Eva Cassidy.

Have a look at these albums

Margriet Sjoerdsma made a very beautiful Eva Cassidy Tribute a couple of years ago. feat. Dan Cassidy.

Ebeneezer01 posted:

What a voice, what a band. Listen to anything by her. Especially to Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Sorry Sandy Denny and Fairport  Convention. Eva Cassidy  sings it better and with more  feeling,, and her band rock. I wish I could have seen her live. Her voice is so pure and takes some beating. Her live recordings sound so fantastic.

+ 100

One album captures this lady's genius for me:

It's 4 discs on vinyl.  Not cheap but oh so very worth it.

The CD is more affordable and streaming even cheaper, if the best version (i.e. vinyl) is too much.

Best regards, FT

The  7 180g 45rpm LP Limited Edition numbered  box set sound really good,

If you don't mind a lot of getting up and down.

Foot tapper posted:

One album captures this lady's genius for me:

Best regards, FT

Hi FT,  I agree 100% the genious,  my problem is I have all her previously released material  & have many of the tracks on this album.   Do you (anybody) know if this new release has remixed/remastered tracks & if so has that changed anything. ???    I will probably get it anyway, the price is peanuts,  but if its been messed with & maybe lost some of the vibrancy,  maybe not.  

Mike-B posted:

Foot tapper posted:

One album captures this lady's genius for me:

Best regards, FT

Hi FT,  I agree 100% the genious,  my problem is I have all her previously released material  & have many of the tracks on this album.   Do you (anybody) know if this new release has remixed/remastered tracks & if so has that changed anything. ???    I will probably get it anyway, the price is peanuts,  but if its been messed with & maybe lost some of the vibrancy,  maybe not.  

http://www.blixstreet.com/eva

Hi Mike,
As a final, desperate measure to gain some sort of recognition & to break through as an artist, Eva hired the Blues Alley club to make a recording of the music that she loved to perform live.

Live at Blues Alley is the normal, album length extract of that recording session.  Nightbird is the recording of the full session, so contains about 3 times as many tracks as Live at Blues Alley.  I think it's 2.5 times as valuable, as there is bound to be the odd track that one would skip out of over 30 tracks.

No messing has been done with remixes or remastering.  It's the real deal.

Hope this helps, FT

FT,

The 4 and 7 LP sets and CDs have 33 tracks on them.

They have been remastered but done with love.

http://www.blixstreet.com/eva.html

Mike, I'm with FT on this one.

IMV Nightbird is her definitive release and offers so much more than LABA. I have the CD + the vinyl 33 and the 45 12'' versions (latter more as a potential collector's item) noting the CD version comes with the 33 version vinyl (it might come with the 45?). The bass on the 45 version seems a bit OTT in places to my ears.

I've also compared CD versions of LABA, as these can be markedly different e.g. as against the original Blix Street release.

You get 2 CDs and the concert DVD with the Nightbird 33rpm 4 LP set.

You can pick the double CD and DVD up for around £5 now on amazon.

Thanks for the replies guys,  I had already read the Blixstreet link & saw the remaster word & that raised my concern knowing how they can bugger up these basic analogue recordings in an effort to make a purse from a pigs ear.  I also note the only digital files available are 16/44 so no attempts at up-sampling rip offs.     FT says its not been messed with & I'm OK with that,  so hang the expense & I've lashed out £6 on Qobuz.   It seems to be the same as the 2x CD package with 33 tracks & total run time of 02:20.  

We can all blather on about PSU and powerlines and which amp/preamp with which interconnect and speaker wire into what speakers we use, but at the end of the day it all SHOULD come down to MUSIC.

I've learned a lot of things on the Naim forum dealing with the above, but the best stuff is the music I have been informed of, and Eva Cassidy sites in the top echelon of that list.I bought Nightbird (CD/DVD), and it is some of the best money I have ever spent on music.

Absolutely top shelf in every way.

Agree with everything said here about EC. Apparently she performed the stuff she liked which tended towards an eclectic mix. And there lies the problem. Not a problem for us music lovers but a problem for the record labels who have a desire to pigeon-hole artists, but Eva refused to be categorised so, in this regard, she never enjoyed the commercial success she greatly deserved. Another reason for the limited success is that she was of course taken from us far to early.

What a crying shame such a talent has gone but her music lives on.