Mon 28 Dec 2015
Music I’m Listening To: EVA CASSIDY “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”
Posted by Steve under Music I'm Listening To[7] Comments
From Wikipedia:
“Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996) was an American vocalist and guitarist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country, rock and pop classics.”
From her posthumously released CD Somewhere (2008):
“From Dolly Parton’s ‘Coat of Many Colors’ to her own ‘Somewhere,’ Eva covers a wide musical spectrum-country, folk, blues, R&B, western swing, appalachian, celtic, Willie Nelson, Gershwin.”
BONUS: “If I Give My Heart.”
December 29th, 2015 at 8:23 am
That’s always been one of my favorite Willie Nelson songs. Nice, but I’d go with Willie’s version.
December 29th, 2015 at 10:01 am
Willie is my favorite male country singer, by far, ever since I first bought a copy of Red Headed Stranger on LP, which was when? I just looked it up. 1975. Forty years ago. This song was on it.
December 29th, 2015 at 6:00 pm
We’ve seen him in concert several times – once in Central Park with the Highwaymen (Kris Kristofferson, and the late Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings) – lastly in 2010 at Radio City Music Hall (a bizarre juxtaposition) and the following Spring at Jazzfest In New Orleans.
December 29th, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Nobody asked, but if they had, I’d have said my favorite female country singer was Tammy Wynette. But that’s my answer tonight. Tomorrow it might be someone else. If so, it probably would be Emmylou Harris.
December 30th, 2015 at 9:11 am
…who we just saw at the Beacon with Rodney Crowell. I love Emmylou.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:00 am
My favorite recording by Cassidy is her version of “Fields of Gold”. At risk of committing blasphemy, I like it better than Sting’s.
If you aren’t familiar with Cassidy’s life story, Google her. She was evidently an extraordinary woman.
December 31st, 2015 at 8:56 am
I agree.
Fields of Gold:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow:
Her life story: