EDITOR'S NOTE: These Guestbook excerpts span the dates May 1, 2004, to December 31, 2004.
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Name: Cindy O'Neil
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: kutztown pa
Sent: Sat May 01 2004 05:18 PM
Eva Cassidy will forever live on in our hearts. Her music is hauntingly beautiful. I can not even make it through a song without a least one tear falling. I will play her music for whom ever will listen. Thanks EVA. love, cindy
Name: Lisa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves & Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Bowie, Maryland
Sent: Sat May 01 2004 08:43 PM
I knew Eva when we were in high school, Her voice is so beautiful and I wish that she didn't have to die. We were very good friends. I feel good that people like her and think that she is special. Her voice is just incredible and I miss her deeply. Thanks to all of her followers. It means a lot to me
Name: Ida Mariana
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird/Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wade In The Water/Fields of Gold/Somewhere over the Rainbow/Kathy's Song
Home town/city and country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sent: Sat May 01 2004 09:20 PM
My first Eva album was given to me as a birthday present from a really good friend. I fell in love with her instantly! It's so hard to say which one is the best of Eva's songs. They are all so beautiful. She was a beautiful soul and it comes out so strong in her voice and her music. Truly a gift to people who love true and honest music/singing. I wish I knew her when she was alive. I wish more people got to know her when she was alive. I read what Sting had to say about her rendition of Fields of Gold and felt a warmth in my heart for what he had to say and what he felt. I feel that through Eva, we come to realize that music and composition do not 'belong' to someone solely. It is a gift from above because Eva made absolutely something special with all the songs she sang.... God bless her soul. Thank you for keeping this site going. =o)
Name: Larry K Campbell
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Home town/city and country: Bradenton, Florida
Sent: Sun May 02 2004 10:10 AM
This lady sang with an Anointing from Heaven. Her voice lifts the heart and mind into a place of peace. Thank you God for your gift to her and us. Blessings.
Name: Joan
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Home town/city and country: Fairfax, Virginia/USA
Sent: Sun May 02 2004 11:02 AM
I could not pick a favorite. That depends upon my mood. I, unfortunately, came to hear of Eva and get some of her recordings only in 2003. If it's true, and I hope it is, that you live on when people remember you and speak of you, then Eva will live forever.
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Sent: Mon May 03 2004 06:25 AM
A breath from God awakens my face, come see, come see! I call to you for your embrace, to be, to be! I touch your heart; your path retrace, to me, to me! I sense your soul I feel your grace, receive, receive! Love ya Eva .....
Name: Lynn McGuire
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold/Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Andover, Hampshire UK (England)
Sent: Mon May 03 2004 07:35 PM
I first discovered Eva when a British DJ (Terry Wogan) featured Eva's 'Over the Rainbow' on his BBC Radio 2 show (which went to No.1 on the British charts) and a friend heard it and talked about it (I am British, but was posted, with my job, to the USA); I immediately bought the 'Songbird' CD. I hope the US realize what an Angel they had! Certainly Britain has taken her to their hearts! Eva has become my favourite. My heart goes out to her parents for losing her; but hopefully some comfort will come from the fact that her talent has been recognized (world wide). Thank you, Lynn McGuire
Name: Dana
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Canada
Sent: Wed May 05 2004 02:13 AM
After hearing the song "Songbird" for the first time I wanted to use this song in a TV commercial. Could someone out there send me information on who owns this song and how to get in contact with them. And by the way, WHAT A VOICE!!! What can I say about Eva Cassidy's voice, no words can give her justice. Eva wherever you are, please keep singing..... Dana
Name: Cyndi Dalton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Searsport Maine/USA
Sent: Wed May 05 2004 05:31 AM
A wonderful friend of mine introduced me to Eva's music and I felt I had found a kindred spirit. As a five year breast cancer survivor at 46, I feel lucky to be alive. Eva's story is an all to familiar one...but in her music she lives on. I recently purchased "Songbird" the story of Eva as told by her friend's and family. Through her music she gives us lasting hope and through her life story we become aware of her contributions to the "physcial world" around us. Eva lives, in her art, her music and all the gifts she has given us. Eva's legacy and art are reminders that each one of us should live everyday on Earth..like it could be our last, taking time to give, share and love all living things. Her passing is only from this Earth...she is still with us in every butterfly,every flower and every "Songbird" her spirit lives forever. We have all been blessed by her gifts.
Name: Kristin "Coop" Cooper
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
Home town/city and country: Pasadena, CA/USA
Sent: Wed May 05 2004 08:09 AM
AMAZING! I fall more and more in love with Eva everyday. I was first introduced to Eva 3 years ago, and since then i've bought 5 of her cds. The girl is wonderful! I shed a tear today to see the pictures and drawings of her with Stevie Wonder (who is my allllll time favorite). Her rendition of Steve's "I Can Only Be Me" is my life's soundtrack :) Many things her and I have in common. She's our angel now, and was ours here on earth. She is all together beautiful.
Name: Mark
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Kathy's Song, Fields of Gold, Rainbow, Wade in the Water, Early Morning Rain, You've Changed, Imagine, and the list goes on and on....
Home town/city and country: GR Michigan
Sent: Wed May 05 2004 06:35 PM
I was walking in and out of boutiques one day in Ann Arbor MI, when in this one shop, a voice came on stereo....that stopped me in my tracks, the voice of an angel. I asked the sales- person who it was, and she pulls out an Eva Cassidy CD! I hoped I would remember the name by the time I got home. I looked for her CDs in a couple of dept. stores, to no avail. Then a few weeks later an old friend emailed me she and her daughter were going to sing Over the Rainbow at her sister Paula's funeral, ala Eve Cassidy, since Paula had past away from cancer also. Now I had to find a CD!! Fortunately a local music store (thank you Aris' Music!!) had quite a few. My collection is up to 4 in about 3 weeks time, will add Live at Blues Alley shortly. I'm amazed at how Eva's voice has struck at the core of my being. Never has an artist brought me to tears with one song, then laughter with the next. And let's not forget her guitar playing. Her beautiful finger picking on Kathy's Song and Early Morning Rain show how multifaceted she was. I'm sadden that I will never have the oppurtunity to witness this angel in person, yet so thankful that I was introduced to her, and able to introduce her to friends. You may no longer be here with us in body Eva, but your spirit & music will reside with us forever.... thank you so much.
Name: moe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: boston, ma
Sent: Wed May 05 2004 07:57 PM
3 years ago i was living in dc, and heard of Eva. i bought the cd. she was with me from boston to dc and back 6 times in trips home each month. the first time i heard somewhere over the rainbow, i had to pull over, it was so emotional. i was blown away. i had sung this in my 6th grade show and had a natural affinity to the song. the justice she showed to that song...i'm still in awe. god blessed you Eva, and may he continue.
Name: Sarah
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Birmingham/England
Sent: Thu May 06 2004 01:07 AM
Discovering Eva put a new meaning of good music in my heart. When I'm feeling low she cheers me up and her songs put tranquillity back into my spirit. I'd go as far to say while listening to her she almost takes me on a journey and answers life's questions. Beautiful is all I can say. God bless you Eva for all the good things your music passes on to others, you were truly an angel before you left the earth! x x x x
Name: Martyn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: listed
Home town/city and country: Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England.
Sent: Thu May 06 2004 08:19 AM
If Eva were alive today i would thank her for the encouragement she has given me to continue playing the guitar. Ive learnt Over the Rainbow, Fields Of Gold and Time After Time in the last two weeks or so, and when I play....I can hear her singing the words in my head. Fantastic stuff.
Name: Olivier Truan
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Basel, Switzerland
Sent: Thu May 06 2004 11:48 AM
When I first heard Eva, I started crying right away. She' got something that goes right into your heart. I'm a musician and unfortunately, I often can't help listening to music with my brain: hearing harmony, melody, notes, pitch... With Eva I only listen with my heart, the way I used to listen to music when I was a child. She's an angel.
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 May 06 2004 12:22 PM
Laura is Eva still doing well in Denmark? We haven't heard anything in the last couple of weeks.I hope no news means good news.When I awake in the morning the first thing I see is Eva's smiling face on the front cover of the Songbird book.With all the madness in the world we need a peaceful counterbalance to keep us sane .Eva fits that bill perfectly.Laura your good work is greatly appreciated in keeping this site going.I am trying to do my bit in my small way for Eva and hope that we can reach people who have yet to hear Eva.
Name: MJ
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All...but Live at Blues Alley is in my Cd player right now
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: People get ready, fields of gold, wade in the water; all of them
Home town/city and country: Massachusetts
Sent: Fri May 07 2004 04:24 AM
My dad introduced me to Eva a few years ago. I am 18 now and ready to go to college and you can be sure I have every single Eva album all ready to come with me to my dorm room! She's amazing and I am so thankful that I was able to find her music when I did. Beautiful.
Name: Blake Lewis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Stormy Monday
Home town/city and country: Baltimore, MD, USA
Sent: Fri May 07 2004 05:41 AM
I love reading tributes to Eva from professional musicians. As I have no musical abilities myself, it's nice to hear confirmation from people who know what they are talking about. I remember especially a female singer from New Orleans who called Eva, "a singer's singer." I've read in the media that audiences are now demanding real artists, as opposed to stage acts, and I believe Eva played a part in this change for the better.
Name: christell heikka
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: some where over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: sweden
Sent: Fri May 07 2004 09:19 AM
Eva was a true angel.. she has a wonderful voice.. and i feel so happy. to be able to hear her sing.. it goes straight to my heart..when times are rough i listen to her .... thank gud for Eva..she will live in my heart forever
Name: Henrik Thiil Nielsen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Dark End Of The Street
Home town/city and country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sent: Fri May 07 2004 12:19 PM
Tony, Songbird is No. 31 on the Danish albums chart. It was No. 19 last week. It has been in the charts for five weeks. The highest position it reached was No. 9. So how is Eva doing here? So-so, I would say. I hope the Nightline portrait will be repeated or that something else will happen that may stir up interest. Else I may have to emigrate... Henrik
Name: andy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: penny tomy name
Home town/city and country: new zealand
Sent: Fri May 07 2004 06:12 PM
awesome voice
Name: Chris W.
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields Of Gold
Home town/city and country: Hurt, VA
Sent: Sat May 08 2004 03:47 PM
I would just like to submit this entry in honor of the memory of Eva Cassidy and her wonderful musical interpretations. I have seen advertisements, especially in my local Barnes & Noble store, but had never bothered to actually listen to the music. One day early last year, they happened to have the Songbird album featured. I listened, but was not prepared for the extraordinary effect the music presented me. It's been a few years since I can remember music having such an effect, emotionally, as I experienced with her music. Such subjective things are not possible to accurately describe for others to understand, but.... Thank you, Eva. -Chris
Name: Don Meuse
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sent: Sat May 08 2004 03:48 PM
I think most would agree that Eva is in a 'class of her own' insofar as her music is concerned. I am agreable! A recent article reviewed Krall's latest release, "The Girl In The Other Room", but at the end had this inexplicable need to refer to Eva if the listener wanted a particular kind of music. I don't think this bit of editorializing enhanced the critics work. He would have been more constructive had he written another article, this one an attempt to 'explain' Eva, a task he could never possibly finish. But I would have read it............ Krall was the main feature on the National News last night. Does anyone know what this means! Canada seldom aplauds it's own and, indeed, Krall bashing was a national pastime a couple years back when I was enjoying her so much. CBC TV has given Krall the 'seal of approval' on the people's network. I think Krall, the world's most prolific selling jazz artist of today, is in a class of her own, and I would not divert someone's attention, during her moment, to another. Eva & Krall had some similarities worth a brief mention. They were both blond, sort of short, shy, kind, from musical families, had a passion for nature, and were very close to their Moms. But in their art they go their own way as they should, and I'm neither going to compare them nor favour one over the other. As Eva's Guestbook shows, people should not be shy of expressing themselves for fear of exclusion. Eva probably wouldn't like that!
Name: Peter Sim
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Singapore
Sent: Sat May 08 2004 07:55 PM
A friend of mine played her CD in his car - on the way to San Francisco back in 2001. That's the first time, I heard her songs. And oh my!, what a voice - almost haunting. Since then, I have been introducing to her songs to almost any music lover that I meet. She is one of my all-time favourite singer
Name: Ken Foster
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over The Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Houston, Texas USA
Sent: Sun May 09 2004 05:20 AM
Wow - what a wonderful soul and to think that she is gone and I'm just now discovering her. Her rendition of "Over The Rainbow" from her album "Songbird" brought tears to my eyes the first time that I heard it. What a talent. I guess I will have to say, like others, "Why haven't I heard of her before?". Thank you Eva for the beauty that you left behind. -Ken
Name: L T Willaims
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Home town/city and country: Ivrbridge, UK
Sent: Sun May 09 2004 07:53 AM
It was good to hear from Raice that Pet Clark is still in good voice and touring in the States. We went to the same school in Chessington, Surrey, back in the 1940s, although I was a bit younger than her. She lived just round the corner, and as she was already famous I'm afraid we lads gave her a hard time in the park sometimes. I remember her sister (more my age) - a pretty girl with curly hair - whatever happened to her? Like most places in England we had a street party at the end of WW2, and Pet sang "Now is The Hour" for us at the age of around 13 - I don't expect she remembers. I was on the same bill as this superstar, appearing in a silly comedy sketch. I've been making a fool of myself in public ever since (not always intentionally). It's great to hear that Pet is another Eva fan. By the way, I don't think she's 72 until November!
Name: jluis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wayfaring stranger / I Can Only Be Me
Home town/city and country: Madrid, Spain
Sent: Sun May 09 2004 07:56 AM
I love the way she sang all those styles of music. She was a really talent and complete singer.
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: Sun May 09 2004 12:59 PM
Henrik thanks very much for keeping us updated on Eva's success in Denmark.Like you I very much hope that the Nightline programme will be repeated in your country in the very near future to maintain the interest in Eva.Keep up the good work and thanks again.
Name: titi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: autumn leaves
Home town/city and country: constanta romania
Sent: Sun May 09 2004 01:44 PM
Eva, since i've heard you my life had change.i;m better man now.i; wished to meet you ,to express my respect for you...
Name: Emily Devlin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time, Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Cheek To Cheek
Home town/city and country: Melbourne, Australia
Sent: Mon May 10 2004 04:27 AM
Wow...where do I start? I am a singer/sogwriter and guitarist in my spare time and finding Eva's music five years ago was so liberating to me. For the first time in my life I could call myself a fan of someone. Eva is someone I can respect and a musician who inspires me. I am so grateful to Hugh and Barbara Cassidy for sharing so much of her and making her memories available to any old store in the world to be found by me. There is so much I could say about the precious gift I received when I got to know about a person so like me in heart. "I can only be me", and now I know I'm not the only person like me! Eva has shown me beautiful songs I knew must exist in the world but couldn't find. She has sung them to remind me of what I believe, that even though I haven't experienced a lot of the beauty in God's world with my life, there truely are beautiful people and moments to come. In doing this Eva has given me my muse. God is so good. An artist is lost without something which inspires the heart, and I am looking forward to discovering more about the artist, who's work I have grown to love, on this great site. My thank's again, Hugh and Barbara.
Name: Sharessa Tackett
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: too difficulty to decide
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: again too difficult to decide, but favorites are autumns leaaves, I wish a was a single girl again, Do Lord
Home town/city and country: Byron, Mi USA
Sent: Mon May 10 2004 05:16 PM
I will never forget the first time I heard Eva sing. It was late, around ten o'clock in the evening and she was on nightline. I really wasn't listening to the stories until I heard the pure angelic voice that just pierced through my soul like no other. You know how when you get goosbumbs when you hear a song and you think to your self...this is it! Well that is how I felt when Eva was on stage and singing over the rainbow. I believe she may have had cancer already because I believe she had a turban on. The the clarity touched my heart so deep that I started crying. I told my husband about it the next day and that day I went out and purchased any CD that had Eva's name on. I have had some experiences where Eva has brought me back from some difficult times and she still does to this day. I was hospitalized last year and I brought all my Eva CD's with me and I know without a doubt she hepled me heal much faster than any Dr's knowledge could ever. Eva, I know you are looking down and just can't believe what your music has done for the thousands of us. I wish you were still phsically here but spiritully you are most definitely around us. I wish I could have known you personally, but for some ironic reason I may have never have heard your music or even have met you. So, although your death was too soon for us to comprehend, you still touch us from the great beyond. And someday, when we meet again in heaven I know when I reach those pearly gates, it will be your voice I hear first, for God only takes the ones HE knows will touch the lifes here on earth and in Heaven. Thank you Hugh and Barb for sharing this wonderous gift with us, for if it were not for you all of us may have never known an angel named Eva Marie Cassidy. You know I can't help but think that although my mother who has passed on is up in Heaven with Eva, getting to know her and telling Eva, "Now I know why my daughter loves you so much." My mother loved to singing and I know she is enjoying Eva's angelic voice as we speak. Thank you Lord for giving us a special, loving soul for such a short a period of time. For that I am grateful. Forever an Eva listener, Sharessa Tackett
Name: ioana
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: tall trees from Georgia
Home town/city and country: NAVODARI,CONSTANTA,ROMANIA
Sent: Tue May 11 2004 02:14 AM
i like your songs very much,it makes me crying,we listen every day the songs,my husband is musician and he start the day with your melodies.Our son likes also Eva's songs. I wish to meet you ,you change our life in the good way.
Name: Joanne McGrath
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold, Wade in the Water, Over the Rainbow and all of her other songs
Home town/city and country: Dublin, Ireland
Sent: Tue May 11 2004 04:56 AM
I heard Eva's Over the Rainbow on Terry Wogan (UK) and rushed straight out to buy it. I went home, lay on my bed and listened to the CD from the first to the last track and fell in love with her music there and then. I sing for family weddings now, but never professionally and up until recently I was painfully shy which made me feel like I had something in common with Eva. Since the day that I bought Songbird it made me more confident to know that this unbelievably talented lady was once as nervous singing in public as I was and after hearing her story I have Eva to thank for my newfound ability to sing out.
Name: Lisa Hunter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: over the rainbow
Home town/city and country:
Sent: Tue May 11 2004 05:28 AM
I want to leave a message about Eva because i am only 12 and i her music is the most incerdible thing i have ever heard and i love her music.When i sing her songs witch my favorite is over the rainbow nobody can sing her songs like her.God blessed Eva with the talent of singing and it was the best thing he has ever done.God bless EVA
Name: Debbie
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Home town/city and country: Peebles, Scotland, UK
Sent: Tue May 11 2004 09:31 AM
Hiya, I received the Songbird book today and I was simply blown away. I thought the site covered her life pretty well but the book made me laugh and cry. I couldn't put it down and read it from cover to cover. I would highly recommend it to all the fans. It tells you everything told through those that knew her: what she had to deal with at school, the bands she was part of, what she thought of her music, and everything that happened right up to the point she died. The book then tells you of her successes after her death. It really is a wonderful book. It was lovely to read how much her parents, family and friends were so proud of her. Even our webmaster, Laura, has a mention for all the good work she is doing on this site. Thanx Debbie :)
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Sent: Tue May 11 2004 11:57 AM
"I almost always tear up during those blissful moments of Eva's songs when I am in complete submission to this precious young woman now gone, but who is seemingly reaching out from beyond, touching me so forcefully, and beckoning me with the legacy she left behind. Eva Marie Cassidy, whose voice and music could have come only from the heavens, is a gift of a lifetime. Eva is a treasure. But more than anything else, Eva found her way into my heart, and I will cherish her always and forever." A few words that says it all.....
Name: David
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: LABA
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town/city and country: Sydney,Australia
Sent: Tue May 11 2004 05:14 PM
I loaned a co-worker LABA and AT for the weekend and suggested some feedback on Monday morning.His comment was indeed not totally unexpected,(of course knowing what a hugh impact Eva has on most music lovers) when he commented,"ONE OF A KIND." I think that just about sums up the amazing Ms Cassidy,don't you?
Name: Steven Anggrek
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Anniversary song
Home town/city and country: Jogja, Indonesia
Sent: Tue May 11 2004 07:27 PM
She was the one and only greatest singer for me...
Name: Ted
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Chicago
Sent: Wed May 12 2004 02:21 PM
I teach Kindergarten and every day I put my kids to sleep during nap time to songs of Eva. Her voice is so soothing and beautiful. Some of her songs I have listened to a thousand times and yet they still make me want to cry. I wish I could've met her.
Name: Bill Wood
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Rainbow
Home town/city and country: USA-Greenbelt
Sent: Wed May 12 2004 09:37 PM
I too had a fondness for spending time at Tacaro Farms {Fairhaven, MD}. Eva, I wish I had known you, or wish I had 'really' pursued my-own music. Maybe if we had met musically, I could have told you about the time {in the late 70's) when some friends and I went to Tacaro Farm, and up where the "knobby knees" part of the {VERY narrow} road winds, you can see the valley {looking south}. It was down there near that creek, we found two wrecked and abandoned Voltswagons. We pryed the hoods off of them and it was after a really deep snow. We crawed back up the hill, and used the hoods of those two Voltwagons, and went sledding down the hill, and flipped over into the creek. I'm surprised the owners didn't chase us off! Many years after that, I realize that I wasn't the only 'fan' of that farm. I understood that you too went there for contemplation. Lastly, I just want to say Eva that you have made your way into this old pickers' heart. Here at four in the morning, I should be playing Patsy Cline, but now it's mostly you I enjoy. I bet you and Patsy are really givin' 'em a great show up there! All my best Eva. You've really made your Family and Friends so very proud of you. In a similar health battle, I also hope for the courage you've shown. We'll be pickin' together yet! May God hold your loving soul in his arms always.
Name: Mary Ann Auner
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Cleveland, Ohio USA
Sent: Thu May 13 2004 05:52 AM
I bought Songbird and I loved it. I got goosebumps when I heard her sing "Over the Rainbow" I gave it to a friend who listened and she said that she had to stop the car and listen and cried. I heard some of the songs and thought how prophetic, when it talks about remembering and the future. Sting did OK on Fields of Gold but her version is more stirring. It is a shame that such a talent has been extinguished. I have all the CDs and the book about her I am sorry that no new stuff will be available,but I play her at work a lot at my desk. It is almost as if she reaches through the player to grab my attention. Thanks for the intersting reading. I was thrilled to hear her voice in the movie Love Actually. MA
Name: Chris Ishmael
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't know
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Don't know
Home town/city and country: Allen, TX
Sent: Fri May 14 2004 07:11 AM
I don't have any of Eve's music...yet. I took my son to get a haircut, and the music playing was of a voice that made me stop reading my magazine, and listen peacefully the entire twenty minutes. I then asked for permission to go through their CDs until I found out who the artist was (the sytlists didn't know who was playing when I asked). I ended up having to pull the CD unit off of the top shelf to get the CD out to find out who it was. Eve Cassidy...never heard of her. I am an instant fan, and will have her music soon in my collection.
Name: Janine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Leicestershire
Sent: Fri May 14 2004 10:05 AM
Im studying for a music degree at the moment and from all the famous composers and artists that are mentioned throughout the course there is just one person missing.....Eva. I think she is a credit to all young musicians and if there is any one person I can look up to I would want it to be her. I think her music is fantastic and she will live on in many peoples hearts forever.
