Eva Cassidy: Classic or Dud

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It's undeniable, surely.

― Lab Use, Saturday, 5 March 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Dead.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 March 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

are you my MOTHER?

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Saturday, 5 March 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Kid Carpet cited Eva Cassidy, without irony, as an influence when he appeared on Alex James's BBC7 show, and I thought it was surprising as well as refreshingly honest. Her music is good, I think. I began to wonder how many other post modernists - who in public represent all that's progressive, cutting edge and experimental - actually go home and put on "Fields of Gold". A less extreme example perhaps, but when Momus has finsihed blogging about Ariel Pink, instead of putting on something in that musical ballpark, does he pluck out a copy of Pet Sounds or Ron Sexsmith. Not sure if I'm making sense, here. Just thought it was worth posing on this board (sorry if I've offended any young radicals).

― Lab Use, Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I am sitting in a room about two miles away from the nursery where she used to work in the sun without sunscreen. She was a remarkable vocal talent who surrounded herself with the typical half-assed semi-talented Baltimore/Washington/Annapolis bar band hacks (Chuck Brown being the exception) and never really released any material as big as her voice, which is a shame.

― A Regular, Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

well?

― gabbneb, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

Still dead.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

kept 'Discovery' off the top of the album chart.

― blueski, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

The album with Chuck Brown was very nice.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago)

Providing yet another opportunity for Katie Melua to be make some money off people with cloth for ears = dud.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_C5mNs8vFSc

― ailsa, Monday, 10 December 2007 09:03 (seventeen years ago)

Katie Melua - definitely not grave-robbing.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

I've literally never heard of this person, but they are raving all about some posthumous collection on NPR right now. they're playing her, and it sounds like well like something NPR would play.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:31 (two years ago)

I think this is the 5th best of they've released, on the basis of 1.5 lps, a few live recordings and some ropey demos.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:36 (two years ago)

sounded like they used her vocals with new orchestration?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:38 (two years ago)

Yes, now it's her voice put with an orchestra. It is npr type folkie going jazzy soul music but she was good at it. She was from the DC area and first got known locally for doing a duet album of jazz and blues standards with DC go-go pioneer Chuck Brown. She died young from cancer and had posthumous hits in the UK -covers of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World"

― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:49 (two years ago)

Thank god people are finally discovering "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World." We need more covers of them.

Radio piece said she's sold 10 million records? Must be in the UK.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:51 (two years ago)

yeah she was inescapable in the UK for a while

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:56 (two years ago)

A perennial spotlight artist at Borders and Barnes & Nobel.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 March 2023 22:32 (two years ago)

She’s pretty big in the U.S. too among the NPRish demographic — I first heard of her from my mom, e.g.

I think Shea’s quite good, but also obviously her early death created a sort of lost-great mythos.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 4 March 2023 02:43 (two years ago)

She, not Shea

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 4 March 2023 02:44 (two years ago)

I love the duets albums she did with Chuck Brown, and she's real popular in this area. My wife is a big fan and we went to a tribute concert to her recently in Annapolis, Md where she had lived for awhile. 500 or so people there at $35 a ticket to see local musicians who had known her and some who didn't covering her songs.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 March 2023 18:54 (two years ago)

"this area" is Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland . Her home region. Eva grew up in Bowie, Md where I did too, she was in my high school a few years after me but I didn't know her.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 March 2023 18:59 (two years ago)

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