🟠 'Her voice was beyond rational analysis': The magic of Eva Cassidy The singer was little known before her death aged 33 – but she has since become a global success. missbarton explores her enduring legacy ⬇️
If you were to award a prize for the most quietly devastating moment of radio, a feasible contender might well belast month. Discussing his choice of Eva Cassidy’s cover of “Fields of Gold”, the actor spoke of how that song had helped him to navigate the loss of his wife, the dialect coach Joan Washington.
Cassidy was raised in Maryland and, showing an early predilection for music, was taught guitar by her father from the age of nine. By her early twenties she was combining session singing with jobs in furniture painting and plant propagation, eventually forming the, a five-piece ensemble that performed around the Washington area, playing a selection of ballads, country tunes and jazz.
Cassidy was raised in Maryland and, showing an early predilection for music, was taught guitar by her father from the age of nine Straw was floored by her voice, but to rush to release any material in the final months of her life seemed avaricious. Instead it was after Cassidy’s death that he began a conversation with the singer’s parents that would lead to Blix Street acquiring her back catalogue – a collection of self-released records and a live album from Blues Alley Jazz Club, totalling 127 recordings. They were all covers – Cassidy was an interpreter of song rather than a songwriter.
For Straw and his team, the demos allowed the possibility of imagining Cassidy’s vocals in a new musical setting.
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