I Can Only Be Me

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Crossing all boundaries – musical, cultural, geographical – her voice survived and is finding new listeners every day in every corner of the earth.

‎I Can Only Be Me (Orchestral) - Album by Eva Cassidy, London

Eva Cassidy's unparalleled posthumous recording career began with the release of the Songbird album in early 1998. Reporter Mark Segraves says that “The 6:55 slot is the most watched 5 minutes of news as it leads into the network news.Live performances of Eva’s songs will be performed by local musicians, including: Laura Brino, Meg Murray, Julie Cymek (Sweet Leda), Dana Koch, Larry Melton, Hurricane Kevin, Angie Miller, Alex and Kennedy, Carley Winter, and more… Rain or shine (indoors optional).

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Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D. From that deep trove, Blix Street fashioned an ideal set titled Songbird, which they issued in 1998. Check out this terrific article about Eva’s niece Eva Katrin Daníelsdóttir Cassidy, teenaged daughter of Eva Marie Cassidy’s brother Dan “The Fiddle Man.In a nutshell, advanced techniques allowed audio engineers to separate out only Eva’s vocals and pair them with brand new orchestral arrangements by Christopher Willis and William Ross.

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Time After Time" will lead off the new collection, which also includes favorites such as her acoustic interpretations of " Wade in the Water," " Kathy's Song," " Autumn Leaves," " American Tune" and " Songbird. More used to recording music with the singer present, to do this, the musicians had her voice played to them through headphones as they accompanied her. But it never would have happened without the stalwart efforts of some dedicated supporters, as well as several connections that brought her songs to the attention of more media gatekeepers than normally receive credit in the tale.Once the label convinced a Boston radio station to play her music, “we sold 10,000 CDs in that city in two weeks. Those performances in a noisy club with chatter and diners present, would go on to be her first live solo album; Live At Blues Alley. Somewhere, perhaps the most diverse Eva album to date, constantly surprises, as Eva Cassidy once again takes us along on her unique musical journey.

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The complete set of 31 songs recorded that night was eventually released 20 years later as Nightbird in 2015. If you’re one of the fans who wants to get to know Eva better, you’ll find that this gives wonderful insight into one of her many aspects. Lenny and I were hired to do the music for the documentary,” Chris says, “but then they found out we had worked with Eva, and they put me into the documentary. Revisited for the first time since release, this special Songbird 20 anniversary edition contains Eva's most popular songs, including Fields of Gold, Over the Rainbow, Songbird, and Autumn Leaves. In case you can’t read it, this is a newspaper clipping of the agenda of a virtual public hearing of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Annapolis, scheduled for April 12, 2022.In 2002, the self-titled 1988 album by the band Method Actor, which featured Cassidy, was re-released by the band's guitarist and producer David Lourim with Cassidy's name displayed prominently on the cover. Instead, Willis and a wide team of supporters made complex use of modern technology, with some assistance from AI, to sift out and scrub clean Cassidy’s original vocals before working them into fresh symphonic arrangements. BLUES ALLEY IN TROUBLE: News outlets in the Washington DC area have been reporting on the likelihood that the famous jazz club, which of course has special associations with Eva, may have to move or even close.