wonderful World
Home town: Milton Keynes, England
Found the website:
Sent: Tue January 30 2001 07:35 AM
I just want to say that Eva Cassidy is the first person in a long time to inspire me so much. As a singer/songwriter myself, I listen to so many musicians and have so many heroes but she is definitely my biggest hero. Eva sings so beautifully with so much passion and grace and the material she chooses is so varied. I have learnt so much from listening to her style, her arrangements and the delivery of her work. She was so gifted and talented and it does sadden me so much when I think that she is unable to share her gift with her fans anymore and also that she cannot fulfil her own musical life. I am so thankful for the recordings that were made as they are truly beautiful. I have all her albums except 'No Boundaries' and I love each one for different reasons. I have just ordered the above mentioned and I can't wait to hear it and add to my much cherished collection. I hope that if there is anymore recorded material out there it reaches her already loyal fans and get more onboard - spread the word!
Name: Mark Crotty
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird, Over the Rainbow
Home town: Addlestone, Surrey, U.K.
Found the website: www.didgerecords.com
Sent: Tue January 30 2001 10:09 PM
Probably like most people in the U.K. I found out about Eva from Wogan on Radio 2. I have all her albums and it really is not fair to ask me to pick my favourite. She has something for all of my moods.
A word of warning to U.K. buyers, avoid H.M.V. stores as they are charging £16.99 for each CD.
Name: helen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow/at last
Home town: cheshunt, herts
Found the website:
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 07:55 AM
Get ready for a deluge of new messages. Eva has just been on TOTP2 again. If you missed it anyone it is repeated later in the week. Set video recorders.
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Home town: Preston UK
Found the website:
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 08:13 AM
Just heard Over the Rainbow on TOTP2. I've never been more moved by a performance. Eva has another fan.
Name: Kevin O'Neill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: just don't know
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ditto
Home town: Dublin, rep of Ireland
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 08:18 AM
just seen TOTP2 programme again, only when my son kept asking me a question did I realise I could not answer him as I had a lump in my throat and a tears in my eyes. I still find it hard to accept that such a talent had to be taken, there's a saying here "he only takes the best" anyway I'm rambling on , gotta go and dry my eyes again.
god bless you all,
kevin
Name: Saul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow/Autumn Leaves
Home town: Hookwood Surrey
Found the website: Ask Jeeves
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 09:06 AM
A voice so pure, phrasing so perfect and innovative. So little recorded but what there is simply liquid gold.
Name: Judith
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Home town: Derbyshire
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 09:28 AM
I Have just seen TOTP2 and am overwhelmed by the beauty of Eva's voice. I had never heard her before.
The most moving voice I've ever heard.
Name: Tony Reavey
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Home town: redditch
Found the website: mega spider?
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 10:41 AM
having just seen Eva on TOTP2 like so many others I was very very moved and so impressed, I will certainly be buying Songbird as soon as possible. thanks to Steve Wright and Terry Wogan for plugging "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and now I will do the same by telling people to watch TOTP2 on Feb 3.To listen to Eva sing and watch her perform will enrich any life[can't help but think of Minnie Ripperton when watching Eva as well] many thanks Tony
Name: Brian
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: rainbow
Home town: Birmingham
Found the website:
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 10:50 AM
WOW!! what a talent.... so sad she can't fulfill her potential....
Name: David Whitlam
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Home town: Peterborough England
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 11:05 AM
I saw Eva play Over the Rainbow for the second time on TOPT2 tonight 31/01/01 and it made me cry just like the first time. Such and amazing voice and in incredible guitar player. My knees go weak.
Name: John Murphy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't know yet!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Dublin
Found the website: yahoo
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 11:41 AM
I must confess I only heard Eva for the first time this evening. Her voice made time stand still.
What a wonderful talent.
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Don't know yet - Over the Rainbow?
Home town: Shepperton, UK
Found the website: Alltheweb.com
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 01:39 PM
Like many other people in the UK heard & saw her on BBC2 tonight singing Over the Rainbow - a fabulous voice and amazing emotion. How come a)I missed her until now, and b) she's been taken from us?
Name: debbie mort
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: neath, south wales
Found the website: Lycos
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 01:47 PM
I SAW EVA ON TOTP2, I WAS DUMBSTRUCK, NEVER BEFORE HAVE I HEARD SUCH A HEAVENLY VOICE, AND A SONG SUNG WITH SUCH PASSION. I MUST ADMIT I JUST CRIED!! WHAT A SAD AND TRAGIC LOSS - THANKS FOR A WEB SITE DEDICATED TO AN ANGEL.
Name: Kevin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Not heard them all yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Warrington
Found the website: Excite via Webferret
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 02:06 PM
Like most people in the UK I first heard Eva sing on Wogan, Radio 2. She was singing Fields of Gold I was stunned and amazed at this perfect voice. I also saw TOTP2 tonight and again with Over the Rainbow what a magnificent voice, the World is a poorer place with the loss of this exceptionally talented woman.
Name: sandy abbott
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: anniversary song
Home town: girvan, ayrshire
Found the website: Google
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 02:33 PM
TOTP2 this time played a more complete "Over the Rainbow" from Blues alley. It was the last song on the show-they always save the best performance for last. The show also included Roberta Flack singing "The First time ever I saw your face" which is such a great song and a song which would have been ideal for Eva. wouldn't it be just great if a tape of that existed somewhere?
Anyway the tears were rolling down my face again watching Eva sing. Beautiful, just beautiful. I hope one day we get to see more of that videotape.
Name: Eddie Larkin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Don't know yet
Home town: Dublin, Ireland
Found the website: Yahoo!
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 04:48 PM
I regularly watch TOTP2 on BBC TV, if only for nostalgic reasons, but tonight a young lady was featured on the last slot who I had never heard of before. From the first strains of "Over the Rainbow" I was struck by her beautiful voice and her guitar playing. I am not ashamed to say that I cried near the end of the song, especially when it was revealed that she had actually died some years before and should have been celebrating her 38th birthday this week. have been gleaning information about her on the web and my impression is of a sweet lady with no pretensions about herself. Her death at such a young age is a tragic loss to genuine music lovers everywhere. I shall certainly seek out her albums and I know I will enjoy listening to them. God took her away because he knew her voice would make heaven an even more beautiful place.
Name: Dave Hurrell
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Home town: Hexham UK
Found the website:
Sent: Wed January 31 2001 10:55 PM
Saw Eva again last night on TOTP2. Marvellous! now I can put a face to the voice when I listen to Songbird which I bought after the showing of the clip in December (like many, it took me completely by surprise). Time After Time is in the post! Email all DJs on radio 2 to play one of Eva¹s beautiful songs on her birthday tomorrow! Cheers for now, Dave.
Name: Corinne Lenoir
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town: London
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 01:41 AM
I have put Somewhere Over the Rainbow as my favourite song because this is the only song I have heard.
I was watching BBC2 last night, TOTP2, and this was the first time I had ever heard of this lady. What a magnificent voice, how come I have never heard of her?
I first thought "Good grief, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, someone is having a laugh bringing that out as a song", but it didn't take long to get riveted.
The first chance I get, I'm going to go out and buy the album 'Songbird'.
Name: TONY BRAMWELL
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Home town:
Found the website:
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 01:44 AM
IF YOU WANT TO REQUEST PLAYS ON RADIO 2 here are the addresses
wogan@bbc.co.uk ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk steve.wright@bbc.co.uk jw@bbc.co.uk stewpot@bbc.co.uk
and if you want to contact Points of view it is pov@bbc.co.uk
Thanks a lot
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Wirral
Found the website: Google
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 03:07 AM
I watched TOTP2 just stunned by the beauty of her voice and the unique interpretation of the song. Like so many others I had never even heard her name before, yet by the end of the song I had tears streaming down my face. "Songbird" is on order from Amazon and if the album matches up to that one performance of Over the Rainbow I will be reduced to a quivering wreck! Must get a grip. Just superb.
Name: Sharon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: tough one! Fields of Gold, Songbird, Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town: New England
Found the website: MSN
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 04:32 AM
I've been enjoying Eva's music for almost 2 yrs now. Just can't get enough of her angelic voice. The music of Eva Cassidy lives on with us, her fans, even though she is no longer with us. I hope she knew somehow she touched many people with her music. She certainly touched mine. Thanks for the site!
Name: henry lupo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: columbus, ohio
Found the website:
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 05:27 AM
Words can not describe this talent. I believe all the angles in heaven are so happy to have her as their Songbird.
Name: Colin Shaw
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Birmingham
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 08:45 AM
Eva has the greatest voice I have ever heard - I'm lost for words!
Name: Deej
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: You tell me
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: So far - Fields of Gold
Home town: Manchester
Found the website: Ask Jeeves
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 09:31 AM
Why have I only just heard of Eva? Caught her on Top of the Pops & couldn't believe what I was hearing. I'd love to know more - suggestions recommendations please
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time After Time
Home town: girvan
Found the website: Google
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 11:23 AM
just to say that the Songbird album is back in at No1 on amazon.co.uk.
Name: ronnie stockton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: London
Found the website: alta vista
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 11:26 AM
just seen the video to "over the.... ..." on UK TV and was reminded that Eva would have been 38 tomorrow.... .it wept at the senseless waste of a unique talent. her voice will live on forever. happy birthday kid
Name: Terry Reeves
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Birmingham, England
Found the website: MSN
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 11:34 AM
Watched Eva for the first time on TOTP2, I was spellbound by her beautiful voice. So sad to learn she is no longer with us. But I'm sure her voice will live on in our Hearts
Name: Callum Gourlay
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Home town:
Found the website:
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 12:15 PM
I have the same experience of TOTP2 and bought "Songbird" today. The song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is not, unfortunately, the same version as played on TOTP2 last night.
"Songbird" is a Best-Of-Genre CD and is a studio version. The "Live" version on TV is vocal/Guitar and I'd like to have that. If anyone knows what CD that is on I'd be grateful for the knowledge.
It is a sad loss and one which, soon, will become apparent to the world at large. I am not sure whether Eva would have approved of TOTP2 stating that the song played on their program was not the same as the one stated on their program.
Sorry guys, this all seems like a bit of a downer but let's all remember that the song played is beautiful, haunting and lovely and we deserve to be able to buy that particular copy.
Name: Andrew
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town:
Found the website:
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 01:51 PM
I echo all the above comments about the TOTP2 this week. I had never heard of Eva before, I did do the obvious thing, and go and buy the Songbird CD the very next day. Absolutely stunning. 'Over the Rainbow' will be a song that will stay in my mind forever. Easily the best female singer I have ever heard.
It can be a sad world. I for one have been moved by her singing. My video is already set for Saturdays repeat. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.
Name: Tim Pritchard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town: Isle of Wight
Found the website: Eva's friends site
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 03:07 PM
hhhmm... Eva, I am a singer of a heavy metal band, but still, Celine Dion was one of my favourite singers... my dad showed me Eva's clip on TOTP2 and I sat in silence... amazed... Eva takes my top spot, as she does and always hopefully will do to us all... a truly wonderful singer, and guitarist... and inspiration to young musicians such as myself... long live Eva's memory, and music....
Name: Bernard Griffiths
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town: Milton Keynes UK
Found the website: www.didgerecords.com
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 03:45 PM
In May 1999 I was called on to fly out to Sydney to meet my son Jason, who had been diagnosed of 2 grade 4 malignant brain tumours. I had not seen him for 25 years since his mother and I had divorced. The experience was a strange unemotional situation to be in, the main importance being some form of support for my son and his obvious fear for his future.
While I was in Sydney I was fortunate to be staying at a doctor's apartment in Manly and passed through Spit Junction each day ( never knowing of the existence of Hot Records at that time )on my way back to the Royal North Shore Hospital. I returned home to Milton Keynes after a week and went back to Sydney in late July to bring my son back to spend his days with my wife and I.
My son died on August 18th 2000 and willed that I was not to be involved in any of the funeral arrangements. The combined shock of his death - my short time with him, and the manner of his final wishes made it difficult to grieve for him - that is until I heard the Eva Cassidy track 'Autumn Leaves' today, Feb 1st.
I had received a copy of the BBC Radio compilation CD at Xmas, and had been in awe of the power of the voice on 'Fields of Gold'. I set out to find out more about the person behind the voice and was saddened to learn that Eva had also died of the big 'C'. Today I bought 'Songbird' and 'Time After Time'. Playing 'Songbird' I was overcome with emotion when I heard Eva singing 'Autumn Leaves', but was totally engulfed in tears by the time 'Over the Rainbow' started to play.
Perhaps it was fate the sent me to the town centre to buy the albums today - I now know that it is Eva's Birthday as I am typing this - perhaps there is a message there for me?
Rest in Peace Eva - your voice has helped me release emotions that I felt I were locked up inside my head. I have now shed my tears for the son that I lost through the power of the angelic voice of the Late Eva Cassidy.
RIP Eva and Jason
Name: Pat Dargan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Walsall England
Found the website:
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 08:29 PM
Thinking of you Eva on your birthday.... thank you
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Name: Sheena Paterson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Anniversary Song
Home town: Milngavie, Glasgow
Found the website: Jeeves
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 09:27 PM
Today's a special day...love and best wishes to all Eva's family.
I have shared Eva's music with friends at home and abroad and they have all been stunned by the beautiful music by Eva's voice.
Eva may be gone but her spirit will be with us forever
Name: Annie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart/Over the Rainbow
Home town: Kingston upon Thames
Found the website: Altavista
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 11:07 PM
The captions accompanying Eva's video on TOTP2 stated '....most requested song in TOTP2 history.... .... .save us some work next week....the song is on her Songbird album....' What a wonderful live version of 'Rainbow' it is too and it just shows what an incredible performer Eva really was. All of her albums display her unique talent and if you loved the live rendition of 'Rainbow', the studio version on the Songbird album does not disappoint - whatever and whenever Eva sang it is nothing short of beautiful and magical.
It is so good to read your messages about Eva, especially on the day that would have been her 38th birthday. Best wishes to Eva's family and friends and to everyone out there who loves Eva's music.
'.... .you're still here, beside us, everyday.... .... .'cause we know you by heart..'
Name: Adrian Fleming
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Only heard Over the Rainbow
Home town: Wigan
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 11:19 PM
I heard Over the Rainbow for the third time on TOTP2 on Wednesday and like so many others on the guestbook it totally captivated me and moved me to tears. The difference being that my musical tastes tend more towards hard rock, punk, ska. I could probably count the number of gentle albums I have ever bought on one hand but yesterday I ordered Songbird, the power and beauty of Eva's voice and guitar playing is unlike anything I have ever heard before. Eva, I am thinking of you especially on your birthday.