Name: Spankey Lee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Ain't no sunshine
Home town/city and country: Albuquerque
Sent: Fri May 14 2004 12:23 PM
I don't know anyone who has heard Eva sing that was not an instant fan. I am a local solo singer/guitarist and have never been so inspired. I cry when I think of her and sometimes when I hear her sing. What a talent, I always think of new songs I would have loved to hear her sing and arrange. A sparrow has fallen only to arise as a shinning star that will always twinkle in my life. Love always, Spankey Lee
Name: tommy brager
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: songbird
Home town/city and country: rohnert park, ca, usa
Sent: Fri May 14 2004 07:51 PM
my sister introduced me to this album, the voice of an angel ringing thru my ears. the song songbird played, i repeated it several times! took my breath away as my eyes swelled up with tears..."for you, there'll be no crying"...amazing voice! when i learned this fantastic artist is amongst the heavens, rather than here on earth, i cried! but, knowing her song lives on in the hearts and souls of all her devoted fans, i smile! anyone who has never heard this outstanding artist, please purchase her material, you will love it all! her angelic voice haunts my dreams, my thoughts, and my soul, and for that i am greatful. i play Eva's music when i'm around my year old neice, i sing along, she will grow up listening to this amazing music and be a future fan as well!
Name: Lise Korsten
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Pretoria, South Africa
Sent: Fri May 14 2004 09:08 PM
The first time I heard one of Eva's songs, I was so touched by the beauty and serenity of her voice that I had to find out more and more about her and her music. I have now bought three of her albums and have given several as gifts to friends. She touched my life with her special voice, sadly the world lost a very talented young person that will live on through her music.
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Sent: Sat May 15 2004 12:42 AM
Eva Cassidy sings real good. Home page visits per day is trending toward 1000 per day. Since May 23, 2000 total visits number 918,000. In about 80 to 90 days visits will reach 1,000,000 ! In four years!
Name: silvia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: songbird
Home town/city and country: sicilia
Sent: Sat May 15 2004 03:40 AM
ciao io sono italiana..ho ascoltato le sue canzoni per caso,ma adesso non posso piu non ascoltarle...mi dispiace che qui in italia non è conosciuta,ed è pure difficile trovare i suoi cd.
Name: Chipper
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: SONGBIRD
Home town/city and country: Crawley England!!
Sent: Sat May 15 2004 11:09 AM
What a wonderful and pure voice ! And what a sad loss !
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: Sun May 16 2004 12:56 PM
Fields of Gold was played on RTE Radio 1 in Ireland.I can now get RTE here in the UK.As always it is great to hear her voice booming out over the airwaves.Hope some new converts were picked up today and that they can pass the music on to their friends.
Name: Linda Desroches
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird/Field of Gold/Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Montreal Quebec Canada
Sent: Sun May 16 2004 06:11 PM
I too was diagnosed with cancer and was also born in 1963, however I never required treatments and now I am expecting my first child at 40. Everyday I thank God for being alive and in great health. One other thing I am eternally grateful for is that day when I walked in a music store and ask the employee what new artist he could recommend. From that day on I fell in love with the voice of an angel. Thank you Eva....
Name: Carlotta Wheeler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Imagine
Home town/city and country: Apache Junction,Az USA
Sent: Sun May 16 2004 07:06 PM
I'm embarrassed to say that I had never heard about Eva until my friend last weekend let me borrow three of his cd's. I make my living playing music and when Norah Jones songs came out I started singing some of her songs in my shows- my friends tell me I sorta of sound like her, but I don't know. Anyways, when I heard Eva sing I was so excited to hear an artist do her own thing with a style all her own. I think so many artists today get stuck being who their lables want them to be and lose touch with there own voice. I told all my friends about her and how I wanted to start doing some her songs when I was shocked to read that she had passed away. Sad that someone as gifted and she was is only now after her death being recognized for her true talent. I can't put into words how much her music and story has touched me and encouraged me to push my own limits in music to the very top. How awesome that she had a family that loved her as much as you do to keep her music and story alive.God Bless You! recognized
Name: Dekkler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Tennessee Waltz
Home town/city and country: Toronto, Canada
Sent: Sun May 16 2004 07:43 PM
Transcendent.
Name: Juliane
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time is a healer
Home town/city and country: St. Poelten/Austria
Sent: Mon May 17 2004 05:15 AM
I first heard from Eva Cassidy about 2 years ago,wenn I was looking for new songs for my own band.I am very thankful for getting such beautiful and emotional tracks to hear. Eva is a person you just have to listen to.... It's too sad not to have the possibility to see her once at a live-act, but I'm sure I can imagine how soulful this would have been. Eva, thank you for leaving us such a emotional trace of your wonderful soul. God has blessed you!!! Juliane
Name: cherilyn
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Sent: Mon May 17 2004 05:44 AM
Still miss Eva and frequently buy her CD's to give as gifts- pass the word around everyone!!!
Name: ken burns
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: live at the blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: fields of gold
Home town/city and country: shepparton victoria australia
Sent: Mon May 17 2004 03:47 PM
i first heard about EVA on the choas web site i ordered the ;IMAGINE'album this started me on my way to being a ;EVA CASSIDY' fan.. as i said to someone if you are not touched by this singer emotionally then you have no heart.. i would like to know if they are going to make a movie about 'EVA the voice of an angel'ken burns
Name: rebecca boxsell
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: fields of gold and danny boy
Home town/city and country: australia
Sent: Mon May 17 2004 09:07 PM
im only young and i already love Evas songs so much ...... love bec
Name: Alice
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart & Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Sussex, uk
Sent: Tue May 18 2004 08:30 AM
I am only 17 and really love all of Eva's songs it is really dificult to pick just one. I cannot believe that such a talent wasn't discovered earlier. someone very close to me has recently died and Eva's beautiful voice was very soothing at such a difficult time.
Name: Anon
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Sent: Wed May 19 2004 01:16 PM
I found Eva tonight WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cynical Paramedic UK
Name: Dave
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time After Time
Home town/city and country: AUSTRALIA
Sent: Wed May 19 2004 07:27 PM
I have only just recently discovered Eva's music. So soothing, hauntingly beautiful. Such a shame that we have lost such an an amazing talent...may her music live on forever...
Name: Kai Hedegaard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ?????
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ?????
Home town/city and country: Åhahevej 9 8600 Silkeborg Danmark
Sent: Wed May 19 2004 09:28 PM
Jeg var ved at drikke morgen kaffe,d.20/5-04. da der ud af højtaleren kom en sangstemme, ja jeg siger jer, den var så ren og klar, jeg syndes aldrig jeg har hørt noget så smukt,jeg er en gammel mand (78 år,) og jeg har hørt mange sangstemmer gode og dårlige,men Eva Cassidys stemme gjorde mig varm og jeg følte mig ung igen, den stemme hører jeg meget gerne igen.
Name: dre
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: songbird
Home town/city and country: s gravenzande holland
Sent: Thu May 20 2004 01:44 AM
heye there everybody i have a little questoin for the gitarplayers among us who have the tablatuur from the song songbrid who can help m greatings from the netherlands if you can help send to my e mail adress thanks dre
Name: Summer
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
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Sent: Thu May 20 2004 04:30 AM
Thanks to "Love Actually" I have discovered Eva, and I think she's incredible. Since then I've come into contact with a lot of her work!! AMAZING!
Name: rosie drake
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: song bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: staine/london
Sent: Thu May 20 2004 05:26 AM
i love her msic i have never heard anything like it. i always listen to it when i an upset and it always carms me down. it is so relaxing thanks for everything r.i.p
Name: Eiko
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: It Don't Matter Anymore
Home town/city and country: California
Sent: Thu May 20 2004 09:29 AM
I'm a fingerstyle guitar player but did not know Eva Cassidy until a singer I worked with told me about her. She wanted me to accompany her singing "It Don't Matter Anymore". This was a year ago. Now I have almost all of Eva's CDs and just read the book Songbird. I'm telling everyone I know about Eva and her music. Eva was lucky to have her family and friends supporting her. Eva's family and friends are lucky to have had her and her beautiful voice to share. I think I've changed as a person just knowing about Eva. I know she's up there singing for all of us. We are all blessed in that special way. Thanks Eva.
Name: Henrik Thiil Nielsen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Blues In The Night
Home town/city and country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sent: Thu May 20 2004 06:09 PM
A quick translation of Kai Hedegaard's message: I was drinking my morning coffee on May 20, 2004, when I heard this singing voice coming from my speakers. I tell you it was so pure and clear, I don't think I've ever heard anything so beautiful. I am an old man (78 years) and I have heard many singing voices, good and bad ones, but Eva Cassidy's voice warmed my heart. I felt young again. It is a voice I would dearly love to listen to again.
Name: Beau
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time After Time
Home town/city and country: Melbourne, Australia
Sent: Fri May 21 2004 02:39 AM
i hope her music does live on forever, her songs really connect with me (and it seems a lot of other people) and she sang (and im sure does still sing somewhere) with such energy and passion. xoxox
Name: Like
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Home town/city and country: Netherlands
Sent: Fri May 21 2004 05:15 AM
Look on: www.crimsoncircle.com/channelseries/newenergy/10newenergy05-04.htm It's about Eva Cassidy,the Wizard of Oz and "over the rainbow".
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You Take My Breath Away
Home town/city and country: Syracuse NY USA
Sent: Fri May 21 2004 08:10 AM
I Love Eva Cassidy. After I bought all her important CD's and gave away several to friends and family, I began my search for Eva's return. I was watching American Juniors and I heard this beautiful voice and discovered this 11 year old singer with the look of an angel. It wasn't Eva. It was a girl from Lakewood Ranch, Florida signing, "Colors of the Wind." I know this sounds strange but I became so impressed with her voice and appearance that I joined her fan club. I am one of only a handful of fans over 21 that belongs, I guess. I have my own profile and signature. They are little photos and commentaries usually about the singer. The only difference about mine is that it is a photo of Eva Cassidy and a commentary about how Eva and the girl are so intwined in my heart. I've given the address for Eva's site and for Eva's music clips on the internet in my signature. I've posted over the last 12 months probably 500 messages. Both the girl and Eva have the same birthdate February 2nd and the girl may be singing "True Colors' on the CD that is to be released this summer with the American Juniors. This is more than a coincidence I sent her two CD's American Tune with "True Colors" on it and Songbird that is the gold standard for Eva. This girl was the last contesant on the last night of the competion to make the final group of five that represents the American Juniors on the Fox TV network.She sang " I Never Had A Dream Come True," Over 8 million viewers voted that night. Like this website the girl's website is the most popular of the five singers and I would say if you entered her name on Google Search you'd find over 100 articles and web site referrals about her. Like Eva I've written on amazon.com of her singing ability . Her name is Danielle White. Now I have two angels to listen to one in Heaven and one here on Earth!
Name: Debra Alaniz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Ain't No Sunshine
Home town/city and country: Houston, Texas - USA
Sent: Fri May 21 2004 11:46 AM
I first heard Eva's music while visiting a very special man in Dewey Beach, Delaware that I have been dating. May 15, 2004 was the first time. Her voice touches your very soul. We have been so blessed to be able to continue to get to know her by all the information that so many people still continue to write and promote her music. When I returned back to Texas. I looked her up pn the web. and I have purchased all her CD'S and the Songbird Book. I just cannot wait to listen to all of her music, share the special gift of Eva with all of my wonderful friends who love music as much as i do. Let's keep Eva's spirit alive along with her gift she has given us. Sincerely, Debra Alaniz
Name: Donna Spencer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town/city and country: Cincinnati, Ohio
Sent: Fri May 21 2004 08:38 PM
Wow! That was my first reaction to Eva's music. I think I know you by heart can make even the most hardened heart yearn for a love lost. Everyone that I have exposed to this song has cried the first time they heard it, including me. I have never heard a singer put so much emotion into their music as Eva did. She has an incredible presentation. I feel like she wraps herself around my heart, especially when I listen to her ballads. How blessed you and your family were to have had her for the short time she was here. Thank you for sharing her with the rest of her music loving family.
