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Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Staffordshire England
Sent: Wed January 01 2003 09:30 AM
To Joanne Murphy Cardine, ref: your entry on 26 Dec. Really enjoyed your account of your time at school with Eva. Fascinated about you and Eva performing Stairway to Heaven, that's my all time favourite song and one of the first I learned to play on my acoustic guitar ( I still play and sing it - not with my band - only on my own!) Now if only Eva had recorded that song, WOW! what a version THAT would have been !!!!
Name: Asad
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Home town/city and country: Islamabad/Pakistan
Sent: Wed January 01 2003 09:55 AM
I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do, They're really saying, I love you. In such turbulent times, let's revisit this classic re-done by the awesome Miss Cassidy and take heed. Over the Rainbow she may be, but s'long as I have her voice to comfort me, You can tell the sun in its jealous sky, that I've walked through the fields of gold. It's like soft honey flowing down your throat, soothing it. It's like closing your eyes and feeling tears of joy, and sadness too, at the same time welling up inside. It's like being close to death and being so full of life. She makes me want to break things and mend things at the same time. Imagine, Lennon too the philanthropist, said we ought to unite. Let's take music as our guide and remove geographical boundaries. All men are equal, different only in accordance to their virtues. This is a most beautiful planet and we can all live in harmony if we so choose. All you need is love. Don't disappoint Louis, he thought it was a Wonderful World, it was...let's make it the same once again. We can. Peace
Name: Asad
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Home town/city and country: Islamabad/Pakistan
Sent: Wed January 01 2003 10:26 AM
Can someone please translate Enrique's message for me? Cos I'm really interested in knowing what people from different places have to say about Eva. Also to Anne Makin, I think it's quite a coincident that so many people were exposed to Eva through that one song. It's the most beautifulo rendition of that song ever. Bill Withers couldn't have done it better if he'd tried. It's sensous, dreamy, painful and raw with attitude. It's so cool!
Name: Juls
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Have yet to own them all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Lisburn, N.Ireland
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 12:55 AM
The first time I heard Eva Cassidy sing she made me cry! I think TOTP2 played some video footage of her in a club playing Over the Rainbow and it just blew me away. Good old Terry on BBC Radio 2 made sure I heard People Get Ready and that was it, get me an album now please. Have been a fan since. Got the book for Christmas and am looking forward to a pleasurable read. (Cheers M!)
Name: Jenny
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All Home town/city and country:
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 03:04 AM
To: Brian of Chartham, UK - Tue 24 December I too saw the recent UK TV programme on the best moments of TV in 2002 in "soap weddings" and heard Eva's OTR playing in the background. In fact Brian, not really being a soap fan myself, listening to OTR was the best part of the programme for me. I enjoy listening to Eva's voice in the background of anything even though I have all of her CDs and have listened to each and every track hundreds of times. You can never have too much of a good thing.
Name: Steve Amend
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: "The Other Side"; "Live At Blues Alley" (only ones I have at this time)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: God Bless The Child; Somewhere Over The Rainbow; ALL OF 'EM!
Home town/city and country: Morrisville, PA - Bucks County USA
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 07:56 AM
The first time I heard about Eva was seeing Ted Koppel's "Nightline" piece on her....I immediately rushed out and bought 'The Other Side' and 'Live At Blues Alley.' After I left the store, I put them in my car and listened to her in the parking lot...every song...I was in tears her voice is so beautiful. I cannot remember when someone or something has stirred me as much as Eva and that incredible voice of hers. What a gift she brought to the world, if for only a very brief time. She would have been about my age. Wow. Happy New Year to everyone!! Peace.
Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Bridge Over Troubled Water/ Waly, Waly
Home town/city and country: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 10:56 AM
To Asad, here is a very rough translation of Enrique's message (sorry, my Spanish is not very good): "The first time I heard Eva Cassidy's recordings, it was only for a short time, two or three months, and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. A sweetness and a rhythm so fine and delicate, that I haven't heard in many years. It is a sorrow that I will have forever. Your voice, irreplaceable, leaves an emptiness that will be impossible to fill. I consider myself fortunate to have come across your CDs." To Joanne Murphy Cardine: Thanks for sharing your memories with us! It's a real treat to hear from people who knew her, even if it was for a short time. They must be very special memories for you. (As always, a tip of the hat to Joe and Morag in Scotland!)
Name: Meechi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Had I a Golden Thread
Home town/city and country: Chicago, IL USA
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 01:29 PM
The first time I heard "Had I a Golden Thread" I felt chills all over. What Eva did truly touched me. I recently read in a magazine article that Eva felt that, "Had I a Golden Thread" turned out perfectly. All I have to say to that is, "Amen sister." To me all of Eva's performances were truly breathtaking and amazing. I love her work. I enjoy singing and playing guitar. Since she has inspired me to do so. I'll never ever be as amazing as she. I seriously doubt if anyone will.
Name: Tony O Connell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: wayfaring stranger
Home town/city and country: London England
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 02:27 PM
Happy New Year to you all.Lets hope this year will be full of pleasant surprises for a change i.e no war in Iraq.We can hope cant we ? Laura keep spreading the good news of Eva worldwide.Hugh + Barbara thank you for giving us all a chance to hear Eva.Chris,Keith,Lenny,Raice hope you guys all had a great New Year and hope that whatever you are all doing this year is a great success! I think there should be only 1 New Year'S resolution for us all and that is to persuade not force all our family and friends to turn on to the music of Eva and find that inner calm and peace that her music gives us all.
Name: Sue
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: songbird
Home town/city and country: Brantford, Ontario (Canada)
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 11:16 PM
I heard Eva Cassidy (songbird) on the radio just a few weeks ago and I have since bought three of her albums. I cannot accurately articulate the incredible experience I have every time I play her music. No matter what I amd doing or how I am feeling, it transends me to a higher level each time I hear her voice no matter what song... her voice is so effortless ( like liquide magic)... Her angelic voice leads me as close as I can get to heaven while my two feet are still on earth. Her music has provided me with a much stronger sense of comfort, hope and peace. I am so grateful that I have come to know of her music.
Name: sarah
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: fields of gold
Home town/city and country: melbourne,australia
Sent: Thu January 02 2003 11:59 PM
My mother gave me a cd for xmas that a friend burned for her...it was Songbird and i cannot believe how sensational - how moving, how it connects with my soul...songs like Fields of Gold particularly. I've had it on repeat for days...how absolutely dreadful that Eva died so young and didn't know that even down here in the Great South Land of Australia we love her music. Friends at work tell me the ABC radio plays her music quite a bit....i'll be buying whatever i can find of Eva's cd's.
Name: Linda Walker
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Corby,Northants,UK
Sent: Fri January 03 2003 12:25 AM
My husband bought me the Eva Cassidy album, Songbird for my birthday last year. When I heard the song, over the rainbow, I was reduced to tears and everytime I play it I cry. Just the way that she sings it, makes all the hair on my body stand on end. I think it is such a pity that she is no longer here to produce much more fantastic music. My husband also bought me the Songbird book for Christmas and I have just started to read it, it is wonderful to learn so much more about Eva. My best regards to all her family and friends for sharing her with us.
Name: Ginebra
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves, Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Una isla perdida en el Mediterráneo
Sent: Fri January 03 2003 07:25 AM
... I si l'atzar et porta lluny, que el deus et guardin el camí, que t'acompanyin els ocells, que t'acoronin els estels; i en un racó d'aquesta veu, mentre la pugui fer sentir, hi haurà amagat el teu so.
Name: Bill Nellis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Kathy's Song
Home town/city and country: Clinton, Maryland
Sent: Fri January 03 2003 10:24 AM
I wish I discovered Eva's music much sooner. Her singing and guitar work on "Kathy's Song" is masterful. The way she sang, hanging on and stretching notes longer than its intended beats, was of artistic beauty. I know of no other singer who comes close to singing the way Eva sang.
Name: ian whiteford
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: woodstock
Home town/city and country: Haverfordwest, wales, uk
Sent: Fri January 03 2003 12:01 PM
i first heard eva cassidy about 2 years ago on the bob harries show on bbc radio 2. since then i have caught up with the back catalogue and have introduced my wife and a few friends to eva`s music. she has an amazing ability to transform what i would describe as classic songs and turn them into something rather special and unique. what an amazing and talented musician and a wonderful person she was. she is greatly missed.
Name: Asad
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Home town/city and country: Islamabad/Pakistan
Sent: Fri January 03 2003 12:08 PM
Justa note of thanks to Eric for taking some time out to translate the Spanish for me. Thanks alot dude! Peace all you Evaheads!
Name: Val
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Know you by heart
Home town/city and country: Helsby nr Frodsham UK
Sent: Fri January 03 2003 10:31 PM
Could Hess from herts uk who told us about the ice skating of michelle kwan tell me where i could get a video of this since I would love to see it. I keep telling everybody I care about to get the Eva cds I love them. Thank you Eva. You have the voice of an angel. Val
Name: Reinhart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Regensburg, Bavaria
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 02:24 AM
Thank you for this wonderful site ! I was introduced to Eva's songs by a friend who gave me the "Songbird" as a birthday present. I am touched by Eva's story, music & art .
Name: richard scuoteguazza
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: time after time
Home town/city and country: satellite beach,usa
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 04:13 AM
eva's brought inspiration to my heart, i am terminally ill and i want her music for me, i turn people on everyday to her voice, she is so amazing sound in her and all given to her not learned.
Name: Bill Cronauer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Say Goodbye
Home town/city and country: Wilkes-Barre
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 04:30 AM
I have a question. Approximately how tall was Eva Cassidy? The reason I'm asking is because, in the photographs in the fantastic Songbird book, she looks quite tall in some pictures (for example, the picture of her in the doorway in the room she rented from Jackie Fletcher), while she looks quite short in others (for example, standing beside Chris Biondo in the picture taken outside of his studio). Therefore, I'm hoping that Laura (LOVE this site) or one of Eva's friends or band members can answer this question--just out of my own curiosity. Thanks. Eva Cassidy rocks :-)
Name: Juli
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I only have "Sogbird" for now
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over The Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Yokohama/Japan
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 04:55 AM
Here in Japan it took me some time to find out who was singing "Fields Of Gold" in that figure skating program performed by Michelle Kwan.On December 22 I got "Songbird" at last. I really admire Eva's voice(sometimes angelic and sometimes a bit melancholy) accompanied simply,and also her taste in arranging songs. I've noticed there's an array of Kokeshi dolls at the window in the cover photo of "Eva By Heart"(though I haven't got it yet) I wonder if she had collected them. I'm so happy to find this site.Thank you(^-^)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over The Rainbow and Wayfairing Stranger!
Home town/city and country: USA
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 01:11 PM
Hello all! Happy New Year!! I just got Eva's Album, Songbird for Christmas from a great friend! I haven't been able to stop listening! I had heard that her version of Somewhere over the Rainbow was good, but now, after hearing it for myself, it's amazing! I love everything I've heard so far!! What a talent! I'll be buying more of her albums now!