Name: Margaret Haven
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town: Annapolis, MD
Found the website:
Sent: Thu February 01 2001 11:50 PM
Happy Birthday, Eva! You are always with us. And you know how we miss you. Thank you again for leaving yourself with us in so many beautiful ways. How do you like all this fawl-de-rawl? See? Told ya so!
Love and warm thoughts on this day to Hugh, Barbara, her sisters, her brother, her niece, and the rest of her family. And thank you, Laura... Maggie
Name: Bob Campion
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town: Southampton, England
Found the website: MSN
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 02:09 AM
It was no surprise to log on to this site and find so many comments re: TOTP 2 version of Over the Rainbow.
I too was deeply moved by this performance and would hope that we will be able to see more footage of this sensitive, articulate artist.
The elegant style of this web-site is a fitting tribute and I thank you for that.
Best wishes, Bob C.
Name: Richard Thomas
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Waly Waly
Home town: Blaenafon, Gwent, U K
Found the website:
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 02:40 AM
Happy 38th Eva, and thank you for your beautiful legacy
Name: Bill Thompson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You by Heart
Home town: Rochester, NY
Found the website:
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 09:23 AM
Dear Eva,
You're becoming a big star and as a shy person I hope that doesn't bother you too much. When you move people all over the world to tears you probably just can't avoid the fame. I hope you can somehow enjoy watching all this from afar. A little video clip on the BBC rockets your Songbird album to number one. An eight minute feature on NPR puts five of your albums in the top ten in one day. No one else has ever done that, not even the Beatles. Major publications seem to be noticing. Your music's on the radio. Everyone who hears you becomes an instant fan and they introduce all their friends. It's like a big chain letter and I think it's just the beginning. Thank you so much for all your love and inspiration and for showing us all how it should be done. Hope things are just fine over that rainbow. Happy Birthday, Eva!
Name: Loe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Ain't No Sunshine
Home town: Bath UK
Found the website:
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 09:54 AM
38 is nothing yet Eva. They will be talking and writing about you when you are 100.
Except that you will be for ever young. I have to believe that up there beyond that rainbow you are watching all of this. Today is no doubt a difficult day for your parents, family and close friends. But maybe it is some support to them to know that we are all here. All over the world, we are here, united in grief and joy for you left us more, than you probably ever thought you did. Thank you for keeping me company on those long drives, on these cold evenings by the fire. Happy birthday Eva Cassidy.
Name: Joern Moen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I have ordered "Live at..." and "Eva By Heart"
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Sandane, Norway
Found the website: Alta Vista
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 10:37 AM
I first heard about Eva in the radio 8 days ago.
They told about the tragic loss of her, and that her
albums was turned up to be bestsellers at the Amazon.com. Then they played "Fields of Gold," and I
was amazed by her voice. Since then I have been sitting
next to my PC, trying to find out more of this gifted
person. I believe her memory will live forever, or as
Elton John said: "Your candle burn out long before,
your legend ever did." Happy birthday, Eva!
Name: Helen Absolon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town: Brisbane, Australia
Found the website: Yahoo
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 11:20 AM
I ordered Songbird from the local music store yesterday not realising at the time that it was her birthday. What a legacy she has left the world.
Name: Phil
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them....
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Dark End of the Street
Home town: Southampton England
Found the website: On my favourites
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 12:31 PM
Terry Wogan played Kathy's Song this morning on BBC Radio Two in memory of Eva, for those who don't have the album Time After Time, it is a must buy.... I have enjoyed Eva's music for 18 months now, and my week isn't complete unless I listen to her wonderful voice.... Happy Birthday Eva, you are sorely missed.... Phil
Name: janet crame
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town: London
Found the website: Google
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 01:41 PM
I, also, only discovered Eva Cassidy from TOTP2 - I
really can't believe I had never heard of her before!
I will find out more!
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: No Boundaries
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town: Waldorf Maryland
Found the website: Excite.
Sent: Fri February 02 2001 04:01 PM
It's really amazing that a single voice and person can unite people all over the world and make you reflect internally. The problem is that your not able to keep anything internal once you hear Eva Sing!!!! My daughter is soon to be six years old and really likes Eva Cassidy. Sure it has something to do with the fact that I play her music in the house/car all the time. But the other day she asked me to put an Eva Cassidy CD on for her and that really blew me away. Happy Birthday and keep making the hairs on our neck stand up and the tears roll down. Thank You!!!!
Name: Dez Yates
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time (only one heard)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Kathy's Song.
Home town: meltham. huddersfield.
Found the website: bt internet.
Sent: Sat February 03 2001 08:19 AM
bloody hell. That's what both me and my wife said. What a cracking voice!! (TOTP2) We have been out today & bought the album Time After Time. Brilliant!! Which one next? Sod it we will get the lot. Stunning site. Shame this special talented lady cannot see it! Will visit again soon.
Name: Helen.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Don't know yet.
Home town Hampshire, UK
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.52 PM - 2/3
Heard Eva sing for the first time this evening on TOTP. Her voice just stunned me, it is so beautiful.
Name: Michael B
Sent: 8.01 PM - 2/3
Just sitting at home in my apartment watching TV and I heard EVA and was stunned. Time stood still I was moved in ways I have never been before. From that moment I had to find out all there is to know about this amazing singer who is no longer with us but who has reached out to me. Thank you EVA!
Name: Derek,
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album only have Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Gravesend UK.
Found the website Excite
Sent: 8.07 PM - 2/3
This lady really put feeling into her songs. I'm going to get all her albums, and tell everyone to listen to her songs.
Name: Kevin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold/Autumn Leaves
Home town Warringtron UK
Found the website Excite
Sent: 12.13 AM - 2/4
I bought Live At Blues Alley today, I am still playing it 7 hours later. Sadly we will never be able to see Eva sing live again but if you buy this album its the next best thing. Studio recordings are OK but if you want to experience the true talent of an artist you have to see them live or second best a live recording. I close my eyes and I am at the Blues Alley listening to Eva sing, such perfection, words can not describe the talent that this woman possessed. I don't know when I will get to bed I can't turn the CD off.
Apologies to Sting and Johnny Mercer but....
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
....
I'll remember you when the west wind moves among the fields of barley
....
Will you stay with me will you be my love?
Among the fields of barley
....
When we walked in Fields of Gold.
*
Since you went away the days grow long
and soon I'll hear old winters song
But I miss you most of all my darling when Autumn leaves start to fall
Love to you Laura and all of Eva's family.
Name: Emmelie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album do not know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song do not know yet
Home town London
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.07 PM - 2/4
My partner and I were watching TOTP2 and we both fell quiet when we heard Eva sing (our 18 month old son didn't though) I cannot believe that I haven't heard of her before. It is my birthday on Wednesday and I have a slight idea what I will receive from my partner!
Name: Chris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album do not own them all yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Chislehurst
Found the website search by name
Sent: 9.00 PM - 2/4
A wonderful artist who is only now being discovered in the UK by many people - far too late. A wish that the video of Eva singing Over the Rainbow to be released with perhaps the benefits going to charity.
Name: Ray
Home town Rugby, UK
Found the website from evacassidy.com
Sent: 4.18 AM - 2/5
Caught the end of TOTP2, and I'm so glad I did. I've never been so moved by anyone's music. I thought it was strange that someone would actually cover 'Over the Rainbow', but I sat their dumbstruck. What an amazing voice.
Name: Chris Redmond
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Changes every day - presently Fields of Gold
Home town Bacup, Lancashire, U.K.
Found the website Bushinternet
Sent: 11.03 PM - 2/6
Read a page long article in Hi-Fi News & Record Review last year about Eva, and made a mental note - later saw "Songbird" and took a chance on it. Since then have acquired the other four albums; if you`ve gone to the trouble of searching out this website then you already know that its not just words sung to music - its a unique gift which raises her talent above comparisons with other artists of any era, leaving me with the greatest sense of loss I've ever felt.
Name: Pete midgley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song 'over the Rainbow'
Home town York
Found the website ask jives
Sent: 8.38 AM - 2/7
Well...unlike the other people that have wrote in, I ain't clever with words...all l can say is I saw Eva on TOTP2 and <it's hard to put it into words> she touched me like no other singer before...it is so sad that she is no longer with us, but I guess she always will be....
Name: Bernard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Warszawa, Poland
Found the website followed from Blix Street records
Sent: 12.54 PM - 2/7
Thanks to Marek Niedzwiedzki from Polish Radio PR3, who plays Eva, thanks Amazon for delivering to Poland (I could not find any Eva's records in Poland). How all my family know Eva, and I am now playing her music to my friends.
Where I can find her paintings on the Internet, who can help me ?
Name: jade
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town cork, Ireland
Found the website searched by name
Sent: 6.37 PM - 2/7
what an amazing voice, I also first seen Eva on Top Of The Pops2 and could not get her voice out of my head and have searched for her album high and low ,listening to Eva has touched my soul to the very core, I would love to see a video of her are but do not know if there are any???
Name: Andy Green
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Cambridge, UK
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 2.06 AM - 2/8
Saw the video on TOTP 2 and I was shocked to find out that I had not heard of her before. I immediately went on a search for the Songbird CD and I'm glad I did.
Shame all the great ones die young, but thankfully her voice will live on.
Name: Paul Narramore
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Maidstone
Found the website chance
Sent: 7.23 PM - 2/8
We've been fans of Eva Cassidy since before it became fashionable. Yes, we're TOGs and many thanks for Terry for playing her songs so often. But the recent TOTP2 show was quite stunny - AND the caption said that the track was the most frequently requested in the TOTP2s history. It begs the question - is there a video of EC available? Quite, quite brilliant, the film made my skin creep, it was THAT good!
Name: Stewart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Grantham
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 7.44 PM - 2/8
I have listened to this album over and over again since I bought it. All the songs are fantastic.
Name: ashley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I don't no any yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Kathy's Song
Home town Melbourne Australia
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 5.43 AM - 2/9
i am here because I love Kathy's song
and to find out more
Name: Colin MacFadyen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow (so far)
Home town Edinburgh, Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.16 PM - 2/9
First heard Eva on TOTP2 on Sunday 4th Feb 2001 singing Over the Rainbow, my friend and I sat entranced and close to tears. Went out and bought Songbird and Eva by Heart. Will get the other albums as soon as poss. I can only describe her voice as, how I would imagine an angel would sing, just indescribably wonderful.
Name: Joe
Home town Liverpool England
Sent: 9.17 PM - 2/9
I can't pick a song to call my favorite as each song is so wonderful in its own way. I have played in bands for many years and thought I had my finger on the pulse, but I have just found a talent that I missed while she was a live. My heart sinks to think I won't be able to see Eva play live. I hold her music in my heart. Love to Eva.
Name: Alisdair Moug
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Aberdeen Scotland
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 9.20 PM - 2/9
Like everyone else I first heard her on TOTP2 but had read good reviews in an HMV magazine last summer and always meant to buy something by her. Just bought Songbird and am not disappointed
Name: Paul Codrington
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Minster
Found the website TOTP2
Sent: 2.51 PM - 2/10
There are not many songs can turn a grown man to tears (well, not that we will admit to anyway) but 'Over the rainbow' really is something else. If there was a God I think I would ask him (or her) where they got their sense of humour from. How does taking the good people but leaving the evil help? The world is full of bad things but Eva Cassidy had a voice that had the power to light up people's lives and I can't thing of a better legacy to leave to humankind than hers.
Name: Joanne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town London
Found the website Chance
Sent: 3.51 PM - 2/10
Like many others I first discovered Eva on Top2.
What a voice, Amazing, she gave me goosebumps.
as does her artwork, I have seen some on another
website, & would love to know if prints are available
for sale.
What an amazingly talented lady.
Name: Ian
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album only heard Songbird so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Fleet, Hampshire
Found the website Excite
Sent: 10.30 PM - 2/10
After hearing Eva on TOTP2 I had tears in my eyes and could not get her voice out of my head. I have just got hold of Songbird, and just can't stop playing it, I was beginning to think I was going mad, that is of course until I came across this terrific site, so good to know I'm not alone in my thoughts. Peace and Happiness to all!
Name: Phillip
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Cynghordy
Found the website MSN
Sent: 11.38 PM - 2/10
I recently saw a video of Eva performing Over the Rainbow, as soon as I saw/heard it I realised that I had loved her in my dreams long before I knew or heard her... now at least I can put a name to that dream... 'EVA'
Name: Karleen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow but really all of them
Home town West Palm Beach, Fl
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 1.15 AM - 2/11
My husband discovered the voice on Public Radio and went on a mission to get me Eva's CD's for Xmas. He said "just listen" in reply to my "who?" I did. I cried at the beauty. Would I have heard this angel if she had lived? I don't know but I do feel blessed to be able to hear her voice every day. Thank you Eva.
Name: Phil
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Stockport
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 4.09 PM - 2/11
Surely one of the greatest voices of all time.
Only caught the last half of Over the rainbow on TOTP but that was enough. Lets hope this is shown again soon. The mind boggles to think just what could be happening in the music world today if Eva was still here.
Name: Colin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Tough but Songbird
Home town Gravesend England
Found the website MSN
Sent: 5.46 PM - 2/11
Listened to Over the Rainbow on TOTP bought Songbird inside an hour and haven't been able to go a day without playing it. The emotion held in the voice must touch everybody who hears Eva sing. What a gift she has given us.
Name: Mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Know You By Heart
Home town Norfolk UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.16 PM - 2/13
There are no words, there are no metaphors or similes that could describe her voice and its emotive qualities. I have never experienced such pleasure from any voice or instrument. Thank you Eva, thank you God
Name: Steve Delves
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album TIME AFTER TIME
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Home town ENGLAND
Found the website YAHOO
Sent: 9.21 AM - 2/14
VALENTINES DAY TODAY - RECEIVED TIME AFTER TIME IN THE POST.
THANKS TO NAPSTER, I BOUGHT THE ALBUM - FANTASTIC...
I WILL NOW BUY ALL THE ALBUMS....
INSPIRED BY TOTP2 - OVER THE RAINBOW...
I HOPE YOUR WATCHING EVA - GOD BLESS R.I.P.
Name: Chris Redmond
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live AT Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold
Home town Bacup, Lancs.
Found the website Bushinternet
Sent: 11.23 PM - 2/14
Please e-mail pudsey@BBC.co.uk and request that "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" be adopted as the official fundraising record for Children In Need. Hundreds already have, and your e-mail could be the one to make it happen, thank you.
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town girvan, Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 12.02 AM - 2/15
i am intrigued by the end of "autumn leaves" on the Blues Alley album when Eva starts laughing. I don't know, but it sounds to me as if she may be laughing in response to seeing an audience member cry.
