In late July you will be surprised to see an anti-Eva message! While I was on vacation, a Janis Joplin fan named Paul had too much to drink and posted the same crazed message about fifty times. By the time I found out about it, several people had posted indignant rebuttals, so I merely deleted the redundant messages and left his initial posting in the Guestbook. Ever since then, when I have gone out of town for more than a few days, I have left a friend in charge of the Guestbook to keep such a problem from recurring.
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Name: Mary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album at this moment "Eva by Heart"
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Too many songs-too little space
Home town Memphis, TN
Found the website msn.explorer
Sent: 4.09 AM - 5/26
Just finished watching "NIGHTLINE" Really good show. It was fantastic to actually see footage of her performing. I'm glad I taped it, because everybody that I've introduced Eva's music to, called to make sure that I knew it was on. By the way, I sent her CDs to my family. Now they're fans too. She keeps bringing people together.
Name: Garnet Aitchison
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album n/a
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song n/a
Home town Columbia, South Carolina
Sent: 4.16 AM - 5/26
I just happened to watch the Nightline show re Eva - I was so moved with her rendition of Over the Rainbow and also her story - her voice is as pure as I have ever heard - and I listen to every kind of music - I am so pleased to have accidentally "found" this beautiful voice and will look for her CDs - What a new treasure for me!
Name: Lawrence Klepper
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Over the Rainbow
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Have not heard them yet
Home town Montreal
Found the website typed in Eva Cassidy on came to this site
Sent: 4.21 AM - 5/26
I am stunned. I just saw ABC's Nightline and heard Eva Cassidy for the first time. I could not believe her voice and the story. I am misty eyed and will now go out and purchase all her music and tell other people about this amazing human being and singer. There has never been a talent like this and to die in obscurity devastates me. I cannot wait to listen to her magnificent voice and the way she sings and interprets all types of music. The world missed out on knowing this musical genius.
Name: Jerry Hellmann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Probably all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Loveland, Ohio
Found the website AT & T
Sent: 4.31 AM - 5/26
I'm a 66 year old man who has fallen in love with the most wonderful voice I have ever heard. I just saw Nightline and I am having a difficult time seeing the keyboard thru the tears. I can't wait to go out and get some of her CD's. What a gift!! What a loss!!
Name: Maryann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Rochester, Michigan
Found the website abcnews.com
Sent: 4.33 AM - 5/26
The dearest man I've ever known and I recently split up. When I heard Eva's voice, I knew her interpretation
of the lyrics and the rich soothing sound would help to
heal my broken heart.
Name: Maryann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Rochester, Michigan
Found the website abcnews.com
Sent: 4.33 AM - 5/26
The dearest man I've ever known and I recently split up. When I heard Eva's voice, I knew her interpretation
of the lyrics and the rich soothing sound would help to
heal my broken heart.
Name: Devonne Ford
Home town Huntsville, AL
Found the website AOL
Sent: 4.36 AM - 5/26
I caught the very of the ABC News program about Ms. Cassidy. The song that was playing at the end was very moving...and timely. It is so easy to think that things are not as good as you would like, until you hear or read about someone who has far more difficulties or in the case of Ms. Cassidy a life that was cut short due to an illness or accident.
I am an avid music lover, wanna be guitarist and singer. Her voice was haunting and moving. I can not wait to purchase her music.
Sincerely,
Devonne
Name: Kathleen Meyer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album just discovered her
Home town Denville, NJ
Found the website ABCNEWS.COM
Sent: 4.46 AM - 5/26
I just finished watching nightline with its wonderful tribute to Eva. The segment was artfully done, mingling her glorious voice with stunning video and commentary. Her family and friends must be so proud and delighted that Eva's melody and beauty lingers on. I know I am. I am looking forward to hearing more of her music and learning more about her spirited life...so I can be more fully aware that it is truly a "wonderful world." Thanks to Eva and all those that keep her musical vision alive!!
Name: Karen Borawski
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town South Windsor, Connecticut
Sent: 4.51 AM - 5/26
Just saw Nightline. Thank you David Marash for her long overdue recognition. We need to continue introducing her music to everyone we know so they can share in the enjoyment of her voice! To Barbara and Hugh Cassidy -- I hope you can draw strength and comfort in knowing how many people are touched by her music.
Name: Jane
Home town Minnetonka, MN
Found the website ABC News links
Sent: 4.52 AM - 5/26
Just watched nightline with my musician husband who still tries to play after suffering several strokes from a rare brain disease called vasculitis. He was inspired to keep on trying. Music is great therapy and Eva's voice is like a soothing angel. She also reminded me of a little of a Janis Joplin interview with Dick Cavett in the 70's. I just found and bought all her CD's online at Amazon on your site link. I would like to learn more about her cancer. An above writer talked about melanoma. Please tell me more. I picked up a hitch hiker one day several years ago (I never do this) who told me she just had a mole removed and it was malignant. I had one I was ignoring and after dropping her off I made an appointment with a Dr. Mine was malignant too. This was several years ago. Please use Eva's site for cancer warnings. There is a reason for her beautiful voice finding us now. Thanks
Name: dan koester
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town tolono
Found the website Alta vista
Sent: 4.54 AM - 5/26
i`ve always been fascinated by peoples bios, and when nightline announced they were doing one on Eva, I thought Eva who? I am pleased and saddened by what I saw tonight. She has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard. It just doesn't seem right to think I'm hearing this wonderful voice for the first time, and she is no longer here. However I am going to soak up all her music I can and turn other people on to her. To all who read this , take a moment and read her bio, it will touch your heart.
Name: Cathy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town North Carolina
Found the website MSN
Sent: 4.56 AM - 5/26
Eva has the voice of an angel! I could not tear myself away from the show Nightline. What a beautiful person, inside and out. To Eva's family: GOD needed another star to light the earth so brightly. She is truly an angel!
Name: Ivonne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town new York
Found the website abcnews.com
Sent: 5.02 AM - 5/26
WOW!!!!!! What a voice, it was like hearing an angel sing, once I heard her story. this is the first time hearing her voice and it blew me away. I'm looking forward to purchasing the album SONGBIRD. So sorry she's gone. I'm sure she's happy to know the world is enjoying her beautiful voice.
Name: Robert Jimenez
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I'm about to find out
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I'm about to find out
Home town Plano, TX
Found the website ABC News (nightline) 5/25
Sent: 5.03 AM - 5/26
A Wonderful...Beautiful person..
I went to school with several musicians (Denton, TX) and wish I would of known her.
Time to go get a few new CD's -- Eva's ..
Bless her soul.
Peace.
Sent: 5.08 AM - 5/26
Name: Stan Feng
Home town Boston
Sent: 5.10 AM - 5/26
Beautiful person and beautiful songs...
Name: Lawrence Klepper
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Just discovered her
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Just discovered her
Home town Montreal
Found the website Typed in Eva Cassidy on Yahoo search
Sent: 5.11 AM - 5/26
I sent a message earlier about the experience I had tonight when I accidentally heard this magnificent voice o Nightline and I am so happy to read that so many others shared the same experience tonight. I cannot wait to purchase her music tomorrow and tell the world about this treasure who will live on as an inspiration to all who are only now just discovering her.
Name: Ronald Jules
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I can't really say which one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Miami/Tallahassee
Found the website abc.com
Sent: 5.14 AM - 5/26
The night that I stubble across God's angelic voice(Eva), will be a night that I will remember for a long time. I'm a big...BIG R&B fan but, when I heard that voice and the type song that she was sing. Tears flowed like rain drops. I haven't cried like that since I heard Pattie Labelle sang "Over the Rainbow". I can place among the greats such as Luther Vandros, Donnie Hataway, Otis Redding, Sarah Vaughn, etc.... That is a very powerful voice. Is there a way that I can receive some kind of info on other types of music that she in involved in. If so please e-mail me. Thank you for sharing her world to me..
Name: SCOTTIE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album DON'T KNOW YET
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song DON'T KNOW YET
Home town NEW YORK
Found the website ABC NEWS .COM
Sent: 5.16 AM - 5/26
AROUSING VOCALIST WHO COULD SEND CHILLS OVER A LISTENER
WHO LIKED ANY KIND OF MUSIC PERIOD. SORRY SHE DIDN'T GET
A CHANCE TO SPREAD HER TALENT WHILE SHE WAS HERE BUT LEFT A STATEMENT IN MUSIC FOR YEARS TO COME OVER THE RAINBOW WAS MINDBLOWING AND I WILL BE PURCHASING HER CD
Name: Rick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song bridge over troubled water/o'er rainbow
Home town Washington, DC
Sent: 5.17 AM - 5/26
Nice website by the way. I just watched the Nightline show on Eva. Every time I hear or read about her story, I can't help but get teary eyed. I always saw her name in ads for upcoming blues alley shows and wondered, "who is Eva cassidy?". I sort of knew who chuck brown was... but I still kick myself for not seeing her when Eva was around and finding out what a beautiful singer and person she was. I also regret not paying my respects at her memorial service when I worked in Greenbelt at the time and Greenbelt Park was just down the road from my office. God bless you Eva, you truly are a special spirit that touched our lives forever. I hope to meet you one day in Heaven just to say thanks.
Name: Kim
Home town Detroit
Found the website ABC.com
Sent: 5.22 AM - 5/26
I listen and I cried. I didn't know her and had never heard her voice until tonight. It made me sad to realize what I have missed and what we Americans have lost. It also made me realize that because of the categories that society has placed us in; stereotypes control our destiny of life. Why couldn't this young white female sing what culturally should be sang by African Americans. Or why can't I, an African American sing Country.
I wish I could have met her and listened to her music this weekend at Blues Alley in Georgetown. You see, I am from Detroit and I am going to spend this holiday weekend in D.C. and it was ironic that I saw this tonight. I would have really liked to sit there and here that sweet soulful sound of Eva Cassidy. Rest in Peace!
Name: John A. Morris III
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What A Wonderful Life
Home town Omaha, NE
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 5.24 AM - 5/26
Have been around a source of musical inspirations all of my long life.
A friend was playing (on a low volume) Some Where Over the Rainbow.
I asked to hear more, and was locked in place listening ?
What a gift of presentation and interpretation, the Italians call it "Style".
Eva had a absolute quality and delivery I've never been exposed to before.
I love live performances and would have considered it an honor to see any
live gifts that Eva might have been able to give. What a great legacy and
tribute to this gem of a person.
Thank you Eva for pulling my soul up at a time when a wonderful life was
obscured by the storm clouds, and now your rainbow warms my Spirit !
Thanks to Barb and Hugh cassidy for sharing such a wondrous child !
Name: janet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song same
Found the website nightline
Sent: 5.25 AM - 5/26
I was soooooo moved by her beautiful voice; and intrigued with her strong, independent, private personality. I could feel her spirit as I watched the show. I can't wait to buy her CD tomorrow.
I know her parents and friends grieve her, but they were so blessed to have know her.
I'm sure she touched many people in her life time and will touch many more now.
She definitely had a reason for being here.
Name: Verdell V. M
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Every Single One of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a wonderful world
Home town Conyers Georgia
Found the website From Nightline/ABC News
Sent: 5.26 AM - 5/26
I am 38 yrs old single mom. My son and I watched Nightline on ABC News 5/25/01 and was utterly moved by Eva's story. Eva Cassidy has a voice from heaven. I was so intrigued by her music, I cried. I must have all her CDs. I wish that I could have met her and maybe see her sing live. I regret that I had not heard of her before now. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Eva is in heaven singing for God. She will be missed.
Name: Ronald Jules
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album As soon as I can get my hands on all of them
Sent: 5.27 AM - 5/26
I'm listening to "somewhere Over the Rainbow" now and wow!!! That is a powerful and sultry voice.... What a gift and blessing to the world!! She will definitely be in my album case!! And this coming from a Black man....MAN, WHAT A VOICE!!!!! I know she is singing her heart out there, somewhere....
Name: Diana Moore
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album about to find out
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song about to find out
Home town Buda TX
Found the website ABC news nightline
Sent: 5.30 AM - 5/26
I always imagine heaven as a place where I will hear music like this. I hope that I am right. Thanks for continuing to share this wonderful gift with everyone.
Name: Connie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album it will be all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them
Home town Westminster, Co
Found the website web search
Sent: 6.15 AM - 5/26
I can not seem to express in words what I have just experienced hearing the story of Eva Cassidy and "that voice". she touched me in a soul place deeper than I have ever experienced before. I feel blessed. what an exquisite soul...
Name: Julie Hill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Jackson, MS
Found the website ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE
Sent: 6.26 AM - 5/26
Listening to Eva Cassidy's soulful serenade unto God, brought me pleasure. She bellowed unto the archangels her entrance. She passionately crooned her arrival to the heavenly host, and swooned the ear of God her presence. When roll call was over she had sung the songs of a millions hearts seeking rest, in a place where troubles melt away like lemon drops, way above the chimney's tops of life.
Name: Linda
Home town Jacksonville, Florida
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 6.28 AM - 5/26
Eva Cassidy lives on...what a gift she left all of us. Like the comment from Kim in Detroit (in this Guestbook), I heard her voice and her story and cried. Nightline was such a treat tonight....wow...what a VOICE! I plan to go out and buy a CD of hers tomorrow. Earlier, I also found a web site with Eva's drawings and paintings....again, WOW!! I believe every one of us has a reason why we were put on this Earth....I believe Eva's purpose was to share her angelic voice with us and her artwork as well...a true gift for all time for all to share.
Name: Addie Rose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album looking forward to finding out
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD(so far)
Home town Livingston, Montana
Found the website Night line
Sent: 6.35 AM - 5/26
I won't forget about Eva Cassidy. I happened to plop down in front of the TV tonight and see the nightline special about this remarkable lady. I cried. I cried at the sound of her soft and comforting voice as it echoed behind the still pictures. I cried at the thought of the world's loss, but I cried with joy -at the knowledge of the spirit's gain.
The fact the she wouldn't sing anything she couldn't feel, really hit home.
Eva Cassidy-from what I understand-is the kind of person that I would like to be. A person of inspiration. She inspires others to come closer to being the people they've always wanted to be.
We are all blessed, and we will continue to be.
Without the voice of Eva Cassidy, the world surely wouldn't be as wonderful.
I am ever so grateful to all of Eva's loved ones and to Nightline for your introduction and insight. Thank you.
Name: Ed Krasner
Home town Bronx, NY
Sent: 6.47 AM - 5/26
I had never heard Eva Cassidy before tonight on nightline. It just blew me away.
what an angelic soul. What an enormous talent. So beautiful.
As a musician and someone who has been around for many years hearing the best in Jazz, blues, gospel, this lady had it. what a voice. what can be said except thank you Eva for your brief visit... you had it all and you gave it. There's no doubt that there's a choir of angels up there somewhere and you're voice is being heard for all eternity..
Name: darrell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ??????
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ???????
Home town Idaho Falls
Found the website did a search for Eva cassidy
Sent: 7.18 AM - 5/26
I had never even heard of Eva or her beautiful voice until I heard her on nightline tonight. but I have to say that it is some of the most soothing/beautiful, music I have ever heard.
it is truly a wonderful thing.
Name: Joy Anderson
Home town Garden Grove, CA
Found the website abcnews.com
Sent: 7.21 AM - 5/26
I just finished watching Nightline and was blown away by her incredible, sweet voice and spirit. I'm sorry I never had the opportunity to see perform in person. Thank God for film and technology. Because now I will never forget her. I'm looking forward to getting her CD and sharing it. Thank you Eva for sharing your gift with the world. It's so refreshing to see a story like this on TV, we get too much violence, mediocre talent and useless information on TV.
Name: Jody Smith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album not sure yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Wonderful Life"
Home town Chicago Ill
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 7.27 AM - 5/26
I too was watching Nightline, and noticed it wasn't about something political, but something a bit different. I love music, and Eva's voice locked me into a beautifully hypnotic state of bliss as I listened to her story. How appropriate that she sang at her benefit "Wonderful Life" so selflessly, and was so gracious with her friends and family. She was truly a beautiful person. I'm going out tomorrow to purchase all of her CDs.
Name: Joel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album my compilations
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leave, but I'm moving toward What a Wonderful Life after that show
Home town Oakland
Found the website I just need to sound off here every so often. Yes, I know this isn't a discussion group.
Sent: 7.31 AM - 5/26
The Nightline special kind of shows the best and worst of TV, don't you think? They kept cutting away just as she was about to nail another great note (ok, no sex analogies). But eventually there was enough of her voice to make it clear what the commotion was all about. And they let "What a Wonderful World" break our hearts at the end, so all ended as it should. And it was great to get all the visual material and the background info and see the faces of some of the other cast of characters.
And then there's the other matter of taking something that's been a kind of mission and a secret ("You haven't heard of Eva Cassidy-check this out...") now getting to be common knowledge. It's great, but it also hurts the ego (mine, at least) just a tiny bit to not be the holder of such secret, precious knowledge to be Bestowed On Others. Know what I mean? Another of those damn little Buddhist tests of how attached you are a fleeting image of something-the universe likes to pull those on us (me, anyway) just often enough to make me laugh and irritate me at the same time. I know it's a symptom of an insufficiently rich inner life, but there it is. Sigh.
Name: D. Goodman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album will find out soon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow/It's a wonderful life
Home town Los Angeles
Found the website abc.com
Sent: 7.35 AM - 5/26
Truly amazing! How could it be this woman's time to go? Thank god for programs like Nightline and for the person who shared her story. Now I can share her memory with my friends and family
Name: Misty
Home town Santa Rosa, CA
Found the website AOL
Sent: 7.49 AM - 5/26
I just finished watching "Nightline" about this beautiful and extremely talented woman named Eva Cassidy. I was totally blown away by the voice of an angel. What a tragedy that she died so young and at the peak of what surely would have been an exciting career in music. I am thankful that her music has been allowed to come forth and make the world a little better place.
Name: Jeff
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a Wonderful world
Home town Hayward, California
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.51 AM - 5/26
Watching Nightline and surfing the web tonight. I had to stop surfing when I heard Eva's voice. So graceful, smooth and calm. It puts me to ease in this high stress world of high tech. I'm only sorry she left this world such a young person. Her memories in song will stay forever.
Name: Gary rossi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Stockton, ca
Found the website ABC News
Sent: 8.10 AM - 5/26
I currently have bone cancer with not of time left. I heard Eva's music and new that was the music I wanted played at my wake. In fact I will go out in the am and buy her album Songbird if I am able. I am so much more at peace after hearing her songs. Thank You from the bottom of my heart. I think death will come easier listening to Eva's songs!!!!!! rsco
Name: Lee French
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Guthrie, Ok.
Sent: 8.38 AM - 5/26
I have watched Nightline for many years now without shedding one tear until tonight. About 2 months ago a lady friend of mine from England called me up about 5 am and said Lee you have to hear this song Over the Rainbow by a lady by the name of Eva Cassidy. As she played that song over the phone, I not only woke up but I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up and soon tears filled my eyes for I have never heard such an incredible voice that only a music lover can understand. Needless to say I rushed out the next day and ordered all her tapes.. So as I read the comments and responses of tonight's-- nightline how her voice by gods design has brought many people to tears - I no longer feel alone in my love for this incredible voice that I have now have been enjoying for the last 2 months. Thank god she is being heard finally in the U.S.
Name: Edmund B
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all...eventually
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get Ready...(for now)
Home town Berkeley, CA
Found the website ABCnews.com/Nightline
Sent: 9.17 AM - 5/26
• Yet another proof that there is a God Almighty. Where else could such a lovely angelic voice come from? Before this evening's episode of Nightline (which I seldom watch - a very rare channel surfing reward, indeed), I had no idea who Eva Cassidy was. I also had no idea that Jeff Beck's & Rod Stewart's "People get Ready" could be redone oh so tastefully. Just hearing the first few notes on Nightline, even though the tune was voiced over, immediately captivated me. It must be the comforting sound of Eva's voice that made an instant fan out of me. Her music has that rare healing quality - it truly soothes the soul and lifts the spirit. Graceful yet powerful.
• And oh, Eva does blues, jazz and gospel too? I bet she would make rap sound good too, not that she would have done rap. Such diversity and range would make buying her CD's a sound investment. I already have an enormous CD collection but I'm sure a can manage to make room for Eva's CD's. In the meantime, until I get a hold of at least one of her CD's, I need to pop Jeff Beck's & Rod Stewart's "People get Ready " in my CD player. I am soooo buckling at the knees right now.
• So okay my fellow fans, where can I attend an all-Eva music listening get-together here in the SF Bay Area?
Love, Peace & Joy to All - Edmund B-)
Name: Kim Nesbitt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet
Home town Irvine, CA
Found the website ABCNews.com
Sent: 7.33 PM - 5/26
I was working on my computer late last night and the TV was on. I never watch Nightline because I don't stay up that late. As soon as the story came on and I heard the music, I stopped in my tracks. The story and songs were mesmerizing. What an incredibly beautiful voice (truly a gift from God). How unfortunate that she was taken so early in life, but how fortunate that we have her songs and gift to listen to and share with others. What a wonderful story, I am glad that I got to hear it. I am going out to buy her CD's, then I will be able to pick my favorite
Name: Abe
Home town San Mateo, CA
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.11 PM - 5/26
Like so many others, I was introduced to Eva Cassidy by the ABC Nightline story. Truth be known, I was asleep when the show began and my wife had the TV on in the room. Suddenly I was awoken by the sounds of an angel and a riveting voice that jarred me from my slumber. I could not believe the songs I was hearing nor could I believe the tragedy of her loss. As I sit here, today, listening to Songbird while writing this note, my world, and ultimately others, are better because of Eva Cassidy.
And that's a legacy that she would be proud...
Name: Jonelle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I don't own one yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere over the Rainbow
Home town Minneapolis
Found the website abcnews.com
Sent: 8.17 PM - 5/26
I heard this last night and was really comforted by her voice. I was feeling sad about the tragedy in Israel with the wedding party and my prayers go out to all the families.
This woman's voice has some beautiful healing power to the soul. Eva is Beautiful, I wish I had heard of her sooner. I wish we could have listened to her more in the news cast.
Name: Joseph Spinelli
Home town Phoenixville, Pa.
Found the website abc.com
Sent: 8.28 PM - 5/26
I always watch night-line for the latest in the best of news and stories; and as I watched last night to be introduced to an angel in disguise with the voice and gift of God ...I was totally overwhelmed with joy and tears and inspiration and grateful to have been touched by Eva Cassidy's life; though so short on this earth but knowing she will live forever in those to be lucky to have been touched her life and glorious, wonderful voice. Her charisma and powerfully honest interpretations of the songs of life; thru her voice touched every part of my being and the tears of joy and sweet pain could not help but to flow to see and hear her in her true form and with her real gift of life...may her voice be heard forever thru the heavenly skies.... I know I believe in angles; cause I've been touched deeply by one of God's... may you sing forever, Eva...for your songs will live forever within me and all else that find you... you will not be forgotten, Eva Cassidy. Thank you again to all that allowed me to find Eva... How rare are Songbirds of this caliber.... and how fortunate we are to be given such gifts.... Rest in peace and sing in loving joy forever, Eva.
Name: Hubert Schmidt
Home town Gummersbach/Germany
Found the website swr Homepage
Sent: 8.28 PM - 5/26
Ich habe heute das erste mal von Eva Cassidy einen Song in SWR 3 und einen Bericht von ihrer Krankheit und viel zu frühem Tod gehört. Mein erster Gedanke war, warum Gott einen Menschen mit solch einer klaren und wundervollen Stimme so früh zu sich genommen hat.
In solchen Momenten muß ich mich zwingen zu glauben, daß es einen Gott gibt und er sich schon etwas dabei gedacht haben muß.
Name: Lawrence
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Just discovered her
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Just discovered her
Home town Montreal, Quebec
Found the website Eva Cassidy on Yahoo search
Sent: 8.35 PM - 5/26
I rarely watch Nightline and by surfing the channels last night I got lucky and heard the voice of an angel. I have talked about it to others today who shared the exact same feelings. Eva has changed my life and its direction just by listening to her amazing voice. The world is just discovering her and no singer that I have ever listened to comes close to this amazing human being. She is touching so many hearts and even changing our lives by her exceptional vocal talent. I cannot wait to purchase her music and I could never listen to Judy Garlands version of Over the Rainbow again after listening to the angel Eva Cassidy sing this song. She devastated me in a sad but positive way. I cried while listening to her.
Name: Garry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold and Songbird
Home town Wrexham. Wales UK
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8.48 PM - 5/26
Hi what a wonderful singer Eva is...so sweet and melodic...Have sent Songbird CD to my dearest friend in the States so she can hear a wonderful singer... What a shame that eventually we will run out of her material. But will have her musical legacy with us forever...
Name: Lindsey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Arkansas
Found the website abcnews.com
Sent: 8.48 PM - 5/26
What a beautiful voice. God gave her such a wonderful gift. I watched her story on ABC and it moved me to tears. We have so many things in life to be thankful for and you never know when it can be taken from you. Thank you for telling her story!
Name: mike hope
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town peak dale, buxton, derbyshire
Found the website freeserve
Sent: 8.53 PM - 5/26
new CD no boundaries!!!!!!! out of this world, super fantastic, brill, what more can I say, only one sad thing, only on import in the UK, why oh why. somebody out there please release emotional step as a single, this album will go straight to no1 if released on the market please do. what a voice, god rest .
Name: Randy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Circle Pines, MN
Found the website Webferret
Sent: 8.56 PM - 5/26
I caught the last half of last night's program on the story of Eva, and was so mesmerized by her soul drenched voice, and her purity that I went to the WWW and looked for all the information that I could find on Eva. I woke up this morning and went and purchased 3 of her CD's. I came home and listened so intently to the first 2, almost forgetting to take a breath. I regret that this world lost this passionate, soulful, angelic voice. I will be sharing her voice with everyone that will listen.
Name: Denise
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water
Home town Dallas
Found the website mamma.com
Sent: 9.28 PM - 5/26
For my birthday in March, my brother called me and said he had a CD for me, so he came by my place of employment and had me go out to his truck and listen to it. WOW!!!!!!! it was Eva Cassidy, and it was the first time I ever heard of her. I told my husband when I got home about the CD and he didn't get to listen to it until the next Sunday as we were preparing lunch. He just sat there listening over and over. He is a sound tech and had worked in the music business almost all his adult life. He said Eva blows all other singers away with her voice. Last night he cried as he watched nightline. I have cried reading all the entries here. God called her home, I think, because he wanted that angelic voice in the choir of all Choirs. SHE WENT THERE TO SEE HER SAVIOR, OVER JORDAN. I PRAY YOU ARE WEARING THAT CROWN, EVA!!
Denise
Name: Stephen Wood
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird/don't know yet
Home town Clovis, New Mexico
Found the website ABC News
Sent: 10.11 PM - 5/26
Hello, for appx 15 years I was a sound tech/eng. My wife got an Eva CD for her bday And it floored me, Literally!!! Then I was told of her being gone. I'm not in the music business anymore because of the structure of it all. Eva is what it is all about. It is artistry not Elvisness. What a loss for us, but Oh what a gain!!! Thanks be to God for recording. I could already write a book about how I feel about Eva's music. When I first heard the CD Eva by Heart I said to myself, this may be the best I've ever heard "already in tears" It's amazing. May she be an inspiration for more to light up the world and buck the business end of art. This morning after nightline, I discovered that she played a mean guitar also. WOW Thank You Eva!!!
Name: Mari
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People Get Ready
Home town NYC
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 10.50 PM - 5/26
I head about Eva last summer when a friend put Songbird on her stereo. I was moved. In fact I borrowed the CD and haven't given it back yet!
She does Fields of Gold better than Sting could've ever dreamed to sing it. We were blessed to have her for the short time that we did. It goes to show that love can't be stopped, it goes on and on.
May God lead her to her spiritual enfoldment.
Name: maggie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town montville
Found the website icq
Sent: 1.05 AM - 5/27
About four months ago I was in Barnes and noble and picked up a set of headphones and the music that was coming through nearly blew me away. I stood there with tears in my eyes listening to the purest voice I have ever heard. I bought the CD "Songbird" and listened to it in my car as I drove home. I knew I had to have more music by this awesome person. When I found out by reading the album liners that she is no longer with us my heart cried. I have since bought two more CDs and have three more ordered. I will eventually try to find other CDs by other artists that she has done backups on to add to my Eva collection. She is still singing somewhere I'm sure...Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Name: Betty Bailey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town San Angelo, Texas
Found the website abc.com
Sent: 1.09 AM - 5/27
Thank you Eva wherever you are for filling the world with your beautiful song. Thank you Nightline for bringing attention to this brilliant voice.
Name: roe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song don't know yet
Home town NYC
Found the website ABC News
Sent: 1.39 AM - 5/27
I feel blessed for having viewed Nightline last night. Would love to see a repeat. Had never heard of Eva prior to that but cannot share my feelings of her work with everyone that I speak to. She did and gave so much in such a short period of time on earth.
Name: Cathy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird(I bought it today)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All so far
Home town Waterford Mi.
Found the website AOL
Sent: 1.49 AM - 5/27
I watched Nightline last night something I rarely do,
I'm thanking God today that I did. I had no idea that a voice could be so beautiful I swear I was introduced to an Angel. I have told everyone about this remarkable talent. A gift to us from God !!! I have never been so touched by a voice. I went all over to find her CDs, after searching every sold out store in my area I got lucky I found Songbird I really feel she touched my soul. I'm so amazed with the effect she has with her voice. I'm saddened that this Angel was called home so young...
Name: Shannon Lochner
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song don't know yet
Home town Columbia, TN
Found the website abc.com
Sent: 1.59 AM - 5/27
My mom watched the Nightline last night and just told me about the Eva Cassidy Story (she taped it when she heard her voice) today. I heard her singing through the phone. So I logged on to learn more about her. What blows me away the most was that Eva could sing any kind of music. From soul to gospel!!! That's just amazing and breathtaking!!! Thank you for letting everyone hear this wonderful (words can't describe how wonderful she really is) singer!!! Thank you, I will be going out to buy her CD's for my mom and I. Thank you so much. She is very inspirational to all those who hear her music and her story.
Name: Jim Simpson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow / People Get Ready
Home town Stratford, CT
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 3.42 AM - 5/27
I just happened to catch Nightline last night and wow I was glad I did. I had never heard of Eva. Her singing was incredible and the story just really moved me. I went to the store today and purchased Live At Blues Alley and Songbird. I also plan on buying the other CD's that are out. Eva may be gone but her music will last forever.
Name: Mary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album At this moment- EVA BY HEART
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How Can I Keep From Singing
Home town Memphis, TN
Found the website msn.explorer
Sent: 4.01 AM - 5/27
I'm listening to Eva while I read all the new entries from us earthbound fans. Isn't it wonderful that when she sings a song, you actually hear the words, and feel what the songwriter wanted you to feel. What an amazing voice.
Name: Glorie Windham
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Everything She sings
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Everything
Home town Brea, California
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 4.42 AM - 5/27
I, like Shirley above, did not know Eva until last night 5/26/2001 during the special by ABC. I am a singer and I always am looking to hear uniqueness in others and she has the most unique sound out today. I believe God allowed her to record mostly songs to glorify him and then he took her. Because the kind of gift she has was straight from above and was meant only to glorify him.
Sincerely
Name: Edwina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't yet know, but can hardly wait to find out
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town El Dorado (between Sacramento & S. Lake Tahoe)
Found the website ABC News - Nightline
Sent: 7.24 AM - 5/27
Thank you Dave Marash of Nightline for bringing this music to our ears. When we first heard Eva's voice last night on Nightline, we thought - Wow !!! We feel so fortunate to have heard her enchanting voice. We ordered all her CD's today and we can't wait till they arrive. I am saddened that the world did not discover her prior to her painful death and must thank our neighbors in the U.K. for bringing her voice, life, following her death. Eva's parents must feel a great void, but the rest of the world who is just now finding Eva wish to say thank you for sharing her. She had such a brief, but wonderful life. In death her impact on the world will never be lost and I hope her spirit realizes we have all suddenly found her.
Name: patrick lennon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song every song is unique
Home town Chatham Kent England
Found the website AOL
Sent: 10.55 AM - 5/27
hi. to all Eva fans. I am so happy & pleased for Eva's mum & dad that our American cousins are know finding Eva for the first time. just like you I to was brought to tears when I first heard Eva & will never forget it. what a very special person Eva is to us all . she is an angel in every sense god bless you Eva. the message in your voice is beautiful thank you. I would just like to thank Eva's mum & dad to be able to have the pleasure to listen to Eva's soulful voice thank you. my heart goes out to Eva's brother & sisters & all her family & friends . also I would like to thank Chris Bind for every thing he & Eva achieved in bringing us this fantastic & powerful music & also your guitarist Keith Grimes & drummer Raice McLeod & thanks to you Laura for all your hard work getting this tribute to Eva up & running I love to read the messages hear I cry every time. lots of love from your English fans. by xxx
Name: Tom Wojo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Chicago
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 11.25 AM - 5/27
I lost my kid brother to "Cancer" in 1995... Eva's life & music is moving & healing. I'm glad her incredible talent has been Internationally recognized... and her deserving parents remain the primary benefactors. I'm sure Eva is enjoying all this...
God Bless,
Name: James
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song don't know yet
Home town Campbellsville Kentucky
Found the website ABC News
Sent: 12.16 PM - 5/27
up until I watched the nightline show ,I had never
heard this incredible voice, needless to say I have been
truly blessed, and will pass this wonderful music on to someone else, thank you Eva
Name: Michael Craven
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album waiting for delivery
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Charleston, SC
Found the website ABC News.com
Sent: 2.36 PM - 5/27
Wow!! I had drifted off in the old recliner while
watching TV and was awakened by the voice of an angel,
Eva Cassidy, I'll never be the same. Have ordered all the recordings and am reading all that I can about this wonderfully unassuming artist, a treasure.
Name: Presley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Houston
Sent: 3.06 PM - 5/27
The ABC news program was my first intro to Eva. Awesome story. Amazing sound. Been online and downloaded "Rainbow". WOW!!!
Name: fred frankel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a wonderful world
Home town Boca Raton, fl
Found the website ask jives
Sent: 4.16 PM - 5/27
Just discovered her, and this is the best version of my favorite George Weiss song.
She just brings tears to your eyes!
Name: Evelyn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song wibderfyk world
Home town Manitoba, Canada
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 4.55 PM - 5/27
she sings wonderfully. what a talent!!!!
Name: Chris Stern
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley (but they are all great)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wonderful World/Fields of Gold/ Can't choose really
Home town Scarborough UK but US resident in Fl.
Found the website Dogpile.com
Sent: 5.16 PM - 5/27
Heard Eva for the first time on CNN just a few weeks ago. Stunned is the only word that comes to mind.
As a singer/guitarist and occasional songwriter for over 30 years I never dreamt I would ever hear anything so wonderful.
My life will be forever enriched by her music.
Chris
Name: Bob Ristelhueber
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Say Goodbye
Home town San Jose California
Found the website Hotbot
Sent: 7.43 PM - 5/27
I had never heard of Eva until I saw the Nightline program. Since then I've been listening to every song of hers I can find on Napster. What a wonderful voice and style she had. I'm so glad I discovered her. I'm telling everyone I know about her.
Name: Albert DiTommaso
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know - yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song don't know - yet
Home town Pittsburgh, PA
Found the website ABC Nightline, 5/26/01
Sent: 8.50 PM - 5/27
I cannot believe I never heard of Eva until Nightline
featured her! Such a gifted lady should not have been
taken away so soon. Her rendition of OVER THE RAINBOW
was beautiful listening. I have always been a Nightline fan; now I know why - their subjects are the best.
Name: Leo
Sent: 8.55 PM - 5/27
Such a talent must be recognized. In my opinion she is deserving of a Grammy. Album of the year, Lifetime achievement, Legend award, etc. I am going to email the Grammies and I hope that many of you will too.
webmaster@grammy.com
Name: david
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Luton England
Found the website via Didgeridoo
Sent: 9.09 PM - 5/27
I had not heard of Eva Cassidy but saw her Songbird Album in our local Supermarket, and decided to take a listen. Hearing the opening bars of Fields of Gold was sufficient and to convince me to buy and then later, when I had time to hear the complete album I was absolutely captivated. At the same time I was reading the cover notes and was so saddened by what I read. The world has lost a great talent and her family and friends have lost a special person but I hope that they can find some comfort in knowing the pleasure that Eva's voice is now bringing to so many people.