Name: Henrik Thiil Nielsen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town/city and country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 01:11 PM
Juli, how wonderful to hear from an Eva fan in Japan. The photograph of Eva on the "Eva by Heart" CD booklet was taken by Eva's mother in Nova Scotia, Canada, in the home of a member of their family. So the dolls on the windowsill were not collected by Eva. I didn't know those dolls were called Kokeshi dolls. What does that mean? And to Bill Cronauer: on page 49 of the Songbird book you'll find a photograph of Eva's learner's permit. It gives her height as "5-02".
Name: Tony
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Who Knows Where The time Goes?
Home town/city and country: Sydney
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 01:26 PM
I purchased my first Eva Cassidy album prior to knowing she had passed over. I was impressed by her beautiful voice unique arrangements and interpretations which seemed to reach to my heart and soul. It probably sounds crazy, but to me,her music suggests that she had some inner knowledge that her life would be tragically cut short. I have all her albums and would like to know why her version of "The Rose" was never released?
Name: Elye
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields Of Gold/ Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Atlanta, GA
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 01:50 PM
My friend Lindsey introduced me to Eva's music last summer and I have since been obsessed. The coolest thing was when a friend also had one of her CD's and neither of us knew that the other knew who she was. I was just wondering why I had never seen one of her CD's while I was flipping through them at stores and such until just recently. She has now inspired me to sing the songs I have written over the years! I wish I could tell her thanks but I was hoping that you could tell her family and friends how much I appreciate her music!
Name: Suzanne Storti
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Richmond Va. USA
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 01:58 PM
After hearing Eva I don't enjoy listening to any other singer. I am 80 yrs old and have heard them all but there has never been anyone who made me cry, fill with love for everyone and every thing or make me want to play her music over and over ! I know she is in heaven as that is where Angels live. I am looking forward to meeting her. I love her
Name: jenny gold
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: penny to my name
Home town/city and country: warwickshire
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 03:59 PM
if it was not for my dad i would never of known about eva .I heard the songbird album first and then i went out and bought what i could find .eva is my all time favorite artist i have also bought eva's autobiography and cant stop crying when i read it i might get it finished if i could stop crying she has touched my life in so many diffrent ways i just wish i could thank her personally .
Name: Johnna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All of them!!!
Home town/city and country: Boise Idaho USA
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 04:10 PM
The other day I was cleaning my kitchen and I had the salute to gold on tv, and the song Imagine came on. I was so stunned by her voice, it gave me chills. I sat there and listened trying to figure out who she was. So a few days after christmas I took my son to some old neighbors to stay the night and she said I have a gift for you, it was Eva Cassidy Songbird. So when I got in my car and put the cd in I knew right away that this was the same person who had sang Imagine. I am so thankful for that gift!!!!!! I would have never known who this amazing person is. I am only very sorry to not have Eva here. But I am so thankful to have her beautiful music. My heart goes out to her fans, family, and loved ones. Thanks Eva for your gift!!!!! I am definitely in love with her music.
Name: April
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Adelaide, Australia
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 04:41 PM
Dear...everyone I miss Eva so much. I wish she was still with us, like everyone else who has visited this site and signed this guestbook. I will be auditioning to sing "Fields of Gold" as a performing artist this year at a concert, and Eva was my inspiration for this. I miss her. I am 14 and NONE of my friends have heard of Eva Cassidy, but I will make sure that they know who she is. Happy New Year everybody! Love Always, April B.
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Danny Boy
Home town/city and country: Syracuse New York USA
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 07:32 PM
I still believe our "Voice of an Angel," Eva Cassidy is a continuum of Annette Hanshaw's great singing in the 1920's and 1930's. From age 16 she quit at age 26 at the top of her career. Listen to "Big City Blues," or "Lovable and Sweet." for great samples of her work. She had a great improvisation gift and a voice that will stop you in your tracks. Her website: http://www.redhotjazz.com/Hanshaw.html Great news! The Google free website gives us access to a web page with over 20 Eva Cassidy sites containing excellent audio interviews including one with her mother and written articles about Eva. Go to: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/C/Cassidy,_Eva/
Name: matt limbrick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: cannot choose
Home town/city and country: glos;u.k.
Sent: Sat January 04 2003 09:50 PM
i have made it a goal to own every album that has been released since first hearing eva on the radio some years back. to my knowledge i now have a "complete" collection and never tire of listening to them, although i get choked still whilst listening to some. my only wish is that i could of met her and heard her sing live before the world got robbed of the purest and most emotional singer i or anyone else has ever had the pleasure of listening to.
Name: Tessa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of gold!
Home town/city and country: Eastbourne
Sent: Sun January 05 2003 12:19 AM
I was watching TV when an advert for cancer came up. I was listening to the tune in the back round and i fell in love with it. I tried and tried to find out what the song was, but no-one knew. I went to ask someone at our music shop and they gave my Eva Cassidy 'Songbird'. The song was called Fields of gold. It also had the song 'Over the rainbow', which was a song i had known for all my life, but i didn't know it was her! Her songs make me feel happy and she had such a good tallant. I think it is horrid that such good, hard-trying people die. I wish she was still here.
Name: Heidi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: How can one choose....
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold.....
Home town/city and country: Colora, Maryland
Sent: Sun January 05 2003 03:33 AM
I have fallen in love with a voice too soon taken... Thank you for a place to drop in and sit quietly with others.
Name: Peter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all
Home town/city and country: Koblenz/Germany
Sent: Sun January 05 2003 03:38 AM
what for a great music what for a great person
Name: Jenny
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All Home town/city and country:
Sent: Sun January 05 2003 04:33 AM
Dear darling Eva, how much I love listening to your remarkable voice. Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Tennessee Waltz have a very special place in my heart. They will always remind me of someone so very very special in my life who died quite recently. From one of your most loyal fans.
Name: Susan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: songbird
Home town/city and country: Potomac, MD
Sent: Sun January 05 2003 01:05 PM
What a voice...filled with meaning, sophistication and life! I do not see a comparison with anyone else on this level....she soars above her contemporaries by leaps and bounds.
Name: Kate
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Home town/city and country: Sydney, Australia
Sent: Sun January 05 2003 03:57 PM
Sheesh! I woke up on the couch Saturday night to SBS Weather Watch and the most glorious voice. I don't like that many women's voices - too high, too whiney - so to get "a glorious" from me was remarkable. I was so taken by the voice, I stayed with WeatherWatch for the remainder of the album, by Eva Cassidy, the scrolling message told me. Gee, I thought, I must remember this in the morning. I want that album. Most remarkable - most of my collection is blues/southern US oriented and here I was planning to buy an album of classic folk songs by a woman I'd never heard of. It being 3am, I had no recollection the next morning. And then, my favourite little web-casting radio station, WDVX in Clinton Tennessee, mentioned her, just a little while ago, so here I am at your thoughtfully compiled website, feeling a bit lost, 'cause Eva's dead. Darn, drat, double drat, mumble, grumble, blast and tarnation! Well, thanks for putting the site together. I can hear her music at least! What a pretty girl! What a pity.
Name: Jean
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All of her songs
Home town/city and country: Hamilton, Oh USA
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 05:26 AM
Dan said it all. Terrific singer, great music. To bad we lost her so young.
Name: JIM
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ALL OF THEM
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: DANNY BOY
Home town/city and country: WASHINGTON BORO,PA.
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 05:33 AM
I RECENTLY ASKED A FRIEND IF SHE EVER HEARD OF LINDA EDER, WHO I THINK IS FANTASTIC. SHE SAID YES, SHE IS, BUT TRY EVA CASSIDY. I DID. I'M HOOKED. I LOST TWO BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS AT AGES 20 AND 30, AND EVA'S SONGS BRING TEARS TO MY EYES, BUT TEARS OF JOY AS WELL AS SORROW.OUR WORLD LOST 3 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS!!!!!
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Danny Boy
Home town/city and country: Syracuse New York USA
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 08:56 AM
"It's Not The Presents Under The Tree"**** Eva Cassidy's song from Time-Life Album. Rate it on the Guest Book after listening. Free Complete song, listen here at: http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/features/holiday02/index.html
Name: Mike
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Sent: Mon January 06 2003 09:16 AM
Correction on song tittle should read "It's Not The Presents Under MY Tree." I know we all think Eva is only available on her own CD's. Give a listen below. It's the fourth album down the list. Then press the audio server you have. Simple? I hope so. It's worth every minute it takes. A real classic!!!!
Name: Pat Jackson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird-only one I've heard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Toulon, IL,61483,now Fisher, IL,61843
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 09:18 AM
Eva is certainly one of the most beautiful voices, persons, and talents I have heard. Her voice is so soulful and filled with so much meaning and understanding of life. Such a great loss as a talent but mostly to all those who knew her personally and loved her. I am thankful to have had the privilege to know of her music and to hear it even if sadly we cannot see her perform it personally and watch her grow as a person and as an artist. Her music is very calming and healing. Did she know her life would be so short? Perhaps, she did in some way. Why is life so hard for so many?
Name: Sissel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All, but especially Pople get ready-Fields og gold.
Home town/city and country: Norway
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 09:35 AM
The first time I heared Eva I started to cry! Eva`s story, music and art has touched me in a way I think no one else can-her music makes me cry, laugh,it makes me feel better when I`m upset..I just can`t explain it. I can`t belive she is gone..It is so unfair! I really don`t think any words can really describe her, she must have been the most wonderful person..Love you Eva, thank you.
Name: Eve Thordarson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: What a wonderful world
Home town/city and country: Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Territory, Canada
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 10:55 AM
Eva is the best. I caught a documentary of her life I guess it was NightLine such a long time ago and when I heard her music well it literally did take my breath away. Whilst on vacation last year my friend asked what I would like as a gift and I said that I couldn't find any of her music. Her daughter found a CD and I play it constantly. Many times it gets me through a hectic day. Thanks for this website now I may check on my new friend. Also don't kid yourself she is smiling from up above at us all.
Name: Hugo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Barley & Songbird
Home town/city and country: Vallejo, CA
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 12:01 PM
I heard Eva for the first time today, my friend Dan's CD. She sounds so great. I am effected emotionally by her and also saddened to hear she died. Still I am comforted to know she is still among us and affects us. Love transcends death.
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Danny Boy
Home town/city and country: Syracuse NY USA
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 01:39 PM
My eyes began to tear up as if I was hearing OTR or DB after listening to INTPUMT that I foung today on the NPR web site. This is not a clip. It lasts 3 minutes and belongs on Eva's next CD. She is still with us. To hear the free song go to the NPR site below and arrow down to the 4th song. It's her gift to us: http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/features/holiday02/index.html
Name: Bill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Anniversary Song
Home town/city and country: Long Island, New York
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 06:31 PM
I first heard Eva Cassidy about a year ago. It was instant love. She was a very special person. She was surely touched by GOD. There is nothing I can say about her that anybody visiting this site doesn't already know. Another artist that was taken from us at an early age and was also touched by GOD was Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
Name: janb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all of them
Home town/city and country: honolulu
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 09:55 PM
hi everyone and happy new year. to Bill, i agree with you about Iz. in my imagination i hear them in duets. i think they would have sounded good together and would have been friends. a friend gave me "the other side" yesterday. i really like it. it sounds like Eva and Chuck had fun singing together. it is so refreshing, people enjoying what they really are meant to do, sing wonderfully, and they are not plastic, produced or promoted, just singing with every thing they had. Iz sang the same way, with joy. Peace and Joy in the new year, janb
Name: Vanessa Galloway
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I only have Imagine at this stage
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: "Fever"
Home town/city and country: Tamworth, Australia
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 10:30 PM
Hello there, I only "discovered" Eva Cassidy through televison. Advertisements were advertising her CD's, Imagine & Songbird, which I am yet to purchase. I thought, wow this lady has a superb voice. I did not realise that she had passed over at this stage. The day of purchasing the CD, my sister-in-law was visiting from Queensland, and I told her about this wonderful Eva. That is when she said that Eva had passed away. I was so very sad. However, I went out and bought the CD, Imagine, and have played it constantly ever since. Eva has the most pure, magical voice I have ever heard. Even better than Barbra Striesand, sorry Babs!! So, now I am spreading the word about this wonderful songbird, she is truly sensational. God Bless you Eva, you are a real angel!! Love Vanessa
Name: B. Lewis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Stormy Monday
Home town/city and country: Glen Burnie, MD, USA
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 10:31 PM
Listening to Eva singing brings to mind a line from the English poet William Blake: Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine.