If that is indeed the case, surely in moments like these Eva realised how truly great a performer she was.
Name: David Chivers
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Brightlingsea UK
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 1.04 AM - 2/15
Like many I first heard Eva on TOP2, how did I miss her before? I am lucky to have worked with many good musicians and singers, but Eva you are something so very special, words are not enough. I shall be collecting all the albums and spreading the word.
Name: Charlie Marquardt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song every single one of them
Home town Philadelphia
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 6.18 PM - 2/15
Thank you for this website, a fitting tribute to an angel.
I lived in Baltimore a few years ago, and on my way to work (I think it was the spring of '97) tuned into a public radio station out of Washington. The DJ told of a remarkable CD by a DC singer who had recently passed away, and she played one of the songs, "Fields of Gold." I was just pulling into the parking lot, which was fortunate, because I sat there transfixed in my car for ten minutes. I don't think I have ever been so stunned by a song.
Information on where to get "Live at Blues Alley" was scarce - apparently the record company was having problems with distribution. With some determination and a lot of waiting, I was able to special order it. Listening to it, I felt tears welling up in my eyes. "Fields," "Autumn Leaves," "Wonderful World," "Bridge over Troubled Water" - each song strummed through me and gave me shivers. I imagined myself sitting there in the audience, everyone knowing that this was something incredible.
After that, I went out and bought several more copies and gave them to friends and family as presents. One couple told me that they played it when they had friends over, and everybody wanted to know who it was.
Recently, my wife, also an Eva fan, heard the NPR story while going to work. Stopping in Tower Records downtown to see if they had her other albums, she said the salesperson asked her "Who's this Eva Cassidy? You're about the tenth person to ask me about her today." I am happy that Eva is getting the recognition that she deserves.
Again, thank you.
Name: Richard John Neil
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get ready
Home town London, UK
Sent: 9.29 PM - 2/15
Can you offer any information about a new CD which I saw in HMV in Liverpool? It's called No Boundaries and was produced by Tony Taylor but it's not on the usual label.
Name: David R. Crum
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Any
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Tall Trees in Georgia
Home town Seth,WV. USA
Found the website Google
Sent: 6.06 PM - 2/16
An E-Mail friend in England suggested I listen to "Over the Rainbow" by Eva Cassidy and let him know what I thought. Stunned does not do my feelings justice. I tend to like songs rather than singers however I set out to find every song by Eva. My MP-3 player has over an hour of her music and I listen on my daily walk. Not only do I enjoy every song but I have a fear there may be some I don`t know about. "Autum Leaves is playing as I write this and I still can`t believe what I am hearing."WOW" I intend to buy her albums and send them to several of my children. Having lived in the Washington D.C. area it pains me that I might have had the chance to have heard her live and some how missed the chance. I don't think there will ever be another singer of her amazing talent! We who never saw her can only thankful for recordings.
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song autumn leaves
Home town Girvan, Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.09 PM - 2/16
In reply to Richard John Neil I would not recommend "No Boundaries". It is not a good album at all - the songs are poor and the production is terrible. Apparently this album was released against the wishes of the Cassidy family and after listening to it I can understand why.
Name: Frank Twomey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird/Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow + A penny to my name
Home town Cork, Ireland
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 12.19 AM - 2/17
I am a fan of all types of music but I must say that without doubt the most beautifully sung piece of music I have heard was "somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Eva Cassidy. Friends of mine were stunned into silence when it was played on the radio recently. Three days later I also heard "a penny to my name" played on the radio and it felt as if I had been struck by lightning twice. What an incredible voice Eva had, what a treasure she has left us with.
Name: charity
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Suffolk England
Found the website Google
Sent: 12.53 PM - 2/17
I am a singer and also teach singing, one of my pupils brought an Eva cassidy album to a lesson so that she could sing along to it, of course I was hooked! and as well as singing some of the songs myself[with the greatest of respect] also use her technique as an excellent example for singers to listen and learn and be blessed by!
Name: Jay Swan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song *.*
Home town Morris, CT
Found the website Google
Sent: 2.07 PM - 2/17
While driving to work about 1 month ago I heard about Eva on National Public Radio ( NPR ), they did a 20 minute piece on her.
I too was stunned by her music.
When I got to work, I logged on to amazon and picked up
a copy of Blues Alley.
Amazing stuff...
Thanks for the pages...
It's sad when such talent is lost...
J
Name: Beverley Gosling
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Peterborough/ Cambridgeshire
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 6.30 PM - 2/17
The album is simple Beautiful.
Name: Trevor Greenfield
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Wolverhampton
Sent: 9.12 PM - 2/17
Eva had such an outstanding voice which will not be forgotten. She had the ability to perform any song with such feeling , once heard one cannot forget.
She will never be forgotten for her help she also gave to so many in her short life here.
Name: Martyn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Belfast
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 10.03 PM - 2/18
Like a lot of others I stumbled onto Eva on TOTP2. Am now `hooked'. This Lady's voice is truly something the angels can now learn from. "The dreams that you dare to dream, Really do come true"
Name: Chris Redmond
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold
Home town Bacup, Lancs.
Found the website Bushinternet
Sent: 11.34 PM - 2/18
Please e-mail pudsey@BBC.co.uk and request that "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" be adopted as the fundraising single for Children In Need. Thanks to this site, the BBC is taking notice so ask your friends to do likewise and we'll see that spell-binding video many more times over. Thank you.
Name: robert turnbull
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird/Anniversary song
Home town Cumbernauld Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.10 AM - 2/19
I find it really difficult to pick my favourite Eva song. It could be autumn leaves or What a wonderful World or anything else on her albums. It's a pity I missed the chance to see her live in concert.
Name: rob
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Found the website search for Eva - ask.co.uk
Sent: 3.19 PM - 2/19
What can I say - blown away by her talent, as a lot have mentioned first heard Eva on Terry Wogan's morning show then caught her again on totp2 - a couple of weeks ago.
RE the children in need theme - - make this happen
pudsey@BBC.co.uk
Over the rainbow - makes you sit up and take note !
Name: Larry Lloyd
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All on the album
Home town Stowmarket UK
Found the website Via Didgeridoo records
Sent: 2.29 PM - 2/20
Well what can I say that hasn't already been said.
She is truly a great loss to music.
She had an angels voice here on earth, and I guess she was called upon from higher sources, probably to be their lead singer!
Did Eva really draw the "Boy on a nest" picture that is on sale?
It's a fantastic piece of art.
Keep up the good work, its much appreciated.
Name: Christopher Cole
Sent: 7.14 PM - 2/20
Name: TMC
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow/Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Coventry
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8.43 PM - 2/20
What else can you say - Eva had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard.
I would rather the BBC would not use 'Over the Rainbow' for Children in Need as it will make it
too commercial as it did with The Judds' 'Love can Build a Bridge'. Do you not think?
Name: Darren J B Hopkins
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Give me time... ...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Lichfield. South Staff's. England. UK
Found the website Yahoo!
Sent: 5.15 AM - 2/21
I am truly astounded to see that one TV show's broadcast had an identical effect on hundreds more as it did me...(!) TOTP2 thank you!
And Laura, thank you for bringing all these people together here! I can see that I am not alone in feeling the exhalation I did when only weeks ago I'd heard Eva's voice for the first time; it's truly a wonderful feeling knowing that with so many "disparate" people they actually have this one beautiful thing in common... Music... Eva has touched me in some other way, though having never known her myself, and I feel happy in the knowledge that her sad yet hope-filled story will carry, in some small way, on into my life which I am blessed enough to look forward to...
I now count my blessings and not my burdens, as should we all...
Name: Michael Nielsen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (So Far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow, Autumn Leaves, I Know You By Heart, Fields of Gold, Songbird, etc., etc., etc.
Home town Sequim, Washington USA
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.30 AM - 2/22
Discovering the incomparable Eva Cassidy and her songs for the first time less than a month ago, I must confess in all sincerity that my introduction to her music has been one of the most profound and totally delightful experiences of my entire life! I had been surfing through the music of several artists on the amazon.com and cdnow.com sites, when Eva's name caught my eye. I decided to listen to a few clips from her Songbird album just to see what the hype was all about. For a guy who has loved music for nearly 50 years, many genres and many favorite artists, nothing could have adequately prepared me for what I was about to hear! I listened to 30-second clips of all of her songs on her Songbird, Time After Time, Live at Blues Alley, and Eva By Heart albums, every one of them available to listen to on cdnow.com, with Real Audio and/or Windows Media. I must say that I could not believe what I was actually hearing! As I continued to listen to the various clips, over and over again, I can truthfully say that I was in a state of pleasant shock, spellbound by Eva's singing. I found it difficult to convince myself that it could be humanly possible for one singer to be blessed with such an incredible voice, such incomparable style and versatility, and the ability to profoundly reach the inner core of the heart and soul of the listener. In less than an hour after hearing her voice for the first time, Eva had become my favorite all-time singer, and I still had not heard even one complete song of hers, just the clips! I went back to those clips for the next three nights, playing them over and over again. In the meantime, I ordered Eva's Songbird CD, and I have been listening to it regularly for the past three weeks! What a treasure! I plan to add Live at Blue's Alley and Time After Time in the near future, and based on the clips I have heard, I can expect that those CD's will also spend a great deal of repeat time in my stereo!
I was thinking just the other day how fortunate I was to discover Eva and her incredible one-of-a-kind interpretations of great songs, and I truly feel sorry for anyone who has yet to be introduced to her singing. However, I am sure that all of us who have heard her are doing our best to spread the word, because it is impossible not to want to share her music with others. In my mind there is no singer, past or present, who can outshine Eva Cassidy! Her beautiful voice and her truly superlative renditions of some great songs will always occupy a very special place in my heart, and it is very apparent to me that others who have heard her feel the same way! What a truly honest and sincere voice, and what a true privilege to be able to listen. I feel totally blessed, and so very grateful.
God bless you, Eva, as you smile down upon us from Heaven above!
Name: Joanna (Jo) Dawson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Home town London, UK
Found the website Dogpile.com
Sent: 5.36 PM - 2/23
I am only a recent convert to Eva's stunning voice. For the first few days after hearing her album being played in the local record store, I couldn't stop tears welling up in my eyes - not just because of the tragic circumstances of her death but just that her voice is unearthly and yet so humane. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I really wish she was still here but so glad that I discovered her music. If anyone is reading this that hasn't bought any of her music, buy 'Songbird' - it really is a snapshot of genius - it won't be long before you own everything else.
Name: Joseph Wilson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Derrington, Stafford, England
Found the website viola
Sent: 5.46 PM - 2/23
I have lived and loved for all of my 51 years. I have listened to and danced with Motown greats, I have always had a passion for English classical music, I have lived through Dylan and Baez...and loved them too. I have never before heard or believed that there could be an Angel on Earth; until I heard the heartbreaking, but perfect voice of Eva Cassidy...and she left.
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Woodstock
Home town Girvan, Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.50 PM - 2/23
If anyone would like to vote for Eva as their "Voice of the Century" they can do. The BBC are currently conducting a poll at BBC.co.uk - go to the Radio2 pages. You are asked to name your favourite three singers. Mine were 1.Eva Cassidy 2.Iris Dement and 3.Bob Dylan. Regards to all, Sandy
Name: Deborah Gregory
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of Songbird
Home town Orpington, Kent
Found the website NTL
Sent: 12.06 AM - 2/24
What can I add that hasn't already been said. Wonderful just wonderful. Listening to her songs is just sheer pleasure but also tinged with sadness that Eva is not here to enjoy her fame. I will tell many a friend of her as this voice should touch as many people's lives as possible. God bless you.
Name: vincenzo scannapieco
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song at last ,autumn leaves, the shadow of your smile , and more
Home town Maiori ( amalfitan coast ) ITALY
Sent: 12.16 PM - 2/24
When I listen Eva my eyes look at sky,
my heart is beating,
my soul begin to fly
Name: Emma Jane
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song wade in the water
Home town England - Kent
Found the website MSN
Sent: 1.18 PM - 2/24
where are all the profits form Eva's albums going to? Is the record company keeping it all, what is happening to the money that she should be making?
Name: Phil Williams
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Cardiff, Wales
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.28 PM - 2/24
I had never heard of Eva Cassidy until catching a glimpse several months ago on TOTP 2 and hearing her remarkable voice for the first time. The impact was profound and immediate. I have finally located Songbird and Time after Time and I am halfway through listening so perhaps my selection of Songbird as a favourite is somewhat premature ; somehow it does not really matter. What does count is the purity and goodness that flows when she sings. Her music has literally stopped me in my tracks. My children and wife are similarly captivated. She is indeed an angel and her music is desperately needed . Spread the word and tell your friends, Eva is a phenomenon.
Name: Chris Redmond
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold
Home town Bacup, Lancs
Found the website Bushinternet.com
Sent: 9.04 PM - 2/26
Myself and many others have for the last couple of months been e-mailing pudsey@BBC.com.uk, trying to persuade the Executive Producer of `Children In Need` that `Somewhere Over the Rainbow` would be the ideal single to be adopted as the official fundraiser. I personally have been trying to make him aware that Eva Cassidy is going to be absolutely massive this year, and that he should at least get in touch with Tony Bramwell (Head of Eva's music in UK) to show an interest, even though no decision will be made until August when the production company get together. However, to the best of my knowledge, nothing has happened and an opportunity to raise extra money for a good cause now appears to have slipped by as `Songbird` is at No. 3 in the Album Charts, and `Somewhere Over the Rainbow` will surely now be a hit in the singles chart on its own merit, meaning that its use as a fundraiser would not be viable anymore. It will be very interesting to see how many copies of `Somewhere Over the Rainbow` are sold, and compare this with the sales of the eventual official fundraiser. My own feelings on the inflexibility and lack of judgement by the Executive Producer are too negative to be aired on this site - an e-mail will soon be winging its way to the BBC - instead I'll just express my elation that Eva Cassidy has finally risen to the top, a triumph of emotionally involving music and genuine talent over the hyped latest fashion; of substance over style. As a parting thought, how many of us have wandered past some little venue, seen some singer's poster hanging on the wall, and dismissed it with a `Never heard of them`? Maybe we should now acknowledge that talent DOES get overlooked, and we could be missing out on something special on our own doorsteps?