Name: Pook
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Everyone!!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Anything Country
Home town Greendale
Found the website ABC News
Sent: 9.14 PM - 5/27
WOW!!! She blows me away, and when she sings country, it's just the best!
Name: Rich
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Lake Arrowhead, Ca
Found the website AOL
Sent: 11.08 PM - 5/27
Eva Cassidy was presented to me by my son who lives in the DC area. We were already fans when the Nightline "props" came on for Eva. I was pleased I was able to SEE her sing on the ABC news video. What a voice! I'll be getting her other CD's.
Name: Nige Watling
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album They're all wonderful!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Kathy's Song
Home town Oxford UK
Found the website UK Plus
Sent: 11.31 PM - 5/27
Eva's talent leaves me speechless 'Time After Time'. I know have all her albums and cannot get over how someone of her brilliance lay undiscovered for so long. If you're listening Eva (and I'm sure you must be), thank you for bringing so much musical pleasure back into my life.
Name: cindy simpson
Home town Lake City Florida
Sent: 12.02 AM - 5/28
I was half asleep when I heard Eva on Nightline Friday night. I sat straight up as I listened to one of the most beautiful voices ever. What a shame we lost her so soon, but thank God I have found her music. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was one of my mother's favorite songs. I think she is probably listening to Eva sing in Heaven and thoroughly enjoying it. I can't wait to hear her sing "Amazing Grace." I tried to buy her CD's today, but they were sold out.
Name: Michael
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Montreal
Found the website by looking for Eva Cassidy
Sent: 12.15 AM - 5/28
She is the greatest of all time and she blows all away with her talent to sing everything with the most angelic of voices. Thanks Nightline for introducing me. I am sitting here listening to Eva on Songbird which I purchased today and I know I am not alone.
Name: Raven
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't make me choose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I don't know :((((
Home town Birmingham, UK
Found the website Askjeeves.com
Sent: 12.28 AM - 5/28
There are not enough sites for Eva Cassidy WHY NOT??? it took me ages to find this one, n e way, I'd like to say that I think Eva Cassidy has the best voice I have ever heard!!!! The first time I heard one of her songs was Somewhere Over the Rainbow, at the time I was doing the house work and I had to stop sit down and watch, I had tears in my eyes, it was unbelievable, I found myself keeping the music channel on hoping that they would but the video on again... I wasn't aware that she had died in 1996 and when I found out I was sad, because she was such a gifted person... I only have two of her albums, and I won't hesitate to buy n e others as I know I will enjoy them. She has opened up a whole new world of singing for me, as a singer, I never realised that I could sing blues and be good at it, but now I know and I have her to thank for that she has inspired me and I feel my voice is now better than ever! Btw if n e knows where I can find lyrics for her songs I'd appreciate it if you told me :)
Be happy all :)
Name: Caroline
Home town Manitoba Canada
Found the website A friend
Sent: 2.21 AM - 5/28
Was introduced to Eva Cassidy through a special friend. Somewhere over the Rainbow is done absolutely beautifully by Eva. A voice like an angel.
Name: Tom Ricucci
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Germantown, Maryland
Found the website From a friend
Sent: 2.40 AM - 5/28
I was introduced to Eva's music by a friend. She was a
marvelous talent. When I hear Over the Rainbow it brings
tears to my eyes.
Name: Jack
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town Pa
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 3.16 AM - 5/28
I find myself very absorbed with Eva's music. I can't understand why. Is anyone taken to this degree. I've purchased all her CDs yet I still look for more on Napster. I was awaken with her music in my dreams and I hear her music as I drive down the road. why? I regret not taking the advantage of seeing her in concert as he was local for me. I just wish I could have let her know how enjoyable her music is.
Jack,
Time is moments of life,
Life is a moment in time.
Name: Christine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town Superior, WI
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 4.12 AM - 5/28
It has been a long time since music has moved me & never to this degree. After seeing the nightline segment focusing on Eva, I was haunted by her voice. I went out & found her on Amazon & listened to everything possible there. WOW!! I ordered all her CD's. What a loss.
Name: Angelette
Home town Jersey City, NJ
Found the website MSN
Sent: 4.25 AM - 5/28
Last Friday night I was half sleep while listening to ABC news, Night Life. While dozing, I happen to hear a song and I rose up from my bed to pay more attention to this song and its creator. Nightlife kept showing the singer's picture, a Caucasian woman while interviewing different folks on the show. I could not believe my eyes. However, I must say her voice brought tears to my eyes. After her parents spoke of her last days and the benefit concert, ABC news played "What A Wonderful Life", which was the song that Eva Cassidy sang at her benefit concert. I cried like a baby, especially since we had lost such a beautiful woman with beautiful soul in her voice. I am an African-American woman in which there is not one Caucasian singer to date who have brought tears to my eyes like Eva Cassidy. In fact, I went on Amazon.com to search for all her CDs, which I will purchase to expose her soulful voice to all my friends and family. She was truly an Angel with a beautiful, but yet soulful and spirited voice. God bless her and her family. Thank you.
Name: Michael
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song one is not possible
Home town Troutdale, Oregon
Found the website link from ABC News
Sent: 5.38 AM - 5/28
Only twice in my life have I known the rare experience that Eva's voice gave to me that night on Nightline. The first was an evening in 1970 in Portland, Oregon. A little known at the time singer, whose fans would die rather than give up their tickets, appeared for 4 and one half hours. Her honest love of all people and that incredible voice was poured out in that small hot auditorium. It was Bette Midler. I thought never again could that happen, let alone on a midnight network piece. The lady who went with me that night is now my wife of 30 years, and we are sitting here along the Sandy River listening to the four CDs experiencing that same feeling from a singer who is much more alive than not. What a blessing to this world and all who will go to work on Monday with the peace and grace Eva continues to give.
Name: Dale Rusin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song somewhere over the mountain
Home town fort smith Arkansas
Found the website friend told me Nightline ABC news
Sent: 8.02 AM - 5/28
this is one of the best voices I've ever heard and great guitar! Which is really a shocker, is she
looks so much like my girlfriend, they could be twins! I would like to buy all her albums. Its
so say she died before everyone found out about how great she was. I believe she would of
became on of the best in the music world. I believe she is one of the best anyway!! I just
wish could of knew this! THANK YOU for this web site, wanting to hear more about her!
from, Dale Rusin and Kelii Collras
Name: DOC MCGUIRE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album NOT HEARD ALL YET !
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song WONDERFUL WORLD/SO FAR
Home town RIFLE, CO.
Found the website GOOGLE
Sent: 8.25 AM - 5/28
I AM A CHRISTIAN....
HER PRESENCE A GIFT SO BEAUTIFUL TO HER FRIENDS, WAS TOPPED OFF WITH A VOICE SO BEAUTIFUL TO THE WORLD...
SHE HAS RETURNED TO THE ARMS OF THE MASTER/WILL WE EVER HEAR EVA'S AMAZING GRACE
Name: Cathy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waiting for my CDs to find out
Home town Philadelphia
Found the website Through ABC's Nightline site
Sent: 11.27 AM - 5/28
I just met Eva Friday night on Nightline, and have since had the same sense of loss in the pit of my soul as I had after Princes Diana and JFK Jr died...
Name: KERI
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album none more than the other
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song what a wonderful world
Home town Portland
Found the website by chance when I went looking
Sent: 1.50 PM - 5/28
As always when God has a special plan for someone, he invites them to join his kingdom. This was an invitation Eva didn't say no to. In heaven she soars with perfect wings, and leads the Angels in harmony.
Name: Marty Milton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Urbana, IL
Found the website through link at Home Theater Forum
Sent: 4.07 PM - 5/28
I had the good fortune to hear my first Eva Cassidy CD last fall, Time After Time. I was completely blown away by her wonderful voice. I was also deeply sadden to read in the liner notes that she had died in 1996.
It was a great loss but we are fortunate to have the recordings available to remind us of what a great talent Eva was. Her voice will live on forever.
Name: eddie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song don't know yet, Over the Rainbow and dark end of the street are beautiful on the ear
Home town Rotherham
Found the website searchalot
Sent: 7.12 PM - 5/28
I am not a TV addict but my daughter is and I caught a bit of Eva singing some where Over the Rainbow, I have a copy of the music and I have a go on guitar sometimes, I said to my daughter I like that, she told me it was the most requested video on British TV.
I enjoy listening to local musicians, I am sure Eva would have enjoyed a Friday night in my local village, live music is a big input to the community.
The intimate nature would have suited her.
I enjoy Eva's music, It gets me.
There are few times that music makes me cry, but when I listen to the rainbow sang by Eva am moved
regards
Eddie
Name: Pam
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time after Time
Home town Denver
Found the website iwon
Sent: 2.33 AM - 5/29
After seeing Nightline I went to Borders to buy Songbird. They were out, but I did buy two other CD's. What an incredible talent. Thank you Nightline for letting the world know about her
Name: Jerry Cable
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Don't know yet - perhaps Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Allen, Texas
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.59 AM - 5/29
I was on vacation and heard the Nightline special about Eva on Friday night from a hotel room in Oklahoma. I was totally blown away by her voice and her talent, and was (and am) saddened that she is no longer with us on this earth. I immediately found a piece of paper and scribbled down her name and the name of one of her few albums (Songbird) and vowed to look up any info I could find on her when I got back to Texas. From the looks of the number of entries in this Guestbook, it looks like I'm not alone in being moved by her music. I am going to try and buy as many of her recordings that I can find.
Name: lisa and don ruthem
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Gilbert, AZ
Found the website Blix Street records
Sent: 4.12 AM - 5/29
Eva has the most beautiful voice ever. I just can't keep from playing her CD over and over again. It makes me so sad to know she is gone, but I know up in heaven she is singing. she truly is an angel!!
Name: Alan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't Know Yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold and Rainbow
Home town LA
Found the website other links
Sent: 10.22 AM - 5/29
First heard Over the Rainbow on The Other Side, driving up a mountain, 9,000 feet, thru the clouds. Eva's voice was mystical. Then bought Songbird after Nightline. From the opening note of Fields of Gold, Eva's angelic voice sent chills up through me. She is all spirit. Her voice embeds inside you, she actually lifts you to another place. No wonder she is #1 in England. It won't be much longer for the US. Thank you Laura for this website. All the back articles and interviews you conducted are fascinating. Please do more!
Name: Les Ludlow
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know you by Heart
Home town Rochford England
Found the website evacassidy.com
Sent: 2.46 PM - 5/29
I am not too proud to admit that when I first heard " I know you by Heart" I cried. No song or singer has ever had that effect on me. I was only made aware of her music a few months ago, what a talent I and others have missed. She sings with the soul of Judy Garland, the musical interpretation and flair of Ella Fitzgerald but with the most magical voice I have ever heard - what a combination!- what sadness!
Name: Caley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Moundridge, Kansas
Found the website ABC Nightline
Sent: 4.34 PM - 5/29
I was amazed and touched by her beautiful voice when I saw her story on Nightline. I am glad that I got the chance to hear her story. It saddened me to hear that she had already past, but I plan to buy all of her CD's if I can find them.
Name: Billy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ?
Home town Mesquite, TX
Found the website NETSCAPE search
Sent: 5.23 PM - 5/29
I just heard of Eva on ABC's Nightline.
Her voice is one of the most beautiful I've ever heard.
I am looking to purchase her music for myself and to pass
some along as gifts. More people need to hear her.
God did good and she seemed to be thankful she was blessed.
Name: Marge Packard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World/ Autumn Leaves/I Know You By Heart
Home town Rochester, NY
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 6.47 PM - 5/29
It's been years since a voice has touched me like Eva Cassidy's has. I would've loved to have been among the crowd at Blues Alley or anywhere else she performed for that matter. My heart aches knowing that I'll never get to experience hearing her sing in person. I would've loved that. It must be such a bitter-sweet time for all of you who loved her on a personal level...because for those of us that will only know her through her voice....well, there's a yearning to hear more....and knowing that we never will creates a sense of loss that is really inexplicable. It makes you wonder about "what could've been". Still and all, I'm so glad to have "found" her music. And thanks for your wonderful website....keep us posted.
Name: Hiram
Sent: 7.42 PM - 5/29
I saw the "Nightline" presentation about Eva Cassidy on 5-25-01. It was very moving. What a wonderful talent we missed.
Name: Bobby Boulais
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Depends on my mood
Home town Montclair California
Found the website Alta Vista
Sent: 7.43 PM - 5/29
I just wanted to stop and thank Laura for informing me of the Nightline broadcast on Eva. It was so weird because I have not checked the site for a long time and then I had this 'feeling' that I should check it. And there it was... same day....must have been an angel on my shoulder :) Anyway.. Overall I thought it was nice. I recorded it.. watched it probably 4 times now and have one or two critiques of it. One is that I wish they would have had a bit more of the live video... its so rare and like gold to a fan.. and the other is that they didn't mention her other artwork.. paintings.. murals etc. It would have only taken a second and some of those long slow pans of Eva in the garden etc. could have been left on the edit room floor instead. But it was nice... and I know I get a bit critical when it comes to Eva :)
Name: Liz Charters
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Livingston, Scotland
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.56 PM - 5/29
I have been inspired by Eva's story as I too was good at art but also loved music. I too suffered from being shy and not confident about my singing ability but I was encouraged on a recent holiday to pursue using my talent and recently auditioned for a local talent showcase. As yet I do not know whether I have been successful but I conquered my nerves and sang Fields of Gold. Having been unable to source a good backing track I sang along with a recording of Eva's rendition playing in my ear! So if anyone out there can help me I would be ecstatic if anyone knew of how I could get just the backing tracks to all of Songbird so that I can perform at this local show. I am not a professional singer but I do want to use the talents I have before I get any older! (a 46 year old mum with hope in her heart and music in her soul!) Thanks Eva for you inspiration.
Name: runner
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird ? live @ blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them!
Home town block island USA
Found the website ignited by night line episode!
Sent: 12.56 AM - 5/30
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Every song she sings becomes hers!!
Name: Bobby
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time (for now!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Long Beach CA
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 6.06 AM - 5/30
Thank you, Nightline, for airing the story and introducing Eva Cassidy to us all. What an extraordinary singer! A voice made in Heaven ... which is probably where Eva Cassidy is right now!
Name: janine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song some where Over the Rainbow
Home town Edinburgh
Found the website just found it
Sent: 12.01 PM - 5/30
i very much like Eva Cassidy and I think she is so pretty
Name: Liz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves/Fields of Gold
Home town now Sunchon, South Korea
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 1.07 PM - 5/30
Her music moves me to tears, thinking of the lost talent that might have been. Beautiful clear tones...oh what a sad loss to the music world. But oh what a treasure to have her CD's to listen to now. It must be part of her magic, that once you hear her music you have to share it with as many people as you can....
Name: Tom S.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song tough question. Fields of Gold, Over the Rainbow
Home town Overland Park, Ks
Sent: 2.36 PM - 5/30
I first heard Eva's voice a couple of years ago on a trip from DC to the Outer Banks of NC. My sister in law Anne Johnson played her CD for me. I was transfixed by her voice at that time. During another trip this year as my Son and I were driving to a local lake for his spring break, I played the "Songbird" CD. Well, I must tell you that both myself and my Son (who is 14) played it over and over. I will sound like a broken record, but I have never been touched so deeply by a voice. Eva pulls me inside every song she sings, it's like I feel her every emotion. You know, kinda like when you're driving, and all of a sudden you find yourself at the end of your journey.
A voice of an Angel. A Spirit that will grow with us all. A talent that continues to give, without asking for anything in return...I'm blessed to have heard her music.
Name: Debbie Dahlborg
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What A Wonderful World
Home town Kill Devil Hills NC
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.09 PM - 5/30
It would be nice to have a sample of Eva's singing somehow available on this website for the people who haven't heard her yet and can't obtain her albums due to the recent popularity.
Name: Grizz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Every one I hear
Home town Bismarck, ND USA
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 3.23 PM - 5/30
I've been a radio DJ for over 25 years working all over the western U.S. Las Friday night I just happened to watching ABC's nightline and was exposed to the sweetest, clearest, most beautiful singing voice I've ever heard. Like so many others, I'm sad to say I'd never even heard of Eva before. Since then I have thought and spoken about little else. Her warmth, her strength, her spirit, her story, not to mention that awesome, wonderful, haunting, exquisite voice.
How could we have had her in our midst and been so unaware. I know that Eva would have forgiven us for our oversight, but that's no excuse. At least we can draw some solace from the fact that she did leave us the wealth of her loving and soulful recordings...And Eva, as for that rainbow, babe...you cleared it by a mile. Thanks for sharing your gift with us.
Name: Bunyip AKA Tom or TLD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album can't decide (yet)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song can't decide (yet)
Home town Ryswyk, Holland
Found the website Thanx muncho 2 my Chat friend Lynne!!!!!
Sent: 5.19 PM - 5/30
Eve baby I can not thank Kiwoz Lynne C. enuff 4 connecting me with U..!
Without my beaut & respected friend Lynne D/U I would ave prob never ever ave known Ur beautiful vox!
I wish U'd ave made 900+ albums cause I can't get enuff of you...
(L) Tom aka TrueBlueOzzy
Name: Lisa Holly
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley - so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song They all move me!
Home town Wauconda, IL
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.24 PM - 5/30
I heard Eva's voice for the first time this past weekend. My stepfather played "Songbird", "Live at Blues Alley", and Eva by Heart" for me. Eva's voice went through my SOUL. I felt as though I was lifted above the cares of this world to a higher plane. I hope that doesn't sound silly but that's the only way I can put it.
When I found out that she had died at 33 I just wanted to RAGE at heaven. I never knew her but I felt devastated that she is gone from us. I have been a lover of all kinds of music throughout my entire life, and yet, I've never been affected so deeply by anything I've heard before, as I have been by Eva's voice.
How fortunate you were to have known her. I'm so thankful that her music remains for those of us who didn't.
Name: Margaret
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Not sure yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Home town New York
Found the website ABC News/Nightline
Sent: 7.46 PM - 5/30
I've just blown by budget to purchase four of Eva's CD's within two days. And she's worth every penny! I have never heard a voice like this and I'm so grateful to have been introduced to her through Nightline on May 25.
Name: Keri
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Tyler
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 8.41 PM - 5/30
My mother saw the piece on Eva while watching television and had never been so touched by a story. She knew that I would love her voice the moment she heard her sing. The next day, my mom went out and bought Songbird - I fell in love with the album and her version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow brought us to tears.. We have never heard such control and contrast in a singer, and in some ways, she reminded us of myself. Everyone pressures singers to stick with one style. As Eva proves, there is no reason to do that - it is just as good, if not better, to use your God-given talent to do what you want! She has her own style and I admire her for that. Such a beautiful voice must have been accompanied by a beautiful personality and heart. I hope to own more of her albums as they become available (b/c of recent interest in Eva, they're hard to find!)
Name: Genna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold or Songbird
Home town North Carolina
Found the website www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 10.10 PM - 5/30
One of my friends sent me an Eva Cassidy CD in the mail. It is truly beautiful and astonishing work. I'm a teenager very interested in singing, and this whole thing has inspired me. Thank you
Name: Vicki Gray
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Lakeridge, VA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 10.51 PM - 5/30
I have all of Eva's albums and truly love them. I saw the Nightline special about her the other night and was a little disappointed that they did not mention her foundation and her print of the Boy in the Nest. Her artwork is wonderful too. I just received my print and it is soooooo good. I can't wait to frame it and hang it on my bedroom wall. A beautiful print and a donation to her OUTSTANDING foundation cause all in one transaction!!! Music in schools is VERY important. I am the mother of a music major, classical bassist, and we can't let music education die. Eva was truly a gifted artist and musician. Special thanks to her parents and friends for sharing her music and art with the rest of us.
Name: Robbin Pearson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Gardiner, Maine USA
Found the website Jives
Sent: 11.46 PM - 5/30
I know you by heart Eva, you captured my heart and spoke to my soul. Thank You.
Name: Julie Green
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Birmingham
Sent: 12.19 AM - 5/31
It is tragic that somebody with such a beautiful voice and talent should be taken away so soon but her voice will be singing forever.
Name: robbie underwood
Home town Oliver springs, Tennessee
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.02 AM - 5/31
I was singing at a Memorial Day Street Festival. After I came offstage, a friend came up to me and handed me a CD. On it was the most striking, haunting voice I have ever heard, and I have heard a lot of them... I confess to grieving all day today, as I listened again and again. Can one fall in love with a voice? I think so.. I am absolutely captivated by her timbre and nuance of expression. I don't think that could be taught, but instead is a gift from the Spirit of God....
Name: Ginny
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town San Francisco, CA
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 6.45 AM - 5/31
I also first heard about Eva on Nightline, and have been buying a CD of hers each day since. What a bittersweet discovery- a once-in-a-century kind of voice coupled with the knowledge of her passing so prematurely. The sensitivity she conveyed through song is amazing, and it seems to me that like all great art, it was an absolute reflection of who she was.
Name: Alan Bass
Home town Dublin
Sent: 7.50 AM - 5/31
I came across an ad in Q magazine for a new Eva Cassidy album called No Boundaries.
I know it contains tracks called Little Children, On the Inside, You Are, Emotional step and the Waiting Is Over . Has anybody any more info about this album. have been informed that these tracks can be downloaded from a web-sharing site called Orpheus.
Name: Chris Norbury
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town southern Minnesota
Found the website long time guest book peruser and contributor- forgot how I first found this sit
Sent: 4.03 AM - 6/11
In response to Andria Bunnell's message- go for it, Andria! Make a joyful noise every chance you get.
This to me is one of Eva's great but underappreciated legacies- the ability to inspire people to be better persons one way or another, but most especially through musical expression. I was a music teacher for 6 years, played in community bands, at church special occasions and just for my own pleasure for many years; but had stopped making music other than singing along to recordings now and then in the privacy of my own home. Eva's greatness inspired me to take up guitar, mainly so I can play "Over the Rainbow " someday. Just for the pure joy of making music of that caliber. And I've read so many entries here from young musicians who want to be "just like Eva". Bravo for you all! Music is one of the few things we can do all our lives, for no reason other than the pure delight of producing beautiful sounds. Whether or not we succeed(i.e.- make a living at it) is irrelevant. We elevate the quality of our lives as well as anyone else's who happens to hear us. Eva has elevated my life as well as countless millions and growing, judging by her CD sales figures.
So Andria, and anyone else out there who has ever played for tips in a coffee house, done church gigs or wedding receptions for little more than gas money, toiled endlessly to string together enough paying gigs to cover the rent month after month; or hummed along to the radio, sang in the shower, played air guitar or drums, or conducted your favorite symphony in the solitude of your own living room- KEEP IT UP! Music hath charms- the joy is in the doing. And thank Eva for giving us the chance to see how truly wonderful, magical, inspirational and music can be. Keep spreading the word about Eva, everyone. There is virtually a whole planet full of people out there who have yet to hear her perfect voice and her perfect message.
Chris
Name: Peter
Home town Hamburg, Germany
Sent: 7.19 AM - 6/11
This music is so beautiful. It changed my life.
Eva, thank you.
Name: Dan Kirkpatrick
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Sequim, WA (just recently)
Found the website Just plugged in the name (what difference does it make?
Sent: 12.28 AM - 6/12
It is very interesting that Eva has become popular in England before her own country. It was explained by a recording executive that they did not know how to classify what she was singing so they could not place her in some type of category. I wonder how many times that has happened in a pigeon-holed society such as ours? I know I could relate to that in my own career. In the peninsula area of California during the 1970s, there were many artists who performed beyond the people who were currently on the charts and received little or no recognition. Most people in this culture are so intense on "15-minutes of fame", "15-second sound bites" and "sit-com comebacks" that they miss the reason for living to experience. I am sure Eva Cassidy lived more in her short life than most people who will live to be 90.
Name: janie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird and Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow, Tall Trees of Georgia, What a Wonderful World
Home town Lahaska, Pa.
Found the website After listening to Eva, got on line, typed in her name and her website appeared.
Sent: 3.02 PM - 6/12
After hearing about her on "Nightline", and listening to Eva's magnificent, haunting voice, I sat up straight, could not get enough info. about this voice I had never heard of before!! Could not believe it when they said she was no longer with us, and still hearing "Over the Rainbow" in my head, got right on-line, and looked her up on "Amazon" just to see if there was a CD, cassette, anything to hear that truly wonderful voice. Thank goodness, they did!!! I ordered immediately. I cannot get enough of her. She's singing in our home, she's in my car, have even taken her to our shop....even customers who hear her, when they come in, ask me who is singing. Now I keep her CDs right on the counter when anyone asks. It is sooo sad that her life was so short. I hope "somehow" she knows what a success she is, and how everyone who hears her falls in love with her. It is sooo amazing how she can sing a cool ballad so softly, then goes into another type of song, and this voice just soars!! She is wonderful, and I'm so sorry she is still not with us, but thank God she recorded some of her wonderful songs. Thank you!!!
Name: becky
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Fields of Gold
Home town Glasgow
Sent: 4.46 PM - 6/12
Name: becky
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Fields of Gold
Home town Glasgow
Found the website www.ask jeeves.co.uk
Sent: 4.50 PM - 6/12
I was watching the film "face off" last night and there was a female voice sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." I was trying to remember where I had heard that version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" before and I didn't remember Eva's name till I listened to her album a couple of hours later. I was just wondering was that Eva singing?
Name: Reid
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Oreland, PA
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.04 PM - 6/12
Saw the Nightline thing. Bought Songbird CD at Best Buys. It's absolutely incredible. Her voice literally takes you away.
Name: Paul
Sent: 5.45 PM - 6/12
Re Becky's question about OTR. To save all you Eva completists rushing to the video store, it's Olivia Newton John's version. Still, good movie all the same.
Name: Cora
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OVER THE RAINBOW
Home town Hengelo
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 6.28 PM - 6/12
Hallo to all
I was thrilled when I heard Over the Rainbow and are enjoying now all her songs. They really move my heart and soul. I never heard anything so intense. Enjoy all.
Name: Stephen Needleman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town San Francisco
Found the website http://www.crosstownarts.com/CrosstownArts/client_music/eva/evahome.html
Sent: 3.15 AM - 6/13
I was one of many who heard of Eva based upon the TV story a little while ago.... I was so taken by what I heard that I ordered three of her albums only to find that I was so much more taken by her voice... her presentation.. her range of music... I wonder whether or not it is possible to wear out a CD... I play them all the time... beautiful to say the least... sad that she left us so early in her career... and that we have to make due with so few recordings....
Name: Rob & Diane Figley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Vancouver, Wash.
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.54 AM - 6/13
Just heard Eve for the first time today (6/13). Was very taken. And now crushed to hear that she has left us so long ago.
Name: BELINDA A MCCOY
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album EVA BY HEART
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING & TIME IS A HEALER
Home town RUSTBURG, VA
Found the website NETSCAPE
Sent: 1.43 PM - 6/13
I am so overwhelmed with Eva's music that even after multiple listening rarely do I have a dry eye. Recently my husband has become a fan and this pleases me greatly. I may lose him to cancer. We usually fall asleep in each others arms listening to Eva. Why oh why could I not have heard her live, just once? I found out about her from World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and because I BELIEVE in his newscast I just immediately went out and bought the only album I could find. WHAT A TREASURE!!!
Name: Gina/Emily/Terry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Rainbow" where we discovered you.
Home town London, UK
Found the website AOL
Sent: 8.07 PM - 6/13
Do, please, visit the beautiful German site for Eva. Use the link from the homepage here or go direct on :
Eva-cassidy.de
or, go straight to:
http://www.oaksite.demon.co.uk/angel2.html
Never mind if you speak no German - the emotion generated by Eva's music and the worldwide admiration for her will come straight through any barrier.
Thank you to all for making this Eva-site available - but a special thank you to Eva for sharing with us the wonderful gift you were given.
Name: Bunny Pennington
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time/ Live @ Blues Alley/No Boundaries
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Oh Gosh... Fields/ Ain't No Sunshine
Home town Mosca, Colorado
Found the website Alta Vista
Sent: 12.29 AM - 6/14
I'm listening to my latest 2 CD's...now totaling 5! And I can so much relate to the "can't get enough" that abounds. I'm a singer/songwriter as well and Eva touches me in so many ways. It's been some time since my eyes welled up so often listening to her, thinking about her, and having my heart touched so by this Angel-Voice.
I'm also a 9 yr. rare cancer survivor. It was in those days & weeks of driving back & forth over mtn. passes for treatments that I made the pact w/ the man upstairs promising to begin again to use the "gift" I was given, as I sang along to favorites on the tape player.
Today, hubby & myself are performing and loving it so. But it really is easy to forget what really matters... "play this kind, people want to hear this" ... listening to Eva, I got back to where I was on that mtn. pass... I'll continue to sing those that touch my heart....
Thank you Chris & Andria.... "pure delight of producing beautiful sounds" & "Courage & Compassion in our lives".... to touch others, honor ourselves & others, and give to others with music is truly a gift. Eva did all these for us.... and my, has she touched us ALL!
Haven't seen the TV bio... will look, will get a box of Kleenex first. Much love to all as they experience this blessing to us....Thank you Eva.
Name: Je'Tanni Lynbrook
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Need Your Love So Bad
Home town Lynchburg, VA
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 2.49 AM - 6/14
What a profound life, talent, person. I have always loved music that touched my soul. Eva's music not only touches it, it feeds it. I just bought three more of her CD's today. The guy at the record store said his sister saw Eva do a show several years ago in or around Washington and that she never stops talking about that show. Thank you for this link to knowledge about Eva.
Name: Fred
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I can't decide
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song It changes daily
Home town Rochester, NY
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.25 AM - 6/14
I discovered Eva in much the same way as many others who have posted messages here. I seem to walk around all day with one or another of her songs playing in my head. The emotions that her music evokes stem from the fact that she understood her own soul and was able to bare it in her performances. Is there any wonder that she might have come across as "shy"?
I share the desire to "spread the word" about Eva to anyone and everyone who will listen. There are syndicated radio hosts who have national audiences in the US. One that I think is a "natural" is the Delilah Show. The theme of the show, which is on every night at 7PM-midnight EST, is on inspirational music from various genres. I wrote an Email to Delilah asking her to look into including Eva's songs in her play list. I would urge that all of you out there do the same. The web address is: http://www.radiodelilah.com./
You can also phone in a request at 888-6delilah from 7-MN.
Name: Keith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album n/a
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song n/a
Home town Denton, TX
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.56 AM - 6/14
I learned about Eva from the Nightline broadcast and as yet have not had the opportunity to hear any of her albums. The only song I have heard is "Over the Rainbow" and can't wait to hear more. The Dallas radio station KVIL has started playing "Over the Rainbow" and has put up a few links on their website for people who want to know more about Eva. That link is http://www.kvil.com/showdj.asp?DJID=5668
The info about Eva is about half way down the page.
Soon I will be able to answer your questions on favorite album and song because I intend to acquire them all.
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn leaves
Home town London
Found the website AOL
Sent: 2.38 PM - 6/14
Driving through the Sussex country side, homeward bound and feeling wasted after a nights work , and feeling low...I have travelled all over the world from the age of 15 yrs, and now that I approach 50 thought I had seen everything the world could offer.... good, bad, horrendous ,the beautiful and the suffering humanity that inhabits our home...So what !...that's life...Right? and then I met Eva on my radio... she made me feel things that I never felt before, it's not just words there is something pure, untouched, warm...you can go on and on, but you can not put words to describe this beautiful lady who I have only seen today on this website... also I am angry that she has gone without us knowing and telling her how important she is... if there is a god and he wants her all to himself, please can we have her back.
Name: Annie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album can't say, love them all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song depends on the day
Home town Bryn Mawr
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 3.29 AM - 6/15
I was just thrilled to see Eva's Songbird CD for sale in my local Barnes & Noble!
They don't have a music store, our B&N only has one rack carrying a few of the
top CD's. Great to see the groundswell for Eva continue to grow!
way to go girl!
Name: Gaylene
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Yet to purchase
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Brisbane, Australia
Found the website Excite
Sent: 11.20 AM - 6/15
June 15th 2001 : Foxtel in Australia has been showing 'Over the Rainbow' on their new MusicMax TV Channel. I loved it so much I looked Eva Cassidy up on the Net and was so sad to learn that she was the "late" Eva Cassidy. I have downloaded and listened to a lot of her songs and am now going to purchase albums !!
Name: Crystal Byer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Beloit, WI
Found the website ask
Sent: 5.46 PM - 6/15
I can't get enough of Eva's music! A voice like none I've ever heard before - and the variety of genres! A woman who like me, loved the song, the music...not because it's swing or jazz or blues...Oh to be able to sing like that!!! I never knew her and just recently "discovered" her music, but I feel such a loss - a sadness that the world has lost such talent.
Name: Jocelyn Ann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album today? EBH
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song today? Waly Waly
Home town Grand Rapids, MI
Sent: 6.24 PM - 6/15
To anyone whose had the pleasure of visiting Michigan, you know how quickly the weather changes ...
... what I'm trying to say is that as the most recent "lake-effect" storm came hearty and without warning ... I, by chance, had "The Other Side" blaring on the stereo. This my friends, may have been the most near perfect experience I've ever felt ... the intensity of rain, thunder and wind mingled with the voices of Eva and Chuck singing their sweet hearts out (just for me, as it seemed)was almost an epiphany of indescribable measure.
To all ... go past "Over the Rainbow"; go past "Fields of Gold"; go past "Songbird" ... as you saturate the ear-cocking fascination with her soul and spirit, dare to let it be an all encompassing experience ... feel her, see her, let her touch you ... can we name an artist better who appeals, even seduces us, with her purity of voice, clarity and perfection than Eva Cassidy? As others so eloquently have given their sentiments, I too, love and embrace her power over me.
Let it not be a tear, but an overwhelming thrill to offer back to her, this a most extraordinary and gifted woman who seemed to know something that at least, I, don't. Thank you.
Perhaps, the more sensitive of us will appreciate the following verse:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission too be the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others."
I did not write this - it is an excerpt from Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Speech. I think Eva would have liked it, even been empowered by it. We, as the living, with so many gifts to give, need to demonstrate to others what she, so simply, gave to us.
Be well. Be happy.
Name: Lea
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Denmark, Fredericia
Found the website the booklet
Sent: 8.47 PM - 6/15
I heard Fields of Gold on Danish National Radio. It gave me a strange feeling:
I just found something.
She was amazing.
Name: Tara Nicole
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Every album
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Every song
Home town Brampton
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.21 PM - 6/15
I'm 17 and I discovered Eva only a few months ago. I began listening to her amazing music. Today I just felt like looking up her name on here and I'm in shock that I now know she is no longer with us. Thank you Eva for looking down here and letting me discover you. You'll always be in my heart. Thank you to everyone who has put an effort into making this site. Take care..
Love,
Tara Nicole
xoxo
Name: Dan Hennessy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song They are all beautiful
Home town Barnsley S. Yorks England
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.30 PM - 6/15
All the present crop of female vocalists should be made to listen to Eva. They would then realise how far they have to go.
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All Of Them
Home town Waldorf Maryland
Sent: 12.43 AM - 6/16
This was an old message that I tried to get in the system when the Nightline story aired:
Its so coool that The Media ready USA is finally catching on to Eva, some alarm must of went off on the talent radar. Anyway, to those who have been listening and enjoying for a long time its nice to finally see that the Talent Of Eva is getting recognized by a new audience here in the states. It's such a pleasure to come back to the Guestbook and read first timers entries about Eva....Just reading what they have to say and then remembering what I also wrote after hearing Eva for the first time, it's like we are clones of some sorts because we all have pretty much the same thing to say. Its great that she touches all of us but what is truly great is that we can all come together and share in this Talented Singer. If anyone would like a copy of the BBC tribute to Eva, please reply back with your mailing address. Does not matter to me where you live just send me your mailing addressee. That includes people overseas as well ok. Please pass on to your friends and family the listening pleasure of Eva. Music makes great gifts and great surprises. I'm sure no-one will be disappointed after the settle down and listen...Laura as usual this is a great web site and you are to be applauded for doing such a great job. Take care to all and please send your addresses if you would like a copy of the BBC tribute ok. Looking forward to hearing from people. Have a great weekend, and if anyone has taped the Nightline special please let me know as I would like a copy to keep.
