Matthew Godfrey Jeff 1972-1994 Eva Cassidy Songbird 1963-1996 William MacArthur Mackenzie Friend. The Songbird collection is a very good introduction to Cassidy, whose work did not reach a significant public until after her death and having heard most of her other released recordings I can say that it is an introduction deeply welcomed.Ībout the reviewer: Daniel Garrett’s work has appeared on or in The Compulsive Reader, Offscreen, Cinetext.Philo, American Book Review, the Review of Contemporary Fiction,, , and World Literature Today. Lyrics, Prose and Poems 1987-2004 Jude Rawlins. Lyrics to Eva Cassidy & Katie Melua Songbird: For you therell be no crying For you the sun will be shining Cause I feel that when Im with you Its all. Pete Seeger’s “Oh, Had I A Golden Thread,” apparently one of Cassidy’s favorite songs, has a wistfully maternal quality, while Harburg and Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow” skirts various sentimental associations but Cassidy does not embarrassingly indulge them. “I Know You By Heart,” written by Diane Scanlon and Eve Nelson, is about the lasting intimacy of love, and Cassidy’s version of “People Get Ready” is the best version of the Curtis Mayfield song I’ve heard. Eva Cassidy scats in “Time Is A Healer,” written by Diane Scanlon and Greg Smith, a song that promises that love heals the wounds that love makes. A pretty song, “Songbird,” written by Christine McVie, is also an expressive vocal exercise. ![]() Pete Seeger’s “Oh, Had I A Golden Thread,” apparently one of Cassidy’s favorite songs, has a wistfully maternal quality, while Harburg and Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow” skirts various sentimental associations but Cassidy does not embarrassingly indulge them.Įva Cassidy’s Songbird anthology collects songs from various albums she recorded before dying of cancer: she gives “Fields of Gold,” written by Sting (Gordon Sumner), a golden, slow, tender, thoughtful interpretation, and does an authoritative and rhythmically astute reading of “Wade in the Water,” a traditional song and there’s a slightly girlish poetic reverie in her treatment of Johnny Mercer’s “Autumn Leaves,” which was co-written with Joseph Kozma and Jacques Prevert, while “Wayfaring Stranger,” another traditional song with a spiritual theme, is sultry and hard-charging.
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