Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger....

As with Aretha Franklin, Eva would make a song her own. Over The Rainbow, Fields Of Gold, forget the original’s!

'Live at Blues Alley' is the ONLY album in 20 yearsmy wife has ever asked me to turn up the volume 90on.

Ah, yes, Eva Cassidy!  What a discovery, her music, and what a sad discovery, not long after, to learn she had died.  

Some of her covers are now the reference versions for me.  Time after Time, Over the Rainbow ...  oh one could go on and on. As a wag once said about Sinatra, once he sang a song, it's been sung.  So, too, Eva.

My wife too will sit down if Eva comes on, come in from another room, ask me to turn it up some.

What more Eva might have done.

Feb 2 would have been Eva's 59th birthday.  What a fine gift these comments have made to mark the occasion.  Many thanks to OP and all who contributed.

Echo the above. Wasn’t familiar with her.

Listening to Live at Blues Alley- just arrived today.

Thanks to all.