I can be reached at the following e-mail addresses:
tgbatson@uu.net
batman3030@hotmail.com
batmantb@aol.com
Name: Neitz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves, Over the Rainbow, What a Wonderful World
Home town California, PA
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.20 AM - 6/16
I feel a sense of personal loss so profound that during these last few weeks, since finding out she is no longer alive, it's hard to function. Her voice, so beautiful, lives on in these recordings and those who are moved by her songs, will never forget her. Never!
Name: I.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town Olympia
Found the website blixstreet.com
Sent: 6.06 AM - 6/16
My life is filled with music but I have never heard anything as beautiful as Eva's voice. The first time I listened to Songbird was one of the most intensely moving experiences of my life. I just stopped, closed my eyes, leaned my forehead against the wall and cried. Her voice cleared my mind. I listened unable to move. There are no words to describe how I felt. I will listen to Eva's music as long as I have ears.
Name: Cynthia
Sent: 4.45 PM - 6/16
I must have fallen asleep on the couch late one night, when this incredible voice awoke me - it was Eva Cassidy singing. My first thoughts were - who is this singing, she is fantastic! The program was about Eva Cassidy's life. It was one of the most moving documentaries I have ever seen. I went out the very next day on a hunt to find music by Eva Cassidy! I found "Songbird" and couldn't wait to hear it. WOW!!! I can't tell you how many times I have listened to this CD. There is no doubt that God gave Eva the gift of a most beautiful voice and I am so glad to be able to enjoy it!! I hope they air that documentary over and over again!!!
Name: Bruce
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Philadelphia
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.28 PM - 6/16
I am a therapist who treats trauma... wounded souls. I take in for a time what they carry and bear it with them. When it is too much and think I can bear no more, I listen to a healing voice sing to me out of timelessness. And I can go on doing what is my life's work. So, I am grateful to have hear the voice of an angel, who sings to me, even now.
Name: Laura
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Exeter, United Kingdom
Found the website Copernic
Sent: 6.10 PM - 6/16
What a voice, what a gift, what a lovely person and what a sad loss for all of us that we only have the songs recorded during her short life, but I shall treasure these.
Name: Chris J. Coleman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Anniversary song
Home town Ashton under Lyne
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.24 PM - 6/16
I first saw / heard Eva on the BBC's Top of the pops 2.
I was dumbstruck by her voice and delivery of OTR.
I immediately searched the net for her and was saddened
as I learned about her .
I went out and bought Songbird , put on my headphones , and cried right through it . Her voice transcends the physical , it reaches through to the core of my heart / spirituality.
I have rarely come across this quality , and never song after song after song.
Her death was a great loss to the world , but at least
we have these beautiful recordings she made , to brighten anybody's life who hears her.
She was truly an Angel , who walked this Earth .
Name: Dave Morgan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Must hear them all !
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What A Wonderful world
Home town Stockton
Found the website AOL Search
Sent: 11.11 PM - 6/16
I've set an Email with the following message, but I thought that this might be the more appropriate venue. Maybe some will read it and be able to hear Mick Martin's Blues Show. It's where I first heard Eva's music. It's the few like him that are playing Eva's music.
"I understand your feeling for commercial radio. That said, I wanted you to know that NON commercial KXJZ/KXPR 88.9 FM Sacramento, California USA is playing Eva's music. Mick Martin does a BLUES show every Saturday from 1-5 in the afternoon and has played her music repeatedly. Like Bob Harris, he plays what he feels like and it is the audience that benefits.
Today he played "What A Wonderful World" and it touched me so that I had to find out more about her and her music. Thanks for putting up your website. Dave Morgan
Name: Mary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I Everything, but "No Boundaries"
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song whatever I'm listening to
Home town Memphis, TN
Found the website msn.explorer
Sent: 1.58 AM - 6/17
I have to agree w/ Brian about "No Boundaries" When I first read about Eva in the Entertainment Weekly article, the only CD that they did not think was up to Eva standards was "No Boundaries." Several of the people in the Guestbook disagreed w/ that review When a friend sent me the CD, I had a chance to make up my own mind. I think that except for a couple of songs, it's not what I think Eva would have wanted people to identify her with. I felt better about that opinion when I read in the Washingtonian article that it was released against the family's wishes by her former manager. I'm glad that I have it now, because you can really see the maturing of her style from this to the other CDs. Her voice is so much better than the music selection on this CD. Just my opinion!!!
Name: Randy King
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Dallas, Texas
Found the website AOL
Sent: 5.04 AM - 6/17
I have two degrees in music and have been studying and teaching music for over 23 years. I can't remember the last time I have been so moved by any artist's music in any time period in all of music history. I truly believe that Eva is an angel. Thank you to all who made it possible for the world to share in her music.
Name: Raice McLeod
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town DC
Sent: 3.00 PM - 6/17
I've received a lot of emails asking for my thoughts/comments about the "No Boundaries" CD. Some folks have asked for my opinion on its musical merits, and some are inquiring about my stance on the opposition to its release. Here's my response:
Q. Should it be out there?
A. As I'm aware that there is some controversy ongoing, I think it is very inappropriate for me to voice an opinion at this time. Sorry, (and I'm not usually reticent about stating opinions) but I will not say or do anything to further complicate the situation. Ask me when the dust settles!
Q. What of its musical merits?
A. From the standpoint of Eva's performance, it is in a completely different category from "Songbird," "Live ...," etc. Eva was hired as a session musician to deliver a lead voice -- which she did. It is exactly the same as Keith, Lenny or myself getting a studio session call ... do what the musical director/producer wants, as efficiently and professionally as possible. That's it. The session player's feelings about the piece(s) are irrelevant.
As always, thank you to everyone for the interest and support.
Raice McLeod
Name: Kent & Jacque Dykes
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Not Sure Yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water
Home town Indianapolis, Indiana
Found the website AOL
Sent: 10.21 PM - 6/17
Flipping channels one night, we came across the story
on Nightline and were drawn into it. Listening to this
lady with such a beautiful voice, really touched us.
We were really wanting to get some of her music. I
(Jacque) wanted to get something, but couldn't find
anything locally. Finally, I found it online, and Kent
got his first Eva recording (Songbird) as a Father's
Day gift. This is our first CD of hers, but we're
planning to buy as many others as we can get. We enjoy
this CD very much. Eva Cassidy had the voice of an
angel and now she is singing with the angels. Thank you for sharing this website with us and letting us
know more about her.
Name: Catriona Brennan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song wade in the water
Home town Dublin(Ireland)
Found the website browsing
Sent: 11.17 PM - 6/17
Her voice is like an angels! As I write this I have her album `Songbird` in the background, I know why God cut her life so short! She was too good for this earth!
Name: Gary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Can't say...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "At Last"...so far...
Home town Buford, GA
Found the website A friend.
Sent: 1.58 AM - 6/18
I only have 3 of her CD's. Give me time, I only heard of her three days ago. My first purchase was "time after time"...it took me hours to get past the fourth track, aptly titled "At Last"...it gave me ostrich bumps! I was, of course, already mesmerized by the first three tracks, #4 was a truly spiritual experience. Last night, for the first time ever, I took the "walkman" to bed with me. I listened to the first five tracks, over and over and over....
I searched the local stores today and felt lucky to have found copies of "Songbird" and "No Boundaries."
I had always thought that "Natural Woman" could only be sung to it's fullest by Aretha. I was wrong. An earlier poster echoed my feelings by saying that her favorite song depended on what day it was. I'm looking forward to completing my Eva collection and sharing this "find" with everyone that can hear.
Eva absorbs you, she forces you...no, she compels you to listen at a higher level, more intently. Yet, there is more there each time you listen. After being distracted several times, I put on my ancient set of headphones, the doorbell and telephone had become instant enemies!
Let's pray that reincarnation can happen just once in our lifetime. God must have missed her. I'm happy that he shared her as long as he did...I regret that she will never know how many of us are truly touched by her music. Listening to "At Last" one can be assured that she was in love at least once while here on earth. I don't think anyone can fake that kind of emotion. Angelic, that's the only word that even comes close...
Name: Donna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album The Other Side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Herndon, VA
Found the website washingtonpost.com
Sent: 3.42 AM - 6/18
I first heard of Eva a few years back when the Washington Post published a story about her after her death, in their Sunday Magazine. I've been buying up any CD of hers I can find since then. She was a one of a kind talent with an indescribable voice that really gets to you. I'm glad that the rest of the world is discovering her now.
Name: wendalyn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Pt. Lincoln
Found the website ninesmen
Sent: 9.24 AM - 6/18
My husband works in the grain industry. We both loves the song Fields of gold. Can you please help? What album is that song on? Thanks
Name: Miriam Rieger
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold
Home town Stuttgart (Germany)
Found the website SWR 3 (a German radio channel)
Sent: 9.32 AM - 6/18
I heard FIELDS OF GOLD in the radio and thought at this moment what a wonderful voice!
Yesterday a radio speaker said more about EVA and I listened to it, they talked to Eva's mother and she told about EVA, after this I thought I must look in the internet to get more information about EVA CASSIDY!
Name: Sparxx
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album could not decide yet...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Osthofen >>> Germany
Found the website surfing
Sent: 9.46 AM - 6/18
My English is not the best, but I´ll try as good as I can... First time I've heard the song "Fields of gold" on a local Radio Station called SWR3. They do often play music from less known Artists... but as I heard that song... I felt I've known it like for a long time...not from Sting... from her...
I was driving home at night in my car... I've met a good friend of mine...and as I hear the song of her, I turned my Radio on as loud as I could...and I slow down my speed...not to be home before the song ended.
This feeling came not often over me... maybe when your in love...or when you've lost someone... it's indescribable !
So I was very shocked, as I heard that Eva's dead... So sad... like to know her...more of her Songs...her life... her feelings.
Glory to our fallen Heroes....
greetz,
Sparxx from Germany
p.s.: It's a wonderful Site about her...
Name: Annie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird/Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song IKYBH/People Get Ready/Autumn Leaves
Home town Surrey, England
Found the website Regular
Sent: 5.41 PM - 6/19
It's been a while since I wrote here, so forgive the musings.
I'm touched by how Eva's voice, her choice of music and her story have inspired people to: re-think their life's goals; face illness or the loss of someone dear; get out there and do what they've always wanted to do; realise that success is only measured in the eye of the beholder and not by others. Perhaps Eva would be a little awed that we get so much from her apart from hearing the sheer joy of her music.
What Eva's story tells me is that 'success' should really read worth. Success in the material world is measured by fame, beauty, wealth and popularity. But you don't need to be world famous, universally beautiful, unimaginably wealthy or highly popular to be complete in a world that values humanity above vanity. Eva's sense of worth seemed to be measured by her take on life as something other than the superficiality of the above. In turn, she was famous, beautiful, wealthy and popular on her own terms and in her own world because she was worth it.
It is about two years now since I heard that magical and inspirational voice. Originally, I thought it was Eva's singing voice that I had fallen for as OTR was on a compilation album (with no explanatory sleeve notes) and when I, infrequently, heard her music on the radio it was usually accompanied with '...the lovely Eva Cassidy...' as though she were still with us. I had not heard her story. Sometime later I searched the web to find out where I could get my hands on some more of this voice and was stunned at the knowledge that this was someone who had passed away several years before. So I found Laura's website and read all I could about the person behind the voice. Now I understand that what I heard was not just a beautiful voice but also a composite of this woman's life that shone through her music. Yes, Eva was born with a beautiful voice, but her father taught her to play guitar, her fellow musicians helped her to get to a wider audience and unselfishly accompanied her in her band, her family and friends loved her for herself (and she in return loved them), her art was her own creativity, her day job fulfilled her, she loved nothing more than to take in nature's beauty with her mother as her friend....and she loved to sing. So, what I really heard wasn't a voice on a CD or the radio, it was something very special - someone who gave of herself and received so much in return. I heard the person behind the voice without knowing it. It is difficult to compare with living artists so, I suppose, it's the same feeling I got the first time I heard Billie Holliday sing (a Baltimore, Maryland resident - must be something in the air!). But, I knew her story as I listened to her and (even back then) she'd recorded so much more than Eva ever had. Yet, her voice was her life and that's what hits me every time I hear Eva sing. What I've learnt is that Eva's very short life was worth something and whatever posthumous 'success' comes Eva's way it will never overshadow what was, in her lifetime, an incredibly full and fulfilled life. She never needed those material pointers of 'success'. As Laura says about a tape she has of Eva in her recent interview with Jefferson Morley, "She's playing her guitar, singing her favorite songs in front of about 10 people, and she was fantastic. That was Eva." Oh, to have been there....
From a fellow Evangelist
Name: Zakiyah (Faye) Abdullah
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album The Other Side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Washington, DC/Dumfries, VA
Found the website Microsoft Internet Explorer
Sent: 6.36 PM - 6/19
I always wanted to say something about Eva Cassidy and I thank you for this opportunity. It is just so special that so many people the world over are experiencing the music of Eva Cassidy. I had the good fortune to see Eva perform live with Chuck Brown, for free, at the CityPlace Park, in Silver Spring, MD/USA. If memory serves me, this was the summer of 1995. I was overwhelmed and surprised to hear the voice that came from Eva. Shortly after that performance, it was heartwrenching to hear of her illness, her performance at Blues Alley as her last performance ever, and her subsequent passing. Sometimes we have spontaneous Eva Cassidy Day at home. We just put her CD's on and listen all day long to the great Miss Eva Cassidy. May God Bless and Keep her, her family and all of her friends.
faye_abdullah@yahoo.com
zvandullah@aol.com
Name: Daisy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town East Grinstead, UK
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8.26 PM - 6/19
Im 16 and a keen singer and guitarist. I found the album Songbird today in a music shop in town and bought it, took it home and listened solidly to it the whole way through, I was so unbelievably moved by such a beautiful voice and such a tragic story, it put my whole world into perspective. Someone as talented as that leaves me speechless. what more can I say but thank you for such a lovely voice
Name: ;Pam
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Sarasota, Florida USA
Found the website Ask Jives
Sent: 12.33 AM - 6/20
It only took hearing her voice on the tele special that night---Ever wonder how an angel sounds when she sings?? Somehow I believe that deep inside Eva, she knew her spiritual purpose. "Rainbow" seems to be her way of comforting us in our possible fears of the "other side".
She was indeed a miracle & soul touching person....
God Bless you Eva... I know that you are "Over the Rainbow" and at peace now....
Name: David Bastin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album live at blues/time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song penny to my name
Home town Bristol, England
Found the website through my dreams
Sent: 11.40 AM - 6/20
Music touches all we are or hope to be. Sometimes singers touch us with their melodic feel. Once in a while a great singer will record a masterpiece that touches many lives. We all know someone we prefer. Never in the history of Popular music have I heard Music to make me want to make the world a more spiritual place.
Then Eva sang.
Name: jeannewton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song every one
Home town Norfolk
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.00 PM - 6/20
she has a wonderful voice and I shall try and buy all
her she has sung
Name: Heather Luker
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird/Over the Rainbow
Home town Dallas, Texas
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.04 PM - 6/20
Words are just not adequate to express the feeling that I have when I listen to Eva Cassidy. I believe I first heard of her on Nightline. But I couldn't find her CD locally, but I did find her on audio.galaxy. Before Eva, and for the last decade or so, my favorite artist has been Bonnie Raitt. Eva's voice is like Bonnie's in that there is something so real, so moving - but Eva has a softness that I love. Listening to her is something more...more of a spiritual nature. She is a gift.
Name: Bev Hickman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of Them!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How Can I Keep From Singing?
Home town Clearwater, FL
Found the website Lots of determination!
Sent: 7.45 PM - 6/20
Heard a documentary about her on late night TV sometime in May and couldn't wait to get her CD's! What a voice! I've told my family and everyone I know about her and her music and am still wanting to hear more.
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song autumn leaves
Home town Girvan
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.03 PM - 6/20
tonight on UKTV's "Coronation Street" - Eva's Over the Rainbow was played at the humanist funeral service of long-time character Alma.
Gayle: "the music - did Alma choose it?"
Audrey: "yes. it was her favourite"
Coronation Street has run for about 40 years in the UK and is the second most watched programme in the country - behind EastEnders.
Also on Sunday night, at the conclusion of the US Open golf, SKY Sports Channel had a review of the week in pictures with music accompaniment provided by Eva - OTR again.
Name: Christine Hamlin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley / Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Too many to mention
Home town Chigwell, Essex, England
Found the website have visited many times before
Sent: 10.25 PM - 6/20
I would like to say thanks to Tim who Emailed me with a site to download an unreleased track by Eva. I also wanted to mention the playing of OTR at Alma's funeral in 'Coronation Street'. This was a moving episode of the soap, and Alma was a well loved character. To hear Eva's song in this context was poignant, but also made me feel good, because now even more people in Britain will want to know about Eva and her music. This show is one of the most popular programmes on TV, and reaches a very wide audience. In the last month or so, I have converted three more friends to Eva ! and at a party we played her songs all evening. To any one out there who wants to chat, wherever you are, I would love to get your emails so I can talk about favorite songs etc. Eva lives on in so many people's hearts, it is great.
Name: Peter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't own one yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song time after time
Home town Beardstown, IL
Found the website typed in www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 11.27 PM - 6/20
have only heard two songs so far...lovely stuff!!
was passed a note one night while playing drums with my band. it said: "Eva Cassidy, order it from www.amazon.com & enjoy!" my order is on the way.
so sorry I am so late discovering her.
Name: Fran
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song At Last (but they're all great!)
Home town Kamuela, HI
Sent: 4.27 AM - 6/21
Last week my husband and I strolled into Border's and I was bowled over by the woman singing "At Last..." on their CD pick. Her pure, clear yet gritty voice just kind of reaches out and grabs you. I bought the CD and have played it many times. Both my husband and I are in love with it. It's not often we both like the same kind of music!
It's not often you can find a singer that can take a song someone else made famous or a hit and make it so much her own that you cannot imagine it sung any other way. That's how I feel about Eva Cassidy. I was totally bummed when I heard that she had died. I felt like I had lost a friend somehow -- that's how her voice affects me.
I went back to Border's and bought the "Live at Blues Alley" CD. I like "Time After Time" better, but it's still a great listen.
Aloha
Name: Dave Furlong
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Liverpool
Found the website A O L
Sent: 9.22 AM - 6/21
FABULOUS SONG, FABULOUS SINGER,
WHEN SHE SINGS SHE MAKES ME RELAX, HER VOICE IS SO BEAUTIFUL, REAL SHAME SHE'S GONE, GOD BLESS.
Name: michael
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town southport.england.uk
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 9.41 AM - 6/21
to a very beautiful... sincere... and gracious lady whose music gives inspiration and hope.
I wish I had known her.
love from Michael.
Name: Geoff Rowland
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Leeds, England
Found the website Jives
Sent: 8.41 PM - 6/21
FOR EVA, SONGBIRD
Just a few years ago she lost the fight
Ravaged by a cancer with no respite.
She left this world without fortune or fame
And very few people knew the name
Of a woman with a talent so sublime
She ranks with the greatest of all time
Yet she had to die to achieve recognition,
Not the first singer in that position.
She never dreamed she'd be top of the charts
And create so much joy in so many hearts.
So who was this woman and what was her story,
And did she really achieve such glory?
Her name was Eva and she was born to sing,
Just like the Songbird out on the wing.
Her story is almost beyond belief,
A woman whose short life knew much grief.
A woman who loved to give, not take,
With principles she would never forsake.
Her songs embraced all the great themes,
But as a person she had no great dreams.
All she wanted to do was sing,
And savor the joy which that would bring.
She never sought material gain
And would have found celebrity quite a strain.
She was private, sensitive and very shy.
But live on stage it was hard to see why
Her manager struggled year after year
With record companies paralyzed by fear
'Cause they couldn't place her in a little box
Marked folk, jazz, blues or rock.
But Eva saw no boundaries and refused to compromise.
She didn't understand that it wasn't wise
Just to do your own thing with heartfelt emotion
And inspire in your few fans enormous devotion.
Only after she died was she proved to be right.
Only then did producers see the light.
When sales took off without promotion
And millions of people grasped the notion
That those who are blessed can live any song,
But only once in a lifetime do they come along
With, like Eva, the quality of magic,
Making death at 33 especially tragic.
But her music now will live on and on,
At least that battle has been won.
So spread the word and tell the story
Of a special lady and overdue glory.
Name: Geoff Rowland
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Leeds, England
Found the website Jives
Sent: 8.42 PM - 6/21
FOR EVA, SONGBIRD
Just a few years ago she lost the fight
Ravaged by a cancer with no respite.
She left this world without fortune or fame
And very few people knew the name
Of a woman with a talent so sublime
She ranks with the greatest of all time
Yet she had to die to achieve recognition,
Not the first singer in that position.
She never dreamed she'd be top of the charts
And create so much joy in so many hearts.
So who was this woman and what was her story,
And did she really achieve such glory?
Her name was Eva and she was born to sing,
Just like the Songbird out on the wing.
Her story is almost beyond belief,
A woman whose short life knew much grief.
A woman who loved to give, not take,
With principles she would never forsake.
Her songs embraced all the great themes,
But as a person she had no great dreams.
All she wanted to do was sing,
And savor the joy which that would bring.
She never sought material gain
And would have found celebrity quite a strain.
She was private, sensitive and very shy.
But live on stage it was hard to see why
Her manager struggled year after year
With record companies paralyzed by fear
'Cause they couldn't place her in a little box
Marked folk, jazz, blues or rock.
But Eva saw no boundaries and refused to compromise.
She didn't understand that it wasn't wise
Just to do your own thing with heartfelt emotion
And inspire in your few fans enormous devotion.
Only after she died was she proved to be right.
Only then did producers see the light.
When sales took off without promotion
And millions of people grasped the notion
That those who are blessed can live any song,
But only once in a lifetime do they come along
With, like Eva, the quality of magic,
Making death at 33 especially tragic.
But her music now will live on and on,
At least that battle has been won.
So spread the word and tell the story
Of a special lady and overdue glory.
Name: Ann
Home town Charleston WV
Sent: 4.53 PM - 6/22
Just heard the last part of OTR on the radio yesterday (V100 FM - Charleston WV). I was spellbound! I hoped that mention would be made as to who that was! Thankfully, the DJ not only named the singer but also the website for people wanting more info. Thank goodness! Now, I intend to buy the albums and am sure they will be favorites. Beautiful singer.
Name: Michael Rice
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart
Home town Leesburg, VA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.10 PM - 6/22
Eva's singing touches you right at the core of your soul. Now she's singing up in Heaven. Our loss . . . for a short while !!! My favorites: "I Know You by Heart" and "Over the Rainbow". The 'messages' in those songs and Eva's ability to convey them blow me away every time I listen to them. I think all of the comments here testify to the legacy Eva left on earth !
Name: HARRY.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ALL.
Home town NOTTINGHAM. ENGLAND.
Found the website www.evacassidy.com ( last year.)
Sent: 6.21 PM - 6/22
BOTH GARY FROM BUFORD.(POSTED 6/18) & I FROM OLYMPIA. (POSTED 6/16.)PUT IN TO WORDS PRECISELY WHAT WE, WHO HAVE BEEN SO VERY BLESSED TO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE EMOTION OF BEING TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, FEEL.
Name: Angela
Sent: 8.12 PM - 6/22
I was wondering, I'm told some of Eva's songs were played on the show Dawson's Creek, and I'm wondering which ones. The one song I heard was so beautiful, and I'd like to buy the CD, but I don't know the name of the song. Can you tell me?
Name: Randy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Golden Thread
Home town Summit, NJ
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.12 PM - 6/22
Recently got the Eva tribute CD (thanks publicly, Troy). Very well produced, enjoyed the interviews. Was especially interested to hear the unreleased early material -- even in the Stonehenge cut, the essential Eva (as a high schooler!) is there. As a youth I was into Yes, ELP and the like but I too grew up !-)
Upon hearing several tracks from NB I had thought Eva simply wasn't ready for primetime, but thanks to Raice's earlier post, I realize she was simply delivering per the client's request.
I'm going through an interesting transition (voluntary retirement package) and while in no way as profound as are described in many previous posts, is still a transition for me. I must admit Eva's music has helped.
Name: Karen Spence
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song each of them in their own way
Home town Stuarts Draft, Virginia
Found the website I don't know - I'm computer dumb
Sent: 11.47 PM - 6/22
There are no words to describe the feelings of experiencing both discovery and loss at the same time. We've all been so very blessed and yet there's an emptiness because there will be no more. That makes the music that we have of Eva's that much more precious and invaluable. Even my 72 yr. old parents are overwhelmed with Eva's music and are stunned to silence every time they listen to her sing.
Name: susan kline
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Grandville, Michigan
Found the website off the back of an album
Sent: 1.47 AM - 6/23
I recently lost my mother to Alzheimer's disease, and when I listen to her Over the Rainbow song, I cry my eyes out, as it is so beautiful, and it reminds of my mama, Kathryn. Eva had the voice of an angel, and I hope she is singing to my mama, and many others in Heaven. What a voice!!! Unreal, and chilling.
Suzanne
Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I like all of 'em
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Bridge over Troubled Water/Waly Waly
Home town Silver Spring, Maryland
Found the website frequent visitor
Sent: 3.01 AM - 6/23
First of all, a heartfelt thanks to Laura for running this website so we fans can enjoy what is here. I stopped listening to Eva and the Band awhile ago because at some point, there was too much grace and beauty to take in. I am glad to see that Eva is starting to be recognized in her home country as a great talent and musician. I have also come to some conclusions and thoughts after listening to her music.
I consider myself very lucky to have discovered Eva at all. Having grown up in the same metropolitan area as Eva, I am lucky to be near and around the places that the Eva Cassidy Band played (the renowned Blues Alley nightclub, the now-defunct Bayou nightclub). I get a great sense of music history knowing that Eva's presence was once (and perhaps still) there. However, like many other Washingtonians, I still feel sad that I only discovered Eva just months before she passed away.
We fans are very fortunate to have come across Eva's music. We are lucky, but Eva's family, friends, and of course the Eva Cassidy Band members are truly blessed. They are with us to share their thoughts and memories. They are truly blessed to have loved, lived with, worked with, and befriend a truly special and loving spirit that was Eva. How wonderful to have had greatness and true beauty come into your lives, to have shared a moment in space and time with her.
I am grateful that Mr. Cassidy took the time to teach his daughter to play guitar and encourage her musical development. Without it, there might not have been Eva the musician we know today. I am thankful that the Cassidys encouraged their children to be creative and introduced them to music. Apparently, GOOD music. Their musical tastes surely influenced Eva and helped shape her musical direction and style.
I would like to thank the Eva Cassidy Band and Chuck Brown for helping Eva develop musically into someone that we fans have come to love. Thank you, especially Mr. Chris Bind, for helping Eva to voice her creative urges and musical instincts. Without the right musicians (like Mr. Chuck Brown) and guidance, Eva's music might not have been as polished or as spellbinding. The band's ability to play those various styles, and do it WELL, should be commended.
I'm sure Mr. Brown and the ECB helped boost Eva's confidence level as a performer.
I want to thank Chris for being an astute artist who recognized genius when she walked into his sound studio. Without his musical sensibilities, integrity, and guidance, Eva's inner beauty and talent might not have shone through as effectively as with someone else.
May we all use her as a role model to become better people than what we are. Let us look thru her eyes and find beauty in nature. May we hear her voice in the wind. May we feel her spirit with us when we watch a sunset.
God Bless you Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy, Laura, and Chris. Thank you for being the proud and fiercely protective guardians of Eva's wonderful, continuing legacy. Thank you for sharing this legacy with us.
Name: Fred
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album No favorite
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song The last one I played
Home town Newark, NY
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.55 AM - 6/23
Has anyone considered a fifth anniversary tribute/get together this November? I would certainly be interested.
I would think that it might be a monumental undertaking for those of you in the Washington area but it would generate tremendous interest and publicity. Wouldn't it be great to get the Eva Cassidy Band together again for an evening of reminiscing, to meet those who helped to hone her talent, and to raise funds for her foundation or melanoma research. It could be scheduled over a weekend (for us out of towners). I would guarantee at least four participants.
If this is too far fetched to consider, sorry for the bother, if it might be do-able I'd be happy to help.
Name: maureen feeney ignacio
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of it
Home town Kula, Maui, Hawaii
Found the website Looked for anything on Eva
Sent: 5.12 AM - 6/23
My sister, Paulette, (God Bless her) brought me Eva's CD and an article about her. I love her voice and music more than words can say, it has touched in a deep place. We lost our beautiful brother, Dennis, to melanoma in March of this year and it's been somehow healing to hear this angelic, rich voice. Thank you for sharing her with the world.
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All Of Them
Home town Waldorf Maryland
Found the website Excite
Sent: 1.29 PM - 6/23
If anyone would like a copy of the BBC tribute to Eva, please reply back with your mailing address. Does not matter to me where you live just send me your mailing addressee. That includes people overseas as well ok. Please pass on to your friends and family the listening pleasure of Eva. Music makes great gifts and great surprises. I'm sure no-one will be disappointed after the settle down and listen...Laura as usual this is a great web site and you are to be applauded for doing such a great job. Take care to all and please send your addresses if you would like a copy of the BBC tribute ok. Looking forward to hearing from people. Have a great weekend, and if anyone has taped the Nightline special please let me know as I would like a copy to keep.
I can be reached at the following e-mail addresses:
tgbatson@uu.net
batman3030@hotmail.com
batmantb@aol.com
Name: LJB
Home town N CA, USA
Found the website A regular
Sent: 5.35 PM - 6/23
I have come here since hearing NPR last Xmas and have seen how Eva has finally come ashore, reaching many states in the union, and for that matter the world. Her voice circles the planet. Joy. Thanks for the awakening G B.
You all write such moving tributes and poems. Words from your hearts. Thank you. And thank you Laura. You are doing a great job.
Name: lei haverly & tim haverly
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song autumn leaves/I know you by heart/ain't no sunshine/song bird/all of them cannot get enough of her songs/
Home town waialua, Hawaii
Found the website looking for Eva
Sent: 8.18 PM - 6/23
aloha/after seeing her special story on Night Line show I could not get her out of my mind/her autumn leaves arrangement was haunting and brought me to tears/could not do any of my work all of the next day /I told my husband, Tim to find her at the music store which took several days/ the sales clerk at the store said that he had gotten the last copies /that they were in much demand and sold out /after playing a few songs at home he called me at work and said through tears(he never cries)that it was so beautiful and thanking me over and over for finding her/now....if we would only get our local radio stations here to get some air time anything from any of her albums I will be the happiest person in Hawaii/do you have some suggestions how to get them to "get hooked" and play some of her songs??? in the meantime I will try to call several of my favorite DJs to tell them what a beautiful person, voice, a Songbird who's voice will go on and on/we Hawaiians, are musically enriched in telling stores of heartache/nature/love thru music/I have played her music over and over again/finding new sounds of her voice/mahalo/thank-u for letting me share....aloha...lei
Name: Rick Spears
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town South Florida
Found the website ABC Nightline
Sent: 10.37 PM - 6/23
I recently saw Eric Clapton and he ended his show with a surprisingly beautiful version of 'Over the Rainbow.' I was wondering what prompted him to sing that song. A few nights later I was snoozing through Nightline and heard the sweetest voice singing 'What a Wonderful World' and started to pay attention to the show about Eva. Finally I heard her sing 'Over the Rainbow' and completely melted. Now I know why Eric was singing the song. The next day I went out and bought 3 copies of Songbird (2 for gifts) plus 2 other albums. I have been to the Blues Alley in DC and can just imagine her singing there. Rick
Name: Howard King
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All excellent
Home town Myrtle Beach, S. C.
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.28 AM - 6/24
What a beautiful, soothing voice, that of Eva Cassidy. Her voice heals
and she truly is a Florence Nightingale of music. I try to listen to her rendition
of Over the Rainbow every night just before I turn in. Thank you Eva Cassidy.
Rest in peace. You are still with us.
Home town Harrisburg, PA
Found the website Alta Vista
Sent: 4.31 AM - 6/24
I heard about Eva from a segment run on the BBC World News in London, England. I went to a Border's Bookstore and bought the "Live At Blues Alley." What a beautiful beautiful voice.
Name: Carol Smith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Sing Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Buckley North Wales
Found the website From Freeserve search
Sent: 10.25 AM - 6/24
The world lost a beautiful and talented girl but she left us a legacy of music which is perfect to the ear.
Name: Beth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heats
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Kansas
Sent: 4.44 PM - 6/24
Never in all my life have I heard such beautiful music. For someone to sing such meaningful and inspiring songs with all her heart, really is a gift from God. You have the voice of an angel, Eva.
Name: Margaret Hilsdon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Oxford England
Found the website on the back of album
Sent: 5.05 PM - 6/24
Her singing seems to come straight from her heart I could listen all day to her music. What a talent this lady had it was so sad that she died so young. Her music will always live on.
Name: miranda pascoe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves and Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town eastliegh, England U.K.
Found the website searching websites
Sent: 6.58 PM - 6/24
I cant describe enough words to how beautiful, Somewhere Over the Rainbow is and autumn leaves, and many other songs Eva Cassidy sang, I really enjoy her albums, she brings music to my heart and light to my life, Eva you're music carry's on. every time I switch on your CD, I feel like I want to start humming and singing, thank you for making minutes of my life happy,
and the world a better place.
Name: Annie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song FIELDS OF GOLD
Home town Cologne
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 7.48 PM - 6/24
Hey!
Oh my god, what a wonderful person!
I think that I can't find the right words to tell u how wonderful this person was! I never met her but, oh man, I have to tell u all my story bout my first meeting with Eva Cassidy:
I was washing my dishes in the kitchen and I'd got my radio on (channel SWR3), then they played the song "Fields of Gold" and as I heard the first sounds of it I felt very ... I can't say .... not sad, I would say I felt thoughtful.
The song was playing and I had to cry, my feelings were so ... I can't say, I felt so much emotions and pain and love and all this in this song while I was listening to it! I really can't say ... I had the feeling that she was singing this song from the bottom of her heart.
After this the DJ said who this singer was and my only thought was "where can I get her CD's?". I bought all of them in the internet after my FIRST Eva Cassidy song!
It would be great to chat with someone with the same feelings! Please mail me!!!
Bye and god bless u all!
Annie
Name: wendy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Melbourne
Found the website Netscape communicator
Sent: 1.46 AM - 6/25
it was 1999,i was driving, listening to Australian broadcaster network(a.b.c. 'Fields of Gold' came on, and that was it! moved to tears like many people... tracked her c.d. down through didgeridoo\hot records which I'd never heard of... wondered what Blix St Records had to do with it... it was another few years here before she hit the big time! I'm so grateful for the extra info thru these fabulous websites. thanks a lot!
Name: Anne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Thursday Island Australia
Found the website looked for Eva Cassidy
Sent: 7.09 AM - 6/25
I sleep with the radio on and I woke to this very different and wonderful version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow although when I woke up the next day and thought I was dreaming. I was woken up again another night by "Fields of Gold" and this time got her name and just managed remembering the next morning - she knows how to use her voice and her voice is such a beautiful one. She also does a beautiful version of Autumn Leaves. I have just recently lost my mother to cancer and my brother brought the Songbird album for Mum to listen to whilst in hospital and as I was with her most of the time I played it a lot, and yes just like other listeners I am brought to tears whilst listening to the song. Of course I now connect the song to mum and will probably continue to cry my eyes out whenever I hear it, but certainly Eva has a voice that is able to reach your innermost feelings. Still don't understand why people aren't totally appreciated whilst they are still with us - it's true "you don't know what you got till it's gone>"
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Wolverhampton
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.09 PM - 6/25
I first heard Eva's song on the famous Top of the pops broadcast and after searching on the web have now got a library of her songs, what an amazing touching voice and real moving lyrics. I am glad I discovered the genius of Miss Cassidy.
Name: Katja
Home town Bonn, Germany
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 3.18 PM - 6/25
My English is not very good, but I try to say what I want to say. I have just heard the story of Eva in the German channel WDR2 and also I have a lot of work I just sit there and listen to the story and to the music. And everything in me became quiet and calmful. When I finish my work in about 1 hour, I will go to the next CD-Shop and by the CD 'Songbird'. It's so sad that Eva died, but it's a great luck that we are able to hear her voice and receive the emotions she gives with her voice!