Name: Irina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: songbird, fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 01:52 AM
The first time I heard the magic voice of Eva I flet like I knew her by heart. Withour knowing anything about her I just started to cry. It was when I heard Fields of gold. There is something magic about Eva that forever has sat marks in my heart. I can only say to those how never heard of Eva Cassidy, listen and come alive....
Name: Jean
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Connecticut
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 02:57 AM
I have just found Eva Cassidy and she touched my soul. Perhaps God needed the voice of an angel to sooth him as he looks at this troubled world. He gave us this voice to hear what an agel sounds like and then he wanted her for himself.
Name: Annette Simmons
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: don't know
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: don't know
Home town/city and country: Houston, Texas
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 05:31 AM
I just recently discovered Eva's beautifully clear voice and soothing music. Though I don't know which album or song I love the most...it is all great and will share my finding of her with all my friends!
Name: Stefanie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields Of Gold
Home town/city and country: Germany
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 08:37 AM
Wonderful Eva. I`m 33, too and I`m touched deeply whenever I listen to your voice. I cannot understand the meaning of deadly diseases. My father is very ill and will die, soon. Why do some of our beloved have to go and leave us alone ?
Name: Maria Hind
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: over the rainbos
Home town/city and country: worcestershire england
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 09:54 AM
i think Eva has got the most magical voice, a person very close to me had over the rainbow played at her funeral , it brings me to tears when i hear it, what a loss we have with no longer having Eva with us
Name: Maria Hind
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: over the rainbow / autumn leaves
Home town/city and country: worcestershire, engaln
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 09:58 AM
Eva's voice is so calming, her version of over the rainbow was played at a friends funeral, it was so meaningful and wonderful, what a great loss we have in no longer having Eva Cassidy to provide so much joy in her songs
Name: Sabine Dainczyk
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Florence, Kentucky USA
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 11:57 AM
The first time I listen to Somewhere over the rainbow I started crying. I was so deeply touch by Eva's voice.This song is my favorite song of all and I listen to many other singer's but she had the magical touch to bring it to my heart. I never heard from Eva before , a friend of mine from England told me about this fantastic singer and he didn't lie. I was reading some of the other messeges and one I agree, God gave us this voice that we know how an angel sonds like. Thanks for the great inspiration God bless
Name: LORRAINE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: LOVE TOO MANY TO SAY
Home town/city and country: WORCESTER, MA USA
Sent: Sat May 22 2004 12:47 PM
SINGING OVER THE RAINBOW, HER VOICE CAME THROUGH TO ME IN A VERY NOISY CROWDED MALL. A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER HER VOICE IN A VERY NOISY RESTERAUNT HER VOICE CAME THROUGH TO ME AGAIN, THIS TIME SINGING A BLUES SONG I NEVER HEARD BEFORE. I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS THE SAME VOICE AS I HEARD 2 WEEKS BEFOR IN THE MALL UNTIL I FOUND HER CD'S FOR SALE AT THE REGISTER. I BOUGHT 2 CD'S IMMEDIATELY, WENT BACK A WEEK LATER AND BOUGHT 2 MORE. EVENTUALLY I WILL HAVE ALL OF THEM. I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW WONDERFUL AND PEACEFUL I FEEL LISTENING TO THIS BEAUTIFUL VOICE. I WANT TO SHARE THIS MUSIC WITH EVERYONE I KNOW AND THE WHOLE WORLD. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WONDERFUL MUSIC AND HEAVENLY VOICE WITH ME.
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: Sat May 22 2004 02:07 PM
I will be short and to the point.Eva Cassidy is the best female vocalist I have ever heard.Let there be no doubt.
Name: Brian
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Wonderful World
Home town/city and country: Chartham, UK
Sent: Sun May 23 2004 12:41 AM
Good old BBC Radio 2. Parkie (Michael Parkinson)has just played a new British singer, Katie Buckhaven. She has not yet been signed up to a record company, but sent a demo disc into him. She just sings and plays the Guitar (very well), and of course it was a song associated with Eva, Songbird, who was the Queen of this format. Another songstress in the making being promoted by UK national radio. Re-watched the Nightline video on Eva last night. If you haven't yet got it I highly recommend you do. (NTSC format).
Name: sandy futch
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart
Home town/city and country: tempe, az
Sent: Sun May 23 2004 01:35 PM
Your voice touches me like no other..........
Name: Pat Rylee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: the other side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Port St. Lucie, Florida
Sent: Mon May 24 2004 12:58 PM
i first heard Ms. Cassidy sing this on 1/15/04 - the day my husband was diagnosied with metastatic melanoma - he passed away 3/29/04. I had no idea who the artist was when I heard but because I had sang this for my graduating class, i rush to let my husband hear this beautiful beautiful rendition. He asked that i play it at his memorial. Today I learned about Ms. Cassidy - what are the odds. thank you, Ms. Cassidy, for that wonderful moment.
Name: Brian
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Home town/city and country: Chartham, UK
Sent: Tue May 25 2004 01:08 AM
Just a plug for BBC Radio (who launched Eva in the UK), and my favourite American author, Bill Bryson. If you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/, you can listen to his description of his travels through England (Notes From a Small Island, part 1 of 5, more in future weeks). It's very amusing, but don't take everything literally as he has illustrated extremes.
Name: Brittany Rosenthal
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: There's no way I can choose!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Once again, I can't pick one!
Home town/city and country: Boise, ID
Sent: Tue May 25 2004 12:55 PM
Eva has become my musical inspiration! I'm in the process of collecting all her albums and am half way through the Songbird biography. I'm working right now to get my singing career off the ground, and Eva's music is exactly what I've been searching for. She's soulfoul, deep, beautiful, and intruiging. There's no way to not be completely captivated by her! When I read about her or listen to her, a part of me is sad because I'll never have the profound honor of meeting her or seeing her...but I'm so thankful to have discovered her talent and I plan to share her with as many people as I can. By far, Eva is one of my most favorite voices and I look so forward to discovering more of her music! She's even inspired me to learn to play the guitar! Peace to all, Brittany Rosenthal
Name: Tina Stevens
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Rainbow
Home town/city and country: West Hollywood, CA, USA
Sent: Tue May 25 2004 03:37 PM
Soon after becoming aware of Eva's wonderful talent, I was visiting Canal Winchester, my home town in Ohio. My friends there sat me down and had me listen to this wonderful singer and song. It was Eva and SOMEWHEFRE OVER THE RAINBOW. Sure made me happy that friends back there know of Eva. At the end of the questions part of the site, it mentions SUPPORTING LIVE ENTERTAINMENT. I've been singing every Wed. at Canter's Kibitz Rm. on Fairfax in LA. I play the CD Eva recorded with Chuck Brown a lot on the breaks. We perform jazz/cabaret and have lots of fun. I am always stressing we have to support LIVE ENTERTAINMENT or it's going away. I don't know what will happen with my gig after all these wonderful years, but now the last 2 hours of the night go to punk/rock/loud music. We've just gotta get off our butts and get out, away from the TVs and support the music. Cheers! Tina Stevens
Name: sue
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: fields of gold
Home town/city and country: melbourne
Sent: Tue May 25 2004 08:34 PM
Eva has this magical and trully inspiring voice that takes you away to another place. I can sit and listen for hours. What a shame she cannot see how people have taken her to there hearts. Thank u Eva
Name: Julianne rydberg
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird, Imagine, Live at blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: Narvik, Norway
Sent: Thu May 27 2004 03:00 AM
Hello=) You have proboably heard this before, but i am a hudge Eva Cassidy fan. She is my idol, and have changed my visison of music for life...for me, thats the only music that matters for me...i admire her so much, and i even play Eva on my guitar..and if anyone who knew Eva reads thhis, then its a big honor for me...thank you...god bless Evas soul...
Name: Ian
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: nightbird
Home town/city and country: Germany
Sent: Thu May 27 2004 10:08 PM
Amazing.
Name: Patrick
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Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
Home town/city and country: NYC
Sent: Fri May 28 2004 03:05 AM
i was just introduced to Eva's music. incredible. having spent many years in Maryland, i guess i feel a bit more of a personal connection to Eva than most other musicians. i'm so thankful to my fiancee for introducing me to her.
Name: Benny Kristensen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Tall trees in Georgia
Home town/city and country: Brangstrup,Denmark
Sent: Fri May 28 2004 12:57 PM
Just last week one of my pupils(who is seriously ill)introduced Eva to me.I was very touched,and have been ever since.What an impact!What a fabulous artist.I am still feeling blue-but blue in a nice way.Here comes a sentence in Danish.Eva,jeg er vildt betaget af dig. Love from Denmark,Benny.
Name: Aileen Gould
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all of them!
Home town/city and country: Long Island, New York
Sent: Fri May 28 2004 06:35 PM
Last night a friend from Virginia played the Songbird CD for me. I am a music afficionado and was shocked to find that I knew nothing about such an incredible talent. Today when I was at the chiropractor's office he had music going in the background and when I asked him who was that beautiful voice, he replied: Eva Cassidy. I am so glad I found out about her and so sorry for the world's loss!
Name: Kate
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Chicago, IL
Sent: Sat May 29 2004 08:38 PM
I first heard Eva's voice on a collaboration CD entitled "Torch Songs" I have a friend who is currently fighting/living with ovarian cancer and listening to the songs from Eva's CD's have brought both sadness and joy to me at a time when we still can share laughter and build memories together. She and her family & friends are in my prayers often.
Name: LeAnna Mosley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I can't do singular, all of them!!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: geez that's tough ... Songbird ...
Home town/city and country: Cedar Bluff, VA , US
Sent: Sun May 30 2004 02:45 AM
I didn't find out about Miss Eva until after her tragic death. When I first heard her soulful voice it's like a hole in my soul was closed and another opened because the world had lost her brilliance. I am touched everytime I hear her sing and Miss Eva I know you're up there singing with a huge grin on your face ... forever ... Thank You Eva.
Name: Chris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: all are amazing
Home town/city and country: London, England
Sent: Sun May 30 2004 08:32 AM
I am 15 years old and a few days ago found the songbird album. I was amazed.
Name: Sabrina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: drowning in the sea of love
Home town/city and country: Turin - Italy
Sent: Sun May 30 2004 09:11 AM
I love her by heart, since I had listen "ain't no sunshine"... I was looking for an unusual version of this song and I had found her... I'm a singer and I sing in an Eva's cover band... her class voice is a gift everyday... please be sure: she is always with us! Love Sabrina
Name: Tom Parkin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All
Home town/city and country: Cape Town
Sent: Mon May 31 2004 07:34 PM
Greetings to all and especially Sandy who so kindly sent me some recorded interviews etc. Eva fans are the sweetest, softest people - just like Eva was. I had the good fortune to see some video clips of EVA at Blues Alley - such a gentle, gentle soul.
Name: isabelle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: k.'berg, switzerland
Sent: Tue June 01 2004 12:11 AM
I just can't find the right words...... Eva Cassidy was and is just so wonderful, it touches my heart every time I hear hear voice! thanks for everyone who also listen to her music
Name: Miranda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time after time
Home town/city and country: Vlaardingen, Holland
Sent: Tue June 01 2004 09:30 AM
I am a big Smallville fan and in the end of the episode "Crush" they played "Time after time" by Eva Cassidy. It was such a beautiful scene and i was so touched by this wonderfull voice i heard, that i immediately wanted to know who sang that song. And i've been a fan ever since
Name: Rob
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Title song and "Somewhere over the rainbow"
Home town/city and country: Boston/US
Sent: Tue June 01 2004 10:12 AM
I heard of Eva and was absolutely mesmerized by her work for the first time yesterday. "Songbird", the album and the song as well as "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" can take you places emotionally that you haven't been to for a while.