Name: B Friend
Sent: 9.09 PM - 2/27
Name: Sean O'Sullivlan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Ottawa, ON
Found the website Canada.com
Sent: 9.46 PM - 2/27
When I say "Songbird" is my favorite album, I really mean it's the only one I can find locally. I first heard "Fields of Gold" on my walkman on the way home from work a few weeks ago. As I got off the bus, I headed straight for one of the record stores at the mall where I transfer to another bus to get home, and immediately found "Songbird" and purchased it. What a voice! I count myself lucky to have heard "Fields of Gold" when I did, otherwise, I never would have learned of Eva Cassidy. Now I'm looking for her other CDs to add to the one I have.
Sean O'Sullivan
Ottawa, ON
Name: beverley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird, time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song anniversary song, autumn leaves,...rainbow
Home town Glasgow
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 1.34 AM - 2/28
An angel danced around her face
She sang so pure
sweet summer kisses....
...since you went away the days grow long...
but the Songbird will be singing out your name and we'll love u , we'll love you like never before.
Name: HB
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird, Anniversary Song
Home town G.V,California
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.34 PM - 2/28
This is a great site, first off. And its awesome to come on here and see how much Eva Cassidy is loved and respected, both as a person and as a musician, even after her death. She is so amazing, and hearing her sing makes me want to be a better musician. totally inspiring.
Name: Tony
Home town East Grinstead, England
Sent: 2.34 PM - 3/1
Stunning
Name: Sarah MacGowan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird, Time after Time (others to be purchased!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold and I know your heart
Home town London, UK
Found the website Voila (Internet Explorer)
Sent: 4.44 PM - 3/1
Today is 1st March 2001. I only heard of Eva just last Friday, while travelling out of London by car for the weekend. It was featured on Magic FM (London based radio station). Her voice was so beautiful that I was driving along in very fast traffic completely dissolved into tears - how amazing to be able to reach to a person's emotional core in a few short minutes! I made a mental note of her name and the title of the album and have told so many people about her over the last few days. "The Independent" newspaper also featured her this week, which I thought was a weird coincidence! Yesterday I located Songbird at Tower Records in Kensington High Street, London and also bought Time after Time. The first song I heard her sing over the car radio was Over the Rainbow. It is so thrilling to hear someone sing such a classic standard and yet to have the song presented with such different nuances and phrasing. The same goes for Time after Time and Fields of Gold. The originals are great, and yet they have been improved upon. She has such purity and confidence of tone in her voice. You can relax into the song, knowing that there won't be a single discordant note. (Another person who is confident in this way is Emma Kirby, a more classical singer of baroque and plainsong music.) I listened to Eva's music again on the way into work today, and didn't want the journey to end. I shall tell others about her great talent, and take the music around with me.
So, to finish ....
Thanks for organising such a great site - it's been so informative. I especially loved the interview with her parents, which was also so emotionally charged. I also liked Mick Fleetwood's comment, in which he compared Stevie Nicks and Eva in that they both sang from the heart.
Many, many thanks!
Sarah, London, England
Name: Stacey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Have only heard one song so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
Found the website Heard about it on local radio
Sent: 1.20 PM - 3/2
I heard my very first Eva song this morning on my way to work - WOW! I was totally stunned by it, I'm going out to buy a CD today.
Name: Roger Leech
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere over the Rainbow
Home town Chelmsford, Essex
Found the website I guessed there would be one.
Sent: 6.25 PM - 3/2
Wow, How on earth have I only just discovered this fabulous voice, That for the first time yesterday had me frozen to the spot, and covered in goosebumps.
I went straight out and bought Songbird. Have now got to buy all the rest, thank you Eva.
Name: John Taft
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Kenmare, Ireland - Wilmington, Vt. USA
Found the website CD cover
Sent: 6.33 PM - 3/2
One of the most beautiful recordings ever!!!!!
Name: Bert van Driel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album idny
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song idny
Home town Duiven, The Netherlands
Found the website by newspaper
Sent: 9.48 PM - 3/2
(idny = I don't now yet
Lately I saw and heard Eva for the first time at BBC-TV(Over the rainbow).I was directly tached by her voice and also by her guitar-playing. I think I'm going to buy a album of her tomorrow.
Great site.
Name: Mary Ann Schenk
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You by Heart
Home town Chattanooga
Sent: 10.43 PM - 3/4
I lost my husband two years ago. It was only a few weeks later that I
heard Eva Cassidy sing Over the Rainbow on our local public radio
station WUTC. I was overwhelmed and immediately sought out the album. My
husband was a composer and a wonderful human being. He was a person who
was deeply involved in the beauty around him and in expressing his love
of nature and things he believed in through his music. I am so grateful
to Eva Cassidy for helping me through this very difficult time in my
life. Eva's pure voice and sincere interpretation of the lyrics leaves
all who hear her spellbound. I want Eva's family to know how much her
beautiful artistry has meant to me. Thank You! I will continue to listen
to Eva and find comfort in her music.
Name: Queenie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart
Home town Brisbane, Australia
Found the website Google
Sent: 2.41 PM - 3/5
Eva Cassidy is flying around Australia. I first heard of her two years ago, when I heard her version of Fields of Gold on a compilation album. No idea of who she was, what her name was - just that it she was one of the most beautiful singers I had ever heard. Then nearly two years later I heard her album - my songwriting partner played her to me and asked if I had ever heard of her - and so now I have her name and her album - and have been playing it to everyone I know and now all those people are coming back to me and saying they are hearing about her everywhere - from everyone they know - her fame is spreading purely from word of mouth. How wonderful that real talent is still recognised without any need for marketing! As a singer myself - I am always torn between wanting to just listen to her sing and wanting to sing with her and try and do what she does. She did have a gift from God.
Name: Justine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a question!
Home town Dover, England
Found the website MSN
Sent: 3.59 PM - 3/5
I hardly know what to say about Eva Cassidy - she entered my life thanks to Terry Wogan and Radio 2 - I heard one song and went out that same day and bought everything I could lay my hands on. Songbird, I know you by Heart and Fields of Gold all move me in the most incredible way. I must confess I listened to Songbird knowing nothing about her. When the album finished, I read the sleeve notes and cried my eyes out. What a tragic tragic story. I just hope that someone somewhere finds a vault of unreleased material - there's just not enough! May she rest in peace and somehow know what she has given to so many people. xx
Name: Gary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Cheek to cheek
Home town Hexham, UK
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 8.29 PM - 3/5
Eva has changed my views on music and today I'm sad to see that she's dropped to no10 in the UK album charts. This is because the mainstream radio stations aren't playing her music and artists of much inferior quality are getting so much more airplay. If you're visiting this site then you're obviously a fan so why not spend a few minutes and send your local and national radio stations an email asking why they are not playing any music from the album that almost topped the charts last week.
Name: Paul Limbrick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song O.T.RAINBOW
Home town Barry, South Wales
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 8.54 PM - 3/5
Dear Laura, congrats on a consistently excellent site. There is such a groundswell of appreciation and excitement for Eva's wonderful talent in the U.K. at the moment, and as a long time visitor to these pages I feel that your website is reflecting this wonderfully through everybody's comments and feelings. For me, one of the most incredible things about all this, is that it has been achieved with no real publicity, touring, ad campaigns, press teasers etc etc etc that we get bombarded with every time some good looking female singer makes a record. Eva's music stands up on its own right with a huge emotional impact. Incredible for an artist who didn't actually sing for a living. Finally, could I just say a big thank you to Spiller's Records in Cardiff who have consistently kept Eva's records in high profile by means of posters, prominent displays listening posts etc., for ages, even in the days when people used to say "Eva who". I think those days are gone! Well done to everyone in handling Eva's legacy in such a dignified way.
Name: Lizzy Gibbs
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them!
Home town Llanfyllin
Found the website via didgerecords
Sent: 10.44 PM - 3/5
Caught the end of TOTP2 some time ago and knew I wanted to hear more. To-day I've bought Songbird. What a voice....pure magic. I have a wide taste in music and being 40ish have a large collection but nothing compares to this. It is so very sad that she had so little time when she obviously had such an amazing gift. Over the rainbow is playing as I write....no more words are necessary. Thank you Eva.
Name: Lauren Popp
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all!! especially I Know You by Heart
Home town Bowie, Maryland
Found the website askjeeves
Sent: 12.29 AM - 3/6
Eva grew up and lived less than three miles from my home. I had no idea she was so popular in England until I recently heard an interview on the BBC. Hard to believe that there are people here, less than three miles from her home that have never heard of her. I have no be so moved as when I hear her voice!!
Name: SHARON STOCKDALE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OVER THE RAINBOW
Home town ENGLAND
Found the website FREESERVE
Sent: 5.20 PM - 3/7
THE FIRST TIME I HEARD EVA WAS ON A MUSIC SHOW WHICH PLAYED OVER THE RAINBOW. I WAS MOVED TO TEARS BY THE BEAUTY IN HER VOICE.
I CANT BELIEVE THE WORLD HAS MISSED OUT ON SUCH A TALENT AND A SPINE-TINGLING VOICE.
GOD BLESS
Name: Colin Eoghan MacFadyen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Edinburgh, Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.12 PM - 3/8
The BBC in the UK appear to have adopted "Over the Rainbow" as a theme song for their annual charity event - Red Nose Day. They have been playing it on TV over adverts for this years event on, I believe, 16th March. I'm sure, from what I've read of Eva, that she'd be happy for fans to contribute to this noble charity as a tribute to her.
I noticed that Songbird peaked in the UK charts at number 3, but I feel that Eva and her music transcends any other musician and in time she will be recognised as the BEST.
Name: K. O'Neill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow...and the rest!)
Home town Dublin, Ireland
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.49 PM - 3/8
Stunned! As a recording engineer/producer what would I trade to have been in Chris Biondo's shoes??!! Each track on Songbird imparts something new with each listening. My thoughts are with Eva's Mum, Dad and family...how they miss her if we who only know her voice can cry when she sings. There IS a Heaven....someday I WILL hear her live....
Finally, thank you Laura - your site is what the internet should be about....
Name: Mike Read
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Newcastle upon Tyne
Found the website Didgeridoo Records
Sent: 2.53 PM - 3/9
At the time of writing, Eva's "Songbird" album is still nicely placed in the UK Album Charts top 20. I have a feeling it will stay there for many months to come as more people discover her. I honestly believed that I had heard all the truly great singers of the last 50 years or so - I was wrong. I am unable to add anything more to the observations that many of you have made about the quality of Eva's voice and her interpretation of the songs she sang. One in who knows how many millions of people are touched by the hand of God - this was one of them. She has become my favourite female singer and will remain so.
Name: Debbie Whitten
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them (Songbird)
Home town London
Found the website Yahoo!
Sent: 3.34 PM - 3/9
In 24 hours I have gone from not knowing who Eva Cassidy is, to buying Songbird and being totally hooked. Beautiful voice, which makes the hairs on my body stand to attention. I feel what she is singing. I am sad that she died at such an early age. I am trying not to think that she will produce no more. But we have a wonderful catalogue of songs. I will be buying all her albums in the very near future.
Name: paul Limbrick
Home town Barry, South Wales
Sent: 5.34 PM - 3/9
Here's a nice little anecdote from a friend of mine who we shall call Deb[ because that's her name] who was shopping at Tescos yesterday and couldn't help but notice a woman finding difficulty in choosing a CD.
It seemed as if she was picking up then putting back a copy of SONGBIRD. Now Deb being a longtime fan of Eva's, had no option but to be bold! She politely asked the shopper if she had heard any of Eva's music, to which the lady replied "no" but had heard all the recent positive news. Intrepid Deb then HIGHLY recommended the album [in about ten thousand words] and a purchase was achieved on that in-aisle review. All you Eva fans loiter around those supermarket aisles this weekend and see if we can make SONGBIRD double platinum by Monday. A note for AMY FUNDERBURK. If you would like to E Mail me with your address I can send you an audio copy of the Radio Two documentary. Paulimo@yahoo.co.uk
-Paul.
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Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Ireland
Sent: 7.23 PM - 3/9
Eva enters the Irish top ten at Number 9. Ireland follows the lead of our neighbours in the UK. Eva's success here is probably even more word of mouth driven. By coincidence she's right behind David Gray at number 8 another acorn to oak story, although I think Eva might one day be a redwood.
http://www.2fm.ie/music/charts/albums.html
Name: EDDIE
Home town PONTEFRACT
Sent: 11.55 PM - 3/9
HOW CAN SO MUCH LOVE BE PUT INTO A RECORD
I FIRST DISCOVERED EVA ON TOTP2 (BBC2 ENGLAND)
WELL WHAT CAN I SAY ONLY THE LOVE OF MY WIFE AND SON CAN COMPARE
Name: micah jinar west
Home town bowie, Maryland
Found the website yahoo!
Sent: 12.18 PM - 3/10
thanks to everyone who helped me get the info about the BBC interview. especially thanks to pat for sending it to me. I now have it - can't wait to listen!
Name: James Sweet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold/Songbird
Home town Sevenoaks
Found the website AOL
Sent: 12.29 PM - 3/10
My wife bought me the Songbird CD after hearing it played in the best music shop in SE England _ The Compact Disc Shop in Sevenoaks. When I heard fields of Gold it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end - her version is quite simply magical -Sting must be very proud. Many of our friends have now bought the CD - do you know if it is possible to obtain or buy the her musical arrangement (Chord Tab) for this. Having listened to the CD all the way through I then read the cover notes - How sad and what a loss to us all.
Name: Rien Walrave
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Uitgeest, the Netherlands
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 1.11 PM - 3/10
what can I say..
a wonderful singer, I was very, VERY surprised !!
Name: Seamus
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Belfast
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.46 PM - 3/10
Moving!! in every way - Oh how I would have loved to hear Eva sing Leonard Cohen songs. He has the complex and beautiful lyrics, she the magical voice to sing them, and what a voice.
Slan.
Name: Stewart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Am I only allowed one?
Home town Belfast
Found the website Copernic
Sent: 11.40 PM - 3/10
I heard Over the Rainbow last November, then again at the end of January, when I tried to find any Eva Cassidy albums then, I couldn't. I left the country for a month and when I came back, every shop has them!
Thank you for letting her music be shared. I hope her voice keeps on touching people.
Name: Ken Krall
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song so many...Fields of Gold
Home town Rhinelander, Wi.
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 1.20 PM - 3/11
A hard-bitten cynic found his heart opened by her music. Her parents and friends' testimony of her and her music tell me all I need to know. She is missed.
Name: Phil Cale
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I just like to hear her sing
Home town Selby, N.Yorks, ENGLAND
Found the website Links
Sent: 8.17 PM - 3/11
In summer of 2000 I was browsing in borders in York I suddenly became aware of the CD playing in the store after listening for a while I enquired as to whose CD it was. I was taken to a stack of Eva Cassidy Time After Time albums and of course made a purchase I will never forget and bless the that day I went into borders and discovered for myself the wonderful energy of Eva Cassidy. I was sad to here that she is know longer with us but feel privileged to have been touched by the purity of emotion she expresses. She breathes life into words like no one else can we all should be so lucky to hear her sing a song. She is a flame that burns eternally her voice will never be quiet in my heart. THANQ EVA beautiful....in listening u can become so much more....
Name: Barry Larocque
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Ottawa, Ont. Canada
Found the website Hotbot
Sent: 5.58 PM - 3/12
Eva's voice defies description. It's so clear and beautiful. I'm glad Ottawa Citizen printed an article about her.
Name: Karen Chick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere over the Rainbow
Home town Pontypridd, South Wales
Found the website Links
Sent: 11.02 AM - 3/13
She had a voice like an angel - what a loss to mankind.
Name: Nick Buttle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Barley / Over the Rainbow
Home town Bexhill-on-Sea, England
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.59 PM - 3/13
I have never been overcome by such sadness. Such a talent, lost as such an early age. It's a privilege to be able to have heard her music.
Much love. Nick
Name: Tony Ho
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Ain't no sunshine
Home town Toronto Canada
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.51 AM - 3/14
I was searching Napster aimlessly for songs last week and happened to stumble on some of Eva's songs. Until then, I've never heard of the name, let alone her songs. They touched me so much I immediately went out to purchase the only album (Songbird) on the Shelf. Wow, what an incredible experience. I've never been moved or felt such emotion over a singer since my teenage days. Thank you Eva, wherever you are!
Can someone give me more info on the Video mentioned in some earlier posts? Is it something that can be purchased? TIA
Name: J. Garland
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song {see my name}
Home town Warwick UK
Found the website AOL
Sent: 7.13 PM - 3/14
Dear Laura
What a wonderful friend Eva has in you. I watched the recent satellite link between her father and BBC1, and the clip of her singing 'Rainbow' with tearfilled eyes.
I have since registered the ownership of Domain title
Eva-Cassidy.com {purely to prevent possible exploitation}and never used.
I would feel priviliged if you would accept this as a
gift to use in whatever manner, to help perpetuate the
memory of Eva, the belief that she restored in the human spirit, and the priceless talent that she gave the world to share. God bless you both.
Name: David
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town S. Wales
Found the website Google
Sent: 11.02 PM - 3/14
I too first heard of Eva when I saw the clip on TOTP2 last year. An emotional, and deeply beautiful experience. I am also a musician and have heard, and seen, thousands of performers in my time, but I was not prepared for an experience such as that one! Eva's performance on the song "Over the rainbow" never fails to move me to tears. These are the tears of joy that one experiences when you have the good fortune to behold something that has such beauty, that you cannot fail to feel moved. I think that most people will experience this type of event only when they see their first born. This precious memory will thankfully remain with me for the rest of my life. I am so glad that so many people across the world had the same experience. Enjoy.
Name: Victoria Hirst
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Telford. England
Found the website ask jives
Sent: 5.12 PM - 3/15
I just want to say that I have so far only heard
'Over the Rainbow' but I think it is a beautiful song and that she had a lot of talent.
Name: Kathryn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow and Fields of Gold
Home town Llandudno
Found the website ask.co.uk
Sent: 7.04 PM - 3/15
id just like to say that Eva cassidy is my idol. she was fantastic and had the voice of an angel. I'm 15 years old and would do anything to be like her. she's a legend.
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town East Yorks
Sent: 7.20 PM - 3/15
Lets hope that a fantastic No.2 position can be converted to No1, as this will generate so much more publicity for Eva. So many people have played a pert in bringing her to our attention. Thank you Terry and Paul at the BBC
One final thought, for those of us on this side of the pond - what a shame that Eva left out the following verse from Paul Simon's Kathy's Song:
And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain drenched streets
To England where my heart lies.
God bless
Name: Philip
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Dublin Ireland
Found the website Dogpile
Sent: 3.45 AM - 3/16
Very nice voice, it's a shame she's not around to take in the success.
Name: martyn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song time is a healer
Home town surrey
Found the website AOL
Sent: 12.56 PM - 3/16
Hi All!!
Just thought you may be interested to know the following: I work in a small branch of Woolworth's as the entertainments manager (I run the music & video dept) and this morning while playing Songbird for the twentieth something time this week, of all the albums I sold only 1 wasn't Songbird! ( it was a compilation called "New Woman 2001 & guess who happens to be on it!!) SO if Eva isn't number one on Monday I shall resign in protest!!
Eva rules people!!
Name: Peter Gibson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves, Time is a healer
Home town Yarm
Found the website Excite
Sent: 6.24 PM - 3/16
Unbelievable presence, haunting melody, a bright star waiting to shine. A complete mix of gospel, blues, folk with jazz overtones. Guitar phrasing is excellent, voice is COMPLETE!
What more can you say - other than I wish she was still with us.
Name: Stephen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Sorry, that's like asking someone to choose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song their favorite child
Home town Toronto
Found the website evacassidy.com
Sent: 6.37 PM - 3/16
Some radio stations have websites that allow you to email requests, instead of dealing with busy signals, etc...Check the phone book, or online listings for radio station websites. Let's get Eva the airtime she deserves. There are still millions of people that have never heard of her! Cheers.
Name: Jim Bolger
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Wallasey England
Found the website didgerecords.com
Sent: 8.10 PM - 3/16
Seen on Trevor McDonald last night went out today and bought the CD. Have not stopped playing it, at this rate I'll have to buy another tomorrow as this one will be worn-out.
Name: Gill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Wandered by a Brookside
Home town Newmarket, UK
Sent: 8.34 PM - 3/16
I have been introducing people to Eva's music for about eighteen months now, and one said to me how great it was to be doing the same thing himself now. The network grows. I am sure everyone on this page is doing their bit. My local radio station DJ has Eva on his playlist - check out if yours does too. So easy now, with email. Fingers and everything crossed for the deserved No 1. Whatever is said, Paul Walters and Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2 have done masses towards this, and they will be justly proud when it happens.
Name: Martin W
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song time after time
Home town Northampton
Found the website Dogpile
Sent: 9.39 PM - 3/16
Unbelievable talent, listening to Eva makes me think perhaps we are just spiritual beings who just some times have a physical existence.
Name: chris Redmond
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold
Home town Bacup, Lancashire
Found the website Bushinternet.com
Sent: 1.27 AM - 3/17
The last time I visited this site the number of visitors was roughly eight per day - now it`s twenty five in twelve hours. When Laura Bligh originally set up this site, she could never have dreamt that Eva's popularity would take off in such a meteoric fashion, so it is only fair to heap as much praise on her shoulders as she can bear - it must be almost a full time job keeping up to date with the latest developments and printing them up for visitors to read, especially when there's a family to take care of too - so BIG RESPECT Laura. Also, bear in mind that there's a small but dedicated group of workers having to deal with the packing/distribution to fuel a Nationwide demand for `Songbird`; BIG RESPECT to them too - they'll have earned their glass of champagne on Sunday when the Album is surely installed as the No 1.
Name: Fiona
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Oxford, England
Found the website Ask Jives
Sent: 5.47 PM - 3/17
I first heard her on a program on TV a few days ago I'd never heard of her before. Her voice is so wonderful and it brought tears to my eyes because she is no longer with us Eva is not my usual style of music I'm into Rock like Marilyn Manson but her voice touched my heart and I hope she lives on through her music.
Name: LJB
Sent: 7.41 PM - 3/17
Ok, it is time to bring Eva to our shores. I just emailed Oprah. If you live in the USA please join me in sending her an email. Millions around the world watch her show. It is time to give big time recognition to Eva. Let us wake up America.
Name: george
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town carlisle
Found the website I just looked for a site I just hoped would be there
Sent: 10.40 PM - 3/17
Name: Matthew
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (only 1 I've heard but more to come!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Cambridge, UK
Found the website From another website
Sent: 12.17 AM - 3/18
Theres not much more I can say that others haven't put down in words before. Simply 4 weeks ago I've never heard this gorgeous voice but heard great things of the album "Songbird" so I purchased it on a whim and I've been simply blown away. Never before have I felt such emotion over a CD, partly I'm happy to hear such wonderful sounds but another part of me is so sad to know that Eva is no longer here... rest in peace!
Name: Bob Byrnes
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a wonderful world
Home town Rayleigh
Found the website AOL
Sent: 10.18 AM - 3/18
God sometimes works in mysterious ways and perhaps he deemed that we should appreciate the amazing talent of Eva under his umbrella and have her singing somewhere ABOVE the rainbow shining down on us all with her warmth and brightness.
Name: Colin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird, so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Cambridge, UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.59 AM - 3/18
Exquisite! Tears of joy at such a wonderful talent!
Tears of pain at such a tragic loss!
Thank you Eva for the joy you have just brought to my life!!
Name: Martin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Northampton, England
Found the website AOL
Sent: 11.04 AM - 3/18
First heard "Over the rainbow" a few weeks ago on local radio. Just last weekend we (wife Kathy + I) heard it together on our way to the coast .. Kathy then told me about the tragedy of Eva's death from cancer .. all of a sudden the song and her voice took on a whole new meaning, and now I get emotional each time I hear any of her music!
God bless you Eva - keep the rest of the angels entertained with your heavenly voice.
Name: Gareth Boiling
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Canterbury , England
Sent: 1.56 PM - 3/18
I first heard of Eva in the summer of 2000 whilst visiting my parents in the Dordogne in France and paid it little attention . I then , as many others , saw 'Over the Rainbow ' on TOTP2 , and wish that I had had the video on the right channel , as I only found out later that , in my haste , I'd taped the wrong side .
Suffice to say I was moved to tears by the exquisite beauty of the performance .
Went out , bought Songbird , as soon as I found a shop that had it in stock , and now with a little imagination I can see it all again .
Here was a true musician , and I am in no doubt that her recordings will be a source of inspiration for young artists struggling in a world of mass produced bands .
Name: Laura J B
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town California
Sent: 5.57 PM - 3/18
Congratulations Cassidy Family & friends!! I sent Oprah, the most powerful woman in TV, an email about Eva. Please join me dear friends across the sea (UK). Let us bring Eva to these shores and around the world. Her viewers are around 22million, I think. (http://www.oprah.com/index.html) And what would this shy woman think of all of this? I think she would hop on her bike and ride totally blown away. Oh my.
Name: Linda Barclay
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Aberdeen/Scotland
Found the website BT Internet
Sent: 6.33 PM - 3/18
A friend of mine gave me a CD called Songbird .I myself
had cancer and was feeling a bit low. The voice I heard just blew me away . Everytime I listen to Eva singing it
makes me cry and angry at the same time. The music industry is in such a bad way when a voice such as Eva's goes virtually unnoticed until now.
Name: Gill
Sent: 7.01 PM - 3/18
Hooray!!! Eva's No 1 !!!! The CD charts No 1 !!!!!
Well deserved !!!
Name: Mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get Ready
Home town Manchester
Found the website via Eva Cassidy.com
Sent: 7.25 PM - 3/18
Congratulations Eva! You've made such an impact and I've a feeling it's only just begun. To Hugh and Barbara thank you. Your daughter's gift is spectacular. I've emailed Oprah I hope she does help Eva's voice be recognised Globally. To Laura thank you for this site, I visit regularly to see how Eva has affected others. To all who love Eva's music and help spread the word. WELL DONE!
Name: Gill
Sent: 7.28 PM - 3/18
Perhaps we should remind the media to mention it on the news:
newsonline@BBC.co.uk
contact@itv.co.uk
breakfasttv@BBC.co.uk
yourcall@sky.com
A few to get you started!
Send them a message ... they should be reporting on the news of the day!
Name: john pealing
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album song bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all beautiful
Home town mynydd isa n.wales
Found the website Freeserve
Sent: 11.17 PM - 3/18
heard her story, heard rainbow, had to by Songbird
Name: Laura Knowles
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
Found the website http://www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 11.25 PM - 3/18
The first time I heard of Eva was a couple of months ago. It was the live version of OVER THE RAINBOW. Me and my dad sat in silence all the way through it. We were stunned. Ever since then, I'd been wanting to learn it. I just got the chords right this very second. I hope I do it justice.
Love, Laura (age 18)
Name: James Castle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town London
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 11.49 PM - 3/18
This really is a remarkable voice, we play the 2 albums that we have all the time, so calm and relaxing forget your troubles just CHILL.
Name: Jude
Home town London
Sent: 7.57 AM - 3/19
I interviewed Eva three times in 1994 for Progression (www.progression.co.uk). To my eternal regret, these articles are missing from the archive. If anyone has copies in whole or part PLEASE let me know. She was modest, funny... a fellow fan of Tim Buckley and Maria Mckee... and Echo and the Bunnymen! I recall she was reading Prozac Nation at the time. She talked about Washington and the Blues Alley, laughed about the Georgetown locations in "The Exorcist". She stayed in touch for a few months then I lost track of her. I didn't even hear she'd gone until '97, and the news was heartbreaking. If anyone can help me out I will be so grateful.
Name: Dave
Home town UK
Sent: 10.14 AM - 3/19
The star shines with the same brilliance but now it sits a-top the tree.
Many thanks to all, but most of all to Eva Cassidy, the greatest voice of her generation.
Name: barry m jordan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All 4 so far (Hope there are more to come
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird (All are unique)
Home town Trowbridge, Wilts. UK., BA14 7HQ
Found the website INFO BEAT/INC.
Sent: 11.02 AM - 3/19
TERRY WOGAN, PLAYED EVA AND SANG HER PRAISES... HOWEVER HER UNIQUE VOICE SPOKE FOR ITSELF.... RECENT ARTICLES IN THE PRESS RETURNED ME TO HER SONGS & MUSIC.
I COULD NOT AND STILL CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF HER SONGS AND IN SO DOING HAD MY ELDEST SON STEPHEN SET UP THE TREVOR MACDONALD REPORT ON VIDEO BY MANUALLY RECORDING TO DELETE THE ADVERTS. UNFORTUNATELY STEVE WAS HALF WAY THROUGH HIS 40 PAGE REPORT ON THE PC AND BEING A NOVICE AT PC WORK, FORGOT TO SAVE IT WHILST RECORDING
TREVOR'S REPORT ON EVA.... WAS HE CROSS WITH ME HAVING ASKED HIM TO RECORD THE ITEM...NO BECAUSE IN SO DOING HE ALSO BECAME AN EVA FAN....
LETS ALL JOIN TOGETHER AND SAY EVA YOU ARE THE BEST AND I AM SURE THAT IN ADDITION TO YOUR PARENTS WE ARE ALL PROUD OF YOU UP THERE "OVER A RAINBOW" barry m jordan, Trowbridge, BA14 7HQ
Name: angie mctigue
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town welwyn garden city
Sent: 12.56 PM - 3/19
my boyfriend told me about Eva
he sent me a copy of Songbird and Eva by heart
and bought me Eva's CD time after time for Xmas last year
and I really enjoy listening to them
I think Eva is a great singer
Name: STEVE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album TIME AFTER TIME
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song PENNY TO MY NAME
Home town ENGLAND
Found the website REGULAR VISITS
Sent: 1.38 PM - 3/19
NUMBER 1 AT LAST....
I HOPE YOU'RE WATCHING EVA..
GOD BLESS
Name: Hazel Devlin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (my only one so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Livingston Scotland
Found the website Freeserve
Sent: 2.14 PM - 3/19
Is it just me, or does this music make everyone cry?
It's all new to me at the moment but I feel it's all I want to listen too.
Hazel x
Name: Amy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song time is a healer/love heals the wound it makes
Home town Norwalk, CT
Sent: 6.22 PM - 3/19
Laura! Hi! I have misplaced your email address but have been dying to get in touch with you! My new email address is part of this listing. Well - I got my birthday wish (3/15) - Eva is number 1! Who knew - after so, so many people have offered up their genuine and deserving wishes and ideas for furthering her memory ("Laura, have you thought of reaching out to --" etc. etc.) ... based on her amazing talent .. that this would really truly happen. It is absolutely amazing & is one of the highlights of my year. Hope all is well! (please email whenever you have a fighting chance!) thanx-bye!
Name: John (Zen And The Art)
Home town London UK
Found the website BBC News Site
Sent: 7.14 PM - 3/19
I only heard about Eva 2 weeks ago. Things had been a bit down, usual "life-gets-in-the-way" stuff. Anyway, I'd forgotten I had a soul until her voice touched it....the brightest star in God's heaven is called Eva.
Name: Simon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (only one I have at present)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Know you by heart
Home town Rushden, England
Found the website Been here before
Sent: 7.29 PM - 3/19
I am really pleased to see Songbird is number 1 in the album chart here in the UK.
Strange to think I had never heard of Eva until a few weeks ago. The Songbird CD has been in my CD player constantly since I brought it.
Name: Laura Lasley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water or Autumn Leaves, or Fields of Gold, gee I can't decide!!
Home town Westport, CT
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 8.31 PM - 3/19
I recently discovered Eva's music through a friend on a guitar site (www.guitarnoise.com) and purchased all 6 CD's immediately from Amazon.com. I love each and every one of them, and am inspired by her gorgeous voice.
Very Belated Condolences to her family and friends. Know that Eva continues to inspire and light up lives with her music.
Name: Gerry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Lisnaskea Co.Fermanagh.N.Ireland
Found the website From CD
Sent: 11.34 PM - 3/19
Name: Jan Moppert
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song how can you choose?
Home town New Orleans
Found the website friend
Sent: 11.42 PM - 3/19
Wow! I'm turning so many people on to Eva. She touches them all deeply. In the days of Britney and Christina....Eva shows us what it's like to have a voice.
Name: Gerry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Lisnaskea Co.Fermanagh.N.Ireland
Found the website From CD
Sent: 12.29 AM - 3/20
On Sunday 11th March last, Fr. Brian D'Arcy devoted his Sunday morning BBC Radio Ulster show almost entirely to Eva's life & music. It was beautifully and sensitively presented and like us all who have heard her music, he too has been greatly moved by her hauntingly beautiful voice and her wonderful gift to grab our emotions through song.
I'm sure that in Co. Fermanagh, the Irish ancestral home of the Cassidy clan, she will bring many a tear to the eye. Gifted people like Eva don't pass through this life often. Don't be sad but be glad we were here to share her gifts. God bless and keep her.
Name: Ian Solloway
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Romsey, England
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 12.56 PM - 3/20
My brother first introduced me to Eva's music, which I am truly grateful for. As others have mentioned she has the most amazing voice, truly a voice of an angel!
Name: TONY BRAMWELL
Sent: 1.02 PM - 3/20
THERE WILL BE AN UPDATE ON TREVOR McDONALD ON THURSDAY
AND ON TOP OF THE POPS FEATURE ON FRIDAY BBC1TV 7.30 PM on FRIDAY repeated on SATURDAY there is also a competition on TOTP@PLAY all next week on the digital channel
TOTP is shown on many stations around the world have a search for it!!!!!!!
Cheers
TONY BRAMWELL
Name: DAVID WILLIAMS
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OVER THE RAINBOW
Home town CARDIFF
Found the website YAHOO
Sent: 1.59 PM - 3/20
What a Brilliant voice. The album deserved to get to no.1!!!
Name: Mike Chapman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Dormansland, Surrey
Found the website off the album, AOL
Sent: 5.05 PM - 3/20
When I first heard Eva's Rendition of Over the Rainbow on the Jonathon Ross radio 2 programme it moved me so much it made me cry and then when I found out she died I cried again.
Name: Keith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Douglas, Isle of Man
Found the website Google
Sent: 6.43 PM - 3/20
Totally gripped by the voice and immediately bought all CD's and played continuously. God must have needed a special angel to take her so early.
Name: Gill Bulpin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song #
Sent: 7.21 PM - 3/20
Name: Avril Garnett
Home town Dundee, Scotland
Found the website MSN
Sent: 7.29 PM - 3/20
I have only learnt of the tragic story of Eva and her music but from the very first time I heard her music recently I knew I had to find out more about the lady that sounds so haunting. Bless you Eva and your family and friends.
Name: mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song gosh....
Home town Manchester, UK
Sent: 7.38 PM - 3/20
My kids told me today that Songbird had made No1 in the Album chart - I was very pleasantly surprised but I should have expected it somehow as Rainbow was adopted by Comic Relief on Friday. So, congratulations to everyone concerned for such a brilliant feat - without your dedication we would have missed an absolute gem. Thank you to all, keep spreading the word.
Cheers.
Name: Stephen
Home town Toronto
Sent: 9.48 PM - 3/20
***North American Fans!!!***
Get ready for tomorrow night Wednesday 21 March,2001 NBC Nightly news. When they do the story, phone them, email them, etc... get Eva some attention! Cheers.
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow ( the live version)
Home town The Wirral (UK)
Found the website Regular visitor
Sent: 12.42 PM - 3/21
No1 in the album charts has been achieved so now how about topping the singles chart? My suggestion is to release Over the Rainbow but it MUST be the live TOTP2 version which is much better than the album version (Real "pure and simple") and Bryan McCulley should be persuaded to part with his video footage again so that the single could be released as a CD video single. Then I guarantee you have a number one.
Name: ELAINE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song SONGBIRD
Home town MANCHESTER
Found the website ASK JIVES
Sent: 12.50 PM - 3/21
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT - AS GOOD, IF NOT BETTER THAN FLEETWOOD MACS VERSION. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HAUNTING VOICE - IT ACTUALLY BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES LISTENING TO THE SONG. LET'S HAVE MORE!!
Name: Kristen Dimon
Home town Detroit, MI
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 3.23 PM - 3/21
Hi there,
My name is Kristen and I am currently living in Maryland. I was watching the news last night (FOX 5) and there was a report done on Eva. They showed a clip of her singing "Over the Rainbow" and it was so beautiful it made me cry. She has such a wonderful voice! I just ordered all of her CD's through Amazon. com.
I am so sad to hear that she has passed, but through her music she will live on. Bless you Eva and bless her family and friends!!
Name: Kathleen Mercury
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town London UK
Found the website Ask Jives
Sent: 5.08 PM - 3/21
Songbird is a great album and deserves its place at No. 1 in the British charts. The beautiful Fields of Gold moves me to tears every time I hear it. Thanks to all concerned for bringing Eva Cassidy to the public's attention.
Name: Rich Tea
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Plymouth UK
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 9.45 PM - 3/21
saw and heard Eva on totp2 BBC1 UK. Thought Over the Rainbow was great but since bought Songbird am impressed with Eva's range /voice luv best of all Fields of Gold,
Name: DJ Spencer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Tall Trees In Georgia
Home town Gillingham
Sent: 10.00 PM - 3/21
Just love to hear EVA sing
Name: Sue Stringer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I KNOW YOU BY HEART
Home town TELFORD SHROPSHIRE UK
Found the website JIVES
Sent: 12.49 PM - 3/22
The only ever person to make this kind of impact on me is Dusty Springfield who is no longer with us either.
I first heard Eva on BBC radio 2 (Terry Wogan)when he played Over the Rainbow. Her voice made me stop in my tracks, how beautiful, I am looking forward to hearing more of her music soon. What a terrible shame she is not hear to enjoy the credit, still I'm sure she knows, somehow.
Name: Leigh McFarland
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Irvine, Ayrshire
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 5.37 PM - 3/22
I discovered Eva only last week and I haven't stopped listening to her ever since. I have never heard such a beautiful voice before in my life. I am a singer too and she has given me new inspiration. I can't wait to go and buy all her other albums.
Name: Vic Mackinder
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Sheffield
Found the website Didgerecords . com
Sent: 9.07 PM - 3/22
March 22/01.
First heard record on radio 2 [Terry Wogan] about 2 weeks ago. he kept plugging it and rightly so. Eva's recording of Over the Rainbow is the most beautifull version I have heard and that includes the origonal one from Judy Garland.What a fantastic Album. The world is a much sadder place without Eva Cassidy but her records will enhance her memory.
Regards v.m.
Name: BARRY M JORDAN
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (But All at various times of the day)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song SONGBIRD/FIELDS OF GOLD
Home town Trowbridge, Wilts., BA14 7HQ
Found the website MSN / Voila
Sent: 12.59 PM - 3/23
To All Eva Fans Out There:
Tell Laura "I Love Her" .... Eva That is....
Just a little poem I read out at my Daughter's (Anne-Marie's) Wedding to Anthony last 18 months ago....
When I'm alone I dream on the horizon and words fail me
Yes, I know there is no light in a room where the sun is absent....
If you are not with me at the window, show everyone my heart which you set alight....
Enclose within me the light you encountered on the street....
I'll go with you to countries I never saw and shared with you....
Now, yes, I shall experience them....
I'll go with you on ships and planes across seas which I know exist no longer....
With you I shall experience them....
When you are far away, I dream on the horizon and words fail me....
And yes, I know that you are with me....
You my Moon, are here with me, my Sun, you are here with me, Forever....
This of course is now dedicated to EVA....
With my Sincere Regards, Love and Wishes for her continued Life on the other side....Barry M. Jordan
Name: Edward Boswell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Cirencester
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.49 PM - 3/23
Eva,
You were a beautiful spirit taken in the prime of your life. You left use a legacy that is priceless. May God bless you and keep you in His eternal arms.
You are greatly missed.
Name: LJB
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album everyone
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town CA, USA
Found the website regular
Sent: 5.04 PM - 3/23
Welcome home EVA!!! Thank you Today Show. Eva will now be known from shore to shore here in the USA.!!!
Name: Judy Frazer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album just ordered one today
Home town Williamstown, KY
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 7.45 PM - 3/23
I heard that voice for the first time today on the Today show. The beauty of it still rings in my ears. I lost my sister to cancer when she was 38,perhaps she and Eva are singing wonderful notes together as they are such beautiful angels now... God always knows what we need, and He blessed me today in hearing Eva's voice... she does live on... Judy
Name: Jaynie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song At Last
Home town Camberley, Surrey, UK
Found the website Curiosity
Sent: 10.37 PM - 3/23
What a voice! The first time I heard Eva's voice it made the hairs raise on my arms and made me cry. Always a sign of genius - you cannot fake that kind of reaction. I have been spreading the word and my friends - whose taste in music is so varied - have trusted me enough to buy the CD and have been as amazed as I have been by such a wondrous talent. They have been, without exception, thrilled and delighted by the purity of this voice. Her parents must be so proud.
Name: John Richardson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Many
Home town Taos, New Mexico
Found the website Google
Sent: 12.27 AM - 3/24
I own hundreds of CDs in all musical genres, from most parts of the world, and from most eras of the century. Eva Cassidy is one of the most stunningly beautiful things I have ever heard. I came across her earlier this year via Amazon. The customer reviews told me something unique was out there. I had never heard of her until then. Now she is a musical deity for me...
A couple of weeks ago, I played Blues Alley for an old friend who was visiting. We listen to music together, and are quite serious about it. He has a special interest in female vocalists, and he said he had never heard anything like Eva's voice before. He kept shaking his head and asking why he had never heard of her before, in between gasps at her breathtaking range and ability to sing any genre with complete authority. We usually listen to half a dozen tracks from a CD and move on, but that night we listened to all of Blues Alley. When we finished, he suggested we observe a half hour of silence before listening to anything else.
I get very emotional when I think about her, and get very upset that she died so young with such extraordinary talent and never got to see just how much she means to so many. She really does have a voice that probably comes along once in a generation.
Name: Suzanne Wolfe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Found the website AOL
Sent: 3.57 AM - 3/24
I first heard Eva Cassidy when my boyfriend and I went into a Meyer Emco electronics store to listen to stereo speakers -- I couldn't believe how extraordinary her voice was -- and like everyone else, how saddened I was that she is gone from this Earth. But then I thought about how she is where my Mother is and somehow that made it okay, but it still makes me cry. We are so lucky to have her recordings.
Name: Claire
Sent: 2.55 PM - 3/24
As internet develops and changes rapidly, I have updated my site and put a
>link to you at:
http://www.lovelyberlin.de/INT/indexLinks.htm
>
>Greetings from Holland,
>
>Claire
Name: arnold walker
Home town butte, montana
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.30 PM - 3/24
very sad, very sad. I wish that her life had been different
Name: Gerry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town London UK
Sent: 2.21 AM - 3/25
Oh dear! I think there has been a misunderstanding by a couple of people here. Tony Bramwell's comments below were not aimed at Eva but prefabricated teen band called HearSay who were created on a TV docu-soap. Their single is currently #1 in Britain. His point is that their album isn't even officially out yet Amazon are listing it also as #1 already. Tony is in fact the overworked publicist for Hot Records who release all Eva's albums in Britain and as much as anybody he is the guy who has helped pave the way for her current success in the UK charts. I'm sure it goes without saying he loves Eva's music as much as any of us.
Name: Mark
Sent: 2.59 AM - 3/25
I would hate it if Laura GUESTbook descended into mudslinging forum. Leave it at the door and bring the "Angel of your better nature" in here. Peace! Everyone please.
Name: Andy Taylor
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town North Yorks
Found the website Excite
Sent: 7.59 PM - 3/25
Eva sounds so sincere when she sings that I fight to hold back the tears. It's as though she's singing personally to me. In a world where groups are frequently manufactured by producers solely to create money, Eva stands alone as an exceptionally talented artist who sang purely for the love of it and still managed to succeed. Sadly, all be it too late. The purity of her voice and the simplicity of her performances clearly demonstrates that a slick image and music video isn't needed to promote raw talent. I just hope that somewhere, somehow, Eva's looking down on all this and can see that she's now getting the recognition she so rightly deserves. Her death is such a tragic loss, but her music will be an inspiration to so many. God bless you Eva. Andy x
Name: fred
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town waynesburg, pa
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.38 AM - 3/26
I just listened to her 'Songbird' CD twice & I can't believe how moved I am by this wonderful woman. Not only does she have a gorgeous, technically flawless, 1-in-a-billion voice...it's the way she READS a lyric...you hang onto every note...her every breath pulls you in...I've heard friends say that listening to her affects them this way, too...I'm so grateful for this gift of beauty, even though it was taken away all too soon...but that makes her music all the more precious.
Name: David Smyth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Alexandria, Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.26 PM - 3/26
WHAT A CHANTER....A YOUNG BOY WE KNOW IS VERY, VERY ILL AND HAD A SONG WRITTEN FOR HIM BASED ON THE TUNE OF FIELDS OF GOLD SOME TIME AGO. HEARING THIS VERSION WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE.
Name: John O'Regan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Kathy's Song
Home town Limerick Ireland
Found the website looking at Yahoo and going through the list of sites
Sent: 1.01 PM - 3/27
I am a freelance journalist from here and am working on a story about Eva for Irish Music magazine June 2001 issue. Would welcome any help you could give as regards memories and reminiscences of Eva you might have, please reply to above email
Name: Kimberley Forsyth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Aberdeen
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 3.15 PM - 3/27
I just wanted to say that I have never heard such a voice! I bought the album for my dad but I have played it more myself. Wonderful, what an angelic voice x
Name: chloe duffy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Manchester
Found the website MSN
Sent: 9.30 PM - 3/27
I am 8 years old and I don't usually like slow music but I like this album because it has funky slow music
sound. also Eva has a good voice.
Name: Jeannie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You by Heart
Home town Hanover, Massachusetts USA
Found the website Yahoo Club
Sent: 10.25 PM - 3/27
A voice from somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Name: Niamh McCarthy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Dublin Ireland
Found the website looking in northenligths.com
Sent: 6.53 PM - 3/28
I heard 30 seconds of Eva's rendition of 'somewhere Over the Rainbow' one Monday morning and I went to the shop the same day and bought the album 'Songbird'. I have not been able to go a full day since without hearing that song I love the album and she is by far the best singer I have ever heard. Her music will live on in all our hearts. :)
Name: Allan Slipper
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Kingston upon Hull
Found the website Back of CD Songbird
Sent: 7.06 PM - 3/29
I had never heard of Eva, until I saw her on TOTP2.How amazing that we had to wait until she had passed away, to get such recognition what a truly outstanding voice, awesome is an understatement.
Name: Allison
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (only one bought - so far!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Folkestone
Found the website Freeserve
Sent: 7.08 PM - 3/29
Like thousands of others, saw Eva singing Over the Rainbow on TOTP2. Stopped what I was doing and listened totally mesmerized - vowed I would have to have Songbird. Love it more each time I hear it.
Logged into a couple of websites tonight because I didn't know anything about Eva. Read with a mixture of sadness and gladness about her but in total awe of her and her talent. I'll be telling all my friends!
Name: ron mccarthy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town Liverpool
Found the website luck
Sent: 7.27 PM - 3/29
Thank god for the coverage totp2 gave Eva, I feel
wonderful, I have been telling people about her for as
long as I can remember and now people are telling me!
It's been a long wait, but it HAD to happen some day
Thanks to everybody Ron
Name: Dave
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Wigan
Sent: 9.16 PM - 3/29
Listening to Eva is a pleasure and listening to her rendition of "Over the Rainbow" touches many emotions. Her singing talent expresses many emotions and will be sadly missed by all her fans all over the world.
Name: Gary
Sent: 11.34 PM - 3/29
So "Q" is suggesting that Eva's popularity is due to sympathy?? Now I understand why Jim Croce, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Mama Cass & Papa John, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis, etc. etc. etc. are all currently vying for #1 on the British Charts. Thank you "Q" for the enlightenment!
Give me a break.
Name: Chris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Tall Trees In Georgia
Home town Boston, MA USA
Found the website Here-Now.Com
Sent: 11.45 PM - 3/29
Eve has touched my soul for a few years now. I was on vacation in Provincetown with a group of my best friends in the world when I discovered her. I bought her CD on the way home from the beach on a great summer day. I read the liner notes out loud to everyone as we listened that afternoon. We were all brought to tears. That was 2 years ago and ever since she has become a big influence and a corner stone. I do not think my appreciation of Eva is related to my sympathy for her life, but more to her reaching a piece of my musical core. The live version of "Tall Trees" brings out her best.
Cheers to all those who love her as well.
Name: Mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get Ready
Sent: 11.50 PM - 3/29
If Eva's music has touched you in anyway please go and vote at http://www.q4music.com (Laura's has the link in the "what's new" page. I personally find the whole idea to be odious. (Is it irony or pure coincidence that the vote for Eva has the Pure and simple attachment? This being Hearsays debut single, just a thought.) Someone is lining up to take a pop at Eva and may want to use this poll to justify an antagonistic viewpoint. So vote for Eva and make sure this vote lends no credence to those looking to knock the Music and her memory. It only takes 20seconds to make your view known so....
All the best Mark
Name: Stephen
Home town Toronto
Sent: 2.44 AM - 3/30
If you find the Eva poll at http://www.q4music.com tasteless and offensive, then tell them at writers@Q4music.com
Also if you would like Eva to get more US TV exposure, then try emailing The Late Show with David Letterman at http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/clubhouse/mailbag/
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/clubhouse/email_us/
and ask them to play the video in its' entirety. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! It really works!!!
Name: Steve Harper
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Home town Worcester, UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.06 PM - 3/30
I'm listening to Songbird as I write this email, and it still moves me as powerfully as on the day I bought it. Eva has a voice that moves you to a different place, one where you lose yourself and forget about all of life's troubles. It is a travesty Eva is no longer with us, but even though I didn't know her I feel so close to her through her music. Voice of an angel. Thank you so much for the short time you were with us, you have touches so many.
Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Woodstock
Home town Ireland
Sent: 7.04 PM - 3/30
Eva remains at the top of the Irish charts for a second week http://www.2fm.ie/music/charts/albums.html and surprise, surprise, everyone's favourite all conquering pop juggernaut, Hearsay, only come in at No 5. As for the Q magazine vote, I did have second thoughts (regret actually) about bringing it to people's attention, as it was very cynical in the way it framed its question, and obliviously upset a lot of the people who read it. But, as of Friday evening, Quality, pure and simple has surged way, way ahead in the vote and the tone-deaf cynics are being politely shown to the back door. By way of recompense Q should replace this vote with a major feature on Eva.
Name: Dee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album 'Songbird'
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song 'Over the Rainbow'
Home town Sale
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.58 PM - 3/30
My 'Songbird' CD is two days old and I haven't stopped playing it. I look forward to listening to Eva's other albums. Sad that she isn't able to enjoy her success, but maybe she is...just Over the Rainbow.
Name: Bill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (my 1st but not last)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Oh had I a golden thread
Home town Dallas Metroplex
Found the website Google
Sent: 11.09 PM - 3/30
Earlier in my life I was a professional musician (before family and pragmatism forced me in other directions). I've worked with some real giants of jazz, and in some cases I'd have gladly worked for nothing just be around them. But never, NEVER have I heard such a voice. A range that soars; boundless creativity with no limitations and a soulful honesty that brings you to tears. And then God, God, we lost her before most of us ever knew the treasure we were losing.
Name: Debbie Hague
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song For You
Home town Norwich, England
Found the website Microsoft Internet Explorer
Sent: 10.44 AM - 3/31
Since hearing the Eva Cassidy story on the radio I was moved by the sincerity of Eva's music and her passion for singing. I am getting married in August and Songbird and Over the Rainbow will be played through the service.
Name: Mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (only one I have heard, but sure others will be just as good).
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow / Fields of Gold
Home town Dundee
Found the website MSN
Sent: 2.44 PM - 3/31
I recently saw Eva Cassidy on Top Of The Pops performing Over the Rainbow. The performance was amazing and so moving. After hearing the song sung live (!) I bought the album Songbird and was, and still am, amazed by Eva's brilliant voice. Long live the immortal voice of Eva Cassidy.
Name: HARRY SLATCHER.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ALL
Home town LONG EATON .NOTTINGHAM.ENGLAND.
Found the website .WWW.EVACASSIDY.COM
Sent: 5.37 PM - 3/31
STEVE DARGAN. I NEED YOUR E MAIL ADDRESS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU.
Name: Mimi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves/Over the Rainbow/Fields of Gold
Home town San Diego, Ca.
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.11 PM - 3/31
I saw part of a bit about her on the Today Show a few days ago. I went out & bought "Songbird" the same day. I cannot stop playing it & telling everyone about it. I can't wait to get another CD. Her voice is clear, haunting, angelic & sultry all at the same time.
Name: Joe Cassidy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Liverpool, England
Found the website Cassidy clan website
Sent: 11.42 AM - 4/1
such a sad loss
Name: Claire Nightingale
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Northampton
Found the website Google
Sent: 2.43 PM - 4/1
I'd just like to say how superb and inspiring Eva Cassidy is. Like many others I first heard her singing Over the Rainbow. She took my breath away. I rushed to buy her album and chose Songbird. I have never heard so many songs in one album which have all turned me into a flood of tears. Angelic doesn't come close. Pure, so pure. It's a shame that we have heard about her now and not 5 or 6 years ago.
I've been searching the net time and time again for her lyrics, does anyone know where I can find them. If so please can you email me. I have particular interest in the words to Songbird, Autumn Leaves, well all of them really.
Thanks
Name: Hennie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird, Fields of Gold
Home town Rotterdam / Holland
Found the website www.didgerecords.com
Sent: 4.55 PM - 4/1
Since last week I'm the lucky owner of the CD Songbird. The first time I've heard from Eva was when
I saw top of the pops at BBC (We've kabeltelevison in Holland). For the first time in my live I was compleet quiet. What a voice. My favorite song is "Songbird" and after that Field of Gold. So now I'm very curious to the other CD-records. I've never heard such a beautiful voice in my life. Maybe someday I'll see Eva Over the Rainbow and I'll thank her for the joy she has given me to listen to her music.
Name: willie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song autumn leaves
Home town U.K.
Found the website yahoo UK
Sent: 5.44 PM - 4/1
does anyone have the full tab for Over the Rainbow, Fields of Gold or autumn leaves? would very much appreciate them. great site Laura.
Name: Alan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Home town Tiverton RI USA
Found the website Google
Sent: 7.38 PM - 4/1
I 1st heard about Eva on the Today show. I listened to "Woodstock" because I was at the original Woodstock and was curious how it would sound. I couldn't believe how she captured the feeling of that event with her voice having been too young herself to experience it. Anyway, I then listened to "Over the Rainbow" and began to cry. Her voice was so beautiful and I am so grateful she left behind her sole for all of us to experience. I am sure she was an angel sent to us for comfort in troubled times. Thank you Eva, I will share your music with my friends and those in need. Her musical gift is a healing experience.
Name: Paul Gartland
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold
Home town Wallasey,Merseyside(UK)
Found the website AOL search
Sent: 8.13 PM - 4/1
The first time I heard an Eva Cassidy song was in the car, I couldn't get out of the car until the song finished. It was "Fields Of Gold" and I was completely blown away by that amazing voice.
Name: Charlie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song They all become one
Home town Norwich
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.56 AM - 4/2
Thanks to all those who responded to my piece (01/04/01) on the Irish Times article (see 'News').
Just to labour the point: It is probably true to say that you wouldn't expect to find a Sting song sitting alongside a Johnny Mercer jazz standard, a 1930s show song, or Pete Seeger's 'Had I a Golden Thread' on the same album - until you hear Eva Cassidy sing them, then it all makes perfect sense. Her personality is imprinted on those songs as indelibly as the letters in a stick of seaside rock.
The Times journalist is looking for unity in the material, when it resides in the performer. He seems to hold it against her that her prodigious range and versatility allowed her to do things other singers only dream of (imagine Madonna singing jazz(!), or Mariah Carey singing the blues(!!!)). Not content with the variegated beauty of a butterfly's wings, he wants to pin it to a board and classify it.
It would have been quite easy for Eva to have strung together a collection of pop ballads, got a record contract and made a few bucks, but she chose not to because it would have been an affront to the integrity of her 'personal artistic vision'.
I guess it's inevitable that journalists are going to look for a 'new angle' to justify their paycheck (the rest of the article was basically a scissors-and-paste job compiled from album notes and other people's interviews), but it's frustrating to hear the same attitudes that denied Eva the opportunity of recognition in her lifetime still being perpetuated after her death.
She had just about every obstacle to success placed in her way - from her endearing lack of ambition, to the collective myopia of the record companies, through to the ultimate obstacle of her own mortality - and yet, her work has triumphed in an unprecedented manner.
For me, her music represents an eye of calm and consolation amid the storm of cynicism that careers chaotically around the globe. It seems to strike a chord deep in the human psyche, and it urges us to grab those moments of wonder while we still can.
To dismiss her as "a good(!!!) singer with no voice of her own" is not just unforgivable to us EVAngelists, it is just silly. One might almost be tempted to believe that God took her from us to protect her from this kind of ignorant appraisal of her work.
Amen. (I thought this was getting to sound a bit like a sermon)
P.S.: apologies for monopolizing the guest book - now I've got that out of my system I'll shut up.
Name: mariela
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Tenerife (Spain)
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 1.42 PM - 4/2
I heard Cassidy´s voice for the first time the week before my mother died of cancer (three weeks ago)
In the middle of my pain Eva's voice was a balm to my soul. Now God has given me encourage to carry on and in those times that I'm down, I imagine Eva singing to my mum while both of them walk in Fields of Gold.
Name: Laurel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow & more
Home town GRIMSBY ENGLAND
Found the website NTL home page
Sent: 9.42 PM - 4/2
Eva Cassidy up to a few weeks ago was name I had not heard of, which disappoints me now, as I could have had many weeks of pleasure. I first heard her on the TV and thought I must get that album as her voice was so mesmerizing. She certainly is a truly most talented artist. I have since bought Time after Time and I find it equally as brilliant. It is very sad that she is no longer with us so that she could have known of her talent and all the people she gives enjoyment to. She is one hell of a singer with a voice like honey, gold and everything possible. May she live in our minds forever.
Name: Philip Kenney
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song 'Rainbow
Home town Isle of Man
Found the website Alta Vista
Sent: 10.55 PM - 4/2
From the first moment I heard Eva singing, "Rainbow" I was captured ,my hours after a quest to find out all I could about this heavenly angel who passed this way.
Thankfully she left her songs for us.
Thankfully ,she will not be forgotten, as there are still people in this world who can see and appreciate real talent, and god sent quantities when they hear it.
Name: Peter Butler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album song bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold or Over the Rainbow
Home town Milton Keynes
Found the website Google
Sent: 7.43 PM - 4/3
My wife heard Eva first, she told me that she had heard the voice of an angel, she then purchased the CD for me. My wife is not often right but in Eva's case she was, Eva does have an incredible wide ranging voice, since having the CD I have enjoyed it everyday.
What it must have been like to open your mouth and sound like that.
Name: rebecca le fevre
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town dinas cross newport pembs
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 1.15 PM - 4/4
what a star whose music will live on forever
Name: katy(hippie)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Liverpool, England
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 8.11 PM - 4/4
a truly talented woman
what an inspiration to us all
gone but never forgotten
Name: Phil
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Dark End of the Street
Home town Southampton UK
Found the website a long time ago....favourite of mine
Sent: 9.07 PM - 4/4
On Christmas Day 1999 and again in June 2000 BBC Radio Two put out "Eva An Appreciation" programme hosted by Terry Wogan. It was basically Eva's story with a musical snippets... and words from her father... I am prepared to make 5 copies of this to Eva fans, due to postal costs I can only do this to UK addresses, but maybe the five can continue to send copies to others....It is one hour long, and it truly brought tears to my eyes on hearing it...still does...anyone interested (no charge) e mail me and I will choose five to get a copy....
Phil
Name: mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I'm still not sure...
Home town Manchester
Found the website I always go thru yahoo....
Sent: 10.33 PM - 4/4
It's been some time now since I first heard Eva. It's so good to have witnessed her posthumous popularity here in the UK (and in Ireland).
She sings now '..but I miss you..' as I listen to Autumn Leaves. In truth, Eva, I miss you. I will never forget you, '..my darling..' - '..I miss you most of all..' (next track} '..because I feel that when I'm with you, it's all right, I know it's right..'
Oh, dear, there's more - 'to you, I would give the world'.
When does it end? Eva, you sing to me '..and I love you, I love you, I love you like never before..'
Truth is, she will never stop singing to me.
God bless and God rest,
Mark.
Name: Laura J B
Home town SJ, CA USA
Sent: 3.13 PM - 4/5
The USA has been slow on the uptake, but I think Eva is finally coming home from reading "what's new" on the site. We welcome you Eva, with wide wide open arms. And cousin Laura, you are doing a great job!
Name: Julia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Rainbow and Songbird(all of them!)
Home town Asheville, North Carolina
Found the website put in Eva's name under Yahoo search
Sent: 12.26 AM - 4/6
I just finished catching the short story about Eva on 20/20 tonight and it was wonderful to see an actual video clip of this phenomenal singer/human being. It was Certifiable goose bump material! I first heard of her on a radio show on Public station WNCW here in Asheville and ran right out to buy one of her recordings. Not knowing which one to get and only being able to afford one, I was drawn to the Songbird album! Don't try to listen to this CD without a bountiful amount of tissues handy.If there is a God then I know Eva is in the angel choir and that's where I wanna go one day. My one regret is that I never saw one of her live performances, though I lived on the Chesapeake Bay not too far from the areas she sang, during those same years. I would have liked to have known her as the beautiful soul and the incredible artist that she was. How wonderful that her memory can live on in this way and that she can touch the hearts of millions, though she no longer walks the earth...her voice keeps her alive in our minds, Julia Gordon
Name: Yvonne Charbonneau
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Cheek to Cheek
Home town San Antonio, TX
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 2.53 PM - 4/6
I was one of the fortunate people in this world to have been Eva's friend and sing with her. I have so many wonderful and hysterical memories of her and her brother, Dan. This sudden stardom is sooo long overdue. She was an extraordinary talent, with her singing and painting...she designed my tattoo!! I have an Eva original I proudly wear on my ankle!! I had lost touch with her when I moved to Texas, but our friend, Christine, contacted me and told me Eva was dying, and she wanted to talk to me. I called, and we spoke for as long as she could- she was so sick from the medication she was on and she started to shiver, so she had to hang up, and I told her I would call her again in a week, but she passed before I could talk to her again. I miss her. I think she would be proud of me. I have my own blues band here in San Antonio and we're doing quite well. I even do her version of "Fine and mellow". I miss singing with Eva. I miss my friend, but I am so grateful that the whole world is getting to know her amazing voice. Unfortunately, they will never get to know the beautiful; shy; creative; funny; weird; nature loving; athletic; spiritual; pizza loving; naive; sometimes had a mouth like a sailor when her truck wouldn't start; peaceful; could make anything including a coffee table, clock and pillows for Chris' new couch; Southern Comfort loving; long, luxurious fingernails-(a private joke); happy; content; strong woman that I knew...but then again...only some of us can be that lucky!! God Bless you Eva, I love you!!! Yvonne.
Name: Martin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Philadelphia, Pa
Found the website MSN search
Sent: 4.13 PM - 4/6
WOW! just caught Eva's segment on ABC news. Searched her music on the web. Has to be one of the best voices I've ever heard! What Heart, What soul...
If you've enjoyed Eva you might also want to check out Christine Havrilla.
http://www.mp3.com/ChristineHavrilla
Check out the song "Diamonds", & "As you Feel".
Eva you may be missed, but never forgotten.
Name: Nanette Champeau
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Sent: 2.08 AM - 4/7
One summer day in 1999 I was driving to work and turned on the radio (NPR). I caught a few bars of 'Over the Rainbow' and the name. . Eva Cassidy and 'Songbird'. I pulled over to the side of the road and wrote the name down and called the local music store the next day. They ordered 'Songbird' for me and I had it within the week. Of course I played the CD over and over. . .what a beautiful voice and I just love her choice of songs! Especially Fields of Gold. After playing the CD daily for over month, I finally read the liner notes. She had passed on in 1996 in Washington D.C. I couldn't believe it. I was living in Washington D.C. in 1996. I would have liked to have heard her live. How did I miss her? She was just down the street. I have to think she chose to leave when her soul wanted to go home. Thank you Eva, for sharing your beautiful voice and your beautiful soul.
Name: Katherine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Louisiana
Found the website www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 4.03 PM - 4/7
I heard part of Fields of Gold on Judging Amy, and had to find out who she was. I love her music, it has only been a week since I have discovered her, and I have bought 3 albums. Songbird, Live at Blues Alley, and Eva by heart.
Name: Katherine Phillips
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Calgary, Alberta
Found the website Mamma
Sent: 5.20 PM - 4/7
I had our local public radio station on in the car yesterday and they played Fields of Gold and Tall Trees in Georgia. I had to pull over before I got home to write down the name of the artist. Two hours later I was driving around the city from record shop to record shop to find anything by Eva Cassidy. All the shops knew about her but most were sold out! I feel like I've been living in the dark ages, not knowing about her. I did finally come home with Eva by Heart and Live at Blues Alley. Now, I'm just trying to count how many of my friends I need to buy an Eva album for. This woman needs to turn on everyone!
Name: Joyce
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Montreal Quebec Canada
Found the website Copernic
Sent: 12.06 AM - 4/8
A close friend asked me to listen to Eva Cassidy's songs. Until today I had never heard of her, and I wonder why. Eva has the most gentle talented voice I have heard in a long long time. This song touches me in ways I cannot describe. I hope she is looking down and smiling, because her music seems to have touched quite a few souls. Thank you for your gift Eva.
Name: Marc Dickson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Chicago
Found the website MSN
Sent: 3.29 AM - 4/8
Eva Cassidy is a joy to behold, I learnt about her from an article in the Daily Telegraph online. I have quite eclectic music tastes but I must say that the sheer power and note perfect style of Eva is something not far short of miraculous. Myself and my wife both love Eva Cassidy's music. I am sorry that she did not gain the worldwide recognition that she deserved before her untimely passing.
Name: Cees Looijé
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How Can I Keep From Singing
Home town Voorburg, The Netherlands
Found the website Meta Crawler
Sent: 12.03 PM - 4/8
I couple of weeks ago there was a written story in 'De Haagsche Courant' about Eva. After reading this, I downloaded a few mp3's to hear Eva and her music.
And now, two weeks later, I'm the owner of 5 Eva CDs!
I love her music very much.
Sorry if my English is not so good. It's not my common language.
Name: Doug Cormack
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song cant choose ,there all so good
Home town near Bristol UK.
Found the website from www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 4.43 PM - 4/8
Thank you Eva..
Name: Katy b
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Middlesbrough
Found the website ask jives
Sent: 2.30 PM - 4/9
what a talented brave person , she will be missed. it is a shame she wasn't recognised in the time she was alive .she is a true star
Name: Donna Wright
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Dorking.Surrey. U.K.
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 6.08 PM - 4/9
My husband and daughter asked what I would like for my birthday, I said, "another Eva Cassidy CD", I already had "Time after Time", they gave me "Songbird". I just can't wait to get the rest. Eva gets right into your soul.
Name: Hedley Thirkill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town ELY,CAMBS.UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.02 PM - 4/9
I was introduced to Eva by a colleague at work, I have never heard anybody like her and probably never will again. I thought it was fantastic that she made No1 in the UK Album chart
Name: Terese
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird (amongst many others)
Home town Belfast, N. Ireland
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.33 PM - 4/9
Wow! What a voice. What a lady. Thank you Eva for such soulful music. I hope that somewhere Over the Rainbow your beautiful singing can still be heard.
Thank you.
Name: Ashton Allen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere over the Rainbow
Home town Toronto, Ontario
Found the website Netscape search on Eva Cassidy
Sent: 5.09 AM - 4/10
I am a house music lover and never really considered myself a fan of Eva Cassidy-style music (although after reading the articles I learned Eva was quite a diverse artist). I downloaded Eva's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" after reading the BBC Top 40 chart and was immediately astonished by her voice. Never have I heard a voice so beautiful. I was excited to have found such a wonderful new artist, and devastated when I learned of her death.
Thank you Eva for sharing your voice with the world; fame may have slipped from your path, but your talent ensures you will be remembered always.
A voice like this can't be forgotten.
Name: Just Another Fan
Sent: 3.31 PM - 4/10
Name: Nick R
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song tall trees in Georgia
Home town chelmsford England
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 5.25 PM - 4/10
I first heard Eva's album Songbird about 2 years ago,I can honestly say I was knocked out by the sheer beauty of her voice I have since bought all her CDs I think live at blues alley is the best album by a female singer I have heard in a long time. the sheer range of her repertoire never fails to amaze me I have introduced a lot of people to her genius and it is good to see her Songbird album at the top of the UK charts thank you Eva for the pleasure and keep the flame burning on this page peace to you all Nick
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album only heard Songbird so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song every one!!
Home town Emsworth England
Found the website NTL
Sent: 8.56 PM - 4/10
Every entry in the journal echoes my feelings - what a voice, and every word from the heart. I saw the live version of Over the Rainbow on the BBC, and as soon as I knew that Songbird was around, I had to buy it. Truly wonderful stuff.
Name: Rusty
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I'm sorry I can't, they are all exquisite
Home town Northampton (England)
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.18 PM - 4/10
I heard Eva on BBC Radio 2 (thanks Wogan) ! God I'm old. Does she ever sing a wrong note, even a little ? I think not. What I really want to do is email her family and tell them just what she has meant to me, how she has helped me. I lost my parents when I was very young and Eva has shown me how to make it ok to grieve at last. I am moved when I listen to her voice but at the end of the album I smile (time is a healer).I have converted people young and old to her music. What no one seems to say is yes, her voice was fantastic but her guitar playing was subtle yet superb.
Name: Tim Williams
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Lake Odessa, Mi.
Found the website A friend told me about it.
Sent: 9.40 PM - 4/10
First I heard "Blue's Alley and it was my favorite. Then I got Songbird and heard "Over the Rainbow", a song I've listened to many, many, many times and before I heard Eva sing it was absolutely convinced no one could do it justice after Judy Garland. Towards the end I burst into tears. Now I generally just get goosebumps listening to it. She was really something special. Thank you NPR for your story about her.
Name: Morgan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song pick just one???
Home town Orlando, Fl, USA
Found the website www.excite.com
Sent: 1.52 AM - 4/11
I used to hate the song "Somewhere" - no disrespect to Ms. Garland intended - I just hated the sappy lyrics, the overly dramatic presentation, all of it. Maybe it was being forced to watch that movie too many years in a row as a child...
Then I heard Eva's version. This MUST be what the composer intended all along and now after all those years of hearing this song and listening to people rave over it, I finally "get it".
I've sung all my life - both for pleasure & as a professional - and I've never heard a voice as incredible as Eva's. She was truly a once in a lifetime experience.
A thousand thank yous go out to the people who realized what a gift she had & then had the presence of mind to record it for the rest of us.
Name: Keith Jones
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I've only got 'Songbird'
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Rhuddlan, Wales, UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.13 PM - 4/11
Like lots of other people in the UK, I was introduced to Eva's hauntingly lovely voice by BBC Radio 2. I will go out and buy her other albums. It is such a great shame that she died before her fame truly spread. She has one of (if not the) best voices I have ever heard. Perfect. Thank you Eva.
Name: hoopi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town bern
Sent: 8.18 PM - 4/11
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I suppose it has to be 'Rainbow'
Home town Liverpool, UK
Found the website Copernic
Sent: 11.28 PM - 4/11
I played Songbird to a group of hard bitten rock and R & B fans the other night. Instead of the anticipated cynical reaction, I caught several jotting down the title and other album details. I wonder if Eva ever dared to dream that she would become a phenomenon in Britain.
Name: Mary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves/People get ready
Home town St. Paul, Minnesota-USA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 12.25 AM - 4/12
Name: ali
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album na
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town gosport hants
Found the website AOL
Sent: 1.43 PM - 4/12
all I can say is what a truly remarkable voice.... nothing can compare to what I have just heard nothing....I heard about Eva through media and wanted to know what all the goss was about and now I know... may you rest in peace Eva you are "somewhere Over the Ra