Yours Katja
Name: Deanna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Halstead
Found the website Radio station
Sent: 3.43 PM - 6/25
The song is so moving, her emotion is felt in every word and note in this song. This is the first and only song that I have heard for now, however I'm going to get the CD today and share it with my family and friends. IT IS A HIT and should be shared with the world.
Thanks for the music Eva
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town East Yorks
Sent: 6.10 PM - 6/25
Hi Laura, thanks for the new developments in your site, it makes it all much easier to navigate. have you ever thought of adding a chat room, as I am sure that lots of Eva fans would like to communicate with each other. Looking forward to the Radio 2 programme on the 10th July!!
Name: Paul North
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves/What a Wonderful World
Home town Petaluma, California
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.15 PM - 6/25
I was driving through another city when a local all-blues program was playing. They played What a Wonderful World, and I immediately asked my wife to write the artist and album down. I went out and purchased "Live at Blues Alley", and have been playing it constantly since. I will order every one of her albums soon, and become the resident nut on her voice. Just wonderful, I only wish I had discovered her during her lifetime.
Name: Dee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart/Over the Rainbow
Home town Portland
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.32 PM - 6/25
What a truly lovely voice Eva Cassidy had and what a terrible tragedy that a person so talented should pass away so young. I am so grateful that she left her music as a legacy for all of us to enjoy. Her renditions are so different than what we are used to and yet they seem to be the way that they really should be sung. Thank you, Eva Cassidy, and may you be singing with the angels and having the best time ever.
Name: tom Cassidy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I like all her songs
Home town lower-hutt new zealand
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 2.18 AM - 6/26
5 star 100 from 100
Name: Debbie Ripley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album my first - Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow/Fields of Gold
Home town Abington, MA USA
Found the website MSN
Sent: 4.16 PM - 6/26
The beauty and lyricism in Eva's rendition of 'Over the Rainbow' drifted into my dreams one morning, awakening my sleeping spirit as gently as the warmth and light of the early morning sun. The soft, yet determined passion in her voice, with the promise of new hope and faith inspired deep soulful sentiments within me, and I am most gracious to her family, friends and others who have shared the beauty of her gift. I bought the Songbird CD this past weekend to share this song with my good friend who is about to leave us after her long unfortunate challenge with breast cancer. I was unaware of Eva's similar endurances, and somehow, her story, her voice, gives me strength while we see to the final comfort and love of my friend. Hearing the song that morning was serendipitous, as it was a radio station I do not regularly listen to. God bless the woman, Eva and her family - for she has taken me Over the Rainbow as my tears reflect the colorful memories I will cherish of my friend Shirley.
Name: Lars Kemter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold/time after time
Home town Berlin
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 5.54 PM - 6/26
The voice is the mirror of a human`s soul. Eva expresses feelings through her voice that you can´t put into words. All I can say is that I´m very thankful for having her music in the soundtrack of my life !! Listening to her makes me smile while my heart cries.
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album .
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town UK
Found the website www.Google.com
Sent: 11.55 PM - 6/26
Eva, a truly beautiful voice. Makes me cry every time I hear you, I know you can see this and wish you my love and respect through your new journey. Thank you for opening my heart to an already beautiful song made more beautiful than I ever thought possible. Your friends and family have truly someone wonderful to cherish and remember forever. With Love xxx
Name: Jen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Stormy Monday
Home town Bethany Beach, DE
Found the website MSN
Sent: 3.31 AM - 6/27
Wish I got to hear her sing when I lived in Baltimore. Her voice is beautiful.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song autumn leaves/Fields of Gold
Home town millbury
Sent: 3.51 AM - 6/27
thanks for the music....
Name: Pat
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Glendora, NJ
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.11 AM - 6/27
Very recently a local station has begun to play Eva Cassidy's music. When the first notes of Over the Rainbow entered my ear, every hair on my body stood on end. Thank God she agreed to make these CDs ! I'm buying every one. What a talent ! How sad that she's gone, our souls could use a little more of her splendid voice.
Name: Steven Mallory
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them!! How can I choose???
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song How Can I Keep From Singing?
Home town Ponca City, OK
Found the website MSN
Sent: 5.13 PM - 6/27
I first heard the Divinity sing through Eva in an encore presentation of ABC's "Nightline." Tears were only the beginning of range of emotions I felt as she sang "Over the Rainbow." I have heard God sing through others but never so clearly and soulfully. Amen, Eva!!
Name: Ann Henry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Dallas
Found the website Blixsteet.@aol.com
Sent: 7.06 PM - 6/27
I was lying in bed late one night recently, listening to the radio as I usually do, when Eva's song "Over the Rainbow" came on. It blew me away. I had never heard anything like it. I was compelled to call the radio station immediately and find out who that was singing. So began my wonderful discovery of the treasure and unbelievable talent that is Eva Cassidy.
Name: Dan & Denise
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Morristown, NJ
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 10.17 PM - 6/27
Radio station WMTR in Morristown plays Eva's songs quite often and that is how we heard of her. We since bought the album and are looking into getting the others as well. Eva will be missed but never forgotten. Thank you for this website.
Name: Lorraine Norris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Song Bird
Home town Kings Mountain North Carolina
Found the website Blix Street and just looking around
Sent: 11.41 PM - 6/27
I am totally blown away by her powerful voice. I heard of her only a couple of months ago and I have all of her CDs except one "The Other Side" which I will purchase soon. I can't stop listening to her sing and I never grow tired of it. The music industry and humanity has lost something wonderful. It is so refreshing in this day to hear someone that has true ability and talent. What a tragedy to have lost her so soon. I am extremely grateful that a saw the TV program about her and went out the next day to find her music. Her range of talent was so broad and her voice is like gold. I would have driven to DC to have heard her perform at Blue's Alley. Sorry that I will never have that opportunity.
Name: Concert Hall, Commerce Court,
Home town Toronto, Canada
Sent: 1.30 AM - 6/28
We now have all her recordings in stock. To date we have sold 2,400 units and counting. That is only in 7 months. Every day more and more people are introduced to Eva. We have just received "On the other side" which has been impossible to get in Canada. I just keep playing her. Graham Wright
Name: Cathy Hadaller
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album undecided
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song so far it's Over the Rainbow
Home town Fort Wayne Indiana
Found the website mamma
Sent: 2.09 AM - 6/28
What a Day! I have been given such a gift just to hear Eva sing! Her voice moved me into complete stillness. I had goosebumps listening to Over the Rainbow. Then, I felt such a loss to discover she was already taken from this world. She'll live as part of me now, with her music as one of my very favorites. Thank you Eva. And, if you can hear me up there Over the Rainbow, please find my mom. She'd love to sing with you. A choir of angels. Yeah. I hear you now.
Name: john
Home town Baltimore
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 2.43 AM - 6/28
The Dec. 20 NPR broadcast left me sitting in my car after reaching work. As a procrastinator, I didn't actually buy an album until today. As another commented, it was one of the very few times I've listened to a new CD all the way through and then listened again.
It is certainly a gift that we have her music. But still so great a tragedy that there will be no more of that voice. But the greatest tragedy in this is that someone who was obviously an important part of a great group of people, someone who was simply so very good regardless of her voice, is gone.
Name: Morgan "Chip" Welch
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live @ Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get Ready/Over the Rainbow
Home town Little Rock, AR.
Found the website Yahoo [originally], also AOL
Sent: 3.04 PM - 6/28
6/28/01
I'd read something a few months back, but it hadn't registered. Cheryl and I were ignorant of Eva's music and of her story until 10 days ago.
Just before leaving work on a Friday, I started looking thru music stories on the web, found some short clips of her songs and then [in what has become, as I've now learned, predictable behavior] bought first the Album with Chuck Brown and live at Blues Alley - and the next day --everything else!
My wife and I stayed up late all weekend downloading bios and clips, singing and sighing--and crying [also now known to be predictable].
Perhaps we were affected, too, because we have a 31year old professional musician of our own [son] and have always had a 'musical family too' [tho obviously not so extraordinary in that regard as the Cassidys]--Eva's music makes people who love singing and playing happy.
To say we're sorry we can't share our appreciation of her music with Eva is an understatement. But if good thoughts and wishes can possibly make it to Heaven--'please forward'.
Chip [& Cheryl] Welch
Name: Dennis Frederick
Home town Elgin, Illinois
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 7.55 PM - 6/28
A few minutes ago a small cardboard-clad package from Amazon.com arrived at my office, containing "Time After Time." I put the CD in my player and as soon as that voice hit the air, everything else stopped. I got a call from my wife, Lucinda, a few bars into "at last" and told her, "I have a major music surprise for you when we get home tonight." I am not suggesting comparisons, but I think Lucinda will be making room in her heart for Eva right beside Kate Wolf. I know I have.
Name: Beth K. Cochran
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Bon Aqua, TN
Found the website webcrawler
Sent: 8.20 PM - 6/28
Thank you SO much for developing the site! I'm a new fan. My boyfriend has an obsession for Eva Cassidy and introduced me to her - - now so do I!! I'm glad to find out more. I wish Jazz stations would play her music, I've not heard her on any station here in Fort Worth.
Name: Myles Alexander
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Spartanburg, South Carolina
Found the website Mamma
Sent: 11.12 PM - 6/28
I just heard about this treasure of a singer today on a talk radio show. She gives me cold chills. I look forward to collecting all of her work.
Name: Brian Jones
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water
Home town Weston-super-Mare UK
Found the website Via Hot Records site
Sent: 6.20 PM - 6/29
Heard Eva's Wade in the Water on BBC Radio Bristol yesterday in the car on the way home. Absolutely exceptional swing. Palpably the greatest loss to jazz music last century. I look forward eagerly to hearing more of Eva.
Name: Peter Mc Mahon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Stone (UK)
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 7.45 PM - 6/29
Glad I found the perfect voice, it is pure heaven to listen to her sing,
Name: Erin Navarro
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Fontana, CA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.07 PM - 6/29
Being a singer myself, and being married to a musician, I can say that we all feel connected to each other through the passion that's expressed in our music. It's easy to connect to Eva's legacy when you can understand her soul through her music. She really is a treasure. It's a shame her value was established after her wonderful memory. She has blessed me beyond belief and I hope it brings joy to her family to know that she has touched so many people's lives even after her life here has become a beautiful collection of memories.
Name: Morgann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You by Heart
Home town Tucson, AZ
Found the website AOL keyword
Sent: 5.52 AM - 6/30
I was just browsing through a music store tonight and was listening to many different artists. I was just about to leave when I started listening to "Songbird". I couldn't stop listening, it was amazing! I don't think I've ever heard an artist that made me feel the music as much as she did. It gave me chills. I can't stop listening to it! I can't believe someone with so much talent isn't more well known. She is the best-kept secret.
Name: Pam Clearman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album each and everyone
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song too many to decide
Home town San Antonio, TX
Found the website ?
Sent: 1.49 PM - 6/30
Thanks to ABC news...that was my introduction....the first broadcast. Heard Eva singing Over the Rainbow in the background...(and had not been paying attention until that sound made me stop to listen... in fact only heard the last 30-35 seconds of the report). I made a mental note to check this out on my own, but then forgot. Luckily a month or so later I saw a second report on the nightly news. My sister was visiting and we decided the next morning to head to the bookstore in hopes of finding Eva's music. We bought Songbird. Sat in the parking lot with chills covering our skin. Began the drive home while listening, then turned around and went back for another CD. Since that time have purchased many as gifts and honored to say I have each that I know of except Eva By Heart...next purchase, for sure. Her music makes me both hopeful and sad....tears for her parents, tears for the fact that my best friend died last year of breast cancer at age 44, leaving behind her 10 yr old son. My friend had a degree in botany and loved the outdoors. At her funeral last year, Louis Armstrong singing What A Wonderful World was played. When I learned that that was the final song Eva performed in public prior to her death, well it is difficult to describe my emotional response. My spirits are often lifted at the prospect that Eva and Corinne are joyfully playing in the Garden of Eden....planting while Eva serenades. I cry at Eva's faith...and the fact that her music reminds me to be more trustful. I cry that I never saw her perform. I cry that I moved to DC in November '96..and now wonder if she ever performed at the Birchmere... which my husband and I frequented. To think if only we'd arrived in DC earlier, we just might have had the opportunity to see her perform. Tears for the music that might have been produced in time. To summarize, despite having a sizeable music collection, after having discovered Eva, not much else gets played around my house....simply Eva. From all accounts, Eva was as beautiful a human being as she was a talented artist. May her example be lessons for us all. God Bless and Keep You, Eva's family.
Name: Paul Limbrick
Sent: 2.45 PM - 6/30
If anybody would like an audio tape containing all of the UK TV Eva features, plus the recent Radio 4 segment, (total length approx 60 minutes) then please leave a contact address at, paulimo@yahoo.co.uk
No charge.
Name: joe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I like them all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I LIKE THEM ALL
Home town Greensboro, NC
Found the website my mom showed it to me
Sent: 4.32 AM - 7/1
For all we who love music, all of us who have sang into a brush when no one was around, all of us who can't wait to get in our cars alone to escape into our stereos, those of us who feel the passion of song.... A singer has has been to fuel our love with timeless, natural and enduring mementos.
MUSIC!!!!!!!! REAL MUSIC!!
from tears to smiles and I don't mean popular, trendy, commercial and uninspired song , I mean fall in love, healing, honest MUSIC
Thank you for this place to appreciate these beautiful
songs openly. It's a relief to know that I am not alone in loving them yet, at the same time, I know that would be impossible.
To the late great Eva Cassidy, and all her family and friends, my earnest and heartfelt regards,
I am so happy when she sings
it makes the future brighter
joe
Name: Chris
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I like them all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town France
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 7.24 PM - 7/2
Love forever and wherever you are. Thanks for your music.
Name: Hatty Rickards
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song FIELDS OF GOLD & WALY WALY
Home town CARDIFF, UK
Found the website NETSCAPE
Sent: 11.45 AM - 7/3
Eva's songs got me through a painful breakup last year.
Her voice is the most beautiful I have ever heard. Thank you for her life and her music. God Bless.
Name: Donna Perry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them!!!
Home town Devon, England
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.23 PM - 7/3
I just have to say that I have never in my life heard anything as beautiful as Eva's singing! and want to thank you all so much for sharing it with the world!
I've found Eva's music so calming and relaxing that it lifts me so high, especially at this difficult time in my life, The voice of a true angel! to say the very least. Thank-you again! Donna
Name: Rebecca Wampler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Morristown, TN
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 2.52 PM - 7/3
I first heard Eva's music on Nightline and had to get two CDs the next morning. Sharing with anyone who loves music. Haven't heard Time After Time yet but can't wait.
Name: Ron Gallagher
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album No Favorite
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Every Song
Home town Motown
Found the website Link from Eva Cassidy.com
Sent: 4.54 PM - 7/3
The most beautiful sound I have heard in my life.
Words can not describe the depth of emotion.
If only I could sing to you as you sing to me.
I Love You Eva.
Name: Laurie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Raleigh, N.C.
Found the website By Searching
Sent: 5.03 PM - 7/3
I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and frequented many of the clubs Eva performed at, including Blues Alley. Unfortunately, I never heard her perform and didn't even know she existed until a case of insomnia led me to Nightline. I was riveted by her story and mystified by the effect her song "Over the Rainbow" was said to have had on listeners. The next day, I went to local record stores to buy "Songbird," but couldn't find it - it was sold out everywhere. I finally just got a copy of it over the weekend, and haven't stop listening to it since! I crave more of Eva's music, and just ordered LIve at Blues Alley, The Other Side, and Time After Time. I cannot wait for them to arrive. My mother, a former jazz singer who performed in the '50s in D.C. clubs, cried when she heard Eva's "Autumn Leaves." It was a song my mother frequently performed on stage with my father, a jazz musician who played bass. Eva's voice is like no other I have ever heard. I'm just sorry she couldn't have lived long enough to experience the adulation and appreciation her talent is now generating.
Name: Thomas
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Mannheim / Germany
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.14 PM - 7/3
I first hear a song of her in radio while driving home after work. At home I downloaded several songs of her I found in the web. The next day I had to get a CD of her in the music store. At home in the evening while listening to her music and reading the covertext I sent shivers down my spine and had wet eyes,realising that she was dead (in my age-shocking). My favorite is song Fields of Gold because of the sentence " the days still left we'll walk in Fields of Gold" also knowing that there is noboby I can walk with.
Name: oLa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold....ALL of THem
Home town London
Found the website www.ask.com
Sent: 5.30 PM - 7/3
Hey, i love Eva Cassidy, she has the most beautiful voice. I wish i could sing like her!!! if u find of her lyrics on the net, could u plz plz plz send it to me. thank u so much. respect.
Name: Javal
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Central Florida
Found the website blixstreet.com
Sent: 6.36 PM - 7/3
I was totally taken aside by Eva's story on abc's Nightline program. I have truly been touched by an Angel, and have been an avid fan since. Eva's uniqueness is unparalleled in today's world of music. Such a genuine and heartfelt quality that has really filled a void in my appreciation of music. I believe that God had a mission for Eva. And upon it's completion, he took her to be with him. I am also inclined to believe that the gift of her voice to us, given so freely, with no expectations in return, has been restored unto her so abundantly that we can't begin to imagine. Upon entering heaven, God may have said to her..."You have used the gift well that I have given you my child, now I will show you the nature you loved so much on earth, like you never imagined!"
Thank You Eva Cassidy, for the loving gift of your voice, and for God allowing you to have shared it with us so that we all might cherish it for all time.
Your legacy will be here for all to enjoy for many years to come. And with tears in my eyes, I submit to you all, that Eva is indeed, Somewhere Over the Rainbow!
Name: Jonathan O'Brien
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird, I wish to buy the others
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song each has a beautie unto its own
Home town Cornwall,UK
Found the website evacassidy.com
Sent: 7.55 PM - 7/3
I cried the first time I saw the documentry of evaCassidy as she sang "Over the Rainbow" . with my depression-emotional termoil it just affected me profoundly. partly I cried for Eva, her life, the travesty, and partly of all the emotion I was harbouring of myself and for that moment took
myself in myarms-if you like- and cried it was very
emotionally deep. I listen to Eva a lot now and how she is so lovely. each time I listen is seemingly a new experience and takes me to a special place. I feel such Love for Eva. :o)
Love
Jonathan
Name: Ed
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Englewood, Ohio
Found the website Webferret
Sent: 7.56 PM - 7/3
A good friend of my was playing some various CD music in shuffle mode at his home as background to our conversation. About half way through Eva's rendition of Woodstock, I interrupted our conversation by asking "Who the heck is that?" He went on to explain about the nightline show, etc. A few weeks later, I found myself on a business trip in Denver and took the opportunity to purchase Songbird and Time After Time CDs. Needless to say, driving the car through the breathtaking beauty of the Rocky Mountains with Eva's voice filling my head, heart, and soul, was an experience I shall never forget. Thanks.
Name: Paul Leach
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (my first)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Denver, Colorado
Found the website go.com
Sent: 3.10 AM - 7/4
One of the biggest joys of the music fan is to find
something new and exciting. After many years,
those moments seem to come more infrequently. What
a wonderful moment it was the first time "Fields of
Gold" swelled up and burst forth into my life...and
then the rest of Songbird ... what a gift ...
Paul
Name: Donna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them!
Home town Herndon, VA
Found the website washingtonpost.com
Sent: 4.07 AM - 7/4
To those of you reading this in the US: ABC News' Nightline program will be airing an encore presentation of their program about Eva on July 4! Tune in, or set your VCR!
Name: Leanne Duplissis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time After Time
Home town Muskegon, michigan
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 7.17 PM - 7/4
The first time I heard Eva sing Over the Rainbow, I knew this was a voice that must have been heavenly inspired.I researched as much about her as I could find over the internet. Even though I haven't written a poem in years, I felt inspired to write one in memory of Eva. I used information gained about her and wove them into my ideas. as I wrote the poem I was overwhelmed by the aroma of sweet honeysuckle. I knew then it was right. I don't understand why I felt compelled to write this poem, but I want to share it with her family and all those who have fallen in love with her blessed gift of song.
Name: Aymie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Take me to the River or Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Ballymoney, N.Ireland
Found the website through evacassidy.com
Sent: 7.42 PM - 7/4
I'm a 14 year old fan and all I can say, is I'm glad of it. My mum heard Songbird on a local radio station, and decided that she'd go out and buy the album. She let me hear it once, and she's never seen it again. The 11 to 15 year olds in my church took the service last Sunday, and we almost did Wade in the Water. The leaders thought that Eva's version was too good and we'd never get it as good as hers. I have to say, Eva's Take me to the River is faaaaaaaar better that the Annie Lennox's version! Thanks, wonderful site here. :o)
Name: Rudi Schwarzinger
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them !!!!!!
Home town Wülfrath/Germany
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 8.25 PM - 7/4
Vielen Dank Eva,
für diese wunderbare Musik,
diese unsterbliche Stimme.
Rudi
Name: David Dingley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Kathy's Song
Home town Winchester (UK)
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.35 PM - 7/4
Most brilliant voice of the 90's (and probably several other decades too!) Every track a gem - what a loss to the world!
Name: Alicia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Every song
Home town Westland, Michigan
Found the website altavista.com
Sent: 1.49 AM - 7/5
An amazing woman with an amazing voice.
Name: Lawrence
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Montreal
Found the website Yahoo search for Eva Cassidy
Sent: 3.48 AM - 7/5
I am now listening to the ABC repeat of the Eva Cassidy lifestory. I do not have a VCR and would like to know how to get a tape of this program to share with others who did not stay up late tonight to listen to the greatest voice I have ever heard.
Name: elaine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Stormy Monday
Home town Atlanta, Georgia USA
Found the website nightline
Sent: 4.01 AM - 7/5
i saw the first story on Nightline and the one tonight (7/4/01). I will always be sorry I did not catch this great talent when she was alive. Fabulous voice! What a talent!
Name: Lisa
Found the website www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 4.06 AM - 7/5
I wish I would have known such a talent like her existed. It's said that for so many years she was left unheard, a voice of an angel. There are not too many talented artists like herself left in this world today!
Name: Sherry Gerald
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song At Last
Home town Wiggins, MS
Found the website MSN Search the Web
Sent: 4.16 AM - 7/5
I ordered all five of her CDs after seeing Nightline the first time. I just watched it again. I've almost worn out the CDs already! I've never heard such a beautiful, heavenly voice. I only hope Eva knows how much we all love her!
Name: Bob Wilson
Home town Weiner, Arkansas
Found the website abc.com
Sent: 4.18 AM - 7/5
Beautiful voice....I'm sad she's gone.
Name: Elaine Heath-Ward
Home town Carrollton, Georgia
Found the website ABC News.com
Sent: 4.22 AM - 7/5
I have never heard of Eva Cassidy until tonight. That voice...that wonderful voice. I really like her style. I told my husband to write her name down. I want that music. My heart broke when the "Nightline" story revealed that she died of cancer at the tender age of 33. I am glad that I tuned into "Nightline" on this stormy night in Georgia.
My all, Elaine
Name: Jim Long
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Just introduced to Eva
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Chattanooga, Tennessee
Found the website excite
Sent: 4.22 AM - 7/5
I'm having surgery for chordoma, A type of bone cancer. I have been in radio ether on the air or building the stations. I'm probably going to die pretty soon. I like Eva have talent that not many people have. I wish we both had time to live out our dream. I'm submitting this July 5th 2001 @ 12:21am. My surgery is in the morning at 7:45. If I don't make it, I'll say hello to Eva for all of you. Jim Long
Name: Pat B
Home town Boston
Found the website msn
Sent: 4.23 AM - 7/5
I saw the program about Eva on Nightline. She not only had an amazingly beautiful voice but she was a real, completely unpretentious person. What a loss to this world! And how unfair life often seems to be. I felt great sorrow at her passing. My heart aches for her family who must have been so proud and loved her so much.
Name: Daniel J. Wolfgram
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow/what a wonderful world
Home town Madison Wi
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 4.25 AM - 7/5
Eva; a voice that made me weep tears of wonder and past reflections. God rest her soul. Her life taken at a time when we all needed her love of life and passion to guide others that could hear her to motivate our own souls. Eternal rest to you Eva..may the perpetual light shine upon you.
Name: Pat B
Home town Boston
Found the website msn
Sent: 4.26 AM - 7/5
I saw the program about Eva on Nightline. She not only had an amazingly beautiful voice but she was a real, completely unpretentious person. What a loss to this world! And how unfair life often seems to be. I felt great sorrow at her passing. My heart aches for her family who must have been so proud and loved her so much.
Name: brian barsher
Home town New York
Found the website nightline TV(ABC)
Sent: 4.31 AM - 7/5
Eva's voice speaks about the soulful yearnings that
lie within all of us. She eloquently shares her gift.
I love her for embracing us all.
Name: Jack
Home town Biloxi Ms.
Found the website AOL
Sent: 4.32 AM - 7/5
I am speechless. Watching Niteline I heard a voice that moved me like very few others ever have. Pure. Translucent. Transparent. I envy any of you that knew her, and cry with you for her passing. It seems the Lord gives us so little time with persons He has blessed with such amazing gifts. Thank You Eva.
Name: Joy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a wonderful World
Home town Cleveland
Sent: 4.40 AM - 7/5
After months of searching for the perfect song to use as a first dance at our wedding my husband and I discovered Eva Cassidy! On June 16th we were married and our first dance was
to What a wonderful World. What a beautiful version! It was also the last song played. Thanks
Eva for making our day perfect!
Name: Kevin Fitzpatrick
Home town Austin,TX
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.43 AM - 7/5
Hello, I just got finished watching the Nightline story about Eva. As a musician I was blown away. Speechless. As a human being, I was moved to tears. It's hard to make sense of such a great loss. From the looks of this website I think we can all see the incredible power of music in spite of brain dead record company weasels. I don't own any of Eva's CDs yet...underline yet! A fan for life, Kevin.
Name: Denise Sancilio
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Virginia Beach
Found the website Nightline
Sent: 4.56 AM - 7/5
I was profoundly inspired by the music of Eva. My son Michael, 10, was also treated for cancer at Johns Hopkins from 1990-1996, the year of his passing. My husband and I continue to support this institution and are having a fund-raiser on July 21. My question is this, Where can we purchase her most "Angelic" music? Is there a foundation to support her or more importantly, Can my husband and I send in donations, along with our sons to Johns Hopkins? I thank Nightline for running this touching story. With journalism such as this, cancer may be cured sooner than we know! Thank You for sharing Eva with us!
Most Sincerly,
Denise and Anthony Sancilio
Virginia Beach, Va.
P.S. Our Sons favorite song was "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Our Quests, I am sure, will pour their hearts out with the singing of this Angel. Her music is meant to live on!
Name: Mike
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album new to Evas music
Home town Montour, Ia
Sent: 5.14 AM - 7/5
Truly amazing woman with a truly amazing talent. It's been a long time since I've heard a musician for the first time that has touched me like this, I truly wish I had heard her sooner.
Name: Cheryl Miller
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time after Time
Home town Elyria,Ohio
Found the website coppernic
Sent: 5.28 AM - 7/5
what can you say about such an amazing voice.. she must have been an amazing person. I am sure her voice will touch many.
Name: R. May
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album new to her music
Home town Mansfield, LA.
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.39 AM - 7/5
I just saw the Nightline show on her and was very impressed with her voice, musicianship, stage presence, and class. I am looking forward to buying all her CDs.
Name: Angela Gillie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Miami,Fl / Eden,NC
Found the website iwon.com
Sent: 5.46 AM - 7/5
If it were not for Nightline giving an encore of her story,I would've never even heard of Eva Cassidy. Her voice was so pure and calm, moving, soulful, and can never be replaced. I'm so glad we have the honor and luxury of listening to her recordings. I play her songs and dance to them with my three year old son along with my unborn child(he/she seems to enjoy it too!) at every spare moment I can find. Thank you GOD for giving the world the gift of music and Eva Cassidy.
Name: Kevin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Long Island, NY
Found the website AOL
Sent: 6.10 AM - 7/5
Eva's voice is like an angel's that was sent to us by God to lift us up and to breath love into our hearts.
Her voice is golden and reaches down deep inside me, deeper than I ever thought possible. My dear friend, Ann Marie turned me on to Eva's voice about three years ago which has filled my heart with so much love that I never knew existed. I am eternally grateful to Eva and Ann Marie - they will be in my life forever.
Name: wendy s.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Harrisonville, MO
Found the website abc.com/evacassidy.com
Sent: 6.16 AM - 7/5
I first want to thank ABC's Nightline for broadcasting this bittersweet story about a remarkable woman and her inspiring gift of singing. I was fortunate enough to see this broadcast originally in May and Eva's version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" literally brought tears to my eyes and I am not one to cry easily. I just happened to stay up late tonight and see the encore presentation and I am not one to normally sit entirely through a program on TV, much less twice. Eva had a wonderful talent and I admire her for staying true to herself. Although, it is sad to think that she never did know what affect she had throughout the world. I am thankful that we are fortunate enough to appreciate her music now and she has surely made the world a better place with her sharing and obvious humbleness. What a truly remarkable musician and person.
Name: Brad
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Bought 3 tonight!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Everything I've heard so far!
Home town Georgia
Found the website MSN Search
Sent: 6.38 AM - 7/5
I'd never heard of Eva until tonight. For some strange reason I turned the channel to Nightline, and there she was. I have to say, I was blown away. I went straight to the computer and downloaded about 10 MP3's and shortly thereafter I was on my way to amazon.com where I purchased 3 CDs. I'm sure I'll end up buying the rest of her CDs to add to my collection. I don't know what "it" is, but Eva Cassidy had "it". Thanks to ABC for the chance to be exposed to Eva and her music.
Name: Geri Enos
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird(the only one I have )
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Boston
Found the website MSN search
Sent: 7.12 AM - 7/5
I was given Songbird 2 years ago as a birthday gift. I didn't really think about buying any others because this was such a great compilation of her work. But I think there is so much she has done, such a range, that I will get all her other CDs. Eva Cassidy was "one of a kind", an original. I feel it is a privilege that so much of her work has been compiled and we have access to it. Her voice, her wonderful ability to interpret so many different styles of music are what make her so unique. She was a gift....
Name: John Sullivan
Home town San Diego
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 7.19 AM - 7/5
My heavens! Where have I been? I had never heard of Eva before tonight (July 4th) and regret that I've lived such a deprived life! I know quite a lot about the very tough music business, and can tell you that Eva has very, very powerful music indeed if it can overcome all of the resistance of the "suits" at the Sony Records of the world who tried to keep her down, giving "contracts" to far lesser talent. Even in death, it seems that she's getting the last word! Cool girl - born about when I was. I deeply regret never having met her, probably as Sony Records deeply regrets never having signed her!
Name: DONNIS
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album NEW TO HER MUSIC
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ALL OF THEM, I'M SURE!
Home town ORANGE, CA
Found the website AOL.COM
Sent: 7.33 AM - 7/5
I JUST SAW THE NIGHTLINE PIECE ON EVA. WHAT A VOICE! GOD HAS SURELY BLESSED US, BY ALLOWING US TO EXPERIENCE EVA'S SINGING. I HAVEN'T HEARD OF EVA BEFORE TONIGHT, BUT I AM VERY ANXIOUS TO GET SOME OF HER CDs AND SHARE THEM AT WORK...I HAVE NEVER HEARD A VOICE THAT TOUCHED MY HEART SO PROFOUNDLY, SO QUICKLY. HER VOICE EVEN WOKE MY HAWAIIAN BOYFRIEND UP!!! IT IS SO SAD SHE IS GONE SO SOON-I ACTUALLY FEEL IT IS A PERSONAL LOSS!!
Name: Dorothy Carroll
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I love them all
Home town Camino, California
Found the website abc.com
Sent: 7.38 AM - 7/5
I saw this story the first time it was aired on Nightline. I was happy to see the story repeated. I am so touched by her story and her music.
Name: Coral Leigh
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wonderful World
Home town No Hollywood CA
Found the website ABC news
Sent: 7.46 AM - 7/5
I, too was a Washingtonian and into many educational arts programs in the suburbs. That similarity got my ear on Nightline...but then I sat down and was mesmerized by her story and her interpretations. I have a granddaughter who is becoming a very talented singer and is also very independent in her choices and actually looks very much like EVA. Maybe I shouldn't push her so much now to put her "package" together!!
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Looking fwd to finding out...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Ea I've heard; pure Magic!
Home town Providence, Rhode Island USA
Found the website 1st Google, others w difficulty. traffic...
Sent: 7.57 AM - 7/5
Sev hrs later (& having tuned into Nightline partway thru), I remain transported & breathless... It was for me an unexpected GIFT! The Power of Music & the human Spirit is enormous, & Eva has left us a legacy that continues to build & grow with fervor, touching more people & opening more hearts w ea passing moment. To all 'out there', may we be more aware of 'passing it on' in our own lives. Tonight's surge of activity and
response speaks Volumes! Sweet sleep 2 all--------
Name: Mike MacIntyre
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town Grand Haven, MI
Found the website through another Eva website
Sent: 8.36 AM - 7/5
I am like so many others who have signed this Guestbook. I too have seen both airings on "Nightline" about Ms. Cassidy and was equally blown away with the power of her voice. No special lighting or dance steps, just great music by a woman with a truly angelic voice. I am 22 and one of the unfortunate people to have been brought up in a society thriving on pop and hip-hop. It's great to see that there are still people out there that appreciate truly great music. Although some of the songs they played on "Nightline" are old classics, like "Over the Rainbow". They sound just as good the second time around. Ms. Cassidy might be gone, but she has shared with everyone a gift that will last for eternity. Thank you, Eva...
Name: Thomas Brouillard
Home town Texas City, TX.
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 11.54 AM - 7/5
Thank you Nightline. If not for the broadcast last night, I and others would have never known of this inspiring woman. An Angel from God in my eyes. I was frozen in place at the sound of her powerful voice. I will soon buy all her music and tell others about her.
Name: James Whelan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Reading, United Kingdom
Found the website MSN
Sent: 12.48 PM - 7/5
I have heard this song a thousand times before and it never ever meant that much - that was until I heard it one morning on "Wake Up To Wogan" on BBC Radio 2. I then bought the CD and listened to it again. Never has a song made me want to cry a small tear, but it has tugged on something inside. Fantastic.
Name: Félix A. Barboza-Retana
Home town Lubbock
Sent: 1.33 PM - 7/5
I saw last night a program about Eva Cassidy. Now I am going to get her CDs.
I think there is NO justice around because beautiful-special people are being taken from our world. why people like Eva was taken.
Name: JIM SLOEY
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Home town Redondo Beach, ca
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 1.41 PM - 7/5
I was watching the news when nightline came on last night. I heard the intro as I started to turn it off but stayed tuned [even during the commercials, a no small feat for me]. I feel we all have lost a very special person and a truly God gifted artist. Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy and all her family and friends my heart will share your lost but rejoice in Eva's wonderful songs that will live forever as shall she in our Father's house. Thank you and may God Bless!
Name: Ruth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Just introduced to Eva
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Freind, NE
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 1.43 PM - 7/5
First of all "Thank You Nightline" for sharing that wonderful story about Eva Cassidy. I had never heard about Eva until last night 07/04/01 watching Nightline. Listening to hear voice and hearing her story made me want to cry. What a beautiful person
Today I plan on going to the music store and buy some of Eva's CDs!!! I can't wait to hear that voice again.
Name: Charline Mandeville
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a wonderful World
Home town Atlanta, Georgia
Found the website MSN
Sent: 2.22 PM - 7/5
I was totally blown away by her voice. I was channel surfing and came upon the last few minutes of Nightline. I literally stopped when I heard this beautiful, soulful voice. I was memorized and moved to tears by this singer that I never heard of before the Nightline program. I want to get all of her music that is available. I am extremely saddened that we are getting to know her in death and not during her lifetime. I am truly grateful to Nightline for bringing the voice of an angel to out attention.