Name: Rob
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Title song and "Somewhere over the rainbow"
Home town/city and country: Boston/US
Sent: Tue June 01 2004 10:13 AM
I heard of Eva and was absolutely mesmerized by her work for the first time yesterday. "Songbird", the album and the song as well as "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" can take you places emotionally that you haven't been to for a while.
Name: ebru&martin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: field of gold/imagine
Home town/city and country: the nederlands
Sent: Tue June 01 2004 12:53 PM
we love you Eva!! keep on singing!!!!
Name: Meredith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: how can you choose???
Home town/city and country: Oregon, USA
Sent: Tue June 01 2004 04:48 PM
Thank you Eva, you touch my soul
Name: Sam
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all just the same
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: time after time/songbird/fields of gold/ over the rainbow-any of them
Home town/city and country: Yorkshire, England
Sent: Wed June 02 2004 02:42 AM
I'm 16 now now and I'm smack bang in the middle of GCSE's! I love music and singing and performing and Eva is such an amazing inspiration. When I listen to her music, I'm able to create my own songs. I performed song bird at a recent concert with my dad on the guitar and another Eva fan said I was amazing. Last year I went through a difficult time with my four year old cousin dying but when I discovered Eva's music for the first time, I could relax and isolate myself from my problems. Not to mention the fact that her music lives on even if she died at a young age. This guest book is obviously a huge success and reminder of how Eva and her music has helped so many people. I'm hoping to perform time and time or fieldds of gold soon as well.
Name: jean ozol
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: chuck brown
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: field of gold
Home town/city and country: wading river LI NY
Sent: Wed June 02 2004 07:32 AM
I am in my 60's and first heard Eva's beautiful voice several years ago while washing the dishes with the tv on in another room watching 60 minutes...by the time I got there I missed who was singing...it passed through my mind and another year later almost the exact situation happened, but this time I wouldn't miss who this wonderful singer was and have been a fan ever since and have also introduced her to a friend who has also become a fan...we play Eva every Thursday nite for girls night...we love her and all her music.
Name: TRAN MINH NHAT
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: SongBird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All
Home town/city and country: Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Sent: Wed June 02 2004 09:30 AM
I can not find any word to say Eva Cassidy's album, it is wonderful.
Name: Donna Cassidy Thomas
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Home town/city and country: Seattle Wa USA
Sent: Wed June 02 2004 08:54 PM
My brother sent me an incredible CD of Eva's, but what is eiry to me is that my nephew could be her twin - I am hoping you will write back to me re:the Cassidy family of which you and Eva are from - my Grandfather was born in Canada and his father in Killybegs, Ireland - is it possible we are related? Were Eva's eyes crystal blue -are yours? the clear crystal blue eyes are a Cassidy trait listed in a family geneology album. I look forward to hearing from you....Donna
Name: Christine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird, Fields Of Gold...
Home town/city and country: Roskilde/Denmark (North Europe)
Sent: Thu June 03 2004 07:53 AM
Dear Laura, What an adventure it is, to seek in to the world of Eva Cassidy. You've made a beautiful page about an inspiring person. Thanks to your engagement, I have everything I need to make a great lecture in english to my school (it's an assignment, my teacher has asked my class and I to do, about whatever we choose. I chose Eva Cassidy of course). My name is Christine, and I'm 14. My family and I are great fans of Eva Cassidy. I wish you the best, Christine.
Name: pd
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Home town/city and country: England
Sent: Thu June 03 2004 09:09 AM
Hi... Top Of the Pops 2 tonight reminded me of the story of Alice Martineau.....another talented artist who left us too soon...Eva fans may be interested.. www.alicemartineau.com regards to all pd
Name: kathie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Lawrence, Mass.
Sent: Thu June 03 2004 04:32 PM
I heard Eva's voice a year ago while going to a conference with a co-worker, she knew I loved the Wizard of Oz and said listen you'll never hear Over the Rain Bow again like this. She first heard the cd while having chemo for breast cancer and knew Eva died but not sure which type of cancer. I again was in her car going to lunch a year later and she put Over the Rainbow by Eva on again and mentioned she died of a melanoma. I was diagnosed with melanoma in 1997 and was lucky to catch it in time, by chance, thats what happens, if I did'nt my doctor said I would have been gone in 6 months. I heard her sing my favorite song again 3 weeks ago right after another biopsey and found out she died of what I was waiting the results of,again. Thank God it was negitive but I have never heard a voice like hers and the first time I heard her I felt a connection to her not knowing she died or from what. I have lost close family members to cancer, my Mom 2 yrs ago to ovarian cancer, and when I hear my song now it has a new meaning.. Shes over the rainbow too. Eva's voice was silenced to young.. I have already shared the Songbird cd with others and will continue. She had the voice of an angel when she was alive and still it lives on. I only wish there was more to come!!! Your web site is a good way to share how she has effected the lives she never knew.
Name: Keith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I Know You By Heart
Home town/city and country: Norwich/England
Sent: Sat June 05 2004 11:53 AM
Simply an incredible talent
Name: Vanessa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: autum leaves
Home town/city and country: Mcallen/USA
Sent: Sat June 05 2004 06:10 PM
I found out about Eva Cassidy not to long ago. I found the Cd by accident. I was at a party when the Dj decided to play a game and I won her Cd. That was two years ago. Last year, for choir my teacher made an arrangement of fields of Gold and I loved it! I didnt even know Eva sang it. Not until i was with my mom in the car and the cd came on. I didnt even know how it got in there but out popped Fields of Gold and i told my teacher. It was from her that I first learned about Eva Cassidy. I recently started listening to the Cd since my teacher made an arrangement of autum leaves. I cant stop listening to it either, she had a very touching voice it touches me. Its like you can feel the passion behind her singing. Its just amazing. No one really understands why i like her music but you dont have to understand to see the beauty behind her voice.
Name: Buddha K.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird & Time is a healer
Home town/city and country: Kathmandu, NEPAL
Sent: Sun June 06 2004 04:13 AM
There was a get together party in our house in Dec. 2003. One of my housemate Anna sang a song from Eva Cassidy's album songbird. The song was so beautiful that I wanted to know more about it. So, she told me her father and herself is a big fan of Eva. It was first time that I heard about Eva. She gave me Eva's CD album 'Songbird' to listen in my room. Wow! Its very hard for me to express in words the feelings that I have since then. I listen her soul voice almost every day. Very sadly, while I came to know about her tragic life, that was the most painful moment of my life!
Name: Martine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Norway
Sent: Sun June 06 2004 05:22 AM
Her voice was amazing and breathtaking. She still inspires me to go on with my favorite hobby- singing and music. Her talent was indescribable. It's beyond words to describe. Martine, 14
Name: Philip Devonport
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Wakefield UK
Sent: Sun June 06 2004 02:29 PM
I heard Eva for the first time when Mr. Wogan (Ditching all the mainstream rubbish) Played 'Over the Rainbow'. So much Beauty was heard and seen that day. Thankyou Eva... My niece Keira who is now 12, and has a Beautiful voice also. Was brave enough to sing solo with honesty and beauty in her voice (allthough her duet partner ran off the stage at the last minute with stage fright (God bless :)) has been so inerested in singing I have today given her the following... Georgina Lashbrook Singing tutor/ Performance Coach BA Hons Popular Music Studies 30 Wesley St Wakefield Yorkshire WF1 5HX Tel: 07980270853 email: georgiegrinder@hotmail.com Coaching vocal and perfomance techniques using songs in the popular genre, or anything you bring along! I hope her Mum and Dad will support her. I know I will be there for her. I have a good voice and ear myself and hope I will be able to help her feel & sing as honestly as possible. I would like to ask everyone who is reading this to send Keira an email c/o pdevonport@blueyonder.co.uk to encourage her to be herself and sing as free as Eva. Thank You Phil
Name: M&M
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Blue skys
Home town/city and country: The Netherlands
Sent: Sun June 06 2004 11:48 PM
I can hear her songs every day, and again and again! Her voice makes me happy, brings me to tears, and takes my breath away, what a gift to music!
Name: Helen Patriquin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: American Tune
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Absolutely Everything
Home town/city and country: Nova Scotia, Canada
Sent: Mon June 07 2004 01:53 AM
The picture of Eva's on the cover of the CD "Imagine" was taken in the area of Nova Scotia in which I grew up. I visited here - the Green Hill Lookoff - on Saturday past. What a talent she was, what a loss to the world.
Name: Carine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: SongBird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Brasil
Sent: Mon June 07 2004 08:55 AM
Hello, I love Eva Cassidy, and I'm feeling so sad for her not be more between us... a beutifull woman and a beutifull voice... Tanks for you presents Eva!
Name: Kim
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Hampton, NB
Sent: Tue June 08 2004 03:35 AM
I love Eva's voice and her wonderful talent that she displays in her complicated harmonizing and re-arrangements of songs. I sang Songbird in my cousin's wedding 3 weeks ago, and had never heard of her until that time. I absolutely love her music, and can't stop listening to her. She was a gift to the music world.
Name: Doron Segal
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Demos from 1992
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fantasy
Home town/city and country: Lafayette Hill, PA
Sent: Tue June 08 2004 05:18 PM
I shopped Eva's early original demos in 1992. I worked with a black gentlemen named Al. He was her "manager" at the time. I forget his last name but he was a black music promoter in DC at the time. I would love to hear from Al and Eva's family as I loved and believed in her in 1992 when I was an aspiring music industry exec. at age 22 years old. I went on to do a lot in the music industry managing several rock bands (5 deals in Hollyood) and then went on to work for Epic Records. I have an amazing early music industry story that would be a great follow-up for dateline. i have early press photos and demos. Original music. Great hip-hop type funky songs - BEFORE HIP-HOP was called hip-hop!!! PLEASE email me at djsbands@aol.com to chat...
Name: sally
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird/chuckbrown/Eva
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: autumn leaves
Home town/city and country: whitefish/montana/usa
Sent: Tue June 08 2004 06:29 PM
I was in Border's looking for some k.d.Lang CD's and my gaze happened upon "songbird" and I thought ....this is such and engaging picture of someone I have never heard of, but I was compelled to scan the cd and listen......It absolutely knocked my socks off!!!! I carry Eva's voice around in my head all day and have told everyone I know to find a way to hear the lovely sweet and powerful voice of Eva Cassidy. It is not just her voice.....it is the delivery and the passion that comes through in a person that is living their true mission on earth.
Name: lynn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: The Letter
Home town/city and country: Cramlington, Northumberland
Sent: Wed June 09 2004 12:11 AM
There is no better voice than Eva - she sings like an angel and gives so much joy to so many people! But I must tell all fans of Eva about Sheila Gott, she is actually a voice coach but has being touring these past few months - singing a 'Tribute to Eva Cassidy' - and donating a percentage of her tickets to Macmillan nurses. We first saw her at Newcastle City Hall and I cried when I first heard her sing - her voice made the hairs on your neck stand up! We couldn't believe how much she sounded like Eva Cassidy - it was such a treat to hear her. I had been scouring all the local press to try to see if she was playing anywhere else and couldn't believe my luck when I saw she was at Gala Theatre in Durham on 7 June - this was to be her last concert of her tour and it was just as fantastic as the Newcastle show - I certainly cannot wait to see her again and I thoroughly recommend ANY Eva Cassidy fan to see the lovely SHEILA GOTT if you get the chance - you will certainly NOT be disappointed.
Name: Stefan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Germany
Sent: Wed June 09 2004 08:30 AM
A friend of mine gave me the Songbird CD of Eva to listen. I was very impressed by her wonderful voice. As i read her bio and i was deeply touched in my heart. Seems that god has sent an angel but called her back too early.
Name: Carolyn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: fields of gold
Home town/city and country: ann arbor
Sent: Wed June 09 2004 11:12 AM
I recently introduced Eva to a man who listens to a lot of hip-hop and rap. He is now an Eva fan.