Name: Frauke Schmidt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: too difficult to choose!
Home town/city and country: London, United Kingdom
Sent: Mon January 06 2003 11:29 PM
In 2001 I first heard of Eva Cassidy, but I don't exactly remember how, because it was just a fleeting reference somewhere. I bought "Songbird" out of curiosity and as a present for my sister-in-law, but I listened to it first and absolutely loved it. Just before Xmas 2002 I attended a charity concert, where a popular British singer called Will Young sang "Fields of Gold", just accompanied by an acoustic guitar - in the style of Eva Cassidy rather than Sting - and it blew me away and reminded me that I had bought that album. I borrowed it back from my sister-in-law, was once again impressed and yesterday I treated myself to "Live at Blues Alley". It's absolutely brilliant and I prefer it to Songbird, though I miss "Over the Rainbow". The fact that it's a live album just shows how talented Eva was. Eva's voice touches me like almost no-one else's. It is such a tragedy that she will never know just how far-reaching her music has turned out to be and how many people she has touched with it. Love and a Happy New Year to everyone. Frauke
Name: Rose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: everything
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: OTR/Fields of Gold/WalyWaly
Home town/city and country: Reading, Pa. USA
Sent: Tue January 07 2003 06:06 AM
Hey Bill, I discovered Israel K.(Izzy)a few years ago after the 'e-toy' commercials & found out that there was really a song that went w/those few notes of the jingle. Love his cd & version of OTR also. When I discovered Eva, her version became #1. But you are so right, he also was taken too early. rose
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Danny Boy
Home town/city and country: Syracuse New York USA
Sent: Tue January 07 2003 08:30 AM
Thanks Laura, for the acknowledgement on your "What's New Page" of my discovery of Eva Cassidy's "lost song" on the NPR web site, "It's Not The Presents Under My Tree," by Time Life Music, a free 3 minute song to be heard and downloaded. Now if we could only ger fans to go to your "What's New Page," and follow the easy instruction to this great song on NPR. What do you think of this song if you do hear it? Eva is singing to all of us about how important we are to her, as our "Presence" is what it's all about and the "Ring" we give her,symbolizing love and friendhip. What a song for anyone who has lost someone. It makes the tears flow again. It's needs to be on the next CD Eva will have released.
Name: Torhild
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All of them
Home town/city and country: Trondheim/Norway
Sent: Tue January 07 2003 01:08 PM
I`ve always liked music, it`s important to my well-beeing! But that day i discovered Eva, something changed....her music is perfect, it brings peace in my heart and my mind!! See you "up there" Eva!!!
Name: Uzhiel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: people get ready
Home town/city and country: whyalla, australia
Sent: Tue January 07 2003 11:34 PM
Thank you for bringing us this website and thank you Eva for touching us with your voice wherever you may be..
Name: Elaine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Round Rock, TX
Sent: Wed January 08 2003 06:35 AM
How is one supposed to actually pick just one favorite?! I have at least sixteen. All i want to say is that when i heard "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", it made me cry. My own daughter was once obsessed with "being" dorothy and i never thought anyone could best Judy Garland's rendition. i can sit down and get lost in that song and pretend that all is well in the world and troubles really do "melt like lemon drops". thank you, eva. may you be flying above the rainbow with the bluebirds. i wish i could join you.
Name: Deb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I can no longer pick a favorite. I like all of them still.
Home town/city and country: Inpls,IN
Sent: Wed January 08 2003 01:39 PM
Since, having discoverd Eva almost 2 years ago. I have bought all her albums. Imagine, is really even better than some of the others. Just because it is just Eva and her guitar on those few tracks. I just wanted to say that I was watching a PBS show on Lance Loud of the Loud family that was followed in documentary fashion in the 70's. Sadly, he died of AIDS on May, 2001. His partner or a friend at his Memorial Service sang Eva's version of "Over the Rainbow.". I just had to listen when they announced that was the song he was going to sing. I do not know if anyone has already posted this tidbit of info on the web-site. I have not been here for a few months. I did not see it so far. Thanks Again!! Laura for all the work you do to keep the web-site going. I'm glad, that you are having a Good New Year for 2003. OH! I too saw the Michelle Kwan skating. It was just beautiful.Hearing, Eva sing as she skated was just Spectacular! I also understand that Eva is on the Providence (NBC TV show) that went off the air. I have tried to get this CD but have not been able to find it. I do not know which of Eva's songs is on this CD. I missed the show that they played it on. Do you know what song it is? Thanks!! Happy New Year! 2003 Deb
Name: Carol
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: What a Wonderful World
Home town/city and country: Montreal
Sent: Wed January 08 2003 02:52 PM
I discovered Eva through a newspaper article on August 28, 2002. My interest was piqued by the author's accolades towards Eva. I listened to some of her music on the computer and was just totally BLOWN AWAY. Only a couple of weeks later I came across her book Songbird and of course bought it because I was already obsessed with her. I was telling everyone I knew about her and that they should listen to her. I don't know which cd to buy yet, but do want to start a collection soon. I think she was truly an angel sent to earth to sing for us.
Name: Gaia Wilson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: People Get Ready
Home town/city and country: Ottawa, Canada
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 04:31 AM
I first heard Eva's voice in a small store that sells candles. I remember hearing "Fields of Gold" and thinking 'wow'. I went straight up to the store clerk and asked who it was singing it. That's when she told me about Eva and how she sadly wasn't alive anymore. I'd never heard such a voice. I actually started to cry in the store. The same day, I bought "Time After Time" and fell in love with her Cyndi Laupers cover. Since then I have bought "Eva By Heart" and "Songbird" and my favourite song is "People Get Ready"
Name: Mr. Leslie Hawkes
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England.
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 07:58 AM
Firstly I would like to thank Mr.Terry Wogan of BBC Radio 2 for introducing me to the music of Eva Cassidy by costantly plugging "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" at every given opportunity. I now have another favourite artist in my collection and at this moment in time I have two of Eva's albums "Songbird" and "Imagine". My all time favourite song is "Imagine" by John Lennon and I could only listen to John's version, that is until now, Eva's version is superb and I now have two versions of the greatest lyrics ever written. I want to know more about miss Eva Cassidy and her backlog of C.D's and hope I have found the right website to do her justice.
Name: David
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Kathy's Song
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 09:52 AM
I am just watching a program on National Swedish Televison (SvT 1) about the life of Eva Cassidy. Fascinating story, and great music. Great presence - love to listen more to hear music!
Name: Sune Kaas
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You've changed
Home town/city and country: Copenhagen/Denmark
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 10:19 AM
Just saw the documentary about Eva on Swedish National TV, and I am sitting here deeply moved and in awe of the princess. My God is been some time, I last was this moved and heartfelt - tomorrow will be Eva Cassidy shoppingday, I have to own her records and hear her perfect voice again. To you Laura: I just wanna thank you so much for giving this site to all of us and share the beauty and wisdom of Eva. My heart belongs to Eva - God rest her soul.
Name: Lennart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: you`v changed
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 10:22 AM
absolutly wonderful
Name: Cattis Hansson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You've changed
Home town/city and country: Uppsala Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 10:31 AM
Today was the first day with Eva. I just met her in my livingroom, singing wonderful from my TV. WOW.
Name: Rikard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at the Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: -
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 10:38 AM
Popped in the last 20 minutes of the documentary on swedish national tv so I just saw some of the concert songs. But what a voice. And for the first time I appreciated Somewhere over the rainbow!!! As Cattis said: Tomorrow's shopping day!
Name: Chris L
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 10:41 AM
The program went off the air about half an hour ago and I'm still shaking. I only wish I'd known about it beforehand and not just caught the last ten minutes 'accidentally'. I'm totally baffled that I've never heard (of) Eva before. Well, like Sune Kaas below, tomorrow's gonna be my 'Shopping-all-over-town-for-every-single-one-of-Eva-Cassidy's-albums' day too. :-) Cheers and thanks for keeping this site, Laura.
Name: Sigun Sandstrom
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 11:08 AM
The wos first time in evning on TV I listen to this so good nice girl sing.Now I will go listen to her more.
Name: Lars
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: Sodertalje, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 11:10 AM
Just saw the last 30 min of the documentary. Stunning, fantasic, breathtaking!. Sad she can't read this herself. Gandalf said something like: Some people who live deserve to die and some who died deserve to live. Good thing her art lives on. Have just ordered a couple of CDs from cdon.se.
Name: Katta
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all of them
Home town/city and country: Sweden.
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 11:51 AM
The documentary was...absolutely..I´m speachless. Tears rolled down my cheeks. So beautiful and yet so sad... love
Name: Micke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Åkersberga/Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 11:53 AM
I´ve just seen a documentary on swedish television about I girl called Eva Cassidy. Now I know, her voice will guide me through the rest of my days.
Name: Greger
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Blues in the Night
Home town/city and country: Alnö/Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 12:06 PM
Tonight my ears fell in love. I have never heard of this songbird before and as I noticed on this site she has never recieved the press she so well deserve here in Sweden. I totally agree with Lars, it was truly awesome. Unfortunately I also missed the first half. I hit my self for that. But I will do my best to get hold of her albums as soon as possible. And I will recommend this site to all of my friends. Live long and prosper.
Name: Tommy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: Borlänge/Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 12:41 PM
My first guestbook entry ever in life simply has to be written now! I'm still taken after zapping into the last 30 minutes of the documentary on Swedish Televsion. The voice, the feeling, the timing !!! It's perfect! Her music just talks soul to soul !!! I'm speechless !!! I normally don't listen to or even like this kind of music very much (the soul thing that is, no offense here!), but I guess I have to change my preferences from now on ;-), at least I have to dig into Eva's music more. I guess some company will have to ship a lot of records to Sweden after tonights show on TV! Eva, thanks for making my heart rejoice this evening, may it be followed by many more ... Love /Tommy
Name: Peter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: Lund/Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 12:55 PM
Also taken by the TV programme about Eva. Thank you for this informative website! Keep up the good work. It was the first time I've heard about her, but not the last!!! What a heavenly voice! Peter
Name: janb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all
Home town/city and country: honolulu
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 01:33 PM
hi everyone, a good site for folk song lyrics, www.mudcat.org. i found variations of "waly waly" and "how can i keep from singing" there. lots of interesting things to read on that site. aloha, janb
Name: Stratotao
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Home town/city and country: Stockholm/Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 11:12 PM
What a great voice! I saw her on TV last night, amazing! But such great lost. Just like Stevie Ray Vaughan, the good die young.
