Eva Cassidy

No Boundries is ok, but like you say over produced.
I love "Time after Time" her guitar work on this disk is by far her best. Blues Alley is my second favorite, but no matter wich she was a real talant that gets played all the time here! Thanks to her parents for allowing her to live on.

Whenever I put on an Eva Cassidy cd for someone who never heard of her the response is always the same,"Wow who is that!" I use the first 2 tracks of "Live at Blues Alley" to show off my system. Goose bumps!

I agree with all the posted comments. I think she was gifted with one of the better voices of modern times - clear, with a good range and very, very expressive (perhaps her greatest atribute). Some of the "later" albums are overproduced but listen to as many as you can and choose what pleases you. My favorite is Eva by Heart. Enjoy!

It might be cynical if a big record company were behind it. A few cds produced by Eva's friend passed around, a dj here and there have played them, now there's a groundswell and several songs have been heard on first run tv shows. She was discovered by the public in the UK before the US. I think I said above that Songbird had gone platinum and was atop the charts. Nothing cynical about it.

Try this experiment. Buy Songbird (because it has good stuff from 3 other cds) if you dont have it, play it for a friend who hasn't heard of Eva Cassidy, but don't tell him she passed away. Get his reaction to her singing first. This is what happened to some of the djs in the UK and on the East Coast who started to play her stuff. They were floored by her singing, and then saddened to learn of her passing.

Her growing popularity does trouble me a little. The public usually doesn't appreciate singers as good as she was.