Name: Marilyn Eaton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Findlay,Ohio USA
Sent: Wed June 09 2004 12:08 PM
I only recently discovered Eva's music while on vacation in Florida..my sister-in-law introduced me to what she thought was her only album....Songbird. I have since discovered she has atleast 5 albums ( CD's ) out with possibly more to come. Her voice is the purest and sweetest I have ever heard...you can feel that her singing came from her soul...it was part of who she was. And in her singing of each song she left you with a gift...your very own...because we all interpret a song in a different way...what it means to each person is different...what was going on in our lives when we heard it...where we were..who we were with..how we relate the words to our own lives...it is personal. When I heard her sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow it took my breath away....soooooooooo beautiful!!! I have now started to add her music to my collection. I love them all but Somewhere Over The Rainbow from Songbird and Bridge Over Troubles Waters from Live At Blues Alley are my 2 VERY favorites so far. What a loss ...she was such a simple and undemanding person...all she wanted to do was sing,paint and do her landscaping...and death came for her so early in her life. Surely an angel is singing....painting our most beautiful sunsets and lanscaping heavens flower gardens.
Name: Saija
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Mäntsälä, Finland
Sent: Fri June 11 2004 11:02 AM
I was blessed to see a document of Eva- Live at Blues Alley, couple years ago. I was surfing from channel to channel until I stopped to listen her singing- WHAT A AMAZING VOICE! I listened the whole concert and I was truly sad when it ended by telling her tragical story.... Couple years ago there was some big competition on figure skating (don't remember if it was Olympic or World Championship Games). It totally took my breath away when Michelle Kwan showed her very emotional, perfect skills to a music by Eva, singing Fields of Gold. It sounded and looked so, so beautiful... Still getting tears to my eyes when remembering it........ It's very strange how music can touch so deeply inside... Eva's music really did that, and still does! She lives among us by her songs and her voice can remind us about what's good in the world! ..."You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we walk in the fields of gold..." We miss you EVA!!!
Name: Don Meuse
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Halifax, N.S. Canada
Sent: Fri June 11 2004 06:18 PM
It is heartening to see that Eva Cassidy is getting so much positive press recently, mostly in relation to her influence on young artists. She is their inspiration and touchstone. They do their music not in emulation of Eva, but from appreciation and tribute. Collectively, this is a remarkable tribute. They didn't have to do it! It comes from their heart. I have been thinking deeply as to why Eva has such a hold on those of us who continually discover nuances and an undefinable something that puts her in the forefront of modern, contemporary, creative music. She had love in her heart and music in her soul, yet this is not an explaination. As Chris Biondo said, she was not above tugging at the heart strings of an audience when she felt them close to her, but it was more playfulness and humour than any form of self-indulgence.It is easy to say that she was a perfectionist, but it was not perfection she sought. Like other great artists with qualities that can never be explained, Eva was reaching out and holding back at the same time. As a very shy person, Eva was hesitant about exposing herself openly to her audience. So she brought it into a restrained perfection that she was comfortable with. The significance of her painful shyness should not be dismissed, but then to acknowledge it is an excuse for nothing, for it allowed her to approach a creative quality in her performance that is grander than anything I have ever heard from a woman with a guitar to play and voice to sing. One day someone will express this thing I am trying to say in a way that will illuminate us all.
Name: Chrissy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Ain't No Sunshine
Home town/city and country: Sacramento, California
Sent: Fri June 11 2004 08:09 PM
Being seventeen years old, the music flooding my generation's radio waves is nowhere near the beauty and quality that Eva produced with her amazing talent, so I am very lucky to have discovered her by chance. When I heard her voice sing to Ain't No Sunshine in my lyrical dance class a few weeks ago, I was absolutely stunned by her version of the song. It was a total awakening, for me, to hear a voice like that, since I never really have before. Later, we also danced to Time After Time, and after hearing that, I just had to buy her cd. I'm blown away by Eva's talent, and if it were possible for me to choose which voice I'd want in the world, it would be hers, without question. Eva is the most incredible singer I've heard in my lifetime, and I'm forever inspired...
Name: Karleen Brigham
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All
Home town/city and country: Seattle WA USA
Sent: Sat June 12 2004 05:11 AM
I am a huge fan and have turned many on to her voice. The first song I listened to was "Somewhere over the rainbow" I was at worked,stopped what I was doing,and thought to myself wow this voice is so spiritual...not knowing she had died. She is truly amazing.
Name: matthew beard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Birmingham, Uk
Sent: Sat June 12 2004 09:13 AM
Like every other person who has ever heard Eva Cassidy sing i could describe exactly what i felt when i first heard her and i say how much she touched my soul and how many tears ive shed listening to her. So i will just say this; when i was reading this guestbook i noticed that someone said it was a shame that Eva was silenced. I dont think she was silenced, she is still singing now, beyond the horizon and above the clouds
Name: Martin Mæhle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: I love them ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Amarican tune
Home town/city and country: Nykøbing F., Denmark
Sent: Sat June 12 2004 10:58 AM
I heard about Eva for the first time, 1 month ago. I saw the dokomentery about her in tv. Now my soul is sold for her. I have never heard anything like this. and im "promoting" her for all of my friends!! her voice have tuched me deeply!!!! Sorry that all the good one´s have to go first.
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: Sat June 12 2004 04:04 PM
Just a quick message to say I hope Wednesday in Washington DC is a great night.To my shame I have still not purchased a CD of Grace Griffith the woman who brought Eva to our attention.Good luck to you all.I will try my best to keep Eva's musical legacy alive.
Name: Lucy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold/OTR
Home town/city and country: Fresno,CA
Sent: Sat June 12 2004 04:07 PM
I'm a new fan to Eva, but have already passed her voice onto everyone at work. People are just amazed when they hear her story, then hooked when they hear her voice. I've just finished reading Songbird...I cried through the entire 2nd half, just knowing what was coming. Her courage and strength have touched my soul.
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Sent: Sun June 13 2004 04:40 AM
Eva fans may find some interest in the British Singer Gwyneth Herbert. Check out her album 'First Songs' ...Gwyn and Will. The best tracks are 'Beguiling Eyes' and 'Sweet Insommia". The later is a duet with Jamie Cullum (a British Jazz singer who has just sold a million copies of his latest album in the UK.)
Name: Melanie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Early Morning Rain
Home town/city and country: Caesarea,Ontario,Canada
Sent: Sun June 13 2004 12:58 PM
It was by accident that I discovered Eva Cassidy. A friend of mine said "you have to hear this girl she reminds me of you"!I too am a songwriter/singer. When i heard her I was amazed and aspire to be as soulful a singer,I am not the same after experiencing Eva Cassidy.wow!! what a gift she is to music and the world.
Name: Debbie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: The Other Side / actually, how could I pick just one?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: frederick maryland, U.S.
Sent: Mon June 14 2004 06:07 AM
Oh my - I have so, so much to say about this Angel. The first time I ever was blessed with her voice I was sleeping on my couch. I was in a deep sleep, but Eva's beautiful voice brought me out of my sleep. Its not just her voice - she has a power over those who listen to her, especially that very first time. For me it was the very early in the a.m. - Today Show & it was at the very end of Katie Couric's story on Eva. I missed Eva's full name & being half asleep I was unable to remember all the information I needed. I was heart broken that I could not remember all of what I needed to find more information on Eva. I tried for weeks & then God was good to me & I found her. I was so happy. For weeks I had told my sister Cheryl all about Eva & how I was put under a spell when I heard this beautiful voice singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". I kept telling her - You have to hear this voice - she will forever capture your heart, soul & spirit. It was my sister who went out onto the internet & found Eva for me. My sister said she had not seen me that excited in years. I now have every CD that is available. I myself have played guitar for 31 years & I also sing. I play banjo, keyboard, etc., but do not read music - I play by ear - so to speak. I appreciate most of all the fact that I was blessed by finding Eva. Prehaps she found me. I am and always will be one of her biggest fans. To her family & friends - God bless all of you. I can only say that sometimes we do not know why someone is taken from this Earth so young. It is my thought that God needed a beautiful Angel to stand with him in Heaven & that was Eva. We will all meet again one day. God Bless. Debbie from Frederick
Name: Donna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: OTR/Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Squaw Valley, Ca. USA
Sent: Tue June 15 2004 04:57 PM
I was introduced to Eva by a coworker, my "book buddy", and we read about Eva in a book. Lucy went to check out Eva and found that she was "real", and it all snowballed from there. Eva has spread thru our workplace like wildfire. I'm a cancer survivor, and listening to "Over the Rainbow" is my song of hope, my breath when I need it, "my" song. My 10 yr old daughter Katie has also become an Eva-phile. When I could'nt find my cd, yes, Katie had it in her room, under the covers, listing to 1 and 10 (Yes, mom's favorites are Katie's too)... OTR and Fields... Eva continues to inspire and lift the spirits of people all over the world today. To her family and friends, she's far from forgotten and truly, I think we're about to see a huge awakening of this awesome singer.
Name: Cecilia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart
Home town/city and country: Melbourne, Australia
Sent: Tue June 15 2004 09:01 PM
i can't get enough of Eva Cassidy!! she is all i listen to now and her songs are so inspiring and beautiful. A credit to the band too i might add!!! i think she is so talented and i can't wait to hear more of her music. Thanks for getting me through my exams too!!! :) thanks, Cecilia
Name: Deborah Mc
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: I know you by heart
Home town/city and country: Spokane, Wa USA
Sent: Tue June 15 2004 09:16 PM
Thank you Eva. No other voice has ever touched me the way yours does. You left us too soon. God bless you.
Name: Bernhard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Mannheim, Germany
Sent: Wed June 16 2004 05:10 AM
Many years ago I read a Spider Robinson story called "The Law of Conservation of Pain" in which a singer is described as follows: "Her name (said the stranger) was Bobbi Joy, and you couldn't say there'd never been anyone like her before. Lots of people had been like her. April Lawton, for instance, was nearly as good a guitarist. Aretha had at times a similar intensity. Billie Holiday surely bore and was able to communicate much the same kind of pain. Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack each in their own way possessed a comparable technical control and purity of tone. Dory Previn was as dramatic and poignant a lyricist, and Maria Muldaur projected the same artless grace. But you could have rolled them all together and you still wouldn't have Bobbi Joy, because there was her voice. And it was just plain impossible that such a voice could be." Until the day I first heard Eva's voice, I had no idea how a voice must sound like to stir that kind of emotion in me. Of course you all have similar experiences and impressions, but in the past six years I have not been able to get over the fact how apparently effortless and completely natural she manages to let intense emotions sweep through her vocal cords. Thank you for having been with us, your music is a true gift to mankind.
Name: Jenny Ozbolt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Song Bird / Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere over the rainbow
Home town/city and country: Johannesburg, S.A.
Sent: Wed June 16 2004 06:30 AM
I have loved all music all my life which to me is the food of the soul - I first heard Eva Cassidy's Over the Rainbow in 2002 when visiting the U.K. and was introduced to her voice by my daughter - from the first time I heard her I have listened to music with a different ear - what a voice, what a talent - I am fortunate to have been around to be able to listen to her voice and enjoy her music
Name: Panchy Padilla
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: People Get Ready
Home town/city and country: Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Sent: Wed June 16 2004 03:32 PM
I have been battling ovarian cancer for the last 2 yrs and Eva's music has touched deep in my soul. I can relate to her pain and share the fact that I am going to die and see the Lord. I have bought and given her CD to my friends and family and we all love her voice. It is obvious that everyone's life is one of God's contributions to help other cope and survive. Eva certainly has a gift which comforts my soul, and she has not died in vain. Her purpose has been clearly shown in the comfort she brings to people that are facing death, pain and a troubled life. Thanks for sharing her with us!
Name: Joe T.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: just can't choose
Home town/city and country: Arnold MD.