Name: Carlos Basconi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Still listening to her works for first time
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 2.32 PM - 7/5
As with others I think the telecast on nightline was meant for me to see. Just an incredible story and I would hope to see even more. Exceptional voice and artist but equally exceptional as an inspiring person. I will be on the look out for her CDs and will be giving them as a gift to friends. My heart goes out to her friends and family. Just having seen her story I already feel a void of having missed on seeing her perform live. Thank you Nightline
Name: r.brody
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album song bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you better... time is a healer
Home town New York
Sent: 2.46 PM - 7/5
I recently purchased the Eva Cassidy CD SONGBIRD as gifts for friends. As I was moved to many emotions two months ago upon first hearing this great artist. The words of appreciation they share with me for opening this door to them is truly amazing. I believe no other artist today can stir these feelings in all of us. To
those that have become completely let down by the current crop of untalented corporate so called artists and musicians. There finally is the real thing...
EVA CASSIDY'S LIGHT IS SHINING BRIGHTLY
Name: Garland Brown
Home town Seattle, WA
Found the website www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 3.22 PM - 7/5
Last night I watched Nightline and saw/heard the Eva Cassidy story. Tears and smiles. Like all the messages above, I was truly touched. The messages all have the same spirit. I think we all want to be touched by someone magical and when we see a glimpse of someone with rare magic, we all gain hope in our lives.
Good wishes and spirits
Name: Tina Brashears
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album haven't heard them all yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song haven't heard them all
Home town Walkersville, Md.
Found the website Seen Eva on Nightline
Sent: 3.56 PM - 7/5
I haven't heard of her before, but when I did, my heart just melted! what an Angel! What a voice, she was so very gifted, a beautiful person. I cried when I heard that she passed, she had such a God givin' talent to reach people, her voice went through your souls, I haven't heard anyone with a talent such as hers. I only wish I could have met her, and to hear her live! What a gift that would have been.
Name: Sheila
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Detroit Michigan
Sent: 4.10 PM - 7/5
WOW--where to begin....I caught the rebroadcast of the Nightline EVA story last night... you can't appreciate my response until I explain a few things. I grew up in a house where we always sang, sang, sang. When I was ten years old my folks gave me a guitar that I taught myself to play. Over the years I put the guitar in the closet and forgot the magic it holds. However, my love and appreciation for music grew and grew. Last year I sang in a praise band for 6 months ,before I moved and left my fellow band members and that church. For three months I couldn't understand why I felt breathless, sorrow and an ache in my heart until my husband realized this was happening every Sunday night - when I would have been singin' with my band. I have shared this love of music with my son, who is eleven. He has been gifted by God with an incredible voice and goes with me once a month to sing during church service at a local nursing home. We sing and dance together often at home - he appreciates, treasures and understands my love of many kinds of music.
Since moving, ten months ago, I've been without my stereo system and had resorted to playing CDs on my computer. UNTIL YESTERDAY. I told my husband I could no longer go without being able to play my CDs all day and the computer wasn't convenient. So to the store we went...not only did we buy an incredible music and sound system...I loaded up on even more CDs of all the music I'd grown up singing and LOVE...you see, like Eva my musical tastes cannot be pigeonholed or labeled....you'll find Motown, Gospel, Praise & Worship, British music of the 60's, African drumming, classical, opera, folk, Rock of the 80's, movie soundtracks.
To celebrate the Fourth of July we had invited several friends over - some of whom are musicians - guitarists and drummers. I so wanted to sing like I did growing up, however, that didn't happen. Late in the day as the last folks were hanging out we began talking about music and our favorites, etc. It was very hard to explain to those there my eclectic tastes - they had looked through my huge stack of CDs and were mystified by the wide selection. I told them I was determined to buy another guitar, teach myself to play and teach all of them the songs I loved - and share their favorites too. After everyone left I was completely wiped out but couldn't seem to make it off to bed...
...that is when I turned the TV to Nightline and saw this incredible, beautiful, magical woman named EVA. I sat laughing and crying, knowing EVA would understand the ache in my heart for more music, more creativity, more artistry in my home. Before the show was over I had decided that TODAY would be the day...you see tonight when I get out of work I WILL ask my husband to join me at the music store. I WILL buy that guitar and those books and I WILL begin to teach myself to play. I will stop EVERY DAY and sing and play music with my family and my friends.
Eva had a wonderful voice, a wonderful presence and an incredible beauty that this world was better for experiencing. I consider it a blessing to have learned about her and her music - she is an angel from heaven - still bringing people together from all walks of life to celebrate the beauty of life - through music and artistry. Eva has reminded me to be kind to myself, to feed my hunger for music and to enjoy the beauty of every day we are blessed with here on this earth. Eva left me breathless, hopeful and grateful. I know she is delighted to see the joy her music continues to bring. Peace and Love, Sheila
Name: Rick M
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OTR, Golden Thread, Waly Waly
Home town Grand Junction, CO
Sent: 4.12 PM - 7/5
Wow! Amazon.com has gone "bananas"! As of today at 10 AM MST, all 5 of her albums are in the top five(where they should be) with "No Boundaries" in the top 10!
There are many good singers in the world. A few of them are great. But to me, Eva is the only one that gives me an emotional experience-a real stirring of the soul!
Thank you Eva!!!
Name: Ken Feinelib
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Brooklyn NY
Found the website link from www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 4.25 PM - 7/5
Hey, did anyone happen to tape the Nightline special? I've been in love with Eva's music for a couple of years (at my wedding last year, my wife & her father danced to Eva's "Wonderful World" and I never make mix tapes for anyone without putting her "Fields of Gold" on it), but I had no idea about the Nightline profile until this morning. If any kind soul would be willing to tape it for me, I'll happily send a blank and/or pay any associated cost. Thanks so much! I'm so thrilled to see Eva's beautiful music reaching such a wide & receptive audience!
Name: Mona Skobe
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Tranås, Sweden
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 5.19 PM - 7/5
Can anyone tell: is it possible to watch a tape using the VHS-system, as we do in Europe, if the program is taped in another system like VCR, used in the US as I understand? I have planned to buy a copy of the Nightline program if it is available but this may be a silly idea for this only reason!
Is it possible to convert into another system? Have I (hopefully) misunderstood the whole thing?
Please, enlighten me someone!
Mona, Sweden
Name: Tim
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't have one yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song to date: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Houma, Louisiana
Found the website ABC news web site
Sent: 5.47 PM - 7/5
I was channel surfing after a glorious Fourth of July evening, my wife was in the shower, as I ran across the Nightline re-airing of Eva's story. As Somewhere Over the Rainbow ended my wife wanted to know who that was that just finished singing that exceptional version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I had to tell I didn't know. I know now and I look forward to getting know her music and to sharing it with friends and family.
Name: Joyce
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow & What a Wonderful World
Home town Canton, IL
Found the website AOL
Sent: 8.41 PM - 7/5
Thank you for sharing! This is a beautiful site. Eva must have been a joy to know. Give her parents a hug for all the people that her music has touched. What a gift and inspiration. The angels must be celebrating that voice!
Name: Trish
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't have any yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get Ready
Home town Batavia, IL
Found the website surfing MSN
Sent: 8.52 PM - 7/5
I too was watching "Nightline" last night and was
mesmerized by her voice! I loved the story and am going to purchase a CD by this week-end.
Name: buzz busby
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album the first one I can find
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song wonderful world
Home town no. Lauderdale, fl
Found the website ABC nightline
Sent: 8.57 PM - 7/5
What a terrific News segment on Nightline-
I felt very much as Dave Marash did - How did I not know this wonderful voice before!! So beautifully expressive & imaginative!!
Having written for many years for a so Fla. music mag
RAG-I always pride myself on knowing some lesser known & often obscure artists, but how did Eva get by me?
Name: Linda Gramenzi
Home town Woodbury Heights
Found the website IWON
Sent: 9.07 PM - 7/5
All I can say is....I am speechless!... As I layed sick in bed last night with a 102 fever, I had my TV on and all I could here was this angelic voice. I had to open my eyes and look to see who it was. I was amazed to see it was a woman named Eva Cassidy. I too am a singer and she just blew me away! I was very saddened to know she is no longer among us in body. But in spirit, very alive and well! Her voice comes to you with such harmony and strength! God gave her that special power to enlighten our hearts and our voices.
I will be buying her CDs and becoming more familiar with her music! May God Keep Blessing Eva Cassidy!
Name: Cynthia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town San Jose, California
Found the website Go To
Sent: 9.10 PM - 7/5
Saw Nightline last night for the first time in years! I was blown away with the voice of Eva Cassidy and saddened by the story of her death. I really couldn't get her rendition of Over the Rainbow out of my mind and didn't want to wait for an Amazon delivery so I drove to the Mall this morning and bought Songbird. In fact I'm listening to it as I write the e-mail. I will buy her other albums - no doubt!! What an amazing talent - gone way too soon but thank God we have her wonderful songs remaining.
Name: Maria
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album none - yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song going to find one after I get her CDs
Home town Maple Shade NJ
Found the website ABC nightline
Sent: 10.18 PM - 7/5
I was at work last night listening to the ABC broadcast of nightline on the radio. As I cared for this sick preemie and listened to this angelic voice, I found a tear began to run down my cheek. I knew I would be buying her CDs by the time the broadcast was over. God gives us all a special talent, hers will grace us for years to come. Thank you for sharing her story and voice, I know she is singing with the angels.
Name: Annie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't own any yet( cant wait!)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold/Wonderful World
Home town Portland, OR
Found the website Eva Cassidy.com (a link)
Sent: 10.37 PM - 7/5
Oyvey....I am blown away....what a talent that I never knew existed , like everyone else till I saw the Nightline encore performance. May Eve live on thru her recordings. I liked what Eva represented as being a non-conformist to the record labels. and being independent. She has "chutzpah"....and I thank her for the joy she has brought me and to others. Thank you Eva. (thank you to those who brought this site)....Stay Creative!
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album first one I can get!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all I've heard
Home town Atco, NJ
Found the website MSN
Sent: 11.55 PM - 7/5
Name: Tibor Horvath
Home town Seattle, WA
Found the website iwon
Sent: 12.05 AM - 7/6
I too just happened to catch last night's airing of Eva's story, and the music was so beautiful, and the story so touching, that I was moved to tears. I plan to buy all her CDs.
**To Mona Skobe in Tranas, Sweden: you can't play a VHS tape in Sweden if it was recorded in the U.S. or Canada, but you can have it converted to European format.
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album 1st one I get
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town Atco, NJ
Found the website MSN
Sent: 12.07 AM - 7/6
(I was so excited-I hit ENTER twice. Forgive me!)
Thank God for Nightline and thank God for Eva Cassidy. I, like many, many others, had never heard of Eva until the nightline broadcast on 7/4/01. I stopped in my tracks and gave the program my undivided attention. Being "blown away" is such an understatement. She had such a talent and was so humble with it. Eva's voice is like satin-so smooth, like honey-so sweet, like no one else I've ever heard. I hope all of her recordings will be released in CDs. Everyone needs to hear them.
Name: Troy G Batson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All Of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All Of Them
Home town Waldorf Maryland
Found the website Excite
Sent: 12.13 AM - 7/6
it's really good to see and read what new fans have to say about Eva. Sentiments exactly what I had the first time I heard Eva sing. Just blows your socks off at times and allows you to float among the clouds on others. Well, welcome to all the newcomers and enjoy and spread the word. If anyone would like a copy of the BBC Radio broadcast please send your mailing address and I will get you a copy in the mail. This includes people overseas as well as the states. To the overseas fans, please send your address as I don't mind sending to where ever you may live. Please send your mailing address to one of the following e-mail addresses':
tgbatson@uu.net
troy.batson@wcom.com
batmantb@aol.com
The sooner I get you address the sooner I can get a copy out to you. Take care and GOD Bless!!!!
Name: Julie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of 'em I'm sure as soon as I get them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song without a doubt....Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Caledonia, Ontario Canada
Found the website Excite.ca
Sent: 12.17 AM - 7/6
I have been thinking non stop about Eva since I watched the piece on Nightline last night. The hubby and kids were in bed, and I was just channel surfing after a long walk. WOW...when I heard her voice I did not dare to change the channel, and as I listened to her story I was completely mesmerized. She is truly an Angel. I lost my sister in law to cancer at age 33 as well, and the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow has a special link between my sister in law, Joanne and her mother. To hear Eva sing it....so eloquently and simply...it was just pure magic. I cannot wait to go out and get her CDs so that I can have the pleasure of listening to her daily. What a spirit that woman had....and it is surely a testament to her talent that her songs and voice are affecting people all over the world, even though she's no longer here. I don't think I can say anything else.
Name: Mary
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album At this moment- EVA BY HEART
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song At this moment "Say Goodbye"
Home town Memphis, TN
Found the website msn.explorer
Sent: 1.26 AM - 7/6
I echo Troy's sentiments. And welcome all you newcomers to the board. It's a great place to visit and share your reaction to that amazing voice. By the way, Troy is a great guy and really comes thru if you ask for the BBC tape. It's great-much more detailed than the Nightline special. Enjoy all the music!
Name: Renee
Home town Great Falls, Montana
Found the website MSN auto search (Excite)
Sent: 2.08 AM - 7/6
I can only echo comments I've read above. What a shame that we lost such a beautiful voice. I never stay up past 10:00 p.m., as I work very early in the a.m. However, yesterday being Independence Day, the fireworks were too loud to sleep and my dog needed calming. So, I turned on Nightline for the first time in forever....and I'm so glad I did. I will be adding these albums to my collection.
Name: Lisa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ?
Home town Lancaster, CA
Found the website link with ABC
Sent: 2.09 AM - 7/6
Great sound. Wonderful voice. I too was up late due to the holiday and because the dog had decided to run away, as they say everything happens for a reason. I was blown away by Eva's voice and talent. I am going out to buy her CDs this weekend.
Name: Brian Henke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I'll buy one
Home town Cincinnati, Ohio
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 2.47 AM - 7/6
Normally I don't watch Nightline when Ted's on, but when I learned that ABC was going to re-air the Eva Cassidy segment on Billboard.com, I had to watch! (I partially saw it during this week). I had to go to a record store to get Songbird, but I couldn't find it. I will go to get one tomorrow!
BTW, Amazon.com has Eva 1-2-3-4-5, and No Boundaries is No. 7. All shot up the list as a result of the Nightline rerun.
Name: Starla
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a wonderful world and Over the rainbow
Home town McDonough, GA
Sent: 2.52 AM - 7/6
I had fallen asleep early last night and was awaken by the most beautiful voice I have ever heard. She had a true gift and I'm glad that it can be shared with the rest of the world.
Name: Brian Henke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I'll buy one
Home town Cincinnati, Ohio
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 2.57 AM - 7/6
Oops. I should have said that I don't watch Nightline when Ted's NOT on. (BTW, Chris Bury subbed and did a new intro, saying that Songbird hit %1 on the Billboard Pop Catalog chart and Eva had the top five albums at one point on Amazon, which she has done again.)
I've been reading these messages tonight by people who had NOT even heard of her before the Nightline rerun - and were blown away by her voice and saddened by she's no longer with us. In fact, I think this was the musical story so far in 2001: a woman, dead since 1996, hits the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
I hope that Dave Marash convinces The Powers That Be at Nightline to do a follow-up to the Eva Cassidy phenomenon.
Name: Judy Hausler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Surfing
Home town Pasadena, Texas
Found the website From iwon.com
Sent: 3.20 AM - 7/6
I just heard about Eva from my brother that saw a program late last night (7/4/01) about her Life, music, and death. He was really and is rushing out to buy a CD, Thanks for this site it makes me feel as though I knew her and know all her music even though I have as of yet not heard one song. I intend too. I think we lost a talent and for that I am sorry. And to the people that knew and loved her may you all have comfort in her music.
Sincerely
Judy Hausler
Name: Pam O'Brien
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What A Wonderful World
Home town Sicklerville, NJ
Found the website Nightline Story
Sent: 3.28 AM - 7/6
I saw the Nightline Story on Eva for the second time last night. Listening to her music is to me like conversing with God. She is no doubt one of God's favorite angels. We are so lucky to have her music! I now have 5 of her CDs. I think there may be one more that I haven't found - the duet with Chuck Brown.
I listen to her every day. Prior to this, I listened to rock and roll - not much else. I own a paint your own pottery studio and have introduced her music to many of my customers. I keep thinking - is it appropriate to play gospel music in the studio? But I can't help myself - I need an Eva fix daily - either in my car or at the studio and then before I go to bed at night she helps me end my day with her soothing, caressing voice.
I thank God for Eva! She has nurtured my spirituality
in a way that nothing else has ever done before.
Name: James
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Los Angeles
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 3.59 AM - 7/6
Like so many who posted in this Guestbook, I watched Nightline last night and was transfixed with the story of Eva Cassidy. Her love for music regardless of fame or fortune touched me deeply. And then I heard Over the Rainbow when I purchased her Songbird CD. I was forever moved and couldn't hold back the tears. Her very voice reached out and plucked my heart strings. If ever an angel sang directly to us it was through Eva Cassidy. We can all be forever grateful she graced our lives if even for such a short time.
Name: moondawg
Home town MN
Sent: 4.02 AM - 7/6
The music of Eva Cassidy is such and rare and delightful sound that it can change lives. The simple power and emotion of her singing is something that has never been done by anyone else in the history of recorded music. I would go so far as to say that she has the best voice to grace a singer that has ever been heard by human ears. I just wish I could thank her for bringing so much joy into this world. Eva, you've done more than I think you could ever imagine for music, thank you!
Name: Yvonne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Will be buying some very soon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Lawrence, MA (USA)
Found the website through Nightline at ABC News
Sent: 5.21 AM - 7/6
I normally am not awake during the broadcast of Nightline but was so on July 4th. When I heard Eva's voice it was like an angel - as she is now. I definitely plan on purchasing her CDs.
Name: tim carter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Eugene, Oregon
Found the website ABC news link to Eva's links page
Sent: 10.12 AM - 7/6
after seeing the first nightline broadcast about Eva I was absolutely stunned at the beauty of her voice - tears rolled down my cheeks... I bought 'Songbird' and 'Live at Blues Alley' the very next day...she was (is) a treasure...her voice is like nothing I've ever heard....beautiful, powerful, lyrical, provocative, compelling, delightful - but most of all, moving...listening to 'Over the Rainbow' is an emotional/spiritual experience....how rare the talent that can reach out and touch people in their hearts as well as in their soul....thank you Eva...your voice brings a little bit of 'heaven' to earth...
Name: Frank
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Plan on buying all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a wonderful world
Home town Austin TX
Found the website MSN
Sent: 1.22 PM - 7/6
Hi
I never watch Nightline, but I was surfing thru the channels on Wed night and stopped on Nightline because I heard someone singing this song and I thought oh my god, who is this singing. I watched the whole show with so much emotion, and I must admit, I got a little teary. I have never heard of Eva Cassidy and I thank god I was watching TV that night. The next day I immediately got on the web to see if I could find anything about her. I called some music stores to see if they had her CDs, and they did. I plan on buying Songbird this weekend( If there not sold out). Thank you Nightline for airing this show and letting the world know about Eva Cassidy.
Name: Jennie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I wandered by a Brookside
Home town Cardiff, Wales
Found the website MSN
Sent: 1.50 PM - 7/6
I first heard of Eva, a couple of years ago, she is a phenomenon in the UK.
I find I can fit into any mood listening to her songs, romantic, spiritual, sad .... she had the most amazing gift, and we are so lucky that she was able to share it with us all. If you get the chance to listen to 'I wandered by a Brookside' do it, it's the most uplifting song I have ever encountered.
Name: dari
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album just bought Songbird yesterday
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Santa Monica, ca
Found the website Google
Sent: 2.22 PM - 7/6
i was half asleep watching nightline when this voice woke me up. I ran to put in my contact lenses to see who was producing this voice and saw Eva for the first time. I bought Songbird yesterday and plan on buying everything she has recorded ASAP. this is the first artist I have been excited about in years and she is gone already. I sure wish I had heard of her sooner. definitely would have made an effort to go see her perform anywhere in the us.
Name: BERTHA ABRAHAM
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song FIELDS OF GOLD
Home town HOUSTON, TEXAS
Found the website ASKJEEVES
Sent: 2.43 PM - 7/6
EVA HAS A VOICE THAT TRULY TOUCHES THE HEART. I LOVE HER VOICE AND HER MUSIC. I HAD NEVER HEARD OF HER BEFORE THE ABC BROADCAST. I NOW LOOK FOR EVERY SONG SHE HAS MADE.
Name: Karl
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town New York
Sent: 5.45 PM - 7/6
The day after the Nightline report on Eva, I bought every CD available. Wow!!! What a voice!!! Eva truly was an angel from God who briefly came to earth to deliver a message only a few (her fans) could hear. Her voice really gets inside you.
Name: stephan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Montreal
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 5.49 PM - 7/6
about a week ago I started what is usually the best time of the year for me... one week off for the jazz festival here in town. On the first day I read a article on miss Eva Cassidy, the same day I go to a record store and by chance I see a stand where you can listen to sample of cd,and on of them is Songbird. that song as always been very important for me and the singing of miss mc vie could't not be top emotionaly. so I go stray to that song on the display to see what that girl could do with that masterpiece.... I was overtook by her version. I did bring the album home and been listen to it for a week now. it totally over shadow my week of jazz-world music-blues and late night drinking. I have been thinking and feeling the voice of miss Cassidy. that's how wonderful music can be. thank miss Cassidy from a bike lover
Name: Brian
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song rainbow
Home town Canterbury UK
Found the website Re-visiting
Sent: 6.04 PM - 7/6
It's good to see the predominance of North American visitors to the Guestbook having not viewed it for a while. It's not often it can be said the UK were ahead of America in anything, but we certainly took Eva to heart sooner. It's good to see her reaching the wider audience she deserved. There's a re-run of her story on BBC Radio 2 soon - I certainly won't miss it this time around!
Name: Darlene C. Forsyth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet, just ordered all...
Home town Houston
Found the website Nightline web page
Sent: 6.04 PM - 7/6
I was in total awe of Eva on Nightline the other night and at the same time devastated at the loss of such a beautiful lady... Oh how I wish we'd had an opportunity to know her more.... What a tragedy, but a beautiful legacy she left for us to enjoy. God Bless.
Name: Scott Smith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Muskogee, OK
Found the website MSN
Sent: 7.44 PM - 7/6
My wife and I just discovered Eva's music when we just happened to catch "Nightline" a couple of nights ago. It was strange because we hardly ever watch that program. Maybe we were supposed to watch and learn about Eva. In the last couple of days, I have bought "Songbird". One CD for my car and one for home. I have given the CD to several co-workers who are hearing about Eva for the first time. What a treasure! What a loss.
Name: James Brodie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get ready
Home town Lakewood, WA.
Found the website linked from evacassidy.com
Sent: 8.17 PM - 7/6
Our holly Father gives us a taste of heaven every so often, that's what the sweet voice of Eva Cassidy was a taste of good grace and glory on earth as in Heaven!
AMEN.
Name: TONI
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SONGBIRD
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OH HAD I A GOLDEN THREAD
Home town B/HAM UK
Found the website MSN
Sent: 8.48 PM - 7/6
HOW CAN I SAY ANYTHING WHEN ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE HAVE SAID IT ALL EVA WE KNOW YOUR STILL HERE IN SPIRIT WITH US AND WE LOVE YA BABY THANK YOU FOR TOUCHING MY HEART
Name: ken austin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song rainbow
Found the website internet explorer
Sent: 8.51 PM - 7/6
Eva has the most beautiful voice that I have ever heard, what else is there to say.
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album haven't picked one yet (new listener)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Detroit
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.07 PM - 7/6
What an incredible voice.... so sad (for us) she's not around anymore but so glad to be able to hear her music. Thanks Eva, for the beautiful music. Makes me glad I happened to see the Nightline program. Thanks, Laura, for this website.
Name: frank
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Sarasota Florida
Found the website MSN
Sent: 12.30 AM - 7/7
Think the lord we got to know her for a short time!
Name: Ginette
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a Wonderful World.
Home town Miami, Fl
Found the website Link with abc.com
Sent: 1.41 AM - 7/7
After watching Nightline for the first time on July 4th,I went out the very next day and purchased Songbird and time after time. I had to get the others today because I just fell in love with that beautiful voice. What a gift! That beautiful Angel is smiling down on all of us as we enjoy her beautiful voice.
Name: Sandra
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Redmond, WA USA
Found the website been here before
Sent: 2.14 AM - 7/7
To my dismay, I was out of town when Nightline first broadcast the show on Eva. I was so happy to see that they were going to rebroadcast the show on 7/4/01. I set my recorder and taped it as I was again not home to see it. Wow, I just watched the tape. I think they did a wonderful job of portraying her talent and her spirit. As I watched the tape, I tried to think of how I would feel, discovering her for the first time. I was just as blown away as the first time I heard her sing. I have 5 of her CDs, and I listen to one or more of them every day and never tire of hearing that incredible voice....it can be sweet, or soft, or powerful, it goes right to your soul, lifts you to the clouds and then sets you down gently. A great big thank you to Nightline for doing an encore on Eva!!!
Sandra
Name: graham
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song golden thread
Home town Christchurch New Zealand
Found the website internet explorer
Sent: 2.24 AM - 7/7
My drummer gave me a copy of Songbird about a month ago. From the beginning of 'Fields of Gold ' I just went gooey! this is the voice I knew was out there somewhere. As so many have said before she had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard. When she sings Í miss you my friend ' in the middle of 'Love heals the wound it makes' I just spill tears in fact I get weepy just remembering how she sings it!
I recommending her to everyone I meet.
Name: Lawrence
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Several
Home town Montreal
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 2.33 AM - 7/7
I came back to read some of the comments of people who just discovered Eva after watching Nightline and I was not surprised to learn that what was experienced by them was also experienced by those who discovered her the other times the program was aired. I am sure that if the program repeats every couple of months the same thing will happen to people who watch it and discover her. She totally affects all who listen to her and she is undoubtedly one of the greatest voices and talents we have ever heard. Her voice and talent will live forever.
Name: JeepNut
Home town rural Boone County, IN, USA
Found the website DogPile
Sent: 4.36 AM - 7/7
I don't normally bother with guest books, but this woman, this voice, this angel....
As is his prerogative, God gathers all the beautiful souls.
I am sorry to not have had the opportunity to see Eva perform live.
Tears, Chills, Memories, Questions, Wonderment, and more every time I hear her sing. The Fields of Gold is probably my favorite tune, but Sting is of course a master himself. Eva simply presents it better than he ever could have; no offense intended to Sting.
Our loss is Heaven's gain. But He did smile on us too as her recordings are now more widely available for us to enjoy. A new audience so appreciative... so much in awe. Peace Eva.
Name: Sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Not sure yet... all so far....
Home town New Braunfels, TX
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 5.30 AM - 7/7
So absolutely articulate....
Does anyone know if there is a copy of
AMAZING GRACE....
Name: Terry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What A Wonderful World
Home town Sacramento, CA
Found the website ABC News
Sent: 7.46 AM - 7/7
It is not to often we are graced with something so pure and rare as Eva's voice.
Name: wendy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song tall trees in Georgia/Fields of Gold, etc...
Home town Melbourne
Found the website excite
Sent: 7.51 AM - 7/7
hello Eva world! this message is just to ask if any of you kind people in the u.s.a. would be able to send a video copy (vhs) of the nightline program?
I'm in Australia, and I'd be happy to pay any freight costs...(thanks!)
Name: Chuck Hamilton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Wichita KS
Found the website AOL
Sent: 1.59 PM - 7/7
Eva Cassidy is alive today, thanks to her music and art. there will never be anyone that can walk in her shadow.
I do a morning radio show in Wichita, and started playing cuts from "Songbird" the day I received it from a record promoter. I am awed by the lady, and so are a lot of my listeners.
Eva was a gift from God, to all of us, then He took her home, to be with the rest of the angels.
I, and my listeners, are richer for being exposed to the Lady Eva!
Name: Phil Bocking
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Sorry, I can't have just one favorite!!
Home town Manchester UK
Found the website Microsoft Internet Explorer
Sent: 3.24 PM - 7/7
I discovered Eva Cassidy about twelve months ago when my band performed "Autumn Leaves" based on Eva's recorded version. After hearing her voice on the album "Song Bird" I found myself wanting to learn more about this gifted lady. She was totally into music, totally beautiful, totally shy of fame & fortune & and totally died aged 33. Knowing her story, I have never been moved so much by music, with her voice so perfect, hitting every note, making me feeling sad but happy at the same time. Someone asked me a few weeks ago if there was one person I would like to meet alive or dead who would that person be? Eva Cassidy is definitely at the top of my list!!!
Name: Pia
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time after time
Home town Öland, Sweden
Sent: 3.34 PM - 7/7
The last two months, I haven't listened to anything else but Eva Cassidy´s music. My sister introduced me to her and I thank God for that. Eva has the most sensitive voice and a truly pure feeling in what she sings. I surely do love her!
Name: Sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Morehead, Kentucky
Found the website just punched in evacassidy.com
Sent: 3.45 PM - 7/7
A friend recently introduced me to the wonderful sounds of Eva. She gave me her CD to listen to at work, after making me promise to return it! (I had to listen to it on my CD ROM on my computer!) But even coming from the computer speakers, there was no doubt what an extraordinary voice she had. I am now hooked. Once I read the story of Eva on the Time after Time CD and read other things about her, I can truly say she is one person I would have loved to have as a friend--and I feel like she is being a friend through her music.
Name: Jack Winemiller
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Fields of Gold
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Amazing Grace
Home town Germantown, TN
Found the website A
Sent: 4.12 PM - 7/7
Name: Beverly
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Pennsylvania
Found the website AOL Keyword Eva Cassidy
Sent: 6.13 PM - 7/7
I watched Nightline's encore presentation of Eva Cassidy. Again I was in tears. I have never heard a voice like Eva's. Truly this must be how an angel sounds. She sang from her heart and touched everyone else's. I hope she knows how many lives she is still touching through her music. God bless Eva Cassidy.
Name: Sharon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Park Forest
Found the website Microsoft Explorer
Sent: 8.40 PM - 7/7
In my forty-something years, I don't think I've ever heard a voice more angelic! I can't get through the "Songbird" CD without sobbing. She touches places deep inside me that I didn't even know were there! The world is a better place having had Eva in it.
Name: Charlie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Say Goodbye
Home town UK
Found the website regular
Sent: 9.12 PM - 7/7
Public Information Announcement:
Anyone unsure of world timings for BBC Radio 2 documentary on 10th July at 9pm London time can consult www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Name: Deana
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Leominster, MA USA
Found the website Linked from ABC.com/Nighline site
Sent: 9.30 PM - 7/7
Everyone above has said all the words that are in my heart, but I will try in my own way to say how much I feel. Eva has a voice that stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder why you have never heard her before. She takes your breath away and moves you to your deepest core. Thank you Nightline for making Eva known to me. I cannot wait to tell everyone I know about her and to share the wonderful sounds.
Deana
Name: Bill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Fairfax
Sent: 2.22 AM - 7/8
just when we need it most someone like Eva sings all our thoughts, all our words when we need it most.
Name: Cindy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OTR
Home town Winfield, PA
Found the website Webcrawler
Sent: 2.27 AM - 7/8
I can't possibly express any better what has been so eloquently voiced by many before me in this Guestbook. So I will simply say, "Amazing...truly amazing." I'm so thankful that I chanced on the Nightline broadcast on July 4th and learned of Eva Cassidy and her music. In searching the Internet for information on Eva and her recordings, I stumbled on the information that God chose to take her home on the very same day (Nov. 2, 1996) that I lost someone very dear to me. I can only hope that Eva's sweet voice in God's choir can be heard by my loved one in Heaven, as I listen to her recordings here on Earth. May God bless you, Eva, and keep you safe in the palm of his gentle, loving hand.
Name: Don Minkin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town St. Paul, MN
Found the website ABC NEWS.com
Sent: 2.29 AM - 7/8
What a Beautiful voice, I listen to her all the time, thank you lord, and bless you Eva.
Name: Richard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Southampton, England
Found the website Excite
Sent: 3.05 AM - 7/8
I first heard Eva a few months ago singing "Over the Rainbow" and hated it, no one I thought could or should try to improve on the Judy Garland version, however, on listening to it a few more times I realised what a huge talent Eva was, I went to my local music store and on the strength of that one song bought 5 Eva Cassidy albums, went home and started to play them.
When "Songbirds" last track ("Over the rainbow) finished with the lyric "why oh why can't I?" and I heard my CD player whirr to a halt it broke my heart to think that this beautiful and talented woman should die so young.
I find I'm playing more Eva Cassidy music than anything else and not a day goes by without me listening to at least one of her songs.
Thank you Eva for your beautiful voice and your beautiful songs, the world is a poorer place without you.
Name: Karen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Omaha, NE
Found the website blixstreet.com
Sent: 6.09 AM - 7/8
Isn't it incredible that you can read the paper or watch the news and feel so much despair about how people treat each other and the state of the world today and then you read the messages in this website and I am amazed at how one beautiful, simple woman with an extraordinary voice who isn't even with us can connect people the way Eva has. Maybe that is part of the reason why we are all so emotional- she gives us hope for what could be. She shows us that you don't need fame and material goods to be happy. Life can be good listening to an awesome song and looking at a full moon while sitting on your patio! I am so thankful I happened across the July 4th repeat of Nightline. I went out the next day and bought Songbird and cannot stop playing it and will tell my friends about her or buy it for them as a gift. Sorry this is so long, but I am surprised at how her story has moved me and wanted you to know. Finally- what was Eva's birth date? I was also born in 1963 and was just curious. Thanks!
Name: Carol T. White
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Undecided
Home town Pasadena CA
Found the website alltheweb.com
Sent: 10.13 AM - 7/8
Others are eloquent in describing Eva's voice and how she proves that music is the universal language. Eva is an expressive interpreter of many styles and I have no favorites yet. After all it's only been four days since my first exposure to her on the July 4 Nightline Encore program. Her singing touches me deeply and I have purchased five CDs, including three Songbird ones-two for gifts and one to keep. Will make the fourth Songbird purchase tomorrow for a birthday gift next week.
If the eyes had no tears the soul would have no rainbow. I think of this Native American saying and think of the music world losing Eva Cassidy in 1996. Then I realize how lucky we are that her family, friends, and fellow musicians are sharing her music and her exquisite rendition of songs including Over the Rainbow.
An amazing coincidence occurred tonight that involves Somewhere Over the Rainbow, from the Songbird CD, and a special gift of rainbow crystal that a friend unwrapped for the first time.
Years ago, in 1976, an elderly lady had wrapped the rainbow crystal in paper and gave the box to this friend. The box had been put away and for a variety of reasons was not unwrapped until tonight. The woman presented the gift so my friend would always have rainbows with her. Even though the crystal had not been out until tonight the thought of having a rainbow remained with my friend.
She had goose bumps when accepting the Songbird CD from me and I had goose bumps because we knew she would have another rainbow after she played Eva's exquisite rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I had not heard of this neighbor's unstable childhood until tonight and am amazed that she grew up to be a very generous, caring individual. She feels that having suffered many problems at a young age helped soften her outlook on life. I'm not sure that all of us would take such a positive look on life. I think that is a very generous way to look at life.
I have heard it said that there are no accidents. This thought occurs as I wonder why I happened to be up later than usual on July 3 and heard the announcement that Nightline was repeating the segment on Eva Cassidy on July 4. I made a point of staying up later on the 4th to see the program as I enjoy music. If my friend had not shared her story after I mentioned a relative being sent away to boarding school years ago by the stepmother and father then I would not have felt compelled to give Eva's Songbird CD as a gift. My friend now will be able to share Eva's music with others too.
Rainbows also have special significance for my granddaughter, age 9, and I. We collect rainbow pictures, fabric, and sayings and are delighted to know that Eva's Somewhere Over the Rainbow tops our collection.
I believe we each have an angel looking down on us. I will think of Eva as the angel that continues to share the purity of her voice through the efforts of others who share her work. I am grateful to Nightline for presenting the Encore show and to Eva for her voice and for her individual spirit and to her family, friends and fellow musicians. Thanks also to those who have created web sites with information about Eva Cassidy and to those who generously share pictures, articles, reviews, and links about her.
Name: Jane Mitchell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird, Over the Rainbow, Had I a Golden Thread
Home town Sydney, Australia
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 10.18 PM - 7/8
Wow! What a discovery. I feel blessed that Eva's music found it's way into my CD collection. Very rarely does someone come along whose music hits the spot. For me that's Eva Cassidy. Thank you Eva for enriching my life with your voice and songs!
Name: Mike Kleinstub
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Chattanooga, TN
Found the website Yahoo.com
Sent: 11.15 PM - 7/8
I saw the special on nightline Last week and was moved to tears by not only Eva's story but her music....She must have been a true friend and inspiration to others... I am having trouble finding her CDs. I bought Songbird and Time After Time...If anyone can help please e-mail me at ( KLEINSTUB@ARN.NET)
THANKS
Mike
Name: Austin Provisor
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL OF THEM WILL BE
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ONLY HEARD A COUPLE SONGS
Home town STUDIO CITY, CALIFORNIA
Found the website NETSCAPE/ABC NEWS/NIGHTLINE
Sent: 2.48 AM - 7/9
The moment I first heard EVA CASSIDY sing for the first time on the first of two broadcasts, I was really
AMAZED. I have never in my life ever heard a voice so beautiful. The beauty of her voice brought me to
tears, and then more tears when it was said she passed on in 1996. I do not understand how it is only now that I was able to hear her beautiful voice. She had such an amazing gift. I intend to get ALL HER CDs SOON. A TRULY BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY WHO LEFT US TOO SOON. My life has been graced by being
exposed to her angelic voice. Thank God for EVA'S VOICE. I saw both Nightline shows and am telling everyone I know about her. THANK YOU!!
Name: Maria Papademetri
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow & what a wonderful world
Home town Prescott
Found the website MSN explorer
Sent: 5.10 AM - 7/9
Like everyone else before me who was fortunate to catch nightline the other evening. I sat frozen in time with tears running down my face and a lump in my throat when Eva sang Over the Rainbow and what a wonderful world. I have heard the songs before, but Eva somehow gave each and every world such depth and true feeling. That no other singer has before. It is sad that she was not recognized for the wonderful unique singer that she was while she was alive. It just shows sometimes these record companies do not know true talent when it stares them in the face. Eva was one the most talented singers of all time.
Name: Maria Papademetri
Sent: 5.12 AM - 7/9
Sorry I forgot to enter my e-mail address.
Name: NATALIE BURGESS
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Stoke on Trent
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.31 AM - 7/9
my respects are greatly paid for Eva and her music will always be in our hearts, for we cannot forget a legend
Name: bertha dummysplodge
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song flutterby
Home town flintshire
Found the website yockonfwate
Sent: 9.36 AM - 7/9
i enjoy to watch things. my fish is called Ben and I have a nice garden. I like Eva Cassidy and heavy metal. I enjoy to watch rainbow and have a ventriloquist dummy called Regina Griffith and Richard Barratt,9ew from alsager. that's me!
Name: Andy Neilson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Birmingham, England
Found the website MSN
Sent: 10.54 AM - 7/9
Last week, a work colleague of my girlfriend's gave her a copy of the "Songbird" album; she left it in my car by accident and I brought it into the house on Saturday evening, dimly remembering an article about Eva in the Sunday Times and thinking I'd have a quick listen while I did the dishes. Four hours later I was still standing there, playing and replaying, emotionally overwhelmed by the brilliance and purity of her singing and moved to tears because a performer who could give a song such awesome, heart-filling delivery is no longer with us. I'm going out today to buy all her albums, and tell everyone I know to do the same. God bless you Eva. xxxx
Name: Kentucky Liz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song don't know yet
Home town Pikeville, KY
Found the website link from www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 1.06 PM - 7/9
I saw a feature on Eva Cassidy on a recent news magazine TV show, don't know which one. I love and collect female singers, and Eva just blew me away! I have ordered everything possible from Amazon, and I can't wait to get them. My sister-in-law writes a music column, and mentioned Eva last year, and I thought, "I'll have to check into that." I forgot about it. I am so glad these TV news shows have showed features on her. I just love her voice and who she was and what she was about. It is so sad that she passed away so young, before a lot of people became fans. I feel cheated not being able to see her perform. However, I look forward to singing with her in God's heavenly choir.
I just wanted to say, too, that so much music nowadays presents ideas that depress and dull the soul. Eva's music is "soul tenderizer" and reconnects us with our spiritual and loving sides...as witnessed by the many beautiful entries in this Guestbook. The world needs more music that affects people this way!
Name: Bill Jackson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I could have told you so w/ Chuck Brown
Home town butler, pa.
Found the website Google
Sent: 4.27 PM - 7/9
i saw the encore presentation on nightline and never left my chair until it was over. it moved me so much I immediately got on the internet and found several web-sites about Eva. in the past week I have introduced so many friends and family members to her music. reading a lot of articles about her , it is almost as if I have known her all my life. she was music's best kept secret
and her voice and variety of song styles make her music unique and that is what I love about "EVA CASSIDY". even my 2yr old daughter will sit and listen
when I put her CD on. A lot of the time I will give my daughter a bath and then just sit and hold her while listening to Eva Cassidy. thank you for the great website.
bill , amy and taylor jackson
butler , pa.
"FOREVER EVA CASSIDY FANS"
Name: Katie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I don't know
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I don't know
Home town neenah, wi
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.48 PM - 7/9
I saw the nightline special on Eva while in my friend's basement with a large group of friends. Normally, we are a chattery group of people, but the room was silent while watching the Eva special. Her version of Somewhere over the Rainbow was so touching and beautiful that I starting crying. I was quite embarrassed but then I looked around the room and saw that I wasn't the only one. I saw some of her CDs at Best Buy, but wasn't sure which one I wanted, so I went online to find some info! This site is a beautiful tribute to her legacy and I know she will have many more fans and admirers in the future!
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album it's in the mail
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ditto
Home town St. Paul
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 8.20 PM - 7/9
A guy at work and his wife asked me to find out about Eva after they saw the Nightline show. I went to cdnow.com , heard her voice and ordered Song Bird for myself !! Another wonderful musician with a tragic story is my idol, Jason Becker- album is Perspectives, he's a guitarist... it might brighten your day like Eva did mine !
Name: mark aumann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Danville ca
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 12.40 AM - 7/10
Hi...
I came home on the 4th of July and it was about 11:30 PM and nightline had this program about Eva. From that point on I had to know everything about her and had to have her CDs.
This weekend I purchased 4 of her CDs....her voice is mesmerizing and so pure. I feel like this is a person that I wish I could have known and hugged. It's like you can feel her soul through the music. Her rendition of Over the rainbow is absolutely a miracle on many levels. I called all my friends and work associates and told them to go get the CDs.
The ability to feel something so deeply and then communicate that through a song so others can feel it is not only a talent but very spiritual like a miracle and I'm not even religious.
Although her life was short, she accomplished a lot and her songs will live on forever!!!!
Name: Barry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album how can I answer that? all are fab!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song God Bless the Child
Home town Wilburton, Ok
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 2.34 AM - 7/10
My sister saw the Nightline show....went to her house and she said you gotta hear this....WOW! This woman was a precious gift from God. I hope somebody can dig out some more recordings and release them.
peace, out!
Name: Pat
Sent: 2.55 AM - 7/10
What a precious, gifted Angel. This young lady was indeed a gift. It was by chance that I saw the nightline story covering the musical legacy of Eva. At just the right moment, again I was blessed to see the rerun on Nightline. She was truly a gifted singer.
My viewing that episode was not by chance, I need to hear her serene voice.
May God continue to bless us all.
Name: Erik
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Cleveland
Found the website Google
Sent: 6.24 AM - 7/10
...What an angelic voice... I have actually just sat and closed my eyes and listened to her sing and still can't believe how beautiful her voice was...God must have wanted that voice in heaven...I 'm glad she spent some time here to share her precious gift with us... God Bless
Name: Andy McDavid
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I've yet to know....
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I have not heard a note
Home town Hubbard, Oregon
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 6.37 AM - 7/10
A few nights back I came downstairs to watch a movie with my wife. She was sitting cross-legged on the couch and was so engrossed in whatever was on the TV screen that as I walked past she moved her head quickly to see around me. The program was just ending and she asked me (the household music "no-it-all") if I'd heard of Eva Cassidy. I replied "no", and she suggested I watch for anything about her on the internet.
My wife is not easily moved by anything on TV so I was curious. Later that night on eBay I looked up her name and was surprised to find a couple dozen CDs going for very high prices. My curiosity was further aroused and I went to amazon.com to find out more. It was there that I began reading the heartfelt reviews of her recordings....reviews by ordinary people who were obviously touched by this woman's music. I had tears welling up in my eyes as I read.
At this writing I have not heard a note of Eva's music or a single phrase of lyric from her voice. Yet I know that when the 4 CDs I purchased from amazon arrive in a day or two, I plan to be alone for awhile.
I don't want anyone to see me crying.
Name: Brian
Home town Chartham, UK
Found the website Re-visit
Sent: 5.58 PM - 7/10
Don't forget - if you want to hear the tribute to Eva on BBC Radio 2 live on the net (BBC.co.uk/radio2), it's on at 21:00hrs BST which is 20:00hrs GMT for an hour. It's an updated version of the broadcast last year. There is a delay whilst it's processed (about 15 secs I think).
Name: J. Garland
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song rainbow
Home town Warwick UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 6.09 PM - 7/10
If anyone is genuinely interested in forming a fan club, whatever. I will gladly donate my unused domain name. Eva-Cassidy.com. Offered to Laura on 14/3
(page 13) genuine. no strings.englishcastles@aol.com
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Name: john Cassidy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town bury Lancashire England
Found the website from c.d. (www.tt.net/hot)
Sent: 9.36 PM - 7/10
i first heard Eva on a documentary on local radio 2 (U.K.) I only heard half a programme so today
10/07/2001 I got the whole programme it was worth waiting for what a sad loss
Name: Mark Pestell
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wonderful World
Home town Milton Keynes ( England)
Found the website AOL
Sent: 9.38 PM - 7/10
I would just like to say that since first hearing Eva sing three years ago, that her music is an inspiration to me, she will never be forgotten as her music will live on, the voice of an angel, sorely missed,
Name: kevin marston
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song dark end of the street
Home town Nottingham UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.55 PM - 7/10
a really unique voice which really touches the heart. She could truly sing any style of music and is an inspiration to anyone who is willing to listen. What were those record companies thinking about???
Name: Peter Hansford
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Southampton, England
Found the website Freeserve
Sent: 10.09 PM - 7/10
The best voice I have ever heard!
In time I want every song she ever sang
When I'm stressed I listen to Eva and what ever is bothering me just disappears every night I set the timer
and she sings me to sleep.
I wish she was still with us.
Name: Barbara Wright
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Worksop/England
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.56 PM - 7/10
Sadly missed such a beautiful singer and Songbird.
Name: connie kowalewsksi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Home town Upper Darby , Pennsylvania
Found the website AOL search
Sent: 2.03 AM - 7/11
Turned on Nightline on July 4th and saw the rebroadcast of her story. I never really watch nightline but this special story just kept me glued to the floor. The next day I had to go out and buy Songbird. It is such a beautiful album. She was truly gifted in many ways. Her voice is so soothing and beautiful. Her life may have been short but she left behind a lifetime of music for all of us to enjoy. Thank you for making this available to all of us. She will always live on in out hearts.
Name: george
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Boston, Ma
Found the website Altavista Search
Sent: 2.40 AM - 7/11
I just happened to catch the Nightline special about Eva. I really enjoy this type of music. Being a cancer survivor (at least for now) and a musician, I really appreciate the music, her chord patterns and voicings in her songs and her ethereal voice.
Name: Ray Nasskau
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All that I've heard so far
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow /wonderful world
Home town Perth Western Australia
Found the website my daughter is an Eva fan
Sent: 2.56 AM - 7/11
Reminds me of Ella & Sarah when they were at their best(I'm 68yrs old) She has one of the most expressive styles I've heard .like so many others when I heard her 12mths ago she didn't register with me but after watching her documentary I'm now a devotee.
Name: Paul
Sent: 1.41 PM - 7/11
With regards to the R2 doc last night, it was probably a little disappointing for long time Eva fans not to hear too much in the way of new stuff (I don't recall "Time After Time" being mentioned at all) but this doc is of such a high standard I'm sure it'll bring in a lot of new fans. Full credit to all involved at Howlett Media Productions for the bold move to make a programme about a complete unknown (as Eva was back in '99). I remember thinking at the time that it was almost unprecedented BBC Radio, to my knowledge.
It certainly is a documentary of a very high standard, and since it's original broadcast it has, for me, set the standard for others to follow. If anyone needs a copy, click on my name above and leave a message.
Name: Dave
Home town Hexham UK
Found the website Regular
Sent: 2.37 PM - 7/11
Hi everyone. Caught the Radio 2 Doc last night, without this site I would never have known it was to be repeated. the hour flew by with some really good chunks of Eva¹s music for any new fans listening. It was great to hear people like Chuck and Chris B talking and to hear some of the unreleased stuff played. Well done once again to Laura and her Œagents¹ The Other Side is in the post, looking forward to getting it even more now I¹ve heard a taster!
Name: Brian
Home town Chartham, UK
Sent: 3.20 PM - 7/11
Yes, Laura - I/we did listen to the rebroadcast last night. It was a repeat except for the addition of "Eva has now sold a million copies in the UK", but it's well worth repeating. I wonder how many people recorded the UK news at the start and heard our Fran Godfrey. She's often on with Wogan in the morning (yes - it is called "Wake up with Wogan") and they often have some amusing banter between them!
Name: Jennifer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town Annapolis, MD
Found the website CD
Sent: 3.29 PM - 7/11
I found out about Eva from another DC area artist. It's sad more people were not able to see Eva live. So anyone who is in the DC area and has a chance to see another true Songbird should not miss out on Meg Murry! She knew and I believe performed with Eva, she has the same power and grace. You can find her and other local musicians through www.bryanewald.com
Name: David Blake
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Basingstoke, Hants., U.K.
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 4.16 PM - 7/11
I wrote to you a year ago, when I first heard Eva's voice. I had just bought all the CDs, and we exchanged messages about the various compliments to Eva printed on the sticky labels attached to her U.K. CD releases.
I listened last night to the BBC Radio 2 tribute to Eva. (It was a repeat, but I obviously missed it first time round.) It was really well done - a very poignant memento - with touching input by Eva's parents. I was especially pleased to hear that "the word about Eva" is spreading around the globe. Best wishes for your Web Site. And thank you, Eva, for the recordings.
Name: Timothy Zamora
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow & What A Wonderful World
Home town Houston, TX USA
Found the website URL from ABC News Nightline following the 2nd telecast
Sent: 4.23 PM - 7/11
Eva's music has been getting strong airplay here on Ronnie Renfrow's program (KBME 790 am; 2-6 pm). I got my first taste when he played Over the Rainbow. It was very touching, a clean, new interpretation that would stand up on its own. It expressed heart and warmth. Surely this was a singer on her way up! Then Ronnie paraphrased her untimely circumstances. What a huge loss!! So unpretentious, so honest. Her interpretations have an uncanny way of reaching the souls of her listeners. The scenario presented over the radio caused me to view this selection even more closely - she's there, Over the Rainbow - waiting for us to join her on the other side.
A few days later, Ronnie played the What a Wonderful World and explained that she had used that song in her last appearance - the benefit. Again, what a voice! Such breadth, control - even under the pain of the disease. I cannot think of even a higher way to acknowledge her audience that was present and preparing herself to go forth without resentment to her unfortunate break in her short life.
My sympathies to her family and close friends.
Her albums have a special place in my personal collection. The Songbird, in particular, was given to my wife on our recent wedding anniversary.
I have one small request . . . did anybody tape the ABC Nightline feature. I missed it twice! Is it available either for a VHS tape swap, a nominal charge, or streaming off the internet? I have read the synopsis on the Nightline site which then pointed me to your wonderful tribute site.
I was able to catch the BBC Radio replay of their feature yesterday - and was able to copy it off their stream (only a few dropouts due to network congestion). It was very tastefully done, a first rate job! All the comments by family and friends were insightful. Mr. Biondo's comments are honest and direct. I agree that the powers that be did drop the ball where Eva was concerned. Thanks for getting the current discography available!!!
God speed, Eva! What wonderful music will you have ready when we finally join you again!
Name: Bittsee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Baton Rouge, La.
Found the website MSN
Sent: 6.15 PM - 7/11
Thanks to Nightline for introducing the world to a true angel. Eva Cassidy's music touches my heart and soul like no other artist has ever done. She must have been one awesome lady! Her expressive, angelic voice brings a bit of peace and comfort to what can sometimes feels like a crazy, mixed-up world. Thank you, Eva, and God bless you.
Name: Harry Baldauf
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (only because it's my only one so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow (for the same reasons listed at left)
Home town Greenbelt, Maryland (5 miles from Bowie)
Found the website Yahoo!
Sent: 7.00 PM - 7/11
I saw the initial "Nightline" when it came out the first time. Anything done by Dave Marash is worth watching, so, after having caught the teaser, I hung on and skipped Leno that night. When Eva's Nightline was on again last week, I watched the entire program a second time; brought goosebumps and, yes, a few tears. Just picked up "Songbird" recently. I only wish that, as a fellow Prince George's Countian, I'd have known of Eva's vast talent sooner, when I could have enjoyed her music in person, alas. She is a wonderful singer and, by all accounts, was every bit as wonderful a person. Rest in peace, Eva.
Name: Jay J.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Warren, Michigan
Found the website Web Page
Sent: 8.22 PM - 7/11
What an inspirational Voice!!
I wish there were more performers, that could make you feel the way Eva does.
After the songs are finished playing....
Thank God for blessing us with Eva, and her beautiful voice !!!
Name: Alan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Plymouth, UK
Sent: 8.41 PM - 7/11
I thought the 1 hour BBC Radio 2 Eva Cassidy broadcast on the 10/07/01 was quite superb. Terry Wogan sensitively narrated an excellent musical biography and it was so nice (and a privilege) to hear Eva's parents sharing their reminiscences. Chris Biondo very eloquently expressed why people all over the world find her singing so sublime and spiritually uplifting-a ray of golden sunshine and hope in a world so often full of sadness and sorrow. I wonder if different (?studio) recordings of her best songs were used for the broadcast, since the clarity, beauty of tone and phrasing was the best Eva I've heard yet. If so PLEASE persuade Blix Records/Chris B to release this and any other material on a further CD! It would make a great many people happy and I predict, would shoot to Number 1 in the UK Album charts straight away. I do think Eva Cassidy was one of the greatest vocal artists of all time. The purity and humble integrity of her voice, together with her exquisite phrasing and free originality, were all no doubt just a reflection of the identical attributes of the great soul within.
Name: eamonn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song fields of gold
Home town London
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.45 PM - 7/11
i had heard some of Eva's songs on the radio and was taken by her wonderful range of voice and I was shocked to know Eva had passed away some years earlier as I believed she was a new artist. my last point is where do record company bosses keep their heads to not recognise a wonderful talent like Eva obviously was, I hope more of her recordings are released as her music is up there with the best
yours thankfully
eamonn
Name: Martin Hungerbuehler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Fields of Gold"
Home town St. Gallen - Switzerland
Found the website about www.didgerecords.com
Sent: 9.00 PM - 7/11
The voice of Eva goes directly in the center of the heart... I love her voice and her life-story.
Name: Mr. Les Grice
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Each and every one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Stormy Monday
Home town Burton, England
Found the website AOL
Sent: 9.50 PM - 7/11
Heard the Radio 2 broadcast for the second time last night and although I could not detect too much "updated" info, it was still as great a pleasure to listen to it as it was the first time. If it is at all possible it ought to be made available to everyone over there in USA it is too good to miss.
Still a great web site Laura for a great singer and a wonderful person.
Name: john edwards
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town maidstone
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.59 PM - 7/11
why do the best die young ,thank you for your wonderful voice
Name: Elaine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a Wonderful World
Home town Wilmington DE
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.14 PM - 7/11
Wow-what a beautiful voice she has. I happened to catch the re-play of the Nightline program last week and fell in love with this woman's amazing voice. What a shame we lost her at such a young age- it makes you wonder what we've missed by her leaving this earth so soon. And yes, I did cry while watching the Nightline program-she deserved to be around a lot longer.
Name: D.G
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get ready
Home town London, U.K.
Found the website fs
Sent: 10.53 PM - 7/11
Choked to tears,
Out of sight,
Brought all CDs,
On Wednesday night.
Where did you come from,
Why did you go,
Before they let the U.K. know.
With thanks to Terry at radio 2,
we're all now able to listen to you.
Name: Brian Ashton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song how can I keep from singing/time is a healer
Home town Ashford, UK
Found the website Can't remember
Sent: 11.06 PM - 7/11
Thank you Laura for a brilliant site. It always seems to have something new.
Six weeks ago I bought my first CD of Eva . Within two weeks I had bought all four. Her voice is so pure and expresses such deep emotion I am completely hooked. It is so sad that there will be no more concerts and that she did not receive the recognition she deserved in her lifetime.
Name: Bill Cronauer
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Say Goodbye
Home town Wilkes-Barre
Found the website PA
Sent: 11.32 PM - 7/11
I was actually introduced to the music of Eva Cassidy through a patron of mine (I'm a Reference Librarian) who wanted biographical information on her. I picked up Songbird out of curiosity because he told me they played Eva's version of Over the Rainbow at a wedding he attended. He then bought all of her CDs and encouraged me to purchase Songbird. it was thanks to his introduction of Eva to me that I became such an avid fan, purchasing all of her CDs and wanting more. She could sing everything and sing everything beautifully.
Your site is a wonderful, fitting tribute to such a remarkable talent. Much Thanks for an Eva Cassidy fan!
Name: Dave Svens
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart (First song I heard by Eva)
Home town Fitchburg, MA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 11.55 PM - 7/11
I first heard about Eva in the Joan Andermann column in the Boston Globe in 1999. I immediately rushed to the local record store and I was thrilled they had "Eva by Heart". I couldn't wait to get home to play it...but also thought it might not live up to what I had read. Needless to say, I was just blown away. I'm doing my best to "spread the word". Laura, I can't thank you enough for this wonderful website! Please keep up the great work. We are all out here awaiting each day's update.
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album the next one, when?
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I wandered by a Brookside
Home town Grin
Found the website Google
Sent: 2.05 AM - 7/12
hi,all
I would be interested to know the playlist for the Blues Alley concert. is it the case that Tall Trees in Georgia, Fields of Gold, Autumn Leaves and the live version of Over the Rainbow were sung more or less consecutively?
I find all of these performances individually awesome - but together? simply mindboggling.
Eva truly was a talent like no other.
Also, I would like to say how beautiful I find the piano accompaniment in Autumn Leaves.
Perfect.
Name: Rob
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album blues alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Guilford CT.
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 3.20 AM - 7/12
Simply put, the purest vocals I've heard in a LONG time. This woman was snatched from our midst WAY TOO early. I just lost a good friend to the most insipid cancer melanoma, and he would have adored her music. I'm going out tomorrow to buy all of her CDs. God bless you Eva. Good Night.
Name: Sam Winstead
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird and Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Hemet Ca.
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 5.27 AM - 7/12
Many thanks for this web page. I was fortune enough to see the rerun on nightline. By that time though I had purchased all of Eva's CDs except "The Other Side". I would be hard pressed to really pick a favorite song. This lady was truly an incredible talent. My heart goes out to her parents and the friends she had.
Its very sad that there is such a limited amount of her work but what is available will be treasured by all who have heard her angelic voice.
Thank you for the ongoing updates.
Name: Bryan Dill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere over the Rainbow
Home town Chatsworth, GA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.46 AM - 7/12
i was lucky enough to catch the Nightline special on Eva Cassidy. Until that night, I never knew she existed. I dont understand why she is called "the best singer never heard". She has a voice that makes you stop what you're doing and listen. Words fall short of expressing the feeling and passion of her voice so I'm not going to try. JUST LISTEN TO HER and you will be blessed.
Name: Lisa Bailey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird is all I have right now....
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves...so far
Home town London UK
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.27 PM - 7/12
I first saw Eva on a UK program called 'Top of the Pops 2' a show which plays archived videos and older chart toppers. I nearly fell off the sofa when I heard her version of 'Over the Rainbow'. The tears flowed with each line she sang. Each video is usually subtitled with brief details of what the artist has been doing since and some musical history, I could not believe that I had not heard this beautiful lady before, or that I would never get the opportunity to hear her sing live.
Eva has changed me in a way that no one I know personally has ever managed to do, when I am in pain, I think of her and overcome it.
Laura, if you ever require ANY design work for a future album cover(or anything relating to Eva), please let me know! (my husband is an excellent professional designer) we would be honoured to help in some small way, and give something in return for what Eva has brought me.
I have since seen that amazing clip again on TOTP2 and they said it has become the most requested clip EVER in the history of the program!
I'm no longer afraid of dying, as I just might get to sing with Eva one day. Fortunately, this also means that I'm no longer afraid of living!
Thanks Eva....
Name: Paul Gladman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Dorking, Surrey, England
Found the website Hotbot UK
Sent: 2.14 PM - 7/12
I first heard Eva a few weeks ago on BBC Radio 2 singing Fields of Gold. It was so beautiful that I wrote the details down on a scrap of paper and put it on the side of the fridge with a magnet. Since then every time I was in a large record store I would try to remember her name. I finally bought the album Songbird a couple of days ago. I couldn't really remember much about the song, except that I had loved it.
When I played the album that evening, not only was that track still beautiful, but the whole album was exquisite. I played it twice with tears streaming down my face. I thought I had better stop after that. I switched on the radio. Good gracious, an Eva Cassidy track was playing. And when the music faded I realised it was a program about Eva. What a strange, wonderful coincidence. I had no idea it was going to be on and until I bought the album I had known nothing about Eva Cassidy.
I can honestly say that no singer has ever had such a profound and immediate effect on me. I have yet to listen to the album without it bringing me to tears. And I have not yet heard the other CDs.
And it seems I am not alone. Eva seems to have tapped a resonance in the hearts of so many people. It is remarkable. I have always considered myself an agnostic, but she seems to be hinting at something deeper and truer than I was aware of before. My first reaction on learning that she had died was what a loss. But, on reflection we should be thankful that we have of her what we have.
Thank you Eva.
Name: Jennifer Ré
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Anniversary Song, Somewhere over the Rainbow
Home town New York, New York
Found the website MSN
Sent: 3.10 PM - 7/12
For my 50th birthday, my husband gave me the trip of a lifetime -- to Bali with out young daughter adopted from Vietnam. Part of his gift was a compilation of songs on MP3, starting with Eva's Anniversary Song. I listened to Eva lying in our mosquito-net draped bed in a gorgeous Balinese bale, or bamboo and thatched roof bungalow in Jimbaran, Bali, and was transported by her exquisite, tender and powerful voice. It was a song for my life, surviving two different diagnoses of cancer. When I returned to the US this week, I searched for Eva on the web and was practically devastated to find that she is no longer with us. I now am going to introduce Eva to my music loving friends and purchase any CD of hers I can. I will listen to them with new awareness given the loss of such talent. Even though we never met, I send a prayer to God to continue to bless Eva in His presence, her family, Chris and all who are touched both by her music embodying both her humanity and ethereal gifts. Sincerely, Jennifer Ré
Name: Steve Huenke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get ready
Home town Atlanta, Georgia
Found the website a friend
Sent: 5.44 PM - 7/12
What a wonderful voice. I now know what an angel sounds like. I saw a piece about Eva on a news program and they played some clips of her music while they told her story. I thought she had a good voice and told myself to check out the CD. After listening to it I just had to sit and reflect on what I had just heard. What an honor it must be to have been lucky enough to hear her sing live. I am not an emotional man but I believe I would have shed a tear listening to her voice live at a club. Thank you Eva for sharing your wonderful talents with so many people who never had the chance to meet you.
Name: Carol
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Los Angeles
Found the website Blix Records
Sent: 7.28 PM - 7/12
I heard of Eva on a TV show and for the longest time, could not find the piece of paper I had written her name on. At the hairdresser I found an article in a magazine and ripped it out. I bought Songbird the very next day. When I listened for the first time, all I could do was cry. I have never been so deeply, profoundly touched by such a voice before. I have asked everyone I know to please stop and listen to her. Her music touches me everyday, and begs me to live completely every minute I hear her.
Name: Hilary Gowdy
Home town Comber - N. Ireland
Sent: 7.30 PM - 7/12
I listened to the replay of the BBC2 prog on Eva last night. Have only recently discovered Eva and feel her voice is magical. Fields of Barley and Over the Rainbow are particularly memorable. She is a sad loss to her family and friends - especially those who are only 'meeting' her now. Have looked over some of the photographs in the web pages. Eva looked like she was a lovely caring person with warmth in her soul. Many thanks to Terry Wogan for giving us an insight into this SONGBIRD
Name: Gjo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Germany
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.35 PM - 7/12
She touched me deeply inside.
Name: Sally Merlin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of Them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Los Angeles, Silver Spring
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 9.19 PM - 7/12
I discovered this near perfect voice two weeks ago watching at repeat broadcast of "60Minutes" I cried throughout the entire show. Not just because Eva's voice wedged a straight line to my heart and soul, or because of the tragedy of losing her, but because she was obviously so clear about who she was. She sang only what moved her. She cared about only what mattered to her, and in that is the greatness of Eva Cassidy a true Angel of and for all time. My thanks to her parents, siblings, friends, and co-musicians.
Name: Earl Walker
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart
Home town Columbia, MD
Found the website Juno
Sent: 10.12 PM - 7/12
Now I have an idea about what art is. Every once in a while someone will say something with such clarity and simplicity and innocence that it has the power to crack us wide open. Then, for and instant or maybe forever, we see the part of ourselves that is too big for any of us to own. So, we know it must be part of everyone else, too. When Eva Cassidy sings "I know you by heart" you not only believe her, but you know for sure why it must be true.
Name: Elkin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People Get Ready (at the moment)
Home town Lebanon, TN
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 10.15 PM - 7/12
I haven't sent anything in a while, but since the preponderance of messages lately seems to be how Eva brings tears to the eyes (mine too, I'll admit), I just wanted to say that at other times, hearing her makes me want to sing, dance, shout hallelujah--in short, boogie my brains out! Nothing wrong with poignancy, but I think there's more to Eva's legacy than that. How about you? Despite the tragedy, HOW CAN YOU KEEP FROM SMILING when she sings?
Love to all Eva lovers,
Elkin from Lebanon (not yet Nashville!)
Name: wendy
Home town Melbourne
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 12.23 AM - 7/13
dear laura,thought you might like to know, Eva's 'Fields of Gold' was featured at the end of a 'judging amy'episode, a few months ago, in australia. it worked very effectively with the storyline too...
do you have any information you can share with us about Eva's romantic life?
thanks again for your wonderful site!
Name: robbie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album blues alley.. ask me tomorrow and I'll probably say something else
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart.. Fields of Gold.. oh, doggone it, I love them all
Home town Oliver Springs, TN.
Found the website Google
Sent: 2.34 AM - 7/13
I guess it's a sign of a true fan when one considers an artist "his" or "hers". That is the way I have come to feel about Eva's music. I feel her touching my soul exclusively. of course I am aware that the same thing is going on all over the world, as millions fall in love with that voice, one fan at a time. That's all right with me. when I listen to her, she IS singing only to me, and her joy, and angst, and passion are for my ears and heart only. Sound familiar? ....love you, Eva....
Name: Earlene Stewart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People Get Ready
Home town Baltimore
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 3.18 AM - 7/13
A friend of Eva's named Barbara introduced us many years back. Eva knew I loved to sing and play guitar. She came to visit me in Baltimore, and we just jammed for 3 hours. We taped ourselves and had such a good time. I remember to this day how beautiful her voice was, and how talented she was as a guitarist. We had never met before that day, but you would have thought we had known each other for years. She had such a gentle spirit, and I don't think I will ever forget her. I am so glad we taped our session, and that I had a chance, even for just that day, to share music with her. And my only regret is that we lost touch after that day - and this was a few years before the rest of the world became aware of her beautiful voice. I surely would have been her biggest fan. She was then, and most certainly now is - an angel.
Name: Rich
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them!!!!!!! Don't be unfair
Home town Buglawton
Found the website GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE
Sent: 8.25 AM - 7/13
Eva Is Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: John
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow/Fields of Gold
Home town Aberdeen, Scotland
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 3.14 PM - 7/13
I first heard Eva about 6 months ago and immediately bought Songbird as I am also a Fleetwood Mac fan and knew that Mick Fleetwood was involved with this Album. As I am sure you all know that Eva Cassidy stops you dead in your tracks the first time you hear her with that pure angelic voice. She also makes you want to get to know all you can about her and collect all of her available music. I was lucky enough to do this in Washington D.C. while on a works trip to ,Reston Virginia. I went to D.C. on a sightseeing trip not really to see the White House etc but to be in the City where Eva Cassidy lived and performed. Eva has performed some wonderful tracks by some respected artists, Judy Garland, Sting & Fleetwood Mac and she has performed them better....which is a great achievement in this distinguished company. My Sister in Law and a lot of my friends are now Eva fans and if anyone comes to my house they have to have a few tracks of Eva, so I am sure I can recruit some more. The website is really good and gives fans worldwide somewhere come and pay homage to a truly great person/singer.
Name: Kellie S.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow, Anniversary Song
Home town Atlanta, GA
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 6.45 PM - 7/13
If I could have any voice to sing with...it would be just like hers.
Name: Jeannie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Raleigh, NC
Found the website Internet Explorer
Sent: 9.27 PM - 7/13
I read about Eva in People magazine. After not being able to find the CD locally--I ordered it--Songbird. I fell in love with Eva's Voice, and have bought two more of her CDs. She was truly remarkable, what a wonderful angel she must be!
Name: GEORGE PARAS
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town dracut
Found the website Altavista Search
Sent: 10.14 PM - 7/13
as a cancer survivor ( at least for now)and a musician, I can really appreciate what I hear in Eva's music....
I am blessed daily by hear voice and her music....
Name: Charlotte Alexander
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album just beginning to explore
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ditto
Home town Fort Wayne, IN
Found the website I just typed "Eva Cassidy" into browser
Sent: 1.16 AM - 7/14
I Discovered Eva for the first time today when my sister played her Songbird CD for me. I realized that I had heard Eva's, Over the Rainbow , on a local radio station, Sunny 106.3. One of the DJ's called her "the most beautiful voice in the world".
Name: Alyssa
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Ithaca, NY
Found the website Excite
Sent: 3.13 AM - 7/14
I discovered Eva on a special program on NPR while driving to work, and listening to her mother break into tears while talking about her daughter passing on, mixed in with her beautiful voice brought tears to my eyes. Since then I have gotten one of her albums and, listening to her voice, I am reminded of what is good in this world-passionate love comes through in those vocals. I feel grateful to have found her music.
Name: John Willock
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart/Fields of Gold
Home town Windsor, Canada
Found the website Google
Sent: 3.17 AM - 7/14
The other messages say it all. There is something universal about Eva Cassidy's music that moves so many people. Unpretentious, simple, honest and beautiful. My favourite song keeps changing every time I listen to the album, but the way Eva's voice rises so softly in I Know You By Heart sends chills up my spine. Eva, you were here on Earth for far too short a time...but thank you for existing and being the person you were. You touched more people's lives than you ever knew.
Name: Mike McCulley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town New Bern, NC
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 3.44 AM - 7/14
This is a repeat entry. My original one on July 12 was mistakenly deleted.
It's hard to pick a favorite! I first heard about Eva on the encore broadcast of ABC's Nightline last week. I have been absolutely captivated by her music and have bought Songbird and Eva By Heart. My wife and I are especially touched by her story. We lost our 25 year old daughter 8 years ago. We contributed to the Foundation and I have told everybody I could about Eva. A few had already heard of her but most didn't. A feature writer, Martha Reedy, did a wonderful article on her last Sunday in our local paper, the Sun Journal. The rebroadcast on BBC Radio2, which I found out about on this site, was really great. Thank you.
A footnote for y'all in Eva's Band: The instrumentation and playing in the CDs is terrific!
Name: Wanda Chambers
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
Home town Columbus, Ohio
Found the website Ask Jeeves - Who is Eva Cassidy
Sent: 4.23 AM - 7/14
Just over a week ago, I heard and saw on a special segment of ABC Nightline the soul stirring angelic voice and personality of Eva Cassidy. Deep in the inner-most part of my heart and soul, I sincerely believe that she was an angel sent from above, only to be assigned with us on earth for a very special short period of time. Through her death, I believe there will be life given to many individuals who listen to her music and will take the time to understand the depth of what her songs and her humble lifestyle was saying to us. Be blessed and may the memories of Eva Cassidy live forever.
Name: kate
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I have to say... no favourites... love them all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song time after time/Fields of Gold
Home town Australia
Found the website my dad was on this site
Sent: 6.33 AM - 7/14
there are simply no words to describe my great appreciation for Eva. Although I am only 16 years old, as many adults say that we teens don't know how to recognise pure talent... this is not the case here. I can't think of a better singer I have heard in my short life and don't know that I ever will that even comes close to Eva's voice. When I hear this beautiful woman's voice I cannot move... No matter how many times I hear her songs, I am still awed by the powerfulness of her voice...I just simply cannot express my feelings for her music...no words are strong enough....
I feel deeply for her family and I am sure that they feel great warmth and sadness in seeing how many people are as in love with her music as I.
Eva was a very beautiful girl with such a brilliant voice that she will be remember for many years to come.
Name: Peter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Woodbridge Suffolk England
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.01 AM - 7/14
Eternally Amazing singer
Name: Neil Harrison
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Rainford, St. Helens
Found the website Debriefing
Sent: 8.48 AM - 7/14
Discovered her yesterday. What I lovely voice. Totally captivated. Why had I missed her music?
Name: Gina, Terry, Emily
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town London, UK
Found the website frequent visitors
Sent: 9.23 AM - 7/14
Being frequent visitors to this site (thank you, Laura), we're often as much moved by the expressed emotions here as by Eva's music itself - emotions we have fully shared since first connecting via the video clip of "Over the Rainbow".
We were looking for more insight into the person behind the music and caught a repeat of the BBC R2 Eva Tribute earlier this week and found that quite compelling. The interviews with her family, friends and fellow-musicians came straight from the heart. To hear of Eva talking of her "Art Supplies" and of her father looking across to her lingering collection of hats brought her so close to us.
If anyone of media-influence is reading this, please think about running the audio Tribute. With the amount of tears of joy, sadness, wonder and admiration we are all admitting to here, you ought to get the airing sponsored by Kleenex!
Our favorite track at the moment: Waly Waly on Eva By Heart - just wafts us clean, clean away in 4:24.
And, as always, thank you Eva for the enrichment you have given.
Name: anna
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album don't know yet...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People get ready
Home town Stockholm, Sweden
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 12.45 PM - 7/14
As many others, I saw Eva on TV singing Over the Rainbow. I remember being on the phone to my parents in Sweden when I caught a glimpse of the video. I rudely interrupted my mum and asked if I could call back after the program was over. I don't really know what it is that captures everyone in the same way with Eva Cassidy. Something in that voice is/was so unassuming, and her whole persona speaks no pretentiousness but something real and wholesome. It is sad that her talent wasn't wider acknowledged before the time of her tragic death. Something urged me to contribute to this "guest list". I guess we all did. Something special!
Name: George & Pat
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song If I Had a Golden Needle
Home town Hanover, Massachusetts
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 4.44 PM - 7/14
As so many did, saw the special spot on "Nightline". We are enraptured by Eva's voice and her music. She was an affirmation to life and love. The pleasure of her music will live on and on. Whoever could imagine what else she could have given to this world with her beautiful talents. Thank you for the avenue to express the joy and sadness finding her has brought to us. She was/is/will always be truly special!
Name: louise
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Rumford, Rhode Island
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.08 PM - 7/14
I first heard of Eva watching a magazine show~it was a retrospective of her sadly short life~her rendition of Over the Rainbow was haunting and almost surreal in her interpretation ~that night I was unable to sleep ~hearing her voice in my mind and angry at her passing~~Her voice for me is a collage of the most gifted singers that have entertained us over the years but there is something in her voice and presentation that does indeed put the late Eva Cassidy Over the Rainbow~~she is gone from this Earth but will live on thru her beautiful magical voice eternally~I hope Eva's parents read all the posts that are made here and elsewhere~it will warm their hearts and allow them to feel that Eva has touched so many lives~thank you~
Name: Marcia Neil
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow/Autumn Leaves
Home town Christchurch, Dorset, UK
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 6.08 PM - 7/14
I was unable to listen to Terry Wogan's tribute to Eva on BBC Radio 2 on 10 July and in my hurry made a complete hash of taping the programme. Does anyone have a tape of it that I could beg, borrow or steal from them? I am desperate to get a copy and have had no luck with the BBC so far. Please help!
Since I first heard Eva on Terry Wogan's morning show I have been a great fan - her voice is so perfect, I play her CDs over and over again and will never tire of listening. Thank you for this wonderful site, Laura.
Name: Michael Feldges
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song it's just the spirit in her voice, no favorite, all favorites...
Home town Weil am Rhein, Germany
Found the website www.Google.de
Sent: 8.42 PM - 7/14
Yesterday, just before the sound-check of our own open-air-concert, in the afternoon, I stepped onto the stage to open my guitar case and suddenly I heard a voice, a music, that the sound engineer ran through the PA for us to get the good vibes going. I hesitated to get out my guitar - closed the case again, and, like paralyzed I went down the stage again - just to listen...
I was sitting there for quite a while - and when I heard the guys calling me, I took the microphone and told everybody to sit down and to listen. Suddenly everybody, about 30 people were quiet - listening. We all - except the sound-engineer, didn't know that music, that voice.
I asked him: "Who is that, tell me?" ...and he told me, that she doesn't sing anymore...
...and in my mind I thought about Django Reinhardt, Miles, Vinicius de Moraes, Elis Regina, Attilla Zoller, and all the others, who made our life so much worthier to live, who gave us that special gift that we can carry in our hearts and in our souls for all our life, who show us that music is one of the rare cosmic items that knows no death, no decay, no end, it will be there, it is here, timeless and eternally.
...after the concert the guy handed over the CD to me... without a word.
Name: BOB JONES
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OVER THE RAINBOW
Home town HOUSTON, TEXAS
Found the website SEARCH.COM
Sent: 11.00 PM - 7/14
I JUST HEARD EVA CASSIDY ON TV ON NIGHTLINE THE OTHER NIGHT. MY WIFE AND I BOTH SING AND I PLAY A GUITAR ALSO WE LISTEN TO PATSY CLINE AND BARBRA STRIESAND AND ARE FANS OF JUDY GARLAND AND LOVED TO HEAR HER SING SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW. WHEN I HEARD EVA THE FIRST THING THAT I TOLD MY WIFE WAS, THAT IS THE BEST FEMALE VOICE I HAVE EVER HEARD . I JUST KEEP ASKING MY SELF AS I PLAY ALONG WITH HER SINGING OVER THE RAINBOW IS HOW WAS EVA NOT SNAPPED UP BY A RECORD COMPANY AND MADE FAMOUS LIKE JUDY GARLAND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO ENJOY WHILE SHE WAS STILL ALIVE. WELL WHAT A BLESSING WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE HEARD HER SING!. I JUST WISH SHE WOULD HAVE MADE IT BIG LIKE PATSY CLINE OR JUDY GARLAND FOR SHE SOUNDED BETTER THAN BOTH AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT THANK YOU FOR YOUR WEB SITE . BOB JONES
Name: connie kowalewski
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a healer
Home town Upper Darby ,Pennsylvania
Found the website AOL Search
Sent: 12.29 AM - 7/15
Read an article by accident in a magazine I happened to pick up in my doctors office. Then by luck I turned on Nightline on July fourth and they had a rebroadcast of the Eva Cassidy story. Its amazing that out of such tragedy you can find such beauty. Her voice is amazing to say the least. I went out the next day to buy Songbird, and I guess I don't have to tell anyone on this web page how beautiful it is. Her voice is so soothing. My hometown is not that far from where Eva lived, just wish I had been lucky enough to see her perform. Her life may have been cut short but her music will live on forever.
Name: criss
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (I think)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Canada
Sent: 3.50 AM - 7/15
It has only been over the last year that I have been introduced to Eva. My sister-in-law gave me a disk of her songs. I in turn, having fallen in love with her voice, introduced her to my mom. We have all found a special connection with her. Growing up, my grandad found it essential to introduce me to musicals and theatre. As the years passed for me a had a special bond with Judy Garland's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Many singers have (in my opinion "attempted" to record the masterpiece) but have never mastered it. I suppose in someway it was my special connection to my "grand". He was after all the person who made that song so special in my life. Through the years it became very personal to me and no one could touch it like Judy did....until.... last year (2000)ah.. Eva!!
Name: Cathy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird and Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Do I have to? Okay...."Over the Rainbow"
Home town Lynchburg, VA
Found the website People.com has a thread on Eva....found it there
Sent: 1.07 PM - 7/15
Dear Laura,
I hope you don't mind, but I quoted from your page Sting's comments about "Fields of Gold" on the People.com Music website. I realize your work is copyrighted, so I sited the work. However, I thought people should know that at least one author of a song Eva sang (one who admitted being "territorial" and even "arrogant" about his song, was reduced to tears at the beauty of Eva's interpretation of his work.
I first learned of Eva on an Encore presentation on ABC's Nightline a couple of months back. I was reduced to a puddle of emotion by her story, by her voice. I had to have at least some of her music, so I ordered the two mentioned above from Amazon.com - I wanted her rendition of "Over the Rainbow" (which, by the way, is "sacred ground" for me - I love Judy's version of it, and felt that nobody else should touch it. It was uniquely Judy's and I felt it would stay that way - heck, even Liza won't sing it! That is...until I heard Eva sing it. I still can't listen to it without tearing up), and her "What a Wonderful World".
Thanks for this beautiful website, and again I apologize for quoting from it elsewhere, but I felt others should read what Sting said about her, especially if they're not aware of your website - however, they are now, since I included a link to get here, as well as stating that I was quoting from your page.
I'm so sorry for your family's loss. I didn't know her, of course, but I'm grateful to at least be able to share in her unique gifts of interpretation, quality of voice, and hear the closest thing I've ever heard to "a voice of an angel".
Peace,
Cathy
Name: Jude
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Time is a Healer
Home town Providence, RI
Found the website search
Sent: 1.39 PM - 7/15
I have just found Eva this week and have been totally consumed by her talent. It has all been said very well on this guest book. Eva's talent is truly amazing in that she brings something else to the table with her interpretations. While paying respect to these artist she in a very simple way overtakes the song, its meaning, and brings it to a new place. I think Judy and Harold Arlen would be thrilled with her rendition of OTR. Time is a Healer is my favorite of the moment -she blows me away!
Name: Elliot
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Puerto Rico
Found the website Friends
Sent: 2.16 PM - 7/15
Eva Sin Fronteras, Sin Limites! Es un placer ver como Eva Cassidy se esta dando a conocer. Ya era tiempo que un gran talento como Eva apereciera en este mundo. Gracias al Internet conocemos a esta gran cantante mejor.
Name: Reg Hicks
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird(I have only heard this one)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song some where Over the Rainbow
Home town Perth Australia
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 3.03 PM - 7/15
I only heard of Eva Cassidy, and her sing on the CD Songbird yesterday when visiting a friend who also had only heard her sing on the radio and bought the CD this past week.
We played the Album over and over.
I will buy all the Albums if I can find them here next week
Her voice has so much emotion and purity
An experience to listen to her sing
Name: LA
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Maryland
Sent: 1.19 AM - 7/16
I saw Eva perform...I was one of the lucky ones to have been able to hear her beautiful voice live...and be touched by such a gentle spirit...she was and will always remain one of the most talented musicians I will ever have had the pleasure of listening to...keep soaring Eva...wherever you are...
Name: Lillie Getty
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Pasadena Texas
Found the website evacassidy.com
Sent: 2.39 AM - 7/16
I was lucky enough to be awake and see the special on Nightline the week of July 4th. I wished I could have been lucky enough to see her live. What a voice and what feelings!!! Seeing her sing Over the Rainbow. WOW! She blows Judy out of the water!!! Her life was cut short but her talent will bring joy to many. I play Songbird continually. OTR bring tears to my eyes everytime, not to mention everything else on the album. I shared Eva with all of my friends and family so they to can know about her wonderful voice and talent. I am so thankful to have been awake the other night or I could have missed this angel singer.
Name: Ludwig Schmitz
Home town Trier (Germany)
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.08 AM - 7/16
Today I've heard the first time a song from Eva Cassidy. It was her version of Stings "Fields of Gold".
It was absolutely great. When I heard that Eva died several years ago, I'm feeling sad, that I never had heard before of her. A great voice with so much passion in it.
The song gives me a better day. That's what good music can do to you.
Name: Candace O'Brien
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Miami Beach, Florida
Sent: 2.47 PM - 7/16
Eva's rendition of Over the Rainbow is incredible. I am an adoption professional and during all my many travels to orphanages around the world, this is a song that softly plays in my mind as I hold these children who so desperately need a place Over the Rainbow. To hear Eva sing this song in her incredibly soulful voice is somehow both heart-wrenching and inspiring. I am very grateful for being privileged to hear this most wonderful artist.
Name: Robert Hansler
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Swansea UK
Found the website Web crawler
Sent: 3.01 PM - 7/16
There is nothing I can say ...hear her and cry.
Name: steve street
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album the 2 I have. Songbird and Time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town hollingworth, near Manchester. UK
Found the website put Eva Cassidy in the browser
Sent: 3.36 PM - 7/16
I first heard THAT voice on a trailer for Wogan's programme on radio 2. I missed the programme and thought no more about it or Eva, until today. Lying in bed listening to Wogan on radio2, he played Kathy's song!!!!! Got me! I went out and found 2 albums in a local store and bought them both. It's interesting to read about people crying when listening to Eva, a stunning reaction to a truly stunning voice. I'm going now to play them again. God bless Eva.. Steve Street
Name: Terry Callen
Home town Gloucester City, NJ
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.48 PM - 7/16
I was channel hopping and caught the program on ABC that dealt with Eva. When my daughter "burned" me a CD recently, I asked that Eva's rendition of "Over the Rainbow" be included so I could hear the entire song.
Incredible. Puts the original in the shade.
Name: Kathlene D. Peck
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Rainbow
Home town Chicago
Found the website Netscape
Sent: 8.28 PM - 7/16
I am a connoisseur of fine music listening, I take it personal, I have heard the best, when
others were confused about the status of success, I let my soul tell me...I thought I couldn't be driven to tears anymore because I had experienced, Al Jarreau, Morgana King, Sarah Vaughn, and then along came Eva....
Thank You for Sharing her with us, KP
Name: Valerie Frazee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Ain't no Sunshine
Home town Tyler, TX
Found the website radio and browsing the net
Sent: 9.20 PM - 7/16
For some reason, Eva's story has touched me deeply. It has moved me so much that I am asking permission to write a play about her life. I would like to interview anyone that I could personally and learn as much as I can about her. I think her story is a beautiful one and deserves more than a story on t.v. Please contact me when you get the chance. I would love to do this to preserve her memory and get others to know about her and her music. Thank you.
Valerie Frazee
Name: heidi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song #7 (I think of my grandmother)
Home town sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 10.47 PM - 7/16
A FRIEND OF MINE LENT ME SONGBIRD OVERNIGHT IN EARLY JUNE. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. A FEW DAYS LATER MY GRAND MOTHER HAD A STROKE. THE WHOLE WEEK LEADING UP TO HER PASSING WE PLAYED IT. WHAT A HEALING THIS ALBUM WAS TO ME AND MY FAMILY
Name: Nick J
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Sent: 11.41 PM - 7/16
After hearing 'Fields of Gold' on the penultimate episode of Dawson's Creek I was deeply touched by the bittersweet voice of this unique 'Songbird'. With such an outstanding voice that brought a tear to my heart, Eva Cassidy is so typical of this cruel world that snatches musicians in their prime-Long may Eva live in the hearts of us all.
Name: Susan Ashley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Just found her-Don't know
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You by Heart
Home town Houston, Texas
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.55 AM - 7/17
I've nearly worn out "Songbird". I listen over and over and never get tired of it. Wish I could have heard Eva live. My husband and I recently passed time on a very long drive listening to Eva's beautiful music. Words are not sufficient to describe her music.
Name: Fran Seal
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold..
Home town Long Island , NY
Found the website By Chance
Sent: 2.02 AM - 7/17
What could I possibly say that hasn't been said already.Just beautiful!
Name: Jere
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song any of them....
Home town River Falls, WI
Found the website Nightline/friend
Sent: 5.20 AM - 7/17
My heart is broken. My heart is Eva's. Sweet dreams.
Name: Court & Margaret Lewis
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (only one heard so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Melbourne, Fla
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 1.01 PM - 7/17
We're in our early 50s and don't buy a lot of music any more. The other day my wife heard a phenomenal voice streaming our of her car radio. The local deejay (in Melbourne, Fla) said, "Every time I play this song a dozen people call in and ask who it is, so I'll just tell you: It's Eva Cassidy, on the CD, "Songbird." She promptly went out of her way to a music store and bought it. They had it at the front counter, ready for lots of buyers. When we listened to it, we were both mesmerized. When we then read the liner notes about Eva's shy life and untimely death, we were shocked and really saddened. She had a beautiful soul that comes through so clearly. We'll buy the other albums, and we're glad those exist at least, but we wish she did too.
I visit the Washington area on business every month. What local record store would have all her CDs?
Name: Linda Merritt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Nightbird
Home town Germantown, Maryland
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 3.21 PM - 7/17
I'm in love with her voice and I am utterly addicted. As soon as I purchased "Eva by Heart" I immediately rush out to buy: "Live At Blues Alley", "The Other Side", and "Time After Time". Get them all. Eva, I'm sorry I never heard you while you were alive, but thank you for your awesome gift. I truly like to thank Eva's family and friends for going forward in releasing her music. God bless you and thank you for sharing Eva with the world.
Name: Udo Veit
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold & Songbird
Home town Ditzingen
Found the website From CD Cover
Sent: 4.29 PM - 7/17
Eva was a great singer and I feel very sorry
that she hat to die.
Name: Donna-Day McDaniel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Nightbird
Home town Macon, GA
Found the website CD cover
Sent: 6.58 PM - 7/17
Eva has the most amazing voice I have ever heard! I first learned of Eva on Nightline and she touched my soul so deeply I began to cry. I set out the next day to buy one of her CDs and ended up with two. I can't wait to own the others. I sometimes find myself mourning her death and thinking about the great loss her parents and friends must feel. But then I am comforted with the thought of knowing where she has gone and I too shall hear her sing in person one day. That will be the concert of all concerts. Eva's music will live forever and bring joy to many.
Name: Mary Franz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Boston, MA
Found the website Alta Vista
Sent: 7.35 PM - 7/17
My own mother died of melanoma at the age of 33, just as Eva did. The sadness, grace,
and beauty of Eva's music have had a profound and lasting effect on my life. I listen to her
every day as I drive to work or take my walks. I never cease to be amazed by the way her singing moves and inspires me.
33, just as Eva died. The sadness, grace, and beauty of Eva's music
Name: Danielle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Pittsburgh
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 7.41 PM - 7/17
What a phenomenal talent we've lost. It is very sad that the world will not hear more of her
gorgeous voice!
Name: Wayne Broach
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Monroe, Georgia
Found the website MSN
Sent: 8.19 PM - 7/17
I was not aware of Eva until I saw the May 25th story on NIGHTLINE. After watching the broadcast, my heart was forever changed. Eva had the most beautiful voices that I have ever heard. We will miss her. I am sure she is smiling down from Heaven and is amazed at her sudden fame. Thank goodness for the few CDs we are blessed to have!
Name: Maureen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ALL
Home town St. Paul
Found the website msn.com
Sent: 8.31 PM - 7/17
Like one earlier guest, I never heard of Eva until seeing her on TV; Nightline or CBS Sunday Morning. I wish she could have been here to get the accolades that she is getting from her newest fans. But, like Van Gogh and other artists that weren't recognized until after their deaths, we, the living, still benefit from their beauty and artistry.
Name: Diane Garrod
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Donald, OR
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 3.23 AM - 7/18
Commuting home from work about 3 weeks ago I was listening to the radio and channel surfing when I suddenly heard the most beautiful, clear voice singing Fields of Gold. I had no idea who was singing it and was hoping the DJ would announce the artist. He did announce the artist saying it was the late Eva Cassidy. I came home and got on the internet to find out information about Eva, thinking that she was possibly a black female singer. I was so surprised to see the picture of a young, blonde, white woman and saddened to see that she died at such a young age. Her voice just brought tears to my eyes, it was so pure and beautiful. Anyway, having looked in a few stores for Eva's CDs, without luck, I came back to the internet and ordered Live at Blues Alley. I'm looking forward to listening to the whole CD as I have not heard any other songs by Eva. Just from reading her bio it sounds like her person and spirit were just as beautiful as her voice.
Name: Lyndsey Evans
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I love them all!
Home town Peterborough, England
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 8.48 AM - 7/18
I think Eva really is the GREATEST voice ever heard. It's just a pity that she couldn't have been recognised sooner, as I only heard about her in March 2001. I think she will suit heaven just fine though because she has an angels' voice.
Name: Timon van Hasselt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves, People Get Ready ... etc
Home town Groningen, The Netherlands
Sent: 12.49 PM - 7/18
Hi,
I've read a while ago, that Eva has also covered the John Hiatt song Have a little faith.
Does anyone know where I can get this song in Eva's version?
I'm a big fan of the Dutch artist Ilse DeLange (who is yet to be discovered outside Holland), and she has covered this song too. Please have a listen to Ilse' music... (www.ilsedelange.com)
Greets from Holland!
Timon
Name: Sandy Broadway
Home town Houston, TX
Found the website Houston Chronicle Article
Sent: 7.44 PM - 7/18
I am sorry that I could not post my favorite album or favorite song, but I do not know Eva's music yet. I just read the most beautiful story of what must have been an extraordinary young lady in the Houston Chronicle today. I came to this site hoping to be able to hear this angel sing - for the first time. The article inspired me to try to find some of her music to hear via the internet because I just could not wait to order/buy. I wanted to hear some now, but, alas, I suppose I must wait. This site is a wonderful venue for her fans to visit and to remember her, for new fans, such as I, to learn about her and a beautiful tribute to her and to her family. I only wish I had known of her sooner. Not having had the opportunity to hear her music yet, I know I have missed a beautiful experience.
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Paris Texas
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.27 PM - 7/18
I just purchased Songbird and I have just one word-awesome. Now this is music. I feel like I have been touched by an angel.
Name: Kath Ainsworth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song who can choose
Home town Preston, Lancs
Sent: 9.43 PM - 7/18
From the first time I heard Eva I had to buy as many albums as possible, what an amazing voice - totally awesome, so much feeling and soul it really is too hard to put into words. My message to everyone out there is enjoy and enrich your lives with her wonderful music.
Name: Alma
Home town Albany N.Y.
Sent: 10.31 PM - 7/18
I personally have yet to hear this lovely young lady.My friend heard OVER THE RAINBOW and wants to know if the album can be purchsed in music stores in our area. She loves the way Eva sings it.I am writing on her behalf Thank you
Name: cheri oliver
Home town suwanee
Found the website friends
Sent: 3.08 AM - 7/19
i am new to her sound and feel the vibes. she truly was close to the music
Name: George The Greek
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Brooklyn Ny
Found the website MSN
Sent: 8.28 AM - 7/19
I never heard of Eva until I saw the special on Night Line (ABC).I was moved and amazed
at her story. I went out and purchased her CD. I can listen to her voice all day. I'm sure she is singing in heaven.
Name: Gina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere over the Rainbow
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 4.43 PM - 7/19
My mother told me about the Nightline special and said I had to go buy a CD because this women had the most incredible, strong, yet gentle voice she had ever heard. I selected Songbird, but would love to find Live at Blues Alley.
My husband and I are avid music lovers, and we listed to Songbird, and it brought tears to our eyes. What a beautiful, beautiful voice. I can't wait to get more CDs.
Name: Christine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Leeds, England
Found the website Google
Sent: 8.29 PM - 7/19
My friend's son died tragically recently at the age of 17 and at his funeral Eva's Over the Rainbow was played and it was so so moving. I had never realised what a beautiful and powerful voice she had. I now listen to her for hours on end and she has without doubt the most beautiful emotional voice I have ever heard. May her memory live on - thank you Eva.
Name: TOTO
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Early Morning Rain
Sent: 10.26 PM - 7/19
OK. I have resisted the urge to be a pedant amongst a deluge of wonderful comments about a wonderful singer on what is a GREAT website, which fulfills the promise on which it was founded. BUT, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, could y'all refer to OVER THE RAINBOW by it's proper title. It is not called Somewhere OTR.
Laura, you hate the song being referred to as "Judy Garland's" OTR, so you know....
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow + Songbird
Home town New Jersey
Found the website AOL through blixstreet.com
Sent: 11.27 PM - 7/19
Oh My God.. I was lying in bed one night half asleep when I heard the most soothing voice I have ever heard. I thought I was dreaming. I lifted my head and on my TV was Eva singing Over the Rainbow. I rubbed my eyes for I had to see who was this angel with a voice that put me at such peace, it was Eva. Her name + voice went to sleep with me that night. When I woke, it seemed that I had forgotten all the troubles I had in life for a brief time. I was so moved, I had to find "Over the Rainbow" so that my wife would understand the reason why my heart raced and throat swelled. I found Songbird. I must have cried for almost an hour after hearing all the songs. It was first sad because I knew that Eva was gone, but turned to tears of Joy for I was lucky enough to have her amazing voice on CD. I could only wish that in my 36 years of life I would have had the chance to meet and hear Eva live. I have since purchased "Live at Blues Alley", "Eva by Heart", + "Time After Time". When I'm feeling down or feeling happy, I will always listen to the Amazing Eva Cassidy. God Bless You Eva.
Name: Brian Henke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Cincinnati, Ohio
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 3.52 AM - 7/20
Entertainment Weekly reviewed the new Chuck Brown album - and there was no mention of Eva. Weird!
Name: Tim Murphy
Home town Peekskill, NY
Found the website Browse
Sent: 11.44 AM - 7/20
Just heard the most achingly beautiful rendition of 'Over the Rainbow' on a local radio station (WHUD)... The song was preceded by a brief interview with Eva's father, who spoke so warmly and lovingly of his dear daughter, that I paid closer attention to the program.
I went immediately to order Eva's 'Songbird' CD on-line; I'm certain that I'll be ordering more of this exquisite artist, whose haunting crystalline purity of voice has touched me so deeply...
Thank you for providing this wonderful site for us to learn more about, and to share our appreciation of, Eva Cassidy...
Name: Alan Byrne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town North Shields, England
Found the website MSN
Sent: 7.35 PM - 7/20
Don't you find it eerie that so many people tell the same story here. So many people being instantly touched by one voice just proves what a special gift this wonderful artist had.
My story is the same as most, I saw Eva singing Over the Rainbow on TV and was just MESMERISED by her interpretation and that sweet, clear voice.
I am building my collection of her recordings but as I don't yet own them all I cannot choose a favourite Album, but I haven't yet heard a song that I didn't like.
Also, thanks to the link from this excellent site I was able to enjoy the Nightline tribute aired in the U.S. However I missed the Radio 2 documentary as I was completely unaware of it.
I'm off now to write to the BBC. You never know, I might get lucky.
Name: Rich Stinger
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Collegeville, PA
Found the website Just Surfin'
Sent: 8.38 PM - 7/20
I was at a friend's home for dinner, we were discussing the ways of the world. I heard a clear, crisp and gentle voice singing in the background. I continued to listen as the CD progressed and thought, WOW, what a set off pipes this woman has...she's a real Songbird. The last track began to play and I listened and wept as that voice and rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" reached inside of me and turned me inside out. It was extremely powerful and moving. I'm a retired cop with a pretty pessimistic view of the world, but I was touched.
I was surprised when I picked the jewel case up and saw the the title of the CD, "Songbird". I was shocked when I learned that the owner of that angelic voice had died before her time. Since that time I have enjoyed more of Eva's music and have come to love it.
Thanks, Eva for your inspiration and sharing your love of music with the world.
Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy for keeping Eva's spirit alive through her music. God Bless you!
Name: Valerie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song anything I hear
Home town Lancaster
Found the website evacassidy.com
Sent: 10.59 PM - 7/20
My first "awakening" occurred watching favorite news show "Nightline." I went to the store and bought the absolutely last album they had, not caring which one it was, just so long as I HAD ONE! Her voice also mesmerized me (as many have said before) and her story tugged my heart, tenderized by loss of fiancee in Vietnam and much later a 3 yr. old daughter. Life is not always fair, but special people, such as Eva, who share time with us, make the most awful experiences more bearable because of the gifts they are blessed with and their ability to give to others something only they can give. The show was so wonderful to me that when it was rerun I taped it so I could watch it whenever I chose. Now that I've found this website I feel even better. I am sorry I missed "The Today Show," on 3/22/01. Her voice fits everyone's lust for meaningful soulful music.
Name: bob banaszewski
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Home town Harrisburg, PA
Sent: 2.56 AM - 7/21
I heard about 10 seconds of Eva on a PBS show a couple of years ago and even though I rarely bought CDs went out and bought Live at Blues Alley and shortly after everything else I could find.
I don't have a favorite, it depends on what is [laying at the time.
I have a question. Why doesn't this web site ( or the messages I have read here) mention the CD "No Boundaries"?
I hope I am not stepping on any toes because I am curious, not trying to cause trouble.
TIA
Bob
Name: Toni Nelson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song At Last
Home town Hagerstown
Found the website MSN
Sent: 3.47 AM - 7/21
I was walking through Borders Books & Music one day with my kids and heard this remarkable voice over the speakers. I'm a singer myself, and have always been a fan of the Blues, and the music of the 40's, and the 50's. When I heard this voice a cold chill ran up my spine, and something touched me in way as nothing before. I had to have that CD, and then I found, Eva by Heart. I haven't became this obsessed since Bonnie Raitt 26 years ago. I also felt a kindred spirit in Eva. I listen to her at least once a day, every one of her songs has become a favorite.
Name: Bill Dehner
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Cincinnati, Ohio/ Houston, TX
Sent: 5.14 AM - 7/21
Eva has a voice that I can only describe as "haunting",
and her musical interpretations truly magical. Thanks,
Eva, for leaving us such a joyful legacy. Your music,
once heard, is impossible to forget.
Name: John Evans
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Llandudno Junction
Found the website From one of the albums
Sent: 5.21 AM - 7/21
I heard about Eva Cassidy 2 years ago,and I have not looked back since. I have bought all of the albums, which I listen to regularly.
Name: Miriam Spalding
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Walla Walla
Found the website MSN browser
Sent: 5.31 AM - 7/21
Overwhelmingly evocative, a truly glorious voice that says so much that so many of us are unable to express....surely a soul like Eva's was not meant to be here long as the incredible amount of beauty in the available recorded material is so, so ENORMOUS! And having read as much as I can find about her, I know she would have been so uncomfortable if her talents had been flaunted and exploited in her lifetime. Such humility and graciousness - an angel sent from God.
I discovered Eva only a few months ago after reading a review in a newspaper here in Australia. To those who were utterly privileged to have known Eva personally and heard her sing, you were blessed. Her memory will live on forever.
Name: Steve Bennett
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All are favorites!!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves and every other song she does
Home town Wilmington, Delaware
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8.01 AM - 7/21
Without a doubt, the most hauntingly beautiful voice I have ever heard in my life. She was so good, it almost drives me a little crazy. For Eva to be able to take standards like "Autumn Leaves" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," and radically alter something so fundamental as their melodies to fit her interpretations, and then end up with renditions of those songs that are clearly superior to any others, tells me that she was on a quest for that perfect realization of artistic beauty. In my estimation, she succeeded wonderfully.
When I hear her, my heart breaks, but it breaks in a good way. I suspect many of us have a similar reaction. She seems to resonate with us on some musical/spiritual level and take us where she wants us to go - to that place "where the clouds are far behind me."
For anyone who wants to see and hear Eva sing "Over the Rainbow," follow this link:
http://ABC News.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/evacassidy_010525.html
This is a short article about Eva by Dave Marash of ABC's Nightline. Within the text, and again at the end of the text, are links to launch the video in RealPlayer format. You'll be asked to choose 28/56kbps, 100kbps or 300kbps. If you have a cable modem or DSL, go for 300kbps. The quality is quite excellent and her face is every bit as expressive as her voice.
Finally, I would like to compliment Eva Cassidy's band and anyone involved in the production of her CDs. The musical arrangements were very tastefully done, the playing was great and Eva was beautifully supported without being "stepped on." Obviously it was a labor of love.
Thank you, Eva, for bringing your beauty into this world. God bless you.
Name: Terry and Gina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town London UK
Found the website Frequent Visitors
Sent: 8.49 AM - 7/21
Thanks to Steve Bennett, below, for reminding us of the ABC site.
Do take up his suggestion to view the video - on a 56k modem (please be patient) it takes on a flickering, haunting, stolen quality that feels like it comes direct from Heaven itself.
As some of us believe it truly does.
Bless you, Eva.
Name: Bob O
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Oak Hill, Ohio
Found the website Blix Street
Sent: 9.47 AM - 7/21
I was at work a couple of days ago when a co-worker came up to me and asked me if I had ever heard of Eva Cassidy. He had heard that I play blues guitar and like to listen to all types of blues music.I had never heard of her, so he brought me in the Live At Blues Alley.
After I got home that nite, I popped the CD in and went directly to track 9 just because I like the Fall. I still can't get over that song. Every time I hear it I get this kind of beautiful pain right in the middle of my heart...until she kicks into the last line of the last chorus... that's when the intense emotional ride you were already on, explodes into what I can only describe as an almost euphoric kind of heartache.
Chillingly beautiful.
It didn't take long before I grabbed my acoustic and learned the song note for note. I thanked what ever powers compelled me to pick up a guitar in the first place some 25 years ago. To be able to play along with Eva is what playing music is all about....that is... when I can make it through it without chokin' up.
Thanks for this site. Bob O
Name: Marian & Nig
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Nightbird & Say Goodbye
Home town Leicester, England
Found the website Browse
Sent: 10.38 AM - 7/21
Like most people before, we have become big fans of Eva, first through Songbird then by buying all of her other CDs. What can we say that hasn't been said before only to add that our lives have become so much more enriched through her songs. We love you Eva - what a voice!
Name: Doug Smith
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Woodstock
Home town Chambersburg, PA
Found the website originally ubl.com
Sent: 1.42 PM - 7/21
Have browsed the Guestbook numerous times. Thought I'd write.
My introduction to the Eva Cassidy phenomenon came via several articles prior to finding Brian's or Laura's sites. The writer who expressed the sentiment of missing someone (Eva) whom she never knew personally but thru the power of song certainly got this music lover curious. Just count me among the many that could barely believe Eva's incredible soulful voice and the depth of the emotional sincerity.
Eva on the airwaves? Out here in the sticks with the limited number of radio stations with overlapping formats...so a couple of thoughts on internet radio.
1. WABY.COM specifically states it has Eva Cassidy in its programming.
2. Ladyslipper.org is a nonprofit founded for the express purpose of promoting women's music and artists.
Sound like Eva's kind of commercial place? This outfit does actually sell her music; and has recently added its own internet radio broadcast, set up message boards upon which suggestions can be posted, and added sound clips.
With the ever-increasing number of alert pairs of eyes, is it possible for Eva articles to pass under the radar? If the short article ("Never Silenced")by Mike Harden of Nando Media was listed in this site, I missed it. This article, which should still be accessible via goto.com, contains the Harden connection between Eva Cassidy music, Mark Twain, and steamboat whistles. And the idea of listening in the dark. Listening in the dark? Well, should it become necessary to move around, I want access to at least a penlight.
Ciao, Eva fans.
Name: HARRY.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ALL.
Home town NOTTINGAM.ENGLAND.
Found the website www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 8.41 PM - 7/21
,RE:BOB BANASZEWSKIs QUESTION ABOUT "NO BOUNDARIES". I ALSO DO NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT THE RIGHTS OR WRONGS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF "NO BOUNDARIES. ALL I WILL SAY IS I BOUGHT IT, AND ALTHOUGH THE MATERIAL IS DIFFERENT TO THE OTHER 5 ALBUMS, I DON'T REGRET BUYING IT. TO ME ITS "EVA" AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS TO ME PERSONALLY, BUT I CAN APPRECIATE OTHERS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS. I AM ONLY GIVING A FELLOW "EVA" FAN MY OPINION. HARRY.
Name: Sandra
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album right now Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Redmond, WA USA
Found the website come here often
Sent: 10.16 PM - 7/21
I wanted to say a great big thank you to Troy and to Paul for sending me the CD and cassette recordings of Eva. I will always treasure them. I have played and enjoyed them very much. I was able to record the encore showing of Nightlines show on Eva, which aired 7/4/01.... let me know if you would like a copy.... just watched it again today. It was very well done. Please everyone, share Eva Cassidy with all you friends and family. I can't think of a better gift than to introduce someone new to Eva!
Sandra
Name: Jeremy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Know You By Heart
Sent: 12.15 AM - 7/22
What an excellent website. What more can I add from all the other comments? I usually buy 1 CD every five years, yet I bought 2 of Eva's within a week. I just wish I could have seen a live performance.
Name: Carol McNeill
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Lake Butler
Found the website Florida
Sent: 5.57 AM - 7/22
After hearing Eva's song, "Over the Rainbow", I was in heaven. I have never heard a more beautiful voice in my life!!! She has touched me in a way I will not soon forget. I cannot disclose my feeling when I heard her voice for the first time. I am still feeling the after affects of her music. There is something special that she has created for us even in death that we can appreciate and love. I miss her and feel her move me at the same time. God lives in us all, and He has sent his most precious angel to tell us that! Eva we miss you! God is so good!
Name: Loralee Christensen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album "Song Bird" & "Live At Blues Alley"
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Over the Rainbow", "I Know You By Heart" & "Autumn Leaves"
Home town Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
Found the website Just typed in Eva's name
Sent: 9.48 AM - 7/22
I am a professional singer. I've done jingles, demos, live performances, etc. I read about Eva in People magazine and about her rendition of "Over the Rainbow" and I thought...."yeah, yeah, sure, sure"....living in the Bay Area I'm surrounded by and work with a ton of talented vocalists. Last Monday was my birthday and as a treat to myself I thought I'd pick up a few CDs. Well, I ended up buying all Eva CDs. When I got home and started playing the "Songbird" album...well....I was speechless. EVERYONE on this site...fans, critics, etc. sums it up....it's not just the technical side of it....her voice is incredible...but the fact that she reaches right into your heart and soul and touches you. I have never in ALL of my life heard or felt anything like her. Like my friend, who is also a professional singer, said "she was an angel on earth". Just on her music alone I can tell she was a beautiful, lovely spirit and the earth is truly a sadder place because she has left it. I will continue to tell everybody I know to do themselves a favor and experience Eva Cassidy's music. I don't think I will ever be so impressed with an artist again. "Over the Rainbow" sung by Eva Cassidy is PERFECTION!! Also, wanted to extend my blessings to her Mom and Dad, family and friends. How lucky to have such a beautiful spirit like Eva in their lives....
Name: Malene
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Writing from Denmark
Sent: 10.52 AM - 7/22
I heard about Eva C. this spring and I keep asking myself: why not before? I've never heard such a voice that goes straight to your heart. I love a lot of singers - famous and not famous - but I haven't heard anything like Eva C. When I first listened to Fields of Gold, I couldn't figure out who was singing -it was just so angelic and deepgoing! I am a singer and study music, and listening to Eva's voice is a new and great inspiration.
Name: John Stephens
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow, I Know You by Heart
Home town Austin, TX
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.39 PM - 7/22
I want to add my voice to everybody else's on this website. I love music but I have to admit I don't like a lot of what I hear these days. I recently listened (many times) to the Songbird CD though and was so moved by Eva's voice and her taste in rendering the songs on the CD. She was an awesome talent and a wonderful gift!
Name: Thomas witscher
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold , Kathy's song and more
Home town düren - Germany
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.54 PM - 7/22
i heard from Eva a few days ago. a German radio station plays this song - Fields of Gold - every day!
so I wanted to know who is this wife with this beautiful voice. thanks modern technical methods I found every track from every album! I didn't know that she is dead since I looked at the homepage today to read everything about her. and I'm very sad that we've lost this musical talent and beautiful women.
but her music is in my ears in my heart and in my soul - forever in my life!
at last I say sorry because my English is not so good!
Thomas (34) Germany
Name: Michelle Furphy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger, Over the Rainbow
Home town Manchester, England
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.24 PM - 7/22
I got here with so many things to say, now I only have one word, wow! I am a young lady with hardly any time to spare but every time I hear Eva's' name or voice I take a moment think. To Eva's' parents- you must be so proud, to Eva-congratulations! Life can be so cruel but always remember, HE only takes the best!
Name: Ken Fosberry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird, Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All
Home town Horsham, England
Found the website Yahoo!
Sent: 8.56 PM - 7/22
Beautiful,soothing,relaxing just a few words that comes to mind while I'm listening to Eva sing her songs. I first saw her on Top of the Pops on BBC2 and just had to go out and buy her CDs(2 so far). Eva has one of the most wonderful voices I have ever heard, it's our loss and heavens gain. Thanks Eva For the pleasure you have given us.
Name: Sammy Marsee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Bryantsville, KY
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 9.59 PM - 7/22
I too like several others I have read caught the story on "Nightline" and was so caught up in the story that I went on a mad search for her music. She has the most unique voice I have ever heard, the range and clarity is awesome.... God Bless You Eva. Rest In Peace.
Name: Tom Greene
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a Wonderful World
Home town Knoxville, TN
Found the website Links from blixstreet.com-Netscape
Sent: 3.22 AM - 7/23
Music calms the salvage beast - The beauty of her voice, to me, destroys it. If you have not seen her art work on the web then take a look. Very expressive and says a lot about her also.
I hope there are unreleased recordings of some more of her work that will be forth coming. If you are not moved by her voice and the way she sings then as they say it is time to reevaluate. Thanks to her mom and dad that they are willing to still share their daughter with us.
Name: Al Sipple
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album No Boundaries
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Seattle, WA
Found the website Google
Sent: 7.46 PM - 7/23
What an amazing talent. I have all of her 6 CDs and can't seem to get enough information on her or about her. I was hoping that there might be a video recording that could be purchased - know anything about that?
Thanks again.
Al
Name: Linda
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird; Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What A Wonderful World
Home town Walburg, TX
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 7.47 PM - 7/23
My husband & I by accident caught the repeat of the feature on Eva on Nightline July 4th!! How glad I am! We had never heard of her but were totally blown away by her beautiful voice! We have purchase 4 of her CDs & I want to share her story & music with everyone who will listen!
Name: Naomi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Wandered By A Brookside
Home town Naples
Sent: 9.05 PM - 7/23
I am an Italian fan,I'm 20 and very happy that I discovered Eva Cassidy,such a great singer,in my youth. My life will be surely more beautiful now than it's ever been. I always think of Barbra Streisand as the right person to talk abaut Eva Cassidy. Did Eva Like Streisand?
Name: LISA LINTZ
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album TIME AFTER TIME
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ANNIVERSARY SONG
Home town DALLAS, TX
Found the website SURFING THE INTERNET
Sent: 11.54 PM - 7/23
A FEW MONTHS AGO I WAS WATCHING CNN, AND THEY WERE DOING A STORY ON EVA. IT WAS SHORT, BUT TOUCHING. AFTER THAT STORY AIRED, I STARTED HEARING MORE ABOUT HER. SO, I WENT TO PURCHASE SOME CDs, AND THE ONLY ONE THEY HAD LEFT WAS 'TIME AFTER TIME'. WELL, OF COURSE HER VOICE CAPTIVATED ME, AND I WISHED FOR THE CHANCE TO HAVE SEEN HER LIVE. WELL, TODAY I WENT AND BOUGHT ALL OF THE OTHER CDs TODAY, AND I CAN'T WAIT TO LISTEN. WHAT AN INSPIRATION EVA WAS. SHE WAS A WOMAN WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF TALENT, BUT SHE LIVED A SIMPLE LIFE-SHYING AWAY FROM THE GLITZ AND HYPE THAT SURROUNDS SO MANY "MUSICIANS". EVA WAS AN ARTIST, AND ALTHOUGH I FEEL BLESSED TO BE ABLE TO HEAR HER ARTISTRY, HOW NICE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FOR THE SHY WOMAN FROM "THE D.C. AREA" TO SEE THE APPRECIATION THAT HER MUSIC HAS RECEIVED. I WILL PRAY FOR EVA TONIGHT-I WILL PRAY THAT SHE KNOWS THAT SHE IS TOUCHING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND THAT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SUCCESSES OF ALL. REST IN PEACE SONGBIRD.
Name: janet jago-lee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song autumn leaves
Home town worthing
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 1.47 PM - 7/24
This lady has moved me beyond belief. I never knew such emotions were within me. Thank you
Name: Nicky Houston
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart
Home town Waringstown, N. Ireland
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 3.40 PM - 7/24
Great songs great soul!
Name: Billy Halligan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Castlear, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8.10 PM - 7/24
Wonderful, Magical, Spiritual.
Name: Forrest
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow (and many others)
Home town Southern California
Found the website MSN
Sent: 10.02 PM - 7/24
I 1st heard Eva on Nightline's 1st story on Eva. I was blown away by her wonderfully pure voice and her presentations. Her story brought a huge lump in my throat and a sorrow that she will no longer sing here for us again. I wrote down her name and misplaced it. Then Nightline did something it has never in their history. They replayed her story. This time I ran out the very next day and bought 5 of her CDs. I sincerely hope that there will be more of her music found and given to us. I can only say that there must have been a huge spot in heavens choir that caused the early departure of Eva from our world. Eva Cassidy will be missed by all who are now exposed to her wonderful voice.
Name: Morrissey
Sent: 10.13 PM - 7/24
Quite a wonderful person.
Name: Regina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song wade in the water
Home town Zurich
Found the website great
Sent: 5.54 AM - 7/25
I heard the first time from Eva in the news here in Switzerland and thought immediately, I'll buy that CD. I did, and it's the best CD in ages. Such a great voice, such good music. I hope the other CDs will be available here in Switzerland soon.
Regina
Name: Rose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Field of Gold/Over the Rainbow
Home town Reading, Pa.
Found the website AOL through Eva Cassidy
Sent: 10.21 AM - 7/25
I caught the last few notes of Over the Rainbow on a music cable station & saw Eva's name. Next day I searched Borders.com & got to hear a few of the songs & immediately bought Songbird & Time After Time. I am so drawn to Eva & her voice. These CDs will be cherished forever, I even take them out of my car in the heat so nothing will happen to them, something I have never done. I am mesmerized & paralyzed by her voice & her soul & she touches me more than some people I've known for years. Thank you for everyone who has brought her voice to my life. Rose
Name: Suzi Warren
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song People Get Ready
Home town Byram, MS, USA
Found the website Microsoft Internet Explorer
Sent: 4.50 PM - 7/25
I can't even put into words what Eva's music does for my soul...
Name: Carol
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "At Last" and "What a Wonderful World"
Home town Pittsburgh, PA
Found the website Lycos
Sent: 6.21 PM - 7/25
I heard Eva's magnificent voice singing "At Last" at a Border's Bookstore in June 2000. First of all, let me say that I'm very critical of most singers even trying this song! I think Etta James' version chills and thrills. "Hey, not bad," I thought--which is a very high compliment for me. I asked the clerk who was the singer. He took me to the "Folk Music" section. (Folk?! I still don't get it!) He told me her life story. I bought the CD and, each day after that, I bought another CD until I owned all of them. Then I discovered that there are others that share my Eva experience. Right on, and may she forever reign!
Name: Oliver
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Frankfurt, Germany
Found the website Official Homepage www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 7.07 PM - 7/25
A few days ago I hear the name Eva Cassidy for the first time on my Radio the Station called HR3. They played the Song Fields of Gold. I know this song from Sting, but this voice that I hear was so fantastic it was fill with lovely feelings. So I kept her name in my mind and I gone to the next CD Shop and ask for a CD of Eva Cassidy. I find the CD Songbird. I Put the CD in my player into my car and the sadly sound of the Songbird was filled in the air in my Car. The radio presenter tells me that Eva is past away in 1996. The Songbird song kept the emotions inside. Eva was a unknown person for me until last month. It is really sad that she didn't becomes a famous Star in her lifetime.
In playing the Songbird song she stayed alive in our minds.
Oliver
Name: Mandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Detroit
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 7.27 PM - 7/25
Thank goodness for a genuine spirit, I also first heard Eva via Nightline. I am elated to find an artist that sang for the joy of music and life, not for fame and fortune. How refreshing it is to find a woman that can be remembered for goodness, true talent and love. I am only nineteen but already tiring of my generations greediness and desire for celebrity status. I can't tell you enough how badly we need "Eva's" in this world. What a challenge her legacy ensues I can only strive to live me life for Christ, and hope be remembered so warmly. God bless to her family, friends and band members, you must have touched her heart so deeply for her to have such a spirit.
Name: Matt
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Los Angeles
Sent: 7.38 PM - 7/25
Two and half years after first discovering her, it doesn't wear off.
Name: peter bosma
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song the letter
Home town Nordwijk, Holland
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 7.56 PM - 7/25
Everyting Eva sings moved me, everything!
What a brilliant voice, this is music straight from the heart, en I love it! Eva, thank you!
Name: alan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know u by heart
Home town alloa {Scotland}
Sent: 8.12 PM - 7/25
(Wow) look at all the Americans in the guest book
when I first looked in, in march it was all UK
glad u lot have finally found Eva
take care everyone and keep spreading the word
Name: Rolf Steinemann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Opfertshofen (CH)
Found the website From the CD Songbird
Sent: 9.22 PM - 7/25
What a great emotional Music, it reminds me a bit to the music of Eleanor McEvoy, the Irish Songwriter and Singer: www.eleanormcevoy.net , "Only a Woman's Heart" her most famous Song. Also a special Woman, like Eva who never become big in her Lifetime, but that doesn't really matter.
SUCH A VOICE LIKE EVA SHOULD NEVER EVER DIE!
I'm glad we've got some records from her to make her forever Immortal.
We're all with you! Rolf
Name: Mike Woodward
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Montgomery Village, MD
Sent: 1.20 AM - 7/26
First of all, let me say that I was one of the very lucky ones, I knew Eva Cassidy personally and considered her a very wonderful friend. If you think her voice is incredible on CD... you should have seen her perform live! I did over 100 times and never once did she fail to send shivers down my spine. Every time I saw her play, I knew I was in for a wonderful night. The big problem was that, believe it or not, on many occasions, I was one of maybe 4 or 5 people in the audience! Laura can back me up on this. How could so many people who saw her play not go see her as often as possible? Which brings up the main part of this message...SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!!! There are a lot of very talented people out there who deserve your support. Maybe they're not all as magnificent as Eva, but none the less GO SEE THEM. You'll be doing yourself and them a favor. I miss you Eva.
Name: Kathy Casey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Dallas, TX
Found the website Google
Sent: 1.50 AM - 7/26
The voice of an Angel is not adequate to describe Eva's pure sound. Over the Rainbow is hope! For all cancer patients. Including, my Mother. I so want to add her music as inspiration to our support group. I believe, she would want to inspire others fighting cancer - whatever kind. Please help me do this, a 30 second sound byte does not even come close to the joy Eva can bring.... Kathy
Name: Joe blevins
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I Love All...
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Her Music
Home town Greensboro, NC
Found the website Frequent visitor
Sent: 3.26 AM - 7/26
The movie was called "The Shawshank Redemption", I think. One particular moment involved an innocent man in prison gaining control of the prison wide p.a. system and playing an excerpt of a beutifull italian opera over the loud speakers, he had been there for ten years. Afterward the door was kicked in by prison gaurds , along with the warden, and the innocent man was put in solitary confinement for a hard month. Upon returning to general population he was wearing, still, a smile . When asked how he could possably have survived with a smile intact he said "they could'nt take the music from me, for it was inside me"
Another inmate would remark "I have no idea what those italian ladies were singing about, but for a moment we were all free men" ....
Is'nt that what Ms. Cassidy does for us...
lets us be free for a
little while?
I think so and I think I'd do the same thing .
Once again thank-you for the site you have made , and the eternal flame that it's become.
Again , my earnest regards to all who loved and knew Eva Cassidy in her life,
Thank-you
Joe
Name: Pamela
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album --
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song --
Home town Lincoln, NE
Found the website askjeeves or Altavista
Sent: 7.42 AM - 7/26
My Mom heard Eva Cassidy on PBS I believe and keeps talking about her. I was especially impressed when I heard she would sing "Over the Rainbow". Mom talks to total strangers about her - "Have you ever heard . . . "I plan on getting her an album at the local Barnes and Noble if they have one. Otherwise hope to get one over the net.
I wish my father (died 9/13/1995 from a drunk driver) could hear her. He loved young people's voices.
Name: Rose
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird but really all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Field of Gold/Over the Rainbow
Home town Reading, Pa.
Found the website aol EvaCassidy but now daily visitor
Sent: 10.02 AM - 7/26
Today I was on the homepage of Bestbuy.com & the main music page lists the new music for week of 7/22/01 & has Eva Cassidy shown right up there with NSYNC. NSYNC should be so honored to be shown with Eva's name. She's the headliner. I love that I have her voice in my car, in my home, in my work place & in my life. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Rose
Name: laura hayden
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "people get ready"
Home town naas, co. kildare ireland
Found the website oceanfree
Sent: 10.35 AM - 7/26
i discovered Eva on 'top of the pops2'and sat in awe at the amazing talent that she had, she is and was a truly brilliant performer who through her incredible voice has touched millions of people worldwide.
Name: Derek Brock
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Birmingham, England
Found the website trial and error
Sent: 3.17 PM - 7/26
Heard Eva about 12 months ago through BBC Radio2 presenter, Terry Wogan. Seemed nobody else had heard of her though! This song is so moving I fell in love with it. However, I always envisaged she stood up and sang whilst some very talented guitarist played for her but when I finally saw her on television I realised that she did it all by herself. She also sang while remaining seated and still reached those notes effortlessly. One of he best songs I have heard for a long, long time. Now bought a number of CDs and am so pleased she has the recognition she deserves. It is great to know that other people recognise her talents.
Name: Linne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart/ autumn leaves/fields of gold
Home town Cumbria England
Found the website www.evacassidy.com/www.Ask.com
Sent: 6.38 PM - 7/26
Divine and Darling Eva, what a joy she has given to so many in the few years allowed to her. - we won't mourn her passing but rejoice in those gifts she gave to us. thank you Eva
Name: Jen M
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Ireland
Found the website AOL Search Engine
Sent: 7.50 PM - 7/26
What words can we use to justify Eva Cassidy? Eva was both an inspiration and a tragedy; taken away from us when she was so young, beautiful and talented. Eva has inspired me from the very minute I first heard her. Over the Rainbow and Fields of Gold bring tears to my eyes every time I hear then with the sincerity and meaning that Eva sang it with. There will never be another Eva Cassidy. Eva may be gone, but her spirit will remain among her fans for many generations to come.
Name: RAY
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Chorley, Lancs. England
Found the website www.didgerecords.com
Sent: 8.04 PM - 7/26
What can I say, she was fantastic
Name: Gary Diamond
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I Go Crazy
Home town Washington DC
Sent: 10.52 PM - 7/26
Looking far and wide for LP or CDR of "Method Actor"
Willing to trade for your musical needs.
Help!!!!!! Gary Diamond (currently in Denver CO)
Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Please contact me at "Garydiam55@aol.com"
Name: paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song buried alive in the blues
Home town London UK
Sent: 1.00 AM - 7/27/2001
I hate Eva Cassidy.Eva fans dont even know what there lookin for. Well I spose about half of em do an half of em dont, Most people are lookin for schmaltz and pop, but some people are lookin for a real fucking singer! Well the real fuckin singer is Janis Joplin. You wont have heard her on the radio.This is the real fucking word of mouth act! Janis Joplin is the best thing I ever heard in my whole life! Check her out or fuck right off! Kozmik Blues is a good starter.
Name: paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album pearl
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song When autumn leaves turn to brown
Home town London
Sent: 1.20 AM - 7/27
No I was wrong, my favourite Eva song is when autumn leaves turn to brown. But I still think that Eva doesnt sing better than Janis. well it might be worth spending a couple of quid to make up your mind. Who is best Janis or Eva?
Name: connie kowalewski
Sent: 1.26 AM - 7/27
This message is for Paul. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Yes Janis Joplin was a great singer there is no doubt, but Eva's voice is like pure silk. Im not putting janis down by any means I was also a big fan of hers, but if you took the time to listen to one of Evas CDs you would understand what everyone is writing about. Two great women but two different voices.
Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Bridge Over Troubled Waters/ waly waly
Home town Silver Spring, Maryland
Found the website regular visitor
Sent: 2.08 AM - 7/27
First of all, thanks to Laura for hosting and maintaining this website.
I agree with Connie's response to Paul. But is unfortunate that you have such a hostile opinion and chose to express it in that fashion in this forum in which everyone here is quite cordial with one another.
Additionally, I have to disagree with your associating schmaltz and pop with Eva's music. Ms. Kowalewski has the right suggestion in that you really ought to listen to one of Eva's CDs, not just one or two songs to base your opinion. If you do, I think you might find quite a bit of sophistication in Eva's music, NOT schmaltz.
And if you find that you hold the same viewpoint, then fine, that's what you got out of it. The real pity may reside in the fact that you listen, but you do not hear; you look, but you do not see. It's like being so thirsty but you don't see the refreshing waters of life splashing right at your feet. And you will miss all the incredible grace and beauty so many of us see and feel and cherish. Because that kind of grace and beauty in a sometimes ugly, cold, and uncaring world can be quite rare. And Eva Cassidy and her voice/music has that ethereal grace and beauty...
Name: Deb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Song Bird (so far)
Home town Marshall, TX
Found the website ref desk
Sent: 3.30 AM - 7/27
I heard about Eva Cassidy only recently on some TV show and love her music. I've only heard a few of her songs so far, but will hear them all in time! What a peaceful, lovely voice! She left us too soon.
Name: Betty
Sent: 3.40 AM - 7/27
This message is for Paul from the U.K. I find it interesting that yourself being such a Janis Joplin fan.... well.... maybe you should learn to spell the "Kosmic Blues" album correctly. It ends with a "c"... not a "k". Sincerely, An Eva AND Janis fan
Name: Betty
Sent: 3.43 AM - 7/27
P.S. John from the U.K. Janis was on the radio. "Me and Bobby McGee" was on the ss after she died....
Name: Allan Whitehead
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of gold
Home town Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Found the website Night Line & Google
Sent: 1.10 PM - 7/27
I suppose, like a lot of people, I discovered Eva much too late. After seeing the 2nd Nightline Special, I went out and bought all of the Eva CDs that I could find. I then compiled my own CD of her songs and my favorites and have a copy in my Condo, Car, Boat, Cottage and Office. I've given samplings of her music to a lot of people, who are as amazed by her voice as I was and am. Appropriately I called my compilation of her music "Gone, too soon..." How I wish it wasn't so. Rest in Peace Eva. I'm sure that Angels dream in technicolor, as you and they all should. I miss you...
Name: Kat Maslich
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Roanoke, VA/ Los Angeles, CA
Found the website a friend
Sent: 5.17 PM - 7/27
I am singer in a duo called "east mountain south" and a friend of mine introduced me last night to her music and told me about her life and her passing. Never have I been stopped in my tracks.. I was a restaurant and I was brought to tears by this woman. I literally stopped what I was doing! We (my musical partner) have released our demo and have been passed by some major labels here in Los Angeles.. and I have been really discouraged but hearing her voice and hearing what she was all about has shed new perspective.. stick to your heart and soul!! It is a shame that the world didn't get to hear a true singer-songwriter.. She is an angel... and needed to do work beyond this life...
Kat Maslich
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album time afer time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song autumn leaves
Home town Girvan, Scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 6.32 PM - 7/27
Laura,
I am embarrassed by the stupid, juvenile and needless comments of Paul from London.
it is obvious that he has listened to very little of Eva's music - his favourite song is "when autumn leaves turn to brown" when the actual lyrics are "when autumn leaves start to fall"
he makes me ashamed to be from the same part of the world.
Eva is simply the most versatile singer who has ever lived.
Janis Joplin comes nowhere close.
I would guess Paul is a very sad, bitter and limited person who is quite desperate for attention.
Go see a shrink, mate - or alternatively - Get a life.
Sandy.
Name: Luis Tassara
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Silver Spring
Found the website Google
Sent: 9.26 PM - 7/27
Lime most I discovered Eva too late. Her voice is soulful. I have all her records. I only regret never having seen her live. But, her music will always have a place in my home
Name: paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album some product
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song NO fun
Home town PortArthur
Sent: 11.06 PM - 7/27
Well if you want to listen to a travesty of good music go ahead! As for me ill be listening to Janis Joplin and the Sex pistols Eva Cassidy is never gonna be remembered right. cos she didnt do anything. she sang. so what! She didnt sing good enough. I dont think shes gonna be a benchmark in 10 years time.
Name: Betty
Sent: 11.34 PM - 7/27
Paul,
F.Y.I.: Eva did more than sing. Besides taking a song and making it her own.... besides making you feel like she really meant what she was singing, she, also, played guitar, arranged harmonies, painted, drew, made jewelry, etc. etc. etc. and was really a good-hearted person.... Why so angry, Paul?? Betty
Name: Deborah Craig
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song In Fields of Gold
Sent: 12.11 AM - 7/28
Eva has touched my heart in a way that is hard to
explain. I listen to her songs over and over again.
After reading about the kind of person that she was,
my guess is that she would have been honored and
humbled by the world's reaction to her.
Thank you People magazine for bringing this
beautiful voice into my life.
She had the voice of an angel.
I just ordered her limited addition print.
I truly hope that they haven't sold out.
Thank You,
Debbie Craig
Name: Dagon Dangerman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley / & the rest
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Bridge Over Troubled Water / Anniversary Song
Home town Navarre
Found the website Got turned on to it
Sent: 4.53 AM - 7/28
Paul,
I think all Janis did was sing, right? And the Sex Pistols were a marketing 'Fad' with no musical talent what-so-ever.
Eva was first recorded back in 1987 with "Method Actor". Let's see... what is that? Fourteen years! I believe that number is higher than 10! Plus she was wanted by several recording companys. She just didn't want to do only "one" form of music. Sounds like she sang good enough to me, to be so wanted.
I feel sorry for you, man, 'cos you're cold & you have no soul. Did it make you feel good to write what you wrote, & did you get any joy out of it? Just wondering what makes people like you 'tick'.
Name: sarah
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town London
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 7.34 AM - 7/28
I wouldn't be too concerned about Paul. He is seems to be trying to provoke a reaction to see how Eva's fans respond, from the tone of his messages, and his total inability to get the names of the songs or albums right, it seems calculated to upset Eva's fans. Or he may just need help.
Name: Graham Godfrey
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Difficult, they're all special
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves (If I have to pick one)
Home town Reading, UK
Found the website Surfing on Freeserve
Sent: 11.44 AM - 7/28
I first heard Eva on the Terry Wogan show on BBC Radio 2 and just fell in love with her voice - so clean and clear. Being born only two weeks after her I have been reminded of the fragility of life and Eva has taught me how important it is to make the most of every day of my life. Eva, you are an example to us all. God bless you.
Name: patrick lennon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album every single one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them are fantastic
Home town chatham kent
Found the website AOL
Sent: 12.14 PM - 7/28
hi to all Eva fan's don't be taken in by this pual ? he just can't hear what Eva is saying in her music. he will never be blessed with the soulful tones in her voice as we have .if the sex pistols is the best he can come up with then he has got to be stone deaf the thousands of people all over the world really know a once in a life time experience when they first herd Eva Cassidy for the first time Eva's music will always be fresh .beautiful. soulful & will never fad as for the sex pistols well I don't need to say . only paul go to the sex pistols web site if you don't mind this site is for real music lovers who appreciate live perfomances. sung and played from the soul (lots of love for Eva
Name: Steve
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town East Riding Yorks
Sent: 1.13 PM - 7/28
This guy Paul must have deep down fascination and admiration for Eva otherwise he would not return so frequently
Name: Charlotte Meyn
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Ellerstadt, Germany
Sent: 3.15 PM - 7/28
Oh Eva! Why did you die so young? You have the voice of an angel. I always cry when I listen to your CD! Your voice is immortal.
PS: I usually don't use such words but Paul is an asshole.
Name: Kenneth Fiester
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Method Actor
Home town Bowie MD
Sent: 8.34 PM - 7/28
I do not choose the Method Actor album as my favorite Eva Cassidy album because I think it is her best. I also do not choose the Method Actor album simply because I played bass on it. I choose the Method Actor album because I got to watch Eva record it. The Method Actor project was a high point in my life, and I'll be forever grateful to David Christopher for asking me to be a part of it.
A bit of background on the project: David gave each musician involved a sparse tape of the next song to be recorded, typically containing nothing more than click, keyboard, and rhythm guitar. It was up to each musician to interpret the song in his or her own way. There were no band rehearsals: the magic happened in the studio. As David said in the interview of him that you've kindly posted on your site, he would give Eva the basic vocal melody, and then Eva would work her own special magic. Her natural gift for music allowed her to create angelic vocal harmonies, often on the spot. The recording of these harmonies was amazingly swift; she recorded each part with ease. "Studio magic" is often used on modern recordings, but Black Pond Studios had no harmonizers or pitch correctors. What you hear is exactly what was recorded, and it is safe to say this is true for all of Eva's recorded work.
Final note: anyone who knows anything about Eva knows that she was incredibly modest about her incredible talent. I saw an early performance of her first band, Stonehenge, and she couldn't even face the amphitheater audience: she was seated with her acoustic guitar, facing toward her brother Dan. It is also a matter of record that Eva was initially very nervous about recording. I say all this to point out that if not for David Christopher asking her to sing on the Method Actor album, Eva might have remained undiscovered and unheard outside of Bowie, Maryland. It is unquestionably true that if not for David, we would have a much smaller catalog of Eva's work to enjoy. David: thanks again, my friend. Eva: I miss you.
Name: paul
Sent: 9.14 PM - 7/28
im sorry to all you guys I was just very drunk and Eva got the flak.i apologize for any offence I caused. Evas got a great voice I know cos she manages to do something that only a true artist can do, reach inside people and touch thier soul. And they way she stormed the LP charts by word of mouth is cool too in these days of media hyped crap, shes a breath of fresh air. well goodbye and peace to you all.
Name: Garland Glover
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird (all really, but this one is special)
Home town Longview, TX
Found the website Went to Blix Street site and found your link
Sent: 9.42 PM - 7/28
Wow! What to say for such an awesome awesome voice?
Well, I can say that she has without a doubt the most
beautiful voice I have EVER heard in my life!
I was surfing through the TV one evening and luckily caught the Nightline special on her. Since then I have been consumed by buying all her CDs and reading everything I possibly can about her. I've never had such an intense interest in another artist. She has truly touched my soul.
Thank you Eva for all your wonderful songs, I will forever listen to them time and time again.
Thank you so much for this website!
Name: bea
Home town London
Sent: 10.51 AM - 7/29
I heard for the first time today one of Eva Cassidy's songs. I'd been told before how good she was but have been so busy I haven't had time to go look for her music. The song I've heard today is Somewhere over the Rainbow and I'm absolutely blown away by her voice. It is the most beautiful sound I've heard in such a long time. A lot of the music today is so full of rubbish - violence and sexual explicitness - it's so nice to hear something so beautiful. I am off now to walk the streets until I find an Eva Cassidy CD - or several!
Name: Andy Crockett
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Newport
Sent: 3.00 PM - 7/29
A Songbird who sang so sweetly
Name: Cliff Bates
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Impossible to choose.
Home town Canby, OR
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.21 PM - 7/29
Heard "Fields of Gold" on local FM station (KINK). Came straight home and ordered Song Bird. We have purchased several more CDs since than and will ultimately buy all of Eva's CDs. We are amazed and moved by the range and beauty of Eva's singing. How unspeakably sad that her voice is silenced. Thank you to all that helped bring her music to the public.
Name: Ray Johannessen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album difficult
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song nearly all of them
Home town Chelmsford Essex
Found the website ask for Eva
Sent: 6.15 PM - 7/29
You can't pick the best of anything with Eva.
Name: Dagon Dangerman
Sent: 6.30 PM - 7/29
Paul,
Apparently I was wrong about you. You're not cold, & you do have a soul. It showed a lot of character for you to get back on here, & apologize for what you wrote about Eva. I apologize to you for getting a little bent. And I apologize to the Sex Pistols for what I wrote about them. They were talented in their own way. And perhaps Janis did more then sing, outside of a studio. Everyone that creates, has talent. Laura once said that Eva celebrated all forms of creativity. We can still learn a lot from Eva. I do every day.
Name: Rolf Steinemann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Opfertshofen (CH)
Found the website Through Didge-Records
Sent: 6.57 PM - 7/29
Well Paul, You shouldn't drink then. In Alcohol´s laying the truth. I use to say before anybody should marry somebody, just see him or her drunk, that gives you a bit of a picture of your partners character how he really are. I for Instead get funny. I´m glad I am
what I am. When I feel bad or sad, I take my Guitare and play a few Songs, I´ve written, or just a few favorites, that makes me feel much better.
At the moment I listen a lot to the beautiful Voice of Eva Cassidy, and also to Donnie Munro The Voice of Scotland. Yesterday I went to his Concert in Appenzell
Switzerland. What an Angels Voice also, the Ex-Leadsinger of RUNRIG.The Live-CD he made is bloody (sorry) Beautiful. It´s really great to have such as Evas Voice, and many more, to keep you going. I´m glad
that those Cd´s of Eva are available for all of us, allsomany thanks to Didge-Records to make it happen. Otherwise not many people would ever, ever know anything about EVA and her golden Voice!
Thank you for that, Cheers Rolf ;-}
Name: HARRY.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album ALL.
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ALL.
Home town NOTTINGHAM. ENGLAND.
Found the website www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 7.17 PM - 7/29
TO, PAUL. IT TAKES A LOT TO SAY SORRY. I ADMIRE YOU FOR IT. I CAN STAND ANYONE CRITICISING "EVA" BECAUSE AS WINSTON CHURCHILL ONCE SAID, "I MAY NOT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAY BUT I WILL DEFEND WITH MY LIFE YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT" EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO THEIR OWN OPINION. I TOO AM A BIG, BIG, FAN OF "JANIS JOPLIN", BUT NOT TOO SURE ABOUT THE "SEX PISTOLS". BUT IF YOU GET THE SAME PLEASURE LISTENING TO THEM AS I DO LISTENING TO "EVA" THEN THAT'S COOL. ENJOY YOUR MUSIC. HARRY.
Name: naomi
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I WANDERED BY A BROOKSIDE
Home town napoli
Sent: 9.46 PM - 7/29
Hi Laura,I recently heard Time After Time on the italian RadioRai,it was in a program about covers of very famous songs that sometimes are better then the original.I was happy about that because I always hope that even people in my country can come to hear EVA's music and voice,THE BEST.Personally I bless the day in which I decided to record CNN during the night so that I could watch it in the morning and try to improve my english with the listening.Well,I had decided just in time because I was able to see the publicity about a program dedicated to Eva Cassidy...there is no need to tell the rest of the story. I thank God and TMC(an ialian TV channel)that every night linked up with Cnn.
I would also ask people who recorded the Nightline July 4 if they can help me to have a copy-you can earn a lot-you would make me very happy.Thank you.
And thank you Laura for this website.
Name: Brooke
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Edmond, OK
Found the website AOL
Sent: 2.20 AM - 7/30
I love Eva Cassidy's voice. It is so beautiful. Every time I listen to it, it makes me tear up. What a travesty to lose such a talented performer so young. She is missed!
Name: amy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Burlington
Found the website internet explorer
Sent: 3.09 AM - 7/30
Eva's music has inspired me to move beyond what I have known to be true about myