THE OTHER SIDE – A studio album of jazz/blues/soul standards, solos and duets with Chuck Brown, first distributed by Liaison Records on CD and cassette tape in 1992. This album is often referred to by the band and their families as “Chuck and Eva.” Chuck Brown was a local Go-Go star and Eva was a complete unknown, but after they met at Chris Biondo’s studio, Chuck was inspired to branch out from his dance music and return to the blues and jazz of his roots. Here’s a link to an interview with Chuck and Eva from 1992 by Alona Wartofsky of the Washington City Paper. A 1998 Washington Post Magazine article, “When Chuck Met Eva,” describes their meeting and relationship.
Songs:
1. Let the Good Times Roll (duet)
2. Fever (duet)
3. You Don’t Know Me (duet)
4. I Could Have Told You So (duet)
5. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You (duet)
6. I’ll Go Crazy (duet)
7. You Don’t Know What Love Is (Chuck solo)
8. Drown in My Own Tears (duet)
9. God Bless the Child (Eva solo)
10. Red Top (duet)
11. Dark End of the Street (Eva solo)
12. Shadow of Your Smile (Chuck solo)
13. Over the Rainbow (Eva solo)
14. You’ve Changed (duet)
LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY – Recorded in January of 1996 at the famous club in Washington DC, live (of course) with the Eva Cassidy Band. Released May 1996. For more information, read “Live at Blues Alley — the Backstory” and the article “Live at Blues Alley — You Are There”.
Songs:
1. Cheek To Cheek
2. Stormy Monday
3. Bridge Over Troubled Water
4. Fine and Mellow
5. People Get Ready
6. Blue Skies
7. Tall Trees in Georgia
8. Fields Of Gold
9. Autumn Leaves
10. Honeysuckle Rose
11. Take Me To The River
12. What A Wonderful World
13. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread (this last song is a studio recording, not live)
EVA BY HEART – Studio recordings issued posthumously in 1997. For further information, read the interview with Chris Biondo on “The Making of the Album EVA BY HEART.”
Songs:
1. I Know You By Heart
2. Time Is A Healer
3. Wayfaring Stranger
4. Wade In The Water
5. Blues In The Night
6. Songbird
7. Need Your Love So Bad
8. Say Goodbye
9. Nightbird
10. Waly Waly
11. How Can I Keep From Singing?
Later versions of this CD also have:
12. Dark End of the Street
SONGBIRD – A collection of tracks from the three previous albums, with some editing. Released by Blix Street Records under license from Eva’s parents in 1998. This album has gone “quintuple platinum” in the United Kingdom and “gold” in the United States, Australia, Norway, and other countries (very old data, probably it’s far more than just those)
Songs:
1. Fields Of Gold
2. Wade In The Water
3. Autumn Leaves
4. Wayfaring Stranger
5. Songbird
6. Time Is A Healer
7. I Know You By Heart
8. People Get Ready
9. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
10. Over The Rainbow
TIME AFTER TIME – Live and studio recordings released in 2000. Article here.
Songs:
1. Kathy’s Song
2. Ain’t No Sunshine
3. The Letter
4. At Last
5. Time After Time
6. Penny To My Name
7. I Wandered By A Brookside
8. I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again
9. Easy Street Dream
10. Anniversary Song
11. Woodstock
12. Way Beyond The Blue
IMAGINE – Live and studio recordings, released in 2002. Article here.
Songs:
1. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
2. Fever
3. Who Knows Where the Time Goes
4. You’ve Changed
5. Imagine
6. Still Not Ready
7. Early Morning Rain
8. Tennessee Waltz
9. I Can Only Be Me
10. Danny Boy
AMERICAN TUNE – Live and studio recordings, released in 2003. Article here.
Songs:
1. Drowning in a Sea of Love
2. True Colors
3. The Water is Wide
4. Hallelujah I Love Him So
5. God Bless the Child
6. Dark-Eyed Molly
7. American Tune
8. It Don’t Mean a Thing
9. Yesterday
10. You Take My Breath Away
WONDERFUL WORLD – This is a second anthology album featuring selected songs from the albums LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY, TIME AFTER TIME, IMAGINE, and AMERICAN TUNE, released in 2004. One can view it as a companion to SONGBIRD.
Songs:
1. What A Wonderful World (remixed for US version of the album)
2. Kathy’s Song
3. Say Goodbye
4. Anniversary Song
5. How Can I Keep From Singing?
6. You Take My Breath Away
7. Drowning In a Sea Of Love
8. Penny To My Name
9. You’ve Changed
10. It Doesn’t Matter Any More
11. Waly Waly (remixed)
SOMEWHERE – Live and studio recordings, released in 2008. Article here.
Songs:
1. Coat Of Many Colors
2. My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
3. Ain’t Doin’ Too Bad
4. Chain Of Fools
5. It Won’t Be Long
6. Walking After Midnight
7. Early One Morning
8. A Bold Young Farmer
9. If I Give My Heart To You Tonight
10. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
11 Summertime
12 Somewhere
SIMPLY EVA – released in 2011.
Songs:
- Songbird
- Wayfaring Stranger
- People Get Ready
- True Colors
- Who Knows Where The Time Goes
- Over The Rainbow (recorded live at Blues Alley)
- Kathy’s Song
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Wade In The Water
- Time After Time
- Autumn Leaves
- I Know You By Heart (a cappella)
THE BEST OF EVA CASSIDY – 20 songs including just about everybody’s favorites, released in 2012.
Songs:
- You Take My Breath Away
- Kathy’s Song
- Songbird
- What A Wonderful World
- Wade In the Water
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Time After Time
- Autumn Leaves
- I Can Only Be Me
- Fields Of Gold
- It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
- Imagine
- Over the Rainbow
- True Colors
- Danny Boy
- People Get Ready
- Anniversary Song
- Early Morning Rain
- I Know You By Heart
- Tall Trees In Georgia
NIGHTBIRD – 2-CD album released in 2015. The UK edition contains a DVD of videos from Blues Alley, which are also available to watch on YouTube. More information and discussion about the album can be found here.
Songs, Disc 1:
- Blue Skies
- Ain’t Doin’ Too Bad
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Fields Of Gold
- Baby I Love You
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Route 66
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Eva introduces the band
- Chain of Fools
- Fever
- Autumn Leaves
- Fine and Mellow
- Cheek to Cheek
- It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
- Late in the Evening
- Next Time You See Me
- Waly Waly
Disc 2:
- Take Me to the River
- Nightbird
- People Get Ready
- The Letter
- Son of a Preacher Man
- Stormy Monday
- Tall Trees in Georgia
- Something’s Got a Hold on Me
- Time After Time
- Over the Rainbow (Eva solo)
- Welcome to the Club
- Caravan
- You’ve Changed
- What A Wonderful World
- Oh, Had I A Golden Thread (studio recording)
DVD (UK only, not formatted for North America):
- Cheek to Cheek
- Nightbird
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Autumn Leaves
- People Get Ready
- Stormy Monday
- Tall Trees in Georgia
- Take Me To The River
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Time After Time
- Over The Rainbow
- You’ve Changed
SONGBIRD 20: Released in 2018. In commemoration of the SONGBIRD album’s anniversary, SONGBIRD 20 is a remastered reissue of the original SONGBIRD, plus four acoustic bonus tracks from the 2011 SIMPLY EVA album.
Songs:
1. Fields Of Gold
2. Wade In The Water
3. Autumn Leaves
4. Wayfaring Stranger
5. Songbird
6. Time Is A Healer
7. I Know You By Heart
8. People Get Ready
9. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
10. Over The Rainbow
11. Songbird (acoustic, from SIMPLY EVA)
12. Wade In The Water (acoustic, from SIMPLY EVA)
13. People Get Ready (acoustic, from SIMPLY EVA)
14. Autumn Leaves (acoustic, from SIMPLY EVA)
LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY 25th Anniversary Edition is a 2021 re-release of the classic live album, re-mastered from the original tapes. Available on vinyl as well as CD. Songs as listed above. The cover photo is a nicely-colorized version of Larry Melton’s original black-and-white. This page assembles more information about the album and its 25th anniversary.
I CAN ONLY BE ME with the London Symphony Orchestra. Released in 2023. See the “What’s New” page for more details, reviews, etc.
Songs: 
- Songbird
- Autumn Leaves
- People Get Ready
- Waly Waly
- Time After Time
- Tall Trees in Georgia
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- You’ve Changed
- I Can Only Be Me
The EVA CASSIDY VINYL COLLECTION on 180g vinyl is a limited edition five-LP boxed set of the albums SONGBIRD, TIME AFTER TIME, IMAGINE, AMERICAN TUNE, and SOMEWHERE. Note: THE BEST OF EVA CASSIDY album is also available as two vinyl LPs.
METHOD ACTOR – Recorded at Chris Biondo’s studio, 1987. The first album to showcase Eva’s lead vocals. Limited local release on LP and cassette; re-released on CD in 2002. Eva sings lead vocals on original songs by David Christopher. She also contributed the artwork for the album jacket. For additional information, read my interview with David Christopher and the METHOD ACTOR page.
Songs on the original album release:
1. Look Into My Eyes
2. When It’s Too Late
3. Laugh With Me
4. Stay
5. Forever
6. End the Rain
7. How Will It End
8. Getting Out
(The 2002 re-release on CD also includes “Little Children” and “The Waiting is Over.”)
Where to find Eva Cassidy’s music?
It’s hard to believe that when I started this website in 1999, Eva’s music was hard to find. There used to be a lengthy section here about where you could buy her CDs. This is no longer necessary, and you’re on your own.
OTHER RECORDINGS:
Shortly after completing the album THE OTHER SIDE, Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy recorded two songs for the Christmas season, “That Spirit of Christmas” and “The Christmas Song” (a.k.a. “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”). These duets are part of Chuck Brown’s 1999 Christmas album, “The Spirit of Christmas,” from Liaison Records. The original CD cover is shown here. For more information about Christmas songs recorded by Eva, follow this link.
Eva’s brother Dan Cassidy is a talented fiddle player based in Iceland. He can be heard on several songs on Eva’s albums : “I Know You By Heart” (on the SONGBIRD, EVA BY HEART, and BEST OF EVA CASSIDY albums), “How Can I Keep From Singing” (on EVA BY HEART), “Penny To My Name” (on TIME AFTER TIME), “Fever” (on THE OTHER SIDE), and “Yesterday” (on AMERICAN TUNE). His wonderful solo debut CD is entitled DAN CASSIDY ON THE FIDDLE (1997) and includes three songs with Eva (these are available on Eva’s albums also, sometimes with slight production differences). In recent years, Dan has been touring and recording with guitarist James Hickman, and has recorded and toured with a tribute to Eva with singer Margriet Sjoerdsma.
Eva Cassidy joined with the jazz group “Pieces of a Dream” for their album GOODBYE MANHATTAN, at the behest of Blue Note Records chief Bruce Lundvall. She sings lead vocals on “Have a Little Faith” and the title track, “Goodbye Manhattan.” (The same two songs were later included on another “Pieces of a Dream” album called SENSUAL EMBRACE that seems to be a “best of” type of album.) Reviewer Mike Joyce of the Washington Post said in his April 7, 1995, review that he welcomed “the addition of guest vocalist Eva Cassidy on two tracks. What Cassidy brings to the album is the sort of distinctive personality the band has sorely lacked in the past, and although this is not an album charged with powerful emotions, it is Cassidy’s heartfelt readings of the topical title track and the inspirational ballad ‘Have a Little Faith’ that leave the strongest impression.” Although Eva joined the ensemble on a few out-of-town engagements in the summer of 1994, it was not a fruitful collaboration or a good experience for Eva.
This now-rare compilation album, DCCD7, features 19 different Washington DC-area bands selected by the Washington Area Music Association. A bonus track on the CD is a song called “Hear” with Eva Cassidy and her friend Mary Ann Redmond (later remade into the title song for the 2008 release SOMEWHERE). The style is soul-pop, very different from most of Eva’s recordings. Eva wrote and recorded the song with Chris Biondo, and after her death, Mary Ann Redmond wrote another verse or verses and made the solo into a duet, for this album. This compilation album is sometimes listed as “DC 101 Edition.”
“NEVER LET YOU GO”: Eva sings one song, “Never Let You Go,” on a CD entitled CALL ME A CAB by a singer/songwriter named Steve Estes. The original album cover is shown to the left. The album is intermittently available through iTunes and other download sources, or possibly only the song featuring Eva. Estes recalls, “She spent two and a half hours singing and perfecting the lead and backup vocals. That’s a lot of work for a 3 min 20 sec song! I’ve since learned that she wouldn’t do a song unless she liked it and could really feel it. At the time she was very shy and completely unknown. I actually wrote and recorded it hoping Linda Ronstadt would do it. That never happened – but Eva did it better.” (Quote source is unknown.)
“BAGGAGE”: Eva recorded a song entitled “Baggage” for a never-released 1993 film called ‘Anywhere But Here,’ which was directed and produced by Michael Ingram. The song was written by Michael and his brother Jeff Ingram. (In the mid-80s, Michael formed the band Characters Without Names together with Eva, Larry Melton and Ned Judy.) Apparently in addition to recording the song, Eva had a scene in the movie, but I have never seen it. “Baggage” can be found on some streaming services. Larry Melton played Bass, Ned Judy played guitars, Keisuke played cymbal rolls, background vocals by Drew.
MORE:
Eva as Backup Singer: Eva Cassidy earned extra cash, and developed her musical skills, working as a backup vocalist with local artists. This is a newly-expanded section of the site.