Sent: Wed June 16 2004 05:32 PM
I just got in from the Eva tribute concert at Strathmore.It was wonderfull to be around a group of folks that not only feel the same passion for Eva's music that I do but actually worked with and knew her well. Not only were Pam Bricker, Grace Griffin and Meg Murry there but also Keith Grimes and Raice McLeod accompanied them. The ladies performed various songs from Eva's repitoir. Nightbird, Songbird, Wonderful Word,Let The Good Times Roll,True Colors to name a few. Each of the ladies were truly great in thir own right but it was clear, everyones hat's were off to Eva.
Name: Beth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: People Get Ready
Home town/city and country: Redding, CA
Sent: Thu June 17 2004 08:30 AM
One of my patients gave me a book and a few cd's of Eva's music because I have always enjoyed jazz and blues. I don't consider myself a critic at all but I know that music is something that heals. I have been been going through a lot of unsure emotions lately trying to decide what it is I am going to do with my life and when I heard her voice streaming out of my car cd player I smiled.. A big smile.. and you know how you sing along with a song even though you don't know the words? That is what I did, over and over again. And I continue to smile. If that isn't inspiration I don't know what is.
Name: Stuart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: LABA
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ALL
Home town/city and country: Adelaide South Australia
Sent: Fri June 18 2004 12:38 AM
Can anyone help with the guitar chords for fine and mellow as my band wants to perform Eva's version. She is the voice of the angels who sing to us everyday........thanks
Name: Paul Lee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird....all of them!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Soroe, Denmark
Sent: Sat June 19 2004 03:07 AM
Let me tell you about the first Eva Cassidy CD I bought. A 30 minute TV documentary about her was shown one evening. I was so touched and impressed by it that I said, "I've just got to buy her music." The next day after work I went to a local music shop and was lucky enough to find the only CD of hers that they had. It was the one called "Imagine" (she sings Lennon's classic on it). I then took it home and did what I like to do with a new CD - sit down and read the insert while listening to it. I usually read the lyrics and descriptions, or whatever is written there. Well, I was sitting at the dining room table with Grethe sitting on the other side, and we listened while I read to myself. Suddenly, while the last song was playing, she looked at me and said: "Are you crying?", and then I startled her by laughing through my tears. It was an odd "happening", and here's why: The last song is the old Irish (although not originating in Ireland http://www.standingstones.com/dannyboy.html ) song "Danny Boy". It's a song of one who is going to die, and her lover will come to her grave. Well, Eva Cassidy also died, and her story is very heartwrenching. While having just read her story, and then listening to her singing those words so beautifully and sensitively, my eyes became moist, and my soul was really moved. Then while I was also reading the short comment on the song, Grethe asked her question, and I started laughing. Why? Well, it was really a coincidence that everything coincided so perfectly. Here is what I read at the moment Grethe spoke: "..... and Eva's "enough to make a grown man cry" rendition of the traditional Danny Boy to close the album." Bingo! I wasn't the only man that had experienced the same thing when hearing her sing that song. And it's not the only one that can do that. There are a few other songs that are also in that category. Her rendition of "Over the Rainbow" is already becoming a classic in some circles, so some people sing the original Judy Garland version, and others sing the Eva Cassidy version. Other songs I just love: Fields of Gold Oh, Had I a Golden Thread I Know You By Heart Fever Tennessee Waltz Cheek to Cheek Fine and Mellow True Colours You Take My Breath Away I Wandered By a Brookside
Name: Nathalie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of gold, time after time etc, etc.
Home town/city and country: Sweden
Sent: Sat June 19 2004 12:06 PM
Eva, I just want to say that I love you and your music. Your songs mean soooo much to me. I always listen to them when I feel sad or somethinge else. Then I get happy again :)
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You Take My Breath Away
Home town/city and country: Syracuse New York USA
Sent: Sat June 19 2004 12:38 PM
I've seen the world spin aroung many times in my life. Singers come and go. Some hold my interest more than others. Eva sings from a special place. Listening to Eva is leke being in this special place. Feelings are more intense, Emotions are more difficult to control. Is there a message from all of this? Perhaps the journey to where time stands still. No distractions. Only the sound of Eva's voice and her music enveloping the moment. The hope is there, that I can find someone who can make me feel this way who is here on earth. Danielle White is 12 years old and has this ability. I listen to her sing and I get this emotional release that Eva always gave me. They are both born on February 2nd. Danielle is one of the American Juniors, from the Fox Network competition. I spend my time listening on her website http://www.danielle-white.com/ Gladys Knight calls Danielle, remarkable, a very special talent who feels each song. I must admit I cry when I hear Eva and Danielle. I'm sorry if this seems too unusual. They are both Angels.
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: Sat June 19 2004 03:37 PM
Laura hope the concert for Eva on the 16th was a great success.It is still remarkable to know that without all the media hype Eva can still reach out and touch not only the souls of mere mortals but all time greats like Roberta Flack and Shirley Horn who wax lyrical about Eva.I think that now when everything is quiet about Eva is the time that we should be trying harder than ever to promote Eva to the unconverted.
Name: Leslie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Don't know yet! Have to get them all!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: So far - Songbird
Home town/city and country: Blue Ridge, GA
Sent: Sat June 19 2004 05:21 PM
I was watching Love Actually and in a scene they used a song I was familiar with but it was so much better! I wanted the people in the scene to shut up so that I coud hear it! I looked for the music from the movie and came across Eva Cassidy and I am totally floored by her story. I have never heard of her before and I am a big fan of unique music. I was born in 1963 as was Eva and her story touched me a lot. I just ordered the CD Songbird and am anxious to receive it. It's amazing that she has touched so many people and her spirit remains here with us. That is a very special gift! I will come back after I have listened to the CD.
Name: Anne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: (not yet)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: wade in the water
Home town/city and country: Bussum, the Netehrlands
Sent: Sun June 20 2004 08:18 AM
Could anyone help me to find where to buy the Eva Cassedy album 'Eva by heart'. I have tried to find it here in the Netherlands but could not find it. Thanks, Anne
Name: Jessica
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: What a Wonderful World
Home town/city and country: turlock
Sent: Sun June 20 2004 06:40 PM
She made the world as wonderful as she sang. Cassidy you're awesome! Rest beautifully. Her artwork is amazing too: the boy in the nest. Such a sweet face too. It is all so beautiful.
Name: Pat d
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Can't say !
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: England
Sent: Sun June 20 2004 09:48 PM
To Anne.....if you go to Laura's 'Welcome page ' and click on ' Eva's Recordings ' there are links there for the ' Amazon ' sites...not only do you puchase the album but you would also make a contribution to the research into melanoma cancer...for The Netherlands the Amazon.co.uk site may be the quickest....hope this helps. Good luck to England tonight against Croatia !!! Regards to all pd
Name: Kaj
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: autumn leaves
Home town/city and country: Kokkola/Finland
Sent: Tue June 22 2004 12:43 AM
What a voice. Perfect!
Name: Judy Church
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: Greenville, S.C., USA
Sent: Tue June 22 2004 01:40 AM
I just wanted to tell you that I was just introduced to Eva's music today by my son while visiting him in Korea where he works. I listened to the album"American Tune" and loved the music. I am 60 years young so I'm sure her music trandsends all ages.Why God planned for her music to become famous after her death, only He knows but I know He had a wonderful plan in store for her and I'm sure somehow she knows. Thank you so much.
Name: lisa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: people get ready
Home town/city and country: charlotte n.c. usa
Sent: Tue June 22 2004 03:46 AM
I love her music more than any other artist Ive heard. its what i call real music,you cant find that quality today in many songs. I read SONGBIRD too, and its a wonderful tribute to the life of the most incredible singer of our time. I really love the gospel songs the most, i want a EVA T- SHIRT ,stickers,anything to get the word out!
Name: John Matlack
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over the Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Orlando, Fl USA
Sent: Tue June 22 2004 05:11 AM
While reading with background music playing, Over the Rainbow came and pulled me from my book. I'm nearly seventy, a retired cop, and no sentimental fool. But her voice was irresistable. It brought me nearly to tears. What a loss that she died so young. God Bless.
Name: Amy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Not sure yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ain't no sunshine
Home town/city and country: Mason City, Iowa
Sent: Tue June 22 2004 10:13 PM
I was at my neighbor's when she started playing the Songbird cd. I got chills. This is some of the best music I've heard...ever. I can't wait to listen to the rest of Eva's music. I am by no means religious, but I'll pray for her tonight.
Name: KATHY
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: OVER THE RAINBOW
Home town/city and country: BATTLE GROUND,WA USA
Sent: Wed June 23 2004 04:13 AM
I WAS 42 AND HAD A DISABLING STROKE ,WAS IN A NURSING HOME, A FRIEND BROUGHT ME EVA'S SONGBIRD.I LISTENED REPEATEDLY EVEN WHEN I CAME HOME,HER VOICE GAVE ME STRENGTH TO FIGHT THIS.HER COURAGE IN HER BATTLE INSPIRED ME TO ,HER TALENTS AND LIFE WERE CUT WAY TO SHORT,BUT HER SPIRIT LIVES ON,GOD BLESS HER SOUL AND HER FAMILY
Name: BONNIE A. WILLIAMS
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: ALL OF THEM
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: ALL OF THEM
Home town/city and country: WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS
Sent: Wed June 23 2004 05:48 AM
I LISTEN TO EVA CASSIDY'S CD'S WHEN I'M GOING FOR MY WALKS..HER MUSIC ALWAYS GIVES ME THE GOOSE BUMBS..SHE HAS SUCH A WAY WITH MUSIC..SHE WILL LIVE ON FOREVER THROUGH THEM.. BONNIE
Name: Gary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time after time
Home town/city and country: Cape Cod, Mass USA
Sent: Thu June 24 2004 09:29 AM
I just heard Eva for the first time last week, and I cant stop listening to it. It saddens me to have lost such a wounderful talent as well person. I will listen faithfully, and pass it on to as many people as possible. Gary
Name: Laurey West
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Heath, Texas 75032
Sent: Thu June 24 2004 09:53 AM
My friend introduced to me Eva today, and I have listened to Songbird five times now. What an incredible artist she was. I am going to get every CD I can. She was so incredibly gifted on Earth, and I know she sings in heaven. I simply cannot wait to get the rest of her CD's and share with other friends. Thank you. Sincerely, Laurey West
Name: Paul Bolger (Medicine Wheel)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: golden thread, autumn leaves
Home town/city and country: chicago
Sent: Thu June 24 2004 09:27 PM
As a songwriter, one experiences writing in different ways. Because of our mutual appreciation for Eva, our song for her came out of us in about a half hour and we felt like it was a small way to give something back to this unbelievable singer who has permanently influenced us, and therefore everyone who is influenced by us. The beat goes on and the song is sung...
Name: Helen McGoldrick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird,Imagine,Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird,Danny Boy, Aint no Sunshine,
Home town/city and country: Wollongong, Australia.
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 02:40 AM
What a glorious talented beautiful woman Mrs CASSIDY GAVE TO THE WORLD.What a legacy to leave behind.My only regret was never seeing Eva play. I was diagnosed with ca. in 95 & was given a second chance at life.Sadly my Mum was not so lucky, she died 2 years ago.Hearing Evas voice has brought peace into my heart . Everytime I hear Danny Boy I close my eyes & Mum is with me. It was her fav song & she also could sing it with style.I'm sure Eva & Mum are harmonising in Heaven.Go Girls. Why one person is spared & another is not can never be explained. My heart goes out to her loved ones. Nursing has taught me that The greatest gift of all is to love & be loved. I have found the 8th Wonder of the world ,the ever present Eva Cassidy. She sang with love in her voice, a rare & beautiful gift. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks, my partner of 5 yrs is a devoted fan. His usual material is Metallica, wow, What a Wonderful World. Helen Venables McGOLDRICK aged 44 years young.
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Nearly all
Home town/city and country: Bolton, UK
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 03:45 AM
Hello. I`ve been visiting,and enjoying, Eva`s guestbook now for several years without contributing to it. The recent poll has finally nudged me into activity(and that takes some doing).I have to say that with all due respect to Eva and her family and friends,I would not like to see a dramatisation of her story. When I listen to her music (daily), I create a mental picture of her performance not having had the benefit of seeing any video footage. I don`t want to listen to her music with the image of another person miming to it. Eva`s mother, if quoted accurately, implied that she would prefer a documentary to dramatisation (forgive me if I have misquoted this). We have the music; we have the book. Eva used her imagination to colour her music and her artwork. Perhaps we should use ours in our appreciation of her life, but of couse this is only my own personal opinion. Best wishes to you all out there, especially to Eva`s family and friends.
Name: Leslie Penn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird (so far:)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Home town/city and country: Blue Ridge GA
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 07:14 AM
WOW! That's all I can say. When everyone writes about her voice giving you chills I know what that means now. I hope to get ever album and I am passing her on to the important people in my life - along with her story. Her voice is amazing and the good thing is she left it here for us --- !!!
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Time After Time
Home town/city and country: Toronto, Canada
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 03:37 PM
She is truly the most amazing singer I have ever heard. She has the voice of an angel and makes music that can only soothe the soul. May she rest in peace.
Name: Stacey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Impossible Question
Home town/city and country: Melbourne, Australia
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 04:16 PM
Oh...my...god. I just recently discovered Eva after a friend of my mum's dropped in a word about how great she was. Well I asked to borrow a cd of his and I was completely blown away. 'Natural woman' is just incredible. SHE is AMAZING. There is no point in saying 'was' because she is someone who's voice will be forever alive. She is a ture inspriation to myself as a performer.
Name: Suzanne Grachek
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: SongBird & American Tune
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You Take My Breath Away & The Water is Wide
Home town/city and country: Lawrence, Kansas
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 05:41 PM
What a gorgeous voice and amazing talent. I hope that everyone has an opportunity to listen to this beautiful artist and be touched by her spirit and talent. I would like to thank her and her family for sharing her music with the world. She will forever be with us.
Name: Roy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You take my breath away
Home town/city and country: Fort Worth,Tx.
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 07:15 PM
I just discovered Eva's music. I could not believe how great it she was. I'm going to buy what I can find of hers. The new cd is so good. I hope where ever her soul is now, she's still playing that beautiful music!!!
Name: Johnny Vermilye (Medicine Wheel)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Tall Trees in Georgia, Golden Thread, Autumn leaves
Home town/city and country: chicago/ NW Indiana
Sent: Fri June 25 2004 08:55 PM
" Eva like the moon, there was only one of you and your light still gives reflection now" Laura thank you so much for providing this format. We shall always keep the light of Eva burning here in the midwest. peace jv
Name: Heidi Plester
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
Home town/city and country: Palmdale, CA U.S.A.
Sent: Sat June 26 2004 01:34 AM
I don't know where to start, but from the beginning I guess is good. I'm originally from Calgary Alberta Canada and since I've been introduced to Eva, I've listened to her constintly. She puts me through emotions that I have never felt before!! My hairs on my arms literally stand up on end every time I hear her. I can't seem to get enough of Eva. Every emotion I feel seems to run through my veins (almost like she is speaking to me! -- Kinda weird, but true). I went to visit my Aunt in Phoenix, AZ and she bought an Eva Cassidy CD (Songbird), and told me I have to listen to it. So I did. I called my husband and said "You have to hear this!!" As I played a song to him over the phone he said this is the most dynamic vocalist I have ever heard!! We play Songbird constantly. There are no words that seem to describe her voice, her message -- anything. All I can say is.....I wish I could hear more.
Name: Raice McLeod
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: All
Home town/city and country: DC/USA
Sent: Sat June 26 2004 09:03 AM
Belated thanks: My apologies for not writing here more promptly re the Stathmore concert on June 16th. A couple of quick notes: A BIG thank you to all who came to listen. Mrs. Nature decided to terminate the proceedings, but everyone was very patient and good-humored about it. C'est la vie. Personally, I was honored to finally play with two DC ladies of song I have admired for many years, Grace Griffith and Pam Bricker. I confess to hoping I'll have the opportunity again one day. It was also wonderful to hear Meg and Jeff. I thought they sounded superb. (Strong recommendation to local music fans: go hear any of these people. You will not be disappointed.) Have a great summer, and come November ... VOTE! Best wishes to all, Raice
Name: Enzo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Impossible to answer :)
Home town/city and country:
Sent: Sat June 26 2004 09:50 AM
I heard a voice today that took my breath away and put a tear in my eye. I had to find out who she was, my search brought me here. I spent the last hour reading all the kind words and messages here. I don't think I can say anything that hasn't already been said. So simply "thank you" I am so thankful to have found you, I look forward to getting to know you through your music.... Enzo
Name: candy norris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You don't know me
Home town/city and country: port murray, nj
Sent: Sat June 26 2004 11:05 AM
pure beauty
Name: Maria
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of gold
Home town/city and country: Norway
Sent: Sun June 27 2004 02:35 PM
i just discovered Eva's music too,and its so beautiful...actually,some tears are running down my cheek right now...because it's the most beautful voice i ever heard.she's speaking right into my heart,and get my real emotions out.. we all miss you Eva, god bless.
Name: Tom Kensky
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbirnd so far...1st one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Mood dependent but Rainbow is special
Home town/city and country: Louisville, KY but living in Dayton, OH
Sent: Sun June 27 2004 04:38 PM
I'm certain Eva was an angel mistakenly allowed to be with us. I'm mesmerized by her voice and pure truth of emotion in her expressions of herself via the music. I am sad that I wasn't able to meet and know her. What a lost privilege.......
Name: Dave McOmie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: All except No Boundaries
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Imposhibull!!!!
Home town/city and country:
Sent: Sun June 27 2004 06:18 PM
Name: Emma Fitton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: somewwhere over a rainbow
Home town/city and country: manchester
Sent: Mon June 28 2004 06:15 AM
i love all her fine works and listen to them all the time!!!!!
Name: Morag Dunn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Kilsyth, Scotland
Sent: Mon June 28 2004 08:24 AM
I have never heard such a pure voice and every time I hear it I get goosebumps!!!!!
Name: Zenmaster
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Autumn Leaves
Home town/city and country: Gaithersburg, Maryland 20882
Sent: Mon June 28 2004 03:55 PM
I was chatting with my buddy in Philly last night and we were commenting about Eva and her unique and rare ability to sing so effortlessly with such an emotional charge as to transcend the experience to a different musical and spiritual dimension. I advised him that there is serious discussion about a movie about Eva's life in the near future. I have read some excellent posts about why this may not be a good idea and agree to a large extent with the cons. The negative for me is who out there could possibly do justice to her life? The movie would be an overwhelming hit for all of the reasons her music is loved by all posthumously provided of course that the Producers could find THE actress who coud bring out the soul and sensitivity of this amazing woman. The story speaks for itself. So I think it would be interesting to hear if her admirers have some strong candidates. To that end, I recommend that a poll on the Web page be introduced soliciting her fans input. My position is, if there is a woman out there who can do the deal, than the movie must be made as great art waits for no man! God Bless, Jim P.
Name: donald lockridge
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album:
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song:
Home town/city and country: rogue river, oregon usa
Sent: Mon June 28 2004 06:32 PM
October in the Northland. Went for a walk into the woods, came back,went into the gift shop, cafe, and heard Songbird playing, then Autumn Leaves. Grabbed the last CD on the rack and have never looked back!Have all of them, her book, We miss you, Eva. LUV
Name: Sharon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: You take my breath away
Home town/city and country: Perth, Australia
Sent: Tue June 29 2004 01:17 AM
Hi All Stacey from Melbourne mentioned in a note in the guestbook that she had heard Eva sing Natural Woman. This is one of my all time favourite songs and I have searched the website here (thanks to our wonderful webmaster Laura) and can't find a mention of it on any of the albums. Am I missing something, or can someone help me here? I have four albums already and would love to buy one which had this son on - any help would be appreciated. Fly with the angels Eva, your voice raised in almighty triumph!
Name: Joe White
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Home town/city and country: Ballingry, Fife SCOTLAND
Sent: Tue June 29 2004 02:38 AM
Hi To Sharon in Perth AUSTRALIA, Eva sings Natural Woman on the "No Boundaries" CD - Appreciate there maybe a few issues surrounding the recordings on No Boundaries, however I love all of Eva's music - no matter what the source. Hi to Eric in Siversprings and to all the new Eva fans.
Name: Alex Chan Ming Tzee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: not sure
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow,
Home town/city and country: Malaysia
Sent: Tue June 29 2004 06:06 AM
Its very, very unusual for me to listen to these types of songs, and as someone suggested in the posts, Eva's song does trancend age...but to add...culture, race and religion. It was by chance that i managed to hear her angelic voice. The moment i heard it...2 hours ago..i knew i had to get her CD. But it seems no one has it here in my country. Even my friends, who are into trance and house music actually stop to listen. I just can't seem to explain what her voice does to someone. Buying a CD from Amazon is seriously too expensive for me. I just hope that someone will bring the CD in. I'm actually a chinese and buddhist....and her song...has seriously touched me. Thank you Eva, may your voice touch others as it has touched mine. (Will do my best to spread the news)
Name: C. Tom Cassidy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird,Blues Alley,Imagine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Rainbow,Penny,Fields,Danny Boy
Home town/city and country: Chicago, Ill. U.S.A.
Sent: Tue June 29 2004 08:16 AM
I've been living here in the "Near Northside" of Downtown Chicago for about six years now. I think it was back in early '99 I became aquainted with a VERY IRISH, Irish Pub down the street. Celtic Crossings. made a lot of friends there and eventually went to work part time there. One afternoon the manager said, "give a listen to the next tune". It was Eva's "...Rainbow"! When it was over, you could have"knocked me over with a feather!" Then I checked ou the jukebox to see, who was that!? Next surprise, Eva CASSIDY...That's my last name, Cassidy... Now, I have seven of Eva's CDs and a book of pic's and info (over 150 pages) my daughter put together for me and now this book "Songbird", which I just purchased. I'm sixty five years old and I've seen and done quite a bit in this life, so far. But I still shed tears to many of Eva's songs. Tears of sorrow, pleasure and love. Eva, your music IS being heard and loved as you are loved. God bless all, C. Tom Cassidy p.s. Eva film, 2004? Does Hugh recall any relations (could go way back) in Illinois?
Name: Randy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: It changes all the time!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: That changes all the time, too!
Home town/city and country: Troy, NY USA
Sent: Tue June 29 2004 05:00 PM
I have just about everything Eva recorded and my neighbor and I have been listening to her for quite awhile. Well, my neighbor's brother died a few weeks ago and at the Funeral 3 of Eva'a songs were played. "I know you by heart", "Songbird" & "Time after time"! It was very moving! We are still hoping yet another CD will come out but we also realize "American Tune" will probably be the last one. Keep up the good work, Laura!
Name: Anne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Over The Rainbow and American Tune
Home town/city and country:
Sent: Tue June 29 2004 07:42 PM
It is very nice to see more contributors to the guest book who are from the USA. Do any of you have any idea about how we can expand the legend and genius of Eva Cassidy within this country?
Name: Ree N
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Not sure
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Songbird
Home town/city and country: Sydney Australia
Sent: Wed June 30 2004 12:02 AM
A very special friend (Dave since 1971) told me about Eva and I loved her. My son was married in March and Songbird was the song for the signing of the register. Dave and I last spoke about our families and his daughter was married and had songbird for the wedding.
Name: Jim Glover
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album: Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song: Fields of Gold
Home town/city and country: Toronto, Canada
Sent: Wed June 30 2004 02:37 AM
A month ago I was driving to work listening to a jazz station in Toronto - 91.1 FM - when they played "Songbird". I was so taken by Eva's voice that I drove straight to a record store and bought the CD. It's all I