Eva by Heart

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
This is Eva Cassidy's one and only solo studio album. Before her untimely death in 1996 she made a live album (iLive At Blues Alley/i) and a duet album with Chuck Brown (IThe Other Side/I), and these, together with the posthumous compilation iSongbird/i, represent the sum total of her output. Every album, every track is therefore doubly precious. For Eva Cassidy's voice is of the very rarest hue: the kind of voice that only comes along once in a generation, the kind of voice that grabs your heartstrings and just won't let go. Whether she is singing blues and jazz numbers, evergreen standards or folk ballads, her vocal expression, her range, note-perfect accuracy and sense of passionate immersion in the music are all palpable. If there's a problem it's that she is so supremely confident an interpreter of all these styles that the album lacks a single focus: Fleetwood Mac's touching ballad "Songbird" is bookended by the Arlen/Mercer standard "Blues In The Night" (a swinging blues) and "Need Your Love So Bad" (a duet with jazzman Chuck Brown). Sometimes Eva is Aretha Franklin, sometimes she's Sandy Denny. But it scarcely matters for anyone captivated by her voice. And anyone who listens to this album is certain to be captivated. --IMark Walker/I

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-02-16 rating:
Eva Cassidy - Eva by Heart
I have just read a book about Eva Cassidy called Songbird put together from quotes from her friends and family, it was a really moving emotional account of her short life from the people who cared and new her best. I already have the rest of her CDs and realised reading this book there was one I didn't have - Eva by Heart. So obviously I have bought it. It is absolutely amazing as all her CDs are. Her ease at moving between different types of music style is effortless as is her singing. Also her other amazing skill is to transform popular well known songs into her own style and make them into timeless masterpieces like Over the Rainbow and many others.

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review by: Lexy date: 2009-02-06 rating:
Incredable Eva
Eva Cassidy is one of the most amazing talents of the music world,and the love she shows in her music and with her voice leave me breathless.The tragedy of her early passing has left a void never to be filled.No one's collection should be without at least one of her albums.

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review by: Christopher date: 2008-12-10 rating:
Home is where the heart is
What can I do buy copy the review I wrote of Eva's Songbird? So here I go again. br /Once again: don't buy this record. Please, no money. Money is too hard, too cold to purchase the soul of an artiste like Eva. br /But taste that soul. Share it. Like you share the secret motions of in your heart with your nearest and dearest. br /Eva's voice and warmth are heaven-sent. And words sometimes can't come close and tell. So don't buy this cd. Offer it to someone you love and share the warmth and tenderness that Eva is sharing with us. Songbird, angel, we miss you and love you.

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review by: date: 2008-02-09 rating:
eva by heart
As I read the reviews from not only this wonderful CD but Eva's other ones I am struck by how unanimous the praise is for her. And then I look at the date of the reviews and I begin to worry and wonder. There does not seem to be any from the last five years. Right beside the reviews is an ad wondering what is wrong with young people who think Man Ray was a poisonous fish when he was an artist. Personally I think if Man Ray had thought about it he might have wanted to be Manta Ray as well. But I digress. Just as we are losing our capacity to recognize an artist who was working seventy years ago we are losing our ability to reach out to a recording artist who has been dead for only twelve years. br /Surely there are younger listeners who are more concerned with quality and clarity of sound and will take the time to discouve Eva for themselves. br /


review by: date: 2001-10-16 rating:
My Favourite Eva Album
I could listen to this album non-stop for days. It's wonderful. I love all the songs here, especially "I Know You By Heart", "Blues in the Night" and "Waly Waly".brEva had a voice with such fantastic range. In "I Know You By Heart", her voice is so soft, absolutely beautiful on the lower, quieter notes. Then you listen to "Blues in the Night" and you're bowled over! Here was this gentle, soft singer then suddenly she's belting out this great song - very loud - and you can hardly believe it's the same woman. brFantastic singer. Fantastic album.

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