the kind of performances that make audiences feel guilty about breaking the fragile time-stopping magic by breathing too loud.

Two of the songs on IMAGINE are from one-take recordings Eva made as demos for nightclubs where she hoped to play solo engagements. An odds-and-ends collection culled from diverse sources that holds together, thanks to Cassidy's torchy interpretive genius.

The information given here is drawn from the album notes, from conversations and interviews with Eva’s family and musical colleagues, from e-mail from Eva’s fans, and from my own personal knowledge. Go out to the little clubs and restaurants that offer live music, and if you enjoy what you hear, tell the performers! As a teenager Eva had this novelty photo taken of herself posing with a cardboard picture of her hero. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. On the anniversary of John Lennon’s murder, MTV listed its choice of the five best covers of his song “Imagine.

As someone once wrote in the Guestbook, “There will never be another Eva Cassidy, but there will be someone else. I enjoyed it so much I completely forgot that I was meant to give a guy at work a lift and drove straight past him at the roadside.Imagine may not be the best way to discover Eva Cassidy for the first time, but established fans will warmly welcome this new collection. YOUTUBEWe have a YouTube channel where you can watch some of the celtic music related videos we've found. And if they’re selling CDs* from their guitar cases, as Eva once did, support their talents and efforts that way too. It was videotaped, and I have written a short description of her introduction to that song, with photos, which you can read here.

We are one of the top suppliers of woodwind, brass and orchestral strings across Sussex and are main agents for most of the instruments we sell.She came into the studio on two different days and sang ten or twelve songs, three or four times each. Eva only ever recorded two Stevie Wonder songs, however — this one and an unreleased version of “Superstition” that Biondo describes as “funky. Still Not Ready”: The only completely unknown song on the album, “Still Not Ready” was written by Chris Izzi and Leo LaSota and recorded as a demo in 1987. Besides ‘Imagine’ and ‘Tennessee Waltz,’ she did ‘Wade in the Water,’ ‘Kathy’s Song,’ ‘Songbird,’ ‘The Bold Young Farmer,’ and a few others.

It’s got a haunting melody,” says Hugh Cassidy, who had suggested that Izzi send his tapes to Blix Street Records for consideration for the album. The setting was Green Hill, Nova Scotia, which is a little village next to the huge green hill where Walter snapped the photo of Eva. As a solo, it was a standard in Eva’s repertoire with the band, and she sang it at Blues Alley the night the live album was recorded. Eva’s is listed, with the comment, “Released six years after her death, it showcases Cassidy’s jaw-dropping voice above all else, which is why it’s such a great version of the song.Eva’s brother Dan Cassidy’s fiddle is featured in this recording, which was also part of Dan’s solo album DAN CASSIDY ON THE FIDDLE (available only in Iceland). All of these tracks are previously unreleased and most are live recordings, but listeners who already own LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY know just how refreshing Cassidy’s live performances were. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.