Eva Cassidy - The Best Of Eva Cassidy 2LP 33⅓rpm
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Product Information
- Barcode: 739341020681
- Artist: Eva Cassidy (All Products)
- Label: Blix Street Records
- Pressing: EU Press
- Release Date: 2013
- Country Of Origin: US
- Product Format: LP (180 Gram Vinyl, Gatefold)
- Language: English
- Number Of LP: 2 + Bonus CD
- Product Weight: 550g
Eva's Best Hits On 180g Vinyl! Features "Over The Rainbow" and "Songbird" PLUS Previously Unissued Enhanced Version Of "You Take My Breath Away"!
The Best of Eva Cassidy, a compilation of the music of the versatile, much-missed vocalist praised for her emotional range and interpretive skills. Proof of both qualities abounds on the collection, which gathers 19 performances from the Washington, D.C.-based Cassidys previous albums and adds a previously unissued version of her popular You Take My Breath Away.
Cassidys reputation has only grown since her untimely 1996 death from melanoma at the age of 33, earning her an international audience (more than 10 million CDs sold worldwide) and critical acclaim, with the Wall Street Journal praising her perfect pitch, impeccable timing and vulnerability and USA Today citing her emotional ability to reach the depths of any song.
Of special note is the albums new track, a version of Claire Hamills inspirational tune that became one of Cassidys signature songs. While the 1993 demo version of the song concluded Evas American Tune album, this previously unheard recording was one of several works-in-progress tracks at the time of her passing in 1996. This more musically evolved vocal performance simply reaches a new level. With the aid of new digital technology, Evas former bandmates Chris Biondo and Lenny Williams recently enhanced Evas original guitar/vocal studio recording. After maximizing the sound quality of Evas vocal tour de force, they augmented the production with piano, double bass and a string quartet, creating the definitive version of what is destined to become one of Evas best-loved performances.
Any new track on an Eva Cassidy best-of album had the tall order of being competitive with the other 19 classic Eva tracks, which have together raised the bar for singers everywhere, explains Blix Street Records president Bill Straw. Essentially, Eva had to top or at least equal her own best work. I believe she did it. Otherwise, we would not have put it on the album. Some of our people in England are saying this new version of You Take My Breath Away is the best sounding Eva Cassidy recording ever, high praise indeed at this point. It is enough to say that Evas newest released performance is worthy for inclusion among her best. Eva fans will ultimately decide for themselves where it ranks for them among her many classics.
Hearing Eva perform my song was probably the most important moment of my career, Hamill says of Cassidys earlier treatment of You Take My Breath Away. I felt validated as a songwriter, a truly indescribable feeling. When I heard how a new version was to feature as the lead track on her new Best of Eva Cassidy album, I was over the moon. Eva will always mean the world to me. Her beautiful voice will stay with me forever.
Cassidy fans and newcomers alike will find much to savor in The Best of Eva Cassidy, whose program reprises the singers greatest momentsamong them her nonpareil reading of Stings Fields of Gold, John Lennons Imagine, Curtis Mayfields People Get Ready and Christine McVies Songbird, the title song of her first and still biggest-selling posthumous release. She likewise applies her unique, song-sympathetic voicing to folk (the fragile Danny Boy and the swinging Wade in the Water), standards (Autumn Leaves, Over the Rainbow) and the work of such contemporary singer-writers as Paul Simon (Kathys Song), Bill Withers (Aint No Sunshine) and Cyndi Lauper (Time After Time).
It was in 2001 that music enthusiasts sat up and took notice of Cassidys compelling way with a song; that was the year that the Songbird compilation hit the top of the British album charts and captivated audiences the world over. Songbird has now been certified Platinum in the U.S.
FEATURES:
- 180g Vinyl
- Double LP
- Gatefold Jacket
- Mastered by Robert Vosgien, Capitol Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
Track List
Side A
- You Take My Breath Away
- Kathy's Song
- Songbird
- What a Wonderful World
- Ain't No Sunshine
Side B
- Wade in the Water
- Time After Time
- Autumn Leaves
- I Can Only Be Me
- Fields of Gold
Side C
- True Colors
- Imagine
- Over the Rainbow
- It Doesn't Matter Anymore
- Danny Boy
Side D
- People Get Ready
- Anniversary Song
- Early Morning Rain
- I Know You By Heart
- Tall Trees in Georgia
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