Name: Carina Svensson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: People get ready
Home town/city and country: Gothenburg, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 11:13 PM
Love to everybody, and thanks for letting us know this wonderful songbird, I have never heard about Eva before. From today, she will be in my life.
Name: Pia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: don't know yet!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: do you have to choose one?
Home town/city and country: Lund/SWEDEN
Sent: Thu January 09 2003 11:30 PM
I too saw the proram last night on swedish tv, and I was captured right from the beginning....could hardly turn the tv off when the program was over, I really need to hear moore of that voice.....absolutely amazing. As you all say - it was a great loss to this world!
Name: Anna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
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Home town/city and country: Linkoping/Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 12:23 AM
I can only agree with Pia! I've never heard of Eva before tonight, but obviously I'm not the only one in Sweden. Too sad such wonderful voice couldn't stay in this world, I guess it was too great. Although, if you can see this Eva - thank you so much for shearing your voice with us!
Name: Pia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 01:38 AM
Saw Eva on my TV yesterday. It was an amazing experience. Her voice talked to me and I couldn´t move, tears was falling. Her joy touched me and I felt really great inside. Thank you, Eva. Sing with the angels!
Name: Per Porsild
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Any!
Home town/city and country: Hamar, Norway
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 02:11 AM
Just watched the film and audio clips on Swedish TV. How impressingly wonderful a voice and interpretation. Certainly a pity she is no longer among us - but the more to be rejoiced that so many of her friends and fans succeeded in capturing her music whilst she was here.
Name: Erik Jonsson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: autumn leaves
Home town/city and country: skelleftea/Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 02:54 AM
Thank you,Eva!
Name: Kristin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: Stockholm Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 02:55 AM
WOW! What a great voice!!! Saw the program on Swedish TV1 yesterday and was really impressed with Eva's voice! I am a singer myself and got very inspired by her interpretations. It was also good to actually show how the record companies sacrifices a great voice in their sad struggle to put everyone into a little genre-box. I write my own music and know how sad today's musical climat is. It's all about the money. It was refreshing to hear someone truly talanted! Too bad the record companies are too narrowminded for their own good.
Name: RICHARD REDMAN
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: some where over the rainbow, feilds of gold
Home town/city and country: haworth, west yorkshire, uk
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 04:27 AM
i never heard such a brilliant singer, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up immediatley it was like watching one of your favourite films. LONG LIVE THE VOICE OF EVA CASIDY.
Name: Petra Nilsson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Have non
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: time after time (so far)
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 04:31 AM
Hi Saw the documentary on Eva on SVT last night, as mentioned above, and I have to agree with everything said about it on this paige. I´m totally overwhelmed by her and have been surfing the internet all day for things about her, and I found that some of her CD´s got sold out today on the most common internetsights!!! I strongly beleive that she has just gotten her well-deserved break-through i Sweden! Just thought you should know...
Name: Peter Sandberg
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: dont know yet!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 04:52 AM
I can only agree with everyone else, Truly amazing. Possibly the best female voice since janis joplin. It really bothers me that there were/is no room for a talent like Eva`s in the music industry today. It goes to show that the industry is so far away from were true talent lies. I can only hope record company executives were wathing last night. If you live in stockholm you can find the songbird album at skivfönstret "ringen". They have quite a few copies there. God bless and thank you for the music Eva! ps. another forgotten singer i think is loudon wainwright III, album called "last man on earth" ds.
Name: Leif Eriksson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: How could I pick just one?
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 05:43 AM
Saw a great documentary on swedish television Jan 9th. Heaven must be a great place. Imagine Eva Cassidy on stage every night. Amen.
Name: peter nilsson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: live at the blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: stockholm sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 07:01 AM
the tears are falling when i listening to evas songs today again after the documentary at svt yesterday,have been on internet and listening to her song is like she is singing strait to your heart and soul.thank you eva
Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 07:17 AM
For everyone who misses Eva and everyone of Eva's fans throughout the world, the documentary of Eva Cassidy 20 minutes: http://mmoranski.serverpro3.com/Eva/Nightline%20story.mpg
Name: leslie trout
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: tall trees and fields of gold
Home town/city and country: woodstock, ga 30188
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 08:24 AM
Bittersweet and poignant, her pure voice and presentation evoke our own wistful thoughts and memories. I have only recently heard of Eva but was deeply moved by her voice and and obvious love for her family. Hopefully this website can help you with the pain of losing Eva. Hold her safe in your hearts and know that she loved you so much.
Name: Camilla
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Do not own one...yet!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Jakobstad, Finland
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 08:31 AM
Saw the documentory on swedish television yesterday, january 9th, and I just sat there, unable to even move...It`s been years since I´ve heard anything so beautiful!! What an truly amazing singer she was!! She moved me to tears...
Name: Karin Regnell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time after time or Tennessee Waltz
Home town/city and country: Malmö, Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 09:25 AM
Like many others (I hope) I saw the documentary on television and was utterly amazed. I am envious of you who knew her and you who got a chance to experience the richness of her voice. As I said last night, thank you so much for being a part of this world and making it so much more beautiful. From now on you will have a place in my heart and I hope that I can carry a part of your legacy by doing what I love and believe in. With all of my love, where ever you may be.
Name: Terry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't Make Me Choose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Don't Make Me Choose
Home town/city and country: St. Louis, MO, USA
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 09:44 AM
I fell in love with Eva instantly. I had a co-worker at work that was listening to the CD Songbird. She told me to listen to Over The Rainbow. I rolled my eyes, thinking that it would be another cheesy recording. In my mind no one could touch Judy's version though many, very many, have tried. I agreed to listen and within a few notes, I was hooked. I mean, her phrasing was so totally unique and with her pure sweet voice, it really got me. I mean, it ripped my heart out. I couldn't believe it but Eva's version of Over The Rainbow was making tears run down my cheek. I couldn't believe that that song could sound so new and fresh and different. It was the end of my shift at work. I couldn't leave. I stayed and listened to the whole CD and fell in love with Eva. I now have Eva By Heart, Time After Time, Method Actor and have Imagine and Live At Blues Alley on order. I am going out today to find The Other Side. I think I am becoming obsessed becaue I have come to this web site and am now looking for any other songs available with Eva's voice. I hope more of Eva's music will be released. Over The Rainbow hooked me but I would hate to choose a favorite album or song. I am still amazed at how Eva could take another artist's signature song and totally make it Eva's! PS After finding out about Eva's tragic death, I became connected to her in another way because I am a survivor of Melanoma now for 5 years!
Name: Jennie
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Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 11:06 AM
I saw the documentary on swedish television and I have never been so touched by a program before. What a amazing voice! I´ve fell in love with it right away. What a amazing person she seemed to be! It must have been amazing to have seen her live. I´m going to get all her albums now.
Name: Jugge
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Dont know yet
Home town/city and country: Stockholm
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 11:10 AM
What a wonderful world!! I`m still shock after last nights documentory.What can i say, that voice will guide me til the end and beyond.
Name: Fredrik
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at the Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Upplands Väsby/Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 11:38 AM
I'm an old fan of Eva, so i am just happy to see that she finally get the recognition she deserves here in Sweden.
Name: Lena Lundgren
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Nynashamn, Sweden
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 12:08 PM
I saw the documentary about Eva on swedish television yesterday. I think it was fantastic! What a beautiful voice and what a feeling! You can hear that she mean every single word that she sing! I think Eva must be the best singer I've ever heard! Lots of love from another songbird, Lena
Name: Eva K
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Not sure...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I have so many favorites, but at the moment, I think it might be Penny To My Name or Easy Street Dream.. Or Tall Trees In Georgia or perhaps God Bless The Child...? And then there's always Way Beyond The Blue.. :)
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden (like everybody else..)
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 12:28 PM
Hi everyone! I just wanted to say congratulations to all of the new Swedish fans. I haven't been an Eva Cassidy fan for very long either, but it's been a few months now, and I've been working hard these past months on trying to spread the word about Eva's music. Therefore I was extremely excited when I saw that the State television were showing this documentary. The clips from Blues Alley were the best thing I've ever seen on TV and I was completely paralyzed at the end of the program. Thank God I already new about Eva and recorded the program, I have a feeling I'll be watching it a couple of times (a day!) from now on. I advise all of you new fans to buy every album you can find, it'll be the greatest gift you've ever gotten yourself! Love, Eva K
Name: Bon Moorkamp
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Enschede, Netherlands
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 02:24 PM
It took me a few years to finally know her
Name: Eva Cassidy. I had heard about a women with a beautifull voice but dit not know her name. A feeling came over me that this must be the women I read about a few days ago. I went to a Music Store and bought the CD "Songbird". I am a guitarist, songwriter, with one goal in my live: to let people know when music is in tone and when not. I have never heard a person play the guitar as pure and in tone as Eva and sing as pure and in tone as she did. All the tones she makes with her voice and her hands are just right, even a sigh, this is to me like heaven on earth, she must be an angel. Thank you Eva. Bon Moorkamp
Name: Rick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: mmm ...today? ...otr
Home town/city and country: Broken Bow, OK, USA
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 02:36 PM
Laura! Is there not some way that you can get some of the stuff europeans are seeing (and hearing!) available to us in the USA? REPLY FROM LAURA: Rick! I do not control the U.S. media! (Maybe I should?)
Name: billy bayly
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: tall trees
Home town/city and country: bowie, maryland
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 03:26 PM
hey guys, i'm a resident of the beatifully suburban town that is known as Bowie, Maryland. Although I grew up in the same parts as Eva, it wasn't until three years ago that I first heard her immaculate voice. And since, I've been hooked. Anyone locally know of a memorial service for Eva's 4oth bday on the 2nd of February? Please let me know. billybayly@hotmail.com Much love and God bless. -Billy
Name: Rick
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Home town/city and country:
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 03:41 PM
Sorry, Laura ...understand...thanks for the great web site, anyway! and happy new year ...!
Name: Lars
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Home town/city and country: Umeå
Sent: Fri January 10 2003 08:44 PM
I saw the swedish documentary and was totally stunned... Amazing. I totally agree with Peter Sandberg:"Possibly the best female voice since janis joplin. It really bothers me that there were/is no room for a talent like Eva`s in the music industry today." I also thought of Janis Joplin though I nearly was born when Janis entered the stage. I hope we'll remember Eva for the guts she had to not let the music industry destroy her visions. They wanted hear to fit in the gengre-industry but she refused. God bless Eva for her integrity! God help Britney, Eva is a better model for young girls!
