The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy

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Mike B.

The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« on: 13 Jan 2021, 11:40 pm »
A doc on her Blues Alley performance/recording

https://youtu.be/XEqzTlZdfSo

Charles Calkins

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Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #1 on: 13 Jan 2021, 11:46 pm »

   I heard her sing on a radio broadcast about 12 years ago. She had passed away before then.
   Bought the album. GREAT!!! album. One of my favorites
   R.I.P Eva we miss you.

                                                         Charlie
 
                                                         

Mike B.

Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #2 on: 14 Jan 2021, 12:36 am »
Gone far to soon.

Early B.

Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #3 on: 14 Jan 2021, 01:59 am »
Great documentary. I have this CD. It should be required listening for all budding audiophiles. Her rendition of Autumn Leaves is transcendent.

Mudslide

Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #4 on: 14 Jan 2021, 06:53 am »
She shyly started out as an adolescent on America's Got Talent...and wowed, them.  She dedicated, quite tearfully, her song (which I now forget what it was) to her father who was battling cancer.

What a fabulous talent and WAY too soon gone.

Craig B

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Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #5 on: 14 Jan 2021, 12:28 pm »
America's Got Talent premiered in 2006. Cassidy died ten years prior.

gonefishin

Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #6 on: 18 Jan 2021, 03:10 am »
     first time I heard Eva was when my brother and I were picking up a pair of Altec Valencia's for him from an audio member Shadow.  He put on Live at Blues Alley.  We were both blown away.  Been a fan ever since.

    Dan

Mudslide

Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #7 on: 18 Jan 2021, 04:07 am »
America's Got Talent premiered in 2006. Cassidy died ten years prior.

My bad...it was another young singer who sang Eva's song, Songbird.   :duh:

Still, Eva's voice was mesmerizing and wonderful.

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Re: The Night that changed everything - Eva Cassidy
« Reply #8 on: 18 Jan 2021, 04:08 am »
The first time I heard Eva Cassidy was in little bookstore in Northhamton, MA in 2002.  We were taking our daughter to look at Smith College, and were looking around the town.  Inside the bookstore were a pair of old Klipsch Cornwalls, and this haunting voice was singing  "Woodstock" in a mesmerizing way.  I just stood and listened. 
I don't remember where I was when I first heard any other artist.  But Eva was different. 

Interesting that Mudslide posted his comment seconds before mine.  We both chose the word "mesmerizing".