Nightbird

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Nightbird is a 2-CD plus 1-DVD live album by American singer Eva Cassidy, released posthumously in November 2015, nineteen years after her death. ARIA Charts > ARIA Report > 25 August 2003" (PDF) (705). Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-10-06 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Matrix / Runout (CD2 Variant 1): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-02 manufactured by optimal media GmbH Ten years after she first topped the British charts you may think you've heard all there is to hear from Eva Cassidy. Think again. You may have heard most of these classic Eva songs before but, as sure as less is more, you have not experienced anything like this collection of previously unreleased Eva-only, guitar/vocal performances. It’s like hearing Eva Cassidy for the first time, again. Matrix / Runout (CD1 Variant 1): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH

With more than 11 million in worldwide sales and critical acclaim such as 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," her unerringly tasteful sense of material continues to propel interest in her recorded work all these years later. iTunes Music – Nightbird by Eva Cassidy". iTunes Store (Australia). Apple . Retrieved May 13, 2016.

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Eva Cassidy – Nightbird Eva Cassidy". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved June 18, 2016. Matrix / Runout (CD2 Variant 3): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-02 manufactured by optimal media GmbH Refusing to bend her music to the industry's conventions and expectations, Eva was known only within the DC area during her lifetime. She left behind one live album, a duet album, and various studio demos and live recordings. In these intervening 16 years, Eva's music has proven timeless and universal. Crossing all boundaries – musical, cultural, geographical – her voice survived and is finding new listeners every day in every corner of the earth. Offiziellecharts.de – Eva Cassidy – Nightbird" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved June 18, 2016. Biondo believes that skill is what freed her to bring so much emotion to the songs. “There are a lot of components to someone trying to pull off a tune,” he said. “They have to think about the technical parts, about what the next note is and what the phrasing will be. But because those things were so natural to Eva, it allowed her to go right to the next level, which was to go inside the song and feel the lyrics.”

The Best of Eva Cassidy: "CHART WATCH #385". auspOp. September 10, 2016 . Retrieved September 11, 2016. In addition to including Eva’s previously unreleased, re-defining version of San Francisco Bay Blues, Simply Eva is the first album to include the Blues Alley guitar/vocal performance of Over The Rainbow embodied in the Rainbow video that triggered Eva Cassidy’s rise to the top of the British Pop Charts in March, 2001. Recorded five years after the 1991 version heard on Songbird, Eva’s fully evolved Rainbow literally redefined this all-time number one popular song (according to a BBC radio poll). Though many have come to similar conclusions since, Biondo was one of the first to do so. He met Cassidy in the winter of 1986 when, on the recommendation of a mutual friend, she came to visit him at his small home recording studio. “She was afraid to come inside because she had not done any recording like this before,” Biondo said.Matrix / Runout (DVD): www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk DF10023-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH R This article is a discography of Eva Cassidy, an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics.

On the 17th of September 1996 a young woman, accompanied by a few dozen family and friends, attended her own tribute concert in a small club in the Washington, DC area. Transcending the effects of chemo-therapy and morphine in that moment, the singer abandoned her walker and was helped onto the stage for what would be her final performance, What a Wonderful World. A few weeks later Eva Cassidy passed away, having been diagnosed with melanoma months earlier. Doug Macleod, the artist who sang the original version of this song, had this to say about Cassidy’s rendition during an interview with earlyblues.com in April, 2009: Matrix / Runout (CD1 Variant 2): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH Matrix / Runout (CD2 Variant 2): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-02 manufactured by optimal media GmbH Even Straw believes one release shouldn’t have happened – the Wonderful World set from 2004. Still, he said, pressure from the public dictated that release. As to what Cassidy herself would have made of the sheer scale of the attention she has received, Biondo said, “she would have been scared shitless.”On the other hand, Biondo said Cassidy “thought that was kinda cool,” an attitude that underscores her focus on the performance rather than its reception. “She just liked to go out and sing,” he said. “She didn’t want anybody to jump up and down.”

Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" is a fitting place to begin a show, an early Tin Pan Alley song updated by a sensitive and perceptive Cassidy. The same can be said for her other hard ballad performances: the early "Autumn Leaves," " Wonderful World" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Cassidy completely renewed Harburg and Arlen's "Over the Rainbow," making an already iconic song a quiet lightning bolt. Her performance of Sting's "Field of Gold" is equally provocative. At one point, Blue Note tried pairing her with a smooth jazz band on the label, Pieces of a Dream, for a few songs but the singer despised the result. A more pleasing proposal came from Apollo Records, run by civil rights activist Percy Sutton, a label connected to the vaunted Harlem-based theater. “They sent her a contract which meant she could have quit her day job (in a plant nursery) and gotten a yearly salary,” Biondi said. “That was a dream come true.”The differences in the performances of the other songs range from folk versions of Wayfaring Stranger and Wade In The Water, to three extra verses in the included version of Paul Simon’s Kathy’s Song, to the more subtle nuances that grace every individual performance. A child of the late Baby Boom, Cassidy had the advantage of musically literate parents who exposed her to a broad array of music. Rather than occupy herself with listening to the standard white-bread music on AM radio, she concentrated on Southern soul, jazz, blues, and R&B. She assimilated these genre seamlessly emerging, fully formed, on the stage of Georgetown's Blues Alley. Cassidy's performance was dizzying in scope. Heading up a durable quartet, Cassidy made her way across the whole of 20th Century American Music. ARIA Charts > Accreditations > 2002 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on July 20, 2008 . Retrieved 2011-07-24.