Name: hjeartsdoc
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Several about the same
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Changes constantly
Home town/city and country: Canandaigua,NY
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 02:29 AM
I'm happy to see Eva's conquest of another country! It has truly been astounding to have observed the growing popularity of her music over the last
Name: heartsdoc
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Virtual tie amongst several
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: differs from moment to moment
Home town/city and country: Canandaigua,NY
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 02:44 AM
OOPS! I was so caught up in the "Swedish Invasion" that I made my screen name look Swedish! I also hit "send" before finishing my post! I was just relating my observation of the groundswell of interest in Eva over the last few years. I am not certain as to any legal restrictions relative to copyright, but I have tried for a long while to obtain video clips of Eva singing live. If any of the new Swedish converts would be willing to send me a copy of the documentary, I would gratefully show you my appreciation!
Name: Leif
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Imagine
Home town/city and country: Falun,Dalarna,Sweden
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 06:34 AM
I look in Sweden TV on Eva,a beutiful woice,tank for one very good program. Love to Eva Leif
Name: dOc
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Helsinki, Finland
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 11:21 AM
As many others I see, I also saw the Swedish documentary of Eva Cassidy. I was completely stunned over her voice and became immediately a fan :)
Name: Julie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ?
Home town/city and country: Brighton, Colorado
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 11:24 AM
I saw Eva's CD "Imagine" laying on a friends table yesterday. Then later in the day my friend asked if I'd heard her voice. I decided today to try to find information on her since my friend said she has an amazing voice. I 'm saddened to hear of her death but would love to learn and hear more about her work.
Name: Krister
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all
Home town/city and country: Ystad
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 11:59 AM
In south of Sweden, close to the sea, there is a restaurante for you.... We are looking for a senitive singer like Eva. Send us a message if you want to play and sing here.
Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 12:12 PM
The Eva Cassidy documentary is presently unavailable please try again later: http://mmoranski.serverpro3.com/Eva/Nightline%20story.mpg
Name: Anita
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Oslo/Norway
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 12:14 PM
I discovered Eva the day AFTER the swedish documentary. I hope they'll send it again. What is there to say? After this, nothing. Only happiness and sadness. And admire. My heart is full and empty at the same time.
Name: Greger
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Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 12:44 PM
I ordered five Eva-albums today, Eva by Heart, Imagine, Live at Blues Alley, Songbird and Time after Time. I will climb the walls until I get them. According to the cd-webstore´s top-selling list Eva has five records in the top fifteen!!! I think she finally made it in Sweden. Laura, I thank you for this superb homage-site for Eva. Keep up the good work.
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
Home town/city and country: Tallahassee,Fl USA
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 12:44 PM
A friend put together a CD of some of his favorite songs. He listed the songs names but not the titles. When I got to the cover of Emilylou Harris' "Wayfaring Stranger" I was floored. I had to know who's voice this was. He told me Eva Cassidy. I went straight to the music store and bought Live at Blues Alley and Imagine. I've since added Eva by Heart and The Other Side. Thank you Eva, and your bandmates, for making such beautiful music and may you rest in peace.
Name: Greger
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Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 12:48 PM
I mailed Swedish Television today and urged them to send the show again. They haven´t replied yet.
Name: Kerstin
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Home town/city and country: Stockholm
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 12:54 PM
What a wonderful-fantastic voice!! Thank you... for letting me know Eva Cassidy through the documentary on SVT. It was a gift!
Name: Thomas F. Locke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All of them....
Home town/city and country: London, Ontario, Canada
Sent: Sat January 11 2003 05:24 PM
Ironically I only heard of Eva during a vacation to England. Her voice is without a doubt the most beautiful I have ever heard. Eva was a angel - yes she was...
Name: Caroline Adolfsson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You remeber me.
Home town/city and country: Stockholm
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 01:50 AM
I have picked up some of Eva´s songs from the net and I am amazed. What a voice. I have listened again, again and again since I saw the TV program. She adds something special to every old "worn out" song. What a loss that she died so young. Caroline
Name: Nisse Asp
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Dont now yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Borlange/Sweden
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 01:50 AM
I heard a song on tv,Eva Cassidy whos that.Now I now mutch moore,a wonderful singer and performer.Her songs is PLAYED every day in my home. Love to all...
Name: Anna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time after time, Fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Stockholm,Sweden
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 01:54 AM
My heart stopped beating, my ears were delighted, and my soul was deeply touched, when I saw and listened to Eva for the first time on Swedish tv the other day. To watch and hear her with the knowledge that she had passed away so young made me almost cry. I also could recognize myself a lot in both her looks as well as her singing and guitar playing. I'm a struggling singer myself, will be 30 this year, and I feel that the music industry have no room for me. I have recently given up after 14 years of hard work. It hurts my soul that I can't live off of what I love doing the most. But, this is the cruel reality, just like it was for Eva. Famous after her death...Who knows, maybe I will be more appreciated after my death as well? Such a sad thought, yet bitter-sweet. I wonder how Eva's personality was. I would have loved to get to know her. Maybe our personality's were alike too? Now, I can't wait to hear all her songs!!! so, far I've only heard a few on the tv program. I imagine listening to her singing all my favorite tunes....can't think of anything I'd enjoy to hear more. Maybe she is singing some of my favorites on her cd's, that remains to be discovered.... Where can I order her cd's??? God bless you all!
Name: Gerry
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Home town/city and country: Melbourne, Australia
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 08:03 AM
Further to Rick's comment on 10 Jan and Laura's response, it would be great if Eva's family (or whoever else controls her material) would release the film clips on video or dvd. They are making them available to the media, and her fans all over the world would greatly appreciate having the opportunity to purchase them. Best wishes to Laura, all the regulars to this site, and to those who have just discovered Eva.
Name: peter sandberg
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Sent: Sun January 12 2003 08:09 AM
Lars, Cool that I was not the only one who thought of janis joplin when i heard Eva sing. I don´t know why really, i just did.I also want to say that i agree with Kristin " it was refreshing to hear someone truly talented". Because there are a lot of talented people. rarely if ever do they get to show it to the world. Most of what we hear is shit (sorry). I´m saying that record companies don´t do what they should. Find the talent and give them the chance to develop. Don´t try to "make" a talent. Even if it´s a gamble. I don´t know if Eva wanted to make it big, but it does not matter. Almost everone who saw the programme and blue note boss will agree that it was a mistake not to sign her. To put it gently..
Name: KENNETH ROWLEY
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: IMAGINE
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Home town/city and country: WASHINGTON C.H. OH. USA
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 09:00 AM
WHAT A VOICE! I ONLY DISCOVERED EVA A FEW MONTHS AGO AND HER VOICE HAS ME SPELL BOUND. WISH SHE WAS STILL WITH US. MAY HER SOUL SING FOREVER
Name: Marilyn Laws Porter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: It Home town/city and country:
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 10:11 AM
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Sent: Sun January 12 2003 11:44 AM
Mr.Raice McLeod,i just figured out that you're my uncle! I play the piano and guitar (learning), but I want to learn the drums too.
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I,agine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Danny Boy+PTMN
Home town/city and country: Syravcuse NY USA
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 11:47 AM
What is it about this song that draws every emotion out of me? From the Time After Time CD.... "Penny To My Name" Bill and I got married following our first born Daddy left this gas & convenience store just before he died And I was only nineteen when I had my third baby And sometimes I think maybe I should've left here long ago Travellers are stopping by, check their oil and their p.s.i. Gas up and away to fly, moving down the line But this beat-up truck & worn out shoes always give me the blues Billy sucking down the booze nearly every night Chorus I never seen the city lights How they must shine so bright Not like this country night The sky's black as coal And this gas-station mountain home Not a thing to call my own How I wish I was alone With a penny to my name Strangers say this mountain here is beautiful beyond compare But it's just a dumb old mountain; I see it every day If I could see sunset skies over fields of green or ocean-tides, City skyline in the night, I'll be dancing till the dawn Chorus Bill and I got married following our first born Daddy left this gas & convenience store just before he died Maybe Bill & I someday will find a chance to get away Until then it's here I'll stay wishing on a star. Could it be the desperation in the lives of so many people with no way out or is it the reality of life ending to soon before fame can be realized. Thanks to Roger Henderson for this great song and Eva Cassidy for this beautiful rendition.
Name: Henrik Thiil Nielsen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town/city and country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 12:29 PM
All you Danish Eva fans, now is a perfect time to start working on the two major Danish tv stations, DR and TV2, to get them to air SVT1's Eva show. DR can be reached at dr@dr.dk while it is a little less easy to get in touch with TV2. Here you must go to the web page http://omtv2.tv2.dk/adresser/kontakt.asp and click the email link "e-mail: TV 2 /DANMARK" next to the TV2 logo. On the page you are now taken to, type in your email address, a heading for your message and the message itself. Don't forget to choose a topic from the drop-down list. I suppose this should be "TV 2/Programplanlægningen". There is so much plastic on TV. We must have one hour of pearl. Right?
Name: Sharon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all of them
Home town/city and country: Perth Australia
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 03:31 PM
was channel surfing the other night around midnight or so and turned over to our national multicultural station (http://www.sbs.com.au/sbs_front/index.html) and when they have the station closures, they play cd's that they then sell in their "shop". Imagine my surprise when I turned over the channel and heard the sweet sounds of Eva singing Fever. For those Australian fans who are looking for copies of Eva's cd's, I was able to buy them from Sanity Thanks again for a wonderful site that fans of all genres can share.
Name: Stjerna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time is a healer
Home town/city and country: Huskvarna, Sweden
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 09:29 PM
Amazing Eva!!!! I need help to find the album "Best of Eva Cassidy". Help me!!
Name: Amelie Aulin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: have none yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I do not know the name on the one I heard on TV
Home town/city and country: Uppsala, Sweden
Sent: Sun January 12 2003 11:53 PM
I had no idea of who she was and the cult that seems to develop around her - I just can´t get her singing out of my head and heart from last Thursday when I, half asleep listened to a concert on TV. She is so special. I have to find her music. Luckily it seems possible.
Name: Joe Baldwin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Gloucester, United Kingdom
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 01:04 AM
With the ability to effect, touch and influence so many peoples lives irrespective of age, race and religion long after her death, i must stand in awe of a truley heavenly voice and amazing woman. May here memories and voice live forever.
Name: Claire Hudson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: i know you by heart
Home town/city and country: Gloucestershire, UK
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 01:09 AM
What can i say - eva has inspired my life. Such a heroic women who deserves such respect. I think her music can relate to so many people - rest in peace eva, forever in our hearts xx Claire - UK x
Name: Annie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird and Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town/city and country: Sussex, England
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 01:31 AM
Hi all Eva followers and a special hello to all the Swedish newcomers. The response to the recent programme on SVT reminds me of how the groundswell began here, culminating in two #1 albums in the UK, after a clip of Eva singing Over The Rainbow was shown on BBC TV. It is exciting to see Sweden getting the Eva bug and at the same time frustrating that recognition of Eva is still very patchy in her home country. I must echo what a few others have said here, Laura - can we hope for a video/DVD release of the Blues Alley (and others) tapes? What is the copyright situation? Is it so difficult to get? If the Songbird biography, only published in the UK, has sold over 100,000 copies (soft and hardback combined) in little over a year, just imagine what numbers a DVD release of Eva and the band singing some of our favourite tracks could obtain.
Name: Carina
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Home town/city and country: Gothenburg
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 02:19 AM
Message in Swedish: Missade du som jag att spela in programmet om Eva i vecka 2. Skriv till: repris@svt.se, och önska repris! Kram alla vänner i Sverige
Name: ernie kasper
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: langley bc
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 03:58 AM
You are the joy that surrounds my soul! you are the kindness that holds me captive! you are the wonder that makes me smile! you are my island of promises waiting to be born.... But most of all you are my forever mercy a gentle breeze a silent whisper a beauty that is only described in one word LOVE by ernie kasper God bless you all
Name: P O Lindstrom
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: At Last
Home town/city and country: Stockholm
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 04:31 AM
I heard Eva Cassidy for the first time last Thursday on Swedish Television. I was quite stunned and taken by her appearance and couldn't take me eyes and ears from her from the first note to the last. I haven't experienced such a voice with such an intensity and presence for many years. I have listened to jazz, blues, folk, rock and other types of music since early 60's, but this was really something. So tragic her life ended so early. You should never compare an artist to another, but Evas reminds me a little of the swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund and of the fragile norwegian jazz singer Radka Toneff, who sadly died in 1988.
Name: Andrew Laverick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: It changes with my mood...!
Home town/city and country: London, England
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 05:17 AM
I am always saddened when I think of such a talent being taken when there was so much more to give. I listen to Eva's music when I need a change of mood, or when I want some solitude. I wonder if she ever knew how much she touched peoples lives.
Name: Booker T. Gibson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All six
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: What's on now!
Home town/city and country: Merrick, NY. USA
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 06:55 AM
Laura, I've written a couple times. Thanks so much for maintaining this site. So many have gotten "the Message" that Eva's on a higher level.Someone here wrote, Eva's not entertaining per se but talking very personally to you". Maybe, that's why I love to listen to Eva by myself.It's a little selfish...but I cry too easily. Bye for now. Booker
Name: Linda Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 07:05 AM
I was introduced to Eva's Music right after New Years Eve, at a friends house....It brought me to tears....Joy and Sorrow....She was truly the Songbird and We are Blessed to be able to listen as she still shares her music...Thank You to Her Friends and Family for Making it Possible...
Name: Anna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time after time, Fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Stockholm, Sweden
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 07:19 AM
Thank you so much all you who replied to my e-mail regarding where to get her cd's etc. You seem like such nice people, all of you here. I have now ordered 5 cd's with Eva from cdon.se! Can't wait to hear them over and over again. I wish Eva was still alive so that she could record many more songs. I'm sure she's happy, singing up in heaven with all the angels, watching over her loved ones. God bless, and thank you Eva for sharing your beautiful talent with us. You were too good for this world, God wanted you back in heaven...
Name: Gail
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Home town/city and country: Atlanta, GA, USA
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 10:34 AM
(Sorry about the previous false starts...). I don't think I have heard a song that has moved me more than Who Knows Where the Time Goes - I cannot get enough of it. I feel evangelical about it, compelled to "spread the word" about Eva and this song. Thanks for this web site!
Name: Gail
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Home town/city and country: Atlanta, GA, USA
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 10:34 AM
(Sorry about the previous false starts...). I don't think I have heard a song that has moved me more than Who Knows Where the Time Goes - I cannot get enough of it. I feel evangelical about it, compelled to "spread the word" about Eva and this song. Thanks for this web site!
Name: anon
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: time after time, imagine Home town/city and country:
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 01:52 PM
i guess i like the songs that eva chose to sing, im sure they meant alot to her, i can picture her listening to them and deciding to learn and sing them as her own. you can tell she loved to sing, i love her style, as well as her voice. i love singing too.
Name: Chuck
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Stormy Monday
Home town/city and country: Tyrone, Pennsylvania
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 03:44 PM
I first heard about Eva about two years ago in a passing conversation with an online acquaintance about great jazz singers. "Of course," she said, "you have to include Eva Cassidy in the top five..." It was the first time I'd heard the name. It wasn't the last. In the last couple of years I've managed to collect, from various sources, seven of her albums. God, what a great, eclectic body of work! Linda, you had it wrong. Ms. Cassidy was so much more than merely a jazz singer! I have spent countless hours listening to Eva and company, and recruiting others to the cause. I haven't had anyone express any regrets.... As for this website; thanks, Laura! You've been a great source of news and information. And, after reading this guest book on and off for a while, I felt it was high time I contributed. Thanks then, too, to those of you who have left messages here. I've felt among kindred spirits here. It's nearly as heartwarming as listening to the lady herself.
Name: David
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Home town/city and country: Portland, Oregon
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 06:46 PM
As I sit here in the kitchen late at night listening to my favorite Eva song for the twentieth time in a row, I feel strangely and wonderfully connected. That voice, the music, and the joy!!! Yes, who knows where the time goes?? I did not count the time, either. And it's time to start! Thank you for the reminder.
Name: reesa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I have yet to hear one.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Her single Time after Time
Home town/city and country: Perth Australia
Sent: Mon January 13 2003 08:48 PM
A friend emailed me Time after Time and I was in awe such a passionate and intoxicating voice. What a loss to the music industry her passing will be. But what better place to have the voice of an Angel than in heaven. Thanks for touching my life Eva xxxx
Name: Carl
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All!
Home town/city and country: Helsingland, Sweden
Sent: Tue January 14 2003 02:43 AM
I´m so sad she´s gone but yet happy that I´ve heard her sing on Swedish TV.
Name: Julie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Danny Boy
Home town/city and country: Ireland
Sent: Tue January 14 2003 05:39 AM
I was so amazed when i first heard Eva sing, then my music taste was always pop or rock but now i listen to nothing else but her albums. i love Danny Boy because it seems so Irish and so moving. i am only 16 now but i know that i will never hear a more beautiful singer then eva. she was a treasure that was not appreciated enough.
Name: Matt Warne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all
Home town/city and country: London, UK
Sent: Tue January 14 2003 10:22 AM
Glad to see that other countries are picking up on the phenomenon - looks like Eva's a definite hit in Sverige! If anyone in the UK is interested, Mark Hagen can be emailed at mark.hagen@bbc.co.uk - perhaps if he gets enough he'll put up an Eva video for Valentine's day or her Birthday Feb 2nd!
Name: Graham Wright
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Home town/city and country: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sent: Tue January 14 2003 03:29 PM
In the Concert Hall Store, of which I am the owner, located in downtown Toronto, Canada in Commerce Court. We have sold 2,500 units of Songbird and 550 units of Imagine. Is this a world record for one store? We are 900 square feet in a food court where office workers get their lunches and we hope pick up an Eva Cassidy CD. Graham
Name: Dave
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all
Home town/city and country: Hexham UK
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 12:56 AM
Hello everyone in the UK.It would be great to see another video on TOTP2 near Eva's birthday, and Matt Warne's message below got me thinking. From time to time TOTP2 do specials on a particular top artist with tracks and interviews info etc. The show's half-hour format would be perfect for an Eva special. We get to see all the uncut video and maybe some interviews with band members as well. Why not email the show's producer and put in a request, he knows it would be popular, the OTR video was their most requested track ever! emial Mark Hagen at: mark.hagen@bbc.co.uk
Name: Xajo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autum leaves
Home town/city and country: Rocafort del Bages (Barcelona) Catalonia
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 04:15 AM
Gran descubrimiento, desconocida hasta hace muy poco, hoy por hoy es muy dificil establecer cual es su mejor disco o su mejor canción sin duda lo mejor es su voz y todo el sentimiento que esconde cada una de ellas. Tal vez sea una de las mejores voces y de las mejores versiones que se han hecho de standars del jazz i del blues. Ojalá pudiera haberte visto en directo. Gracoas Eva
Name: Xajo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autum leaves
Home town/city and country: Rocafort del Bages (Barcelona) Catalonia
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 04:15 AM
Gran descubrimiento, desconocida hasta hace muy poco, hoy por hoy es muy dificil establecer cual es su mejor disco o su mejor canción sin duda lo mejor es su voz y todo el sentimiento que esconde cada una de ellas. Tal vez sea una de las mejores voces y de las mejores versiones que se han hecho de standars del jazz i del blues. Ojalá pudiera haberte visto en directo. Gracias Eva
Name: Logan
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Sent: Wed January 15 2003 09:36 AM
It's terryfing the way how I got to know Eva Cassidy.After listening to the masterful interpretation of "Over the Rainbow",I wanted to know more about her.So I discovered,with my great amazement,that this beatiful singer was dead 6 years ago and that noone practically knew her. What a pity for the music!
Name: göran
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All five.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Still Not Ready
Home town/city and country: Nacka, Sweden
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 10:36 AM
Heard about her 14 days ago. Just love her. Her voice i fantastic. Now I got all songs from the five CD:s and a few more other artist she´s joined, thanks to all people using filesharing.
Name: Henrik Thiil Nielsen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You've Changed
Home town/city and country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 11:43 AM
What downloading diligence, Göran. No comparison intended, I suppose a Christian is no less a Christian for having xeroxed the Bible.
Name: charmaine healey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart
Home town/city and country: Dorrigo Australia
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 01:56 PM
Just getting to know Eva, and her beautiful music, have just bought Songbird and Imagine, listening for the first time, just luv her, will play many on community radio 2bbb Bellingen NSW Australia, Wonderful informative website, Thanks guys, Cheers Charmaine
Name: Chris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: they are all superb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Woodstock/Imagine/Songbird
Home town/city and country: Sheffield England
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 03:38 PM
I discovered the music of Eva 3 years ago. Never before had i felt so moved by a piece of music. The first time i heard eva was when i bought the `Eva By Heart` album. At the end of the first track `I Know You By Heart` i found myself weeping. I play guitar myself so i realise how hard it is to play and sing at the same time. Eva and the rest of the band will always be a part of my life now. Although i never met Eva, by listening to her music, i feel as though ive known her for years. What a great loss but she will always be here in our hearts
Name: Carina Svensson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Gothenburg
Sent: Wed January 15 2003 10:42 PM
Message in Swedish: Hej alla vänner i Sverige & Norden, ingen har väl missat att programmet om Eva kommer i repris, vi är många som önskat och de lyssnade! Fredag 14 februari, klockan 22.55 på SVT2, denna gången laddar vi videon!
Name: Greger
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Home town/city and country: Alnö, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 16 2003 04:57 AM
Today I heard Eva´s version of Imagine played on Swedish Television between two shows. I guess SVT has embraced Eva´s talent. We thank SVT for listening to their audience.
Name: joe webster
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: i know you by heart.
Home town/city and country: penrith sydney. australia
Sent: Thu January 16 2003 05:42 AM
i am a new listener to eva,s music, but very glad i have discovered this beautiful voice. as a male it takes someone with a special voice to bring me to tears but eva can do it,i feel the hairs on my neck stand up when she sings. i know you by heart, envokes so many memories for me. thankyou eva,s parents for this gift, so sorry for such a loss.but to have some one for a short time is greater than never to have had them at all.the music will live on, as will eva. all my regards joe.
Name: Bren
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: So I'd Know You By Heart
Home town/city and country: London, Canada
Sent: Thu January 16 2003 08:46 AM
First heard her CD at the music store over the PA system. She was singing "Over the Rainbow". Everyone in the store stopped what they were doing and stood still - listening. It was an amazing sight. Many of us had tears in our eyes and when she finished we realized we had heard something truly special. I have listened to this CD many many times and am still moved to tears by the honesty of her singing. She sings from a place of purity and truth. Only a true artist can reach this place. We are all blessed to have such an angel looking over us.
Name: Ken McLaren
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Ingleside,Ontario Canada
Sent: Thu January 16 2003 10:20 AM
I just became aware of Eva, a few months ago. This the most refreshing voice, that I have heard in many years.She has enrichened my music collection. The entertainment industry has lost a jewel, and although I was not aware of her before her untimely passing, she will be forever remembered,
Name: Annika
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All five!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Impossible to choose
Home town/city and country: Halmstad, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 16 2003 10:33 AM
I'm glad Sweden has finally discovered this greatly talented songstress, I got her CD's about a year ago from a pal in the US!! :) Songbird enters the charts at number 6 here I see - brilliant!! Many blessings to you Eva - I hope you're aware of your success and the sheer JOY people get listening to you!!!
Name: Mårten
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Linköping, Sweden
Sent: Thu January 16 2003 03:27 PM
Here in Sweden it seem sthat everone is talking about, and listening to Eva at the moment. Brilliant!
Name: Curre
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Gothenburg Sweden
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 01:51 AM
What a fantastic singer and what a feeling in her voice .I saw her for the first time in TV last week and the CD:s sold out the same weekend but now they are back in the stores again so you can enjoy her again.
Name: Pauric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: "Songbird"
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: "Fields of Gold"
Home town/city and country: Co. Meath, Ireland
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 02:43 AM
Eva Cassidy is one of the best artists that ever entered a recording studio.I discovered her music two years ago when i heard her version of Sting's "Fields of Gold" on Irish radio. Eva's unique voice has stayed with me since and her albums now take pride of place in my music collection
Name: Georgie
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Home town/city and country: Connecticut
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 07:48 AM
Add me to the list of those who discovered Eva through figure skating, of all things. This is from someone who has followed the "jamband" scene closely the last couple of years, writing articles on people like Phil Lesh's band. I'm not real "up" on a lot of pop music but how'd I miss this? I guess cause I don't watch Nightline or the WB, don't always get to everything in the NYT or the Journal like I should, and most of the music passed to me is rare bootleg material. As was suggested in one of the articles on this fantastic website, I'm sure I had heard Eva's music in passing. I probably watched that Michelle Kwan exhibition at the Olympics. I'm NOT THAT BIG a figure skating fan, by the way. Don't tell my friends, but the beauty of it makes me makes me cry sometimes. Probably more because of the music than the skating. Years ago Brian Boitano performed to an acoustic cover of John Waite's Missing You. I really liked it (much more than the original) but I never found out who it was. This time I resolved to find out. I was watching the NY Giant/SF 49'ers game a few Sundays ago and when the Giants went up 38-14 (they eventually lost) I switched over to see the last 30 seconds of Kristi Yamaguchi's skate. I made a mental note..."acoustic Imagine"...and later punched it up on Amazon. Quite honestly, I hadn't heard of Eva Cassidy when she came up. I haven't stopped listening, reading and crying since. P.S. Recently made another mental note about The Blind Boys of Alabama when I saw them on Don Imus' show and picked up their new album, which is quite good. Happily, it contains versions of People Get Ready and Wade in the Water. More than coincidence perhaps?
Name: Rebeka Tupper
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Phoenix, AZ USA
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 07:56 AM
I first heard Eva Cassidy when I saw Michelle Kwan skating to "Fields of Gold". Michelle Kwan is a beautiful skater to watch, but I found myself paying more attention to the music than the skating!All I can remember thinking is "I have to find out who is singing that song!". I had heard Sting sing "Fields of Gold" but never thought much of it. When Eva sang it, it suddenly came alive. The song moved me to tears the first few times I listened to her sing it. I was deeply saddened to learn that Eva had passed away. I am a singer myself and can appreciate what a glorious gift she had. The world was truly robbed when it lost Eva Cassidy!! It is so rare that a soul is blessed with such an amazing gift as Eva had. I am so thankful that she recorded her music for the world to listen to. Even though she was not able to enjoy international commercial success within her lifetime (which she so richly deserved), I know that she is smiling down from heaven and leading a choir of angels in song. Her voice is a lasting testament to all those who sing for the joy of singing, that nothing good is ever lost to the world completely and that you should follow your dreams no matter what. Eva has inspired me to follow my own singing dream and I am starting today by going out and buying "Fields of Gold" on a karaoke CD. There are not enough words in my heart to say what I feel about Eva's gift. I only hope that I can someday make people feel as moved by my own singing as I have felt by hers.
Name: Mariya Zahir
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Feilds of gold and over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Bradford , UK
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 08:54 AM
I first heard the 2 songs when my sister put the album on.She sang it so beutufully .
Name: Malin Berggren
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time after time
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 10:20 AM
I heard Ewa Cassidy on Tv about two weeks ago..It was the first time I heard her sing. I didnt know before who she was. What a voice, singing, spirit! Im not gonna forget her, noway...She was wonderful! I smiled when i saw her singing,I cried, I laughed. The music and her friends was her life...I understand that. I had a friend, Veronica, she was blind since birth, she snag like a bird and she got cancer..She sang in 3 local cd:s in her hometown..In december a few years ago she got the answer from her doctor, that she had cancér. After 6 weeks she died at home..She had a husband and a daughter 13 years.. I feel for Ewa and her family with their lost, her friends, partners. I Love you Ewa....Thank you for the music... Malin
Name: Jennifer Steffen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Tennessee Waltz
Home town/city and country: Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 01:06 PM
A good friend of mine who knows of my passion for music bought me "Songbird" for Christmas 2002, I fell in love and went to the nearest music store to buy more, they only had "Imagine". I intend to search for the other albums her voice is like an angel that when I play her music my 2 birds try to sing with her!
Name: Sarah
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Can Only Be Me (though my favorite changs quite often)
Home town/city and country: Huntington Beach, California, USA
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 02:51 PM
Words fail me to describe Eva and her amazing artistic qualities. I mean, not only is her voice amazing, but she did great artwork too! For those who never heard of her, they're missing what music was made for!
Name: pam
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Oh Had I A Golden Thread & Time Is A Healer
Home town/city and country: Chicago, Illinois USA
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 04:06 PM
It has been a few months since I was introduced to Eva's music and it has been the most moving and inspirational music I have ever heard. I have been very busy passing her CD's on to friends and collegues.The other day I walked into a restaurant called The Corner Bakery (very popular) and they were playing Eva's Blue Skies. I asked about it and it was a corporate compliation tape. Have a great New Years, Eva Fans. Pam Eva's birthday is Feb 2 she would have been 40 Peace be with you Eva
Name: Ed Boswell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: California
Sent: Fri January 17 2003 04:37 PM
Eva is so sweet. I suggest to anyone who loves her voice to buy a CD by the closest sounding vocalist, the late Sandy Denny. She was an English singer in the late 60's and early 70's, England's Woman vocalist of the year three years in a row. He fell down her steps and broke her neck at the top of her game. Her solo CD "Like an Old-Fashioned Waltz" or "Sandy" are the ones, preferable to her work with Fairport Convention. I'm positive that Eva Cassidy was influenced by Sandy Denny, as evidenced by her singing "Who knows where the Time Goes". Sandy Denny is the ONLY singer I've EVER heard that emotes like the magical Eva Cassidy, and was blessed with a longer career, and did first class recordings. She collaborated with Richard Thompson in Fairport Convention. I'd love to see a compliation of both Sandy Denny and Eva Cassidy. The collection would be seemless, and it would be very difficult to find any difference in the beauty of their magical voices. Cheers
Name: ainsley nee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird and imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: fields of gold
Home town/city and country: england, nottingham
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 12:09 AM
i love her songs they make me feel better my grandma has cancer for the fifth time and the doctors say she is going to die because there is nothing they can do for her.thanks to all at macmillan cancer research. love and peace out from evas 15 year old fan ainsley nee
Name: Fälth
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Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 04:10 AM
Didn´t no that she existed,then one nigth i turned on the tv,and there she was with that wonderfould voice! The songs she is singing is making me feel very good,thank you for these moment´s.
Name: Fälth
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Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 04:11 AM
Didn´t no that she existed,then one nigth i turned on the tv,and there she was with that wonderfould voice! The songs she is singing is making me feel very good,thank you for these moment´s.
Name: Asa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All of them, but right now...Imagine
Home town/city and country: Islamabad, Pakistan
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 09:49 AM
I know that this is not the time or the place to be writing such stuff, but I'm a peacenik thru and thru. And this world is getting so messed up, it's lost it's amusement. There's war, famine, catastrophes going on all over the world, and there probably is something everyone can do about it, but no one is. It's a sad situation that man is against man. And we're all the same. We are all humans first, and then Muslims, Christians, Jews and whatever. Why can't we all just be together for the sake of humanity, if nothing else? I'd like everyone to pray and hope for a better future. I'm 20, but I'll STILL say that someone has to leave something in inheritance for our children and our children's children. My generation's gotten a strange enough planet as it is, and if the ball starts rolling and gains momentum, it might be difficult to stop it. What we, as humans are doing, is digging a well, and we're going on digging so deep, that eventually it might get extremely hard to get out, unless someone throws us a line. But there IS no one to do that. So let's hope and pray, and do our best to be the ones who can throw the line, in whatever way we can, contribute as we can, to making a better society and remove hate and prejudice from the world. We are all equal in the eyes of God, in the eyes of ANY God, Hindu Gods, the Muslim God, the Christian God...except on the basis of virtue. And if we cannot love our fellow man, who CAN we love? It's deplorable, and therefore, I just want everyone to pray that tomorrow the sun shines brighter and the storm passes and we have rainbows all over the place. Amen.
Name: Margot
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: can't pick one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: can't pick one either, but Autumn Leaves stands out (made my dad cry...)
Home town/city and country: Wijk aan Zee
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 09:52 AM
Hello everybody, My brother came up with another Eva lyrics link: http://lyrics.mp3s.ru/view/exec/Eva%20Cassidy/ This one is from Russia, but gets you to the lyrics immediately. Good to see that she's known there too! They have 29 songs. Seems Eva is getting a family thing 'cause my mum told me that they play at least one Eva song every week on one of our national late-night radio shows. Maybe we here in the Netherlands should bombard our national TV with requests for the swedish Eva show, too!!! Thanks Laura, for your great work, and thanks Chris B. for producing the unfinished Eva songs the way you did. Must be a hell of a responsability to do it in the way you think she would aprove of... Love to all, Margot
Name: Kavik
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow (and many more)
Home town/city and country: Buckley, WA USA
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 09:53 AM
Laura...you've probably already considered it, but if not, how about compiling a hardcover book with your website guestbook entries? You have thousands of entries ready for you to find the best ones to put in a book. That would be a book we'd all want to have. Reading these guestbook entries is so touching and wonderful...all of them are positive! One cannot read just a few of them without weeping with love. A title? What a wealth of possibilites right in the guestbook. Maybe "Letters to a Songbird"...or as one entry says, "Tonight My Ears Fell in Love" Best to you Laura.
Name: man
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Sent: Sat January 18 2003 11:38 AM
I am felling both glad and sad. I sad because the many people in word are more interesting in look and money then life it self. I glad because I have discovered Eva and I am glad when the tears falling down, this is what music is all about (and life).
Name: Jan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird/The Other Side w/ Chuck Brown
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You don't know me...w/ Chuck Brown
Home town/city and country: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 07:09 PM
There is not a doubt in my mind, that God created Eva Cassidy to make music. My only question is why he left her for such a short time, and where is she making music now? Eva is that proverbial angel I've heard so much about, When people say, "she sings like an angel", they had obviously heard Eva.
Name: Janet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Currently The Anniversary Song
Home town/city and country: Brisbane, Australia
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 11:48 PM
I first heard Eva Cassidy in the US. Then again on the BBC whilst in France. The first song was Over the Rainbow and once you've heard it, you're hooked. It was so sad to find out she'd died young. At the time I discovered her, I was going through a lot of personal problems and her music helped. I now have 4 CD's (only 2 I don't own and I will soon!) and listen to her all the time. Suits my current mood. I was quite amazed to find on the web site that her birthday was the same day as mine. Maybe that's part of the connection. I'm just so grateful to all those who worked to get her music out to the rest of us.
Name: Janet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Currently The Anniversary Song
Home town/city and country: Brisbane, Australia
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 11:49 PM
I first heard Eva Cassidy in the US. Then again on the BBC whilst in France. The first song was Over the Rainbow and once you've heard it, you're hooked. It was so sad to find out she'd died young. At the time I discovered her, I was going through a lot of personal problems and her music helped. I now have 4 CD's (only 2 I don't own and I will soon!) and listen to her all the time. Suits my current mood. I was quite amazed to find on the web site that her birthday was the same day as mine. Maybe that's part of the connection. I'm just so grateful to all those who worked to get her music out to the rest of us.
Name: Janet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Currently The Anniversary Song
Home town/city and country: Brisbane, Australia
Sent: Sat January 18 2003 11:50 PM
I first heard Eva Cassidy in the US. Then again on the BBC whilst in France. The first song was Over the Rainbow and once you've heard it, you're hooked. It was so sad to find out she'd died young. At the time I discovered her, I was going through a lot of personal problems and her music helped. I now have 4 CD's (only 2 I don't own and I will soon!) and listen to her all the time. Suits my current mood. I was quite amazed to find on the web site that her birthday was the same day as mine. Maybe that's part of the connection. I'm just so grateful to all those who worked to get her music out to the rest of us.
Name: Ken Keeping
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow, Wade in the Water.
Home town/city and country: Bridgend, SouthWales,UK
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 01:33 AM
Eva had the voice of an angel. If more singers put as much of themselves into their work, with the feeling that she did, then the music word would be a better place. May her music stay with us for always.
Name: Ken Keeping
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow, Wade in the Water.
Home town/city and country: Bridgend, SouthWales,UK
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 01:34 AM
Eva had the voice of an angel. If more singers put as much of themselves into their work, with the feeling that she did, then the music word would be a better place. May her music stay with us for always.
Name: Eva Samsøe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time after time/Songbird
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Home town/city and country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 02:52 AM
Dear Eva. I know you're not here anymore, but I also know that you can follow what is going on here on earth and that are among us in some form. I want to thank you for what your voice did for my dying father. The Cancer won and he past away the 19th of December 2002 - while hearing your heavenly voice. Thank you for your calmness and your heavenly voice. Oles daughter Eva.
Name: Eva Samsøe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time after time/Songbird
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Home town/city and country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 02:52 AM
Dear Eva. I know you're not here anymore, but I also know that you can follow what is going on here on earth and that are among us in some form. I want to thank you for what your voice did for my dying father. The Cancer won and he past away the 19th of December 2002 - while hearing your heavenly voice. Thank you for your calmness and your heavenly voice. Oles daughter Eva.
Name: Sue McAusland
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Chudleigh, Nr. Exeter, Devon, England
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 06:10 AM
The first time i heard Eva Cassidy was at my friend's wedding. She'd died of Lukemia, she was only 8, and they played 'Fields of Gold'. Ever since, I cry when I hear it, remembering her, and her struggle. I think the world has been deprived of one of the most beautiful voices in the world, and one of the few people who can truly touch a person's heart.
Name: Adi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Down, Ireland
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 08:40 AM
The first time I heard Eva I couldn't quite believe the sound I was hearing. It was so pure, so clear, like listening to water flow. From there it just got better and better. Her music is so powerful and emotive I have not known one person who has not been moved by one of her songs. Her gift is truly ours.
Name: Fredrik Zäll
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Malmoe/Sweden
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 09:16 AM
I'm very sad that Eva is not with us anymore, her voice is so soft and tender. I haven't heard about her before, but after a documentary on the national Swedish TV-channel I'm totally hooked and it's hard to find these musicians today. The closest I can compare with is Sarah McLachlan, but still not on the same level as Eva. Take care and I want to thank you for a great site Love Fred
Name: Jennie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Sundsvall, Sweden
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 09:27 AM
I just read in the paper that Evas album "Songbird" went straight to number 6 on the sailschart in Sweden this week and "Imagine" went to number 39 and both will probably climb higher. In the article it said that people had been calling like crazy to the recordcompany that distributes Evas records and "Songbird" was sold out in three days. Swedish television got so many phonecalls that the documentary about Eva will air again on the 14th of february.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: london uk
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 10:04 AM
i wasent around when eva was but one time i was watching stars in there eyes and i saw this girl singing this song called over the rainbow and it was beautiful the words were so deep and from the heart it made me cry! so after that i went around searching for the person who sang that song i eventually did find out who it was and i knew my mum liked eva`s music anyway but now i dont stop listening to it i would like to be a singer when i get older because im 14 now but id just like to say her songs are beautiful and she does sing like a angel.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: london uk
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 10:04 AM
i wasent around when eva was but one time i was watching stars in there eyes and i saw this girl singing this song called over the rainbow and it was beautiful the words were so deep and from the heart it made me cry! so after that i went around searching for the person who sang that song i eventually did find out who it was and i knew my mum liked eva`s music anyway but now i dont stop listening to it i would like to be a singer when i get older because im 14 now but id just like to say her songs are beautiful and she does sing like a angel.
Name: Maria
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 11:18 AM
I have only known about Eva for a few weeks,i found a album of her"songbird" at a friends house at a party looking through som cd:s,and couldt move an inch... i just sat there listning through the songs over and over again.... So now i want to know all about Eva cassidy... I saw her on a program on swedish tv last week or so,and had the chance of tapeing it:) I was sad to here that she had past a way,would like the chance to see her performe live
Name: Sandra
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: the one playing at the moment
Home town/city and country: Redmond, Wash. USA
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 02:23 PM
I just watched the exhibition skating following the US National compition. I was so hoping that Michelle Kwan would choose Fields of Gold by Eva to skate to. Sure enough that is what she choose. I only wish the network would display the artist doing the song. They never seem to. Michelle did a beautiful job as always, with Eva's voice filling the arena with her amazing talent. I too agree with Kavik, I think the suggestion to compile a book of some or most of the entries that are here in the "guestbook'" is a wonderful idea. I relly love to go back and read through all of the wonderful messages and how Eva has come into their lives. Sandra
Name: Ray
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All
Home town/city and country: Toms River, New Jersey
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 02:36 PM
I first saw a program about her on Nightline when it aired a year or two ago. Since then I have gotten every song that she has recorded. Currently I listen alot to her album Imagine. I hope that there are more coming in the future. Not a day goes by that I don't listen to at least one song by her. People at work have heard me playing her cd's and ask who is that and I wind up making them a cd so they too can experience her beautiful voice. What a sad loss to the musical world. One can only imagine what she would have become...
Name: Ray
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All
Home town/city and country: Toms River, New Jersey
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 02:36 PM
I first saw a program about her on Nightline when it aired a year or two ago. Since then I have gotten every song that she has recorded. Currently I listen alot to her album Imagine. I hope that there are more coming in the future. Not a day goes by that I don't listen to at least one song by her. People at work have heard me playing her cd's and ask who is that and I wind up making them a cd so they too can experience her beautiful voice. What a sad loss to the musical world. One can only imagine what she would have become...
Name: Michael
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Home town/city and country: Scarsdale, New York, USA
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 03:43 PM
So I'm watching the USA Women's Ice Skating Championship, and Michele Kwan is skating a post-competition demonstration to a very familiar song.... I go to the Web, and discover its Fields of Gold ! And today is the day I discovered Eva, the joy of finding someone so spiritual and pure. My joy is matched by the sadness to discover she died. I guess I'm lucky to have even found her, but I join all of you today in the grief of a newly found friend, dead. Bummer.
Name: Michaela Cameron
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ALL! But probably Blues Alley! I never tire of her work! It's always fresh and inspirational.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Tall Trees in Georgia and Anniversary Song.
Home town/city and country: Sydney, Australia
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 04:33 PM
I have loved Eva's music for a couple of years now along with my family and friends who I have converted along the way - running out and purchasing the music as soon as I could afford it! . . .As a 19 yr old singer/guitarist, Eva has touched me greatly. She continually educates us all, opening our minds and hearts to the many great artists who touched her the way she now touches us. Her success, despite resisting the artistically stifling one-genre practice of the music industry, proves that real appreciation of good music is not lost to the world. I wish there was a DVD of the complete performance "Live At Blues Alley" it would absolutely be the most precious footage. Why do we have to lose so many great artists? - Jeff Buckley, Eva, Piaf, to name but a few. My greatest disappointment is that I will never have the opportunity to see such a special performer play live, which is why I would give anything to have "Blues Alley" in its entirity. She is an inspiration to all - Thankyou Eva.
Name: bill downey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: golden thread & woodstock
Home town/city and country: toronto canada
Sent: Sun January 19 2003 06:28 PM
it is remarkable the way Eva Cassidy's music has created such a place for her in the inner world of my psyche that I dream about her and reflect as though she were someone so close to me. We have singers in Canada like K.D. Lang, and Celine Dion who, according to peoples tastes, moves them with their powerful and technically proficient voices, but Eva does not belong to this class at all. Eva's class is the class of saints called as Sufis in the middle east. The beauty and the power of the music of a true sufi is its purity of spiritual devotion. The sufi sings for the worship of nature, for the appretiation of God's love, and to share their ecstasy of union with God to others. The sufi sings of the unity of all religions and the oneness of all things. A sufi cannot sing for selfish gain, or exploit their musical talents for their own recognition or praise. In fact the sufi will say that the recognition and praise belongs to the one one who sings through them, that is the life force of creation itself, God's love. Evas reluctance to exploit her gifts according to the whims of market forces is excellent proof of her spiritual stature, and the proof of her mystical union with God is in the remarkable way her music touches peoples inner life so profoundly. In fact, it is interesting that she chose to sing, "Had I a Golden Thread", and that it was her favorite of her own recordings, because this song perfectly expresses the desire on the part of the true artist to bind up the wounded world with the thread of perfect union (rainbow design) that is the golden thread of their pure creative desire. Thank you Eva for your tireless devotion to art's highest spiritual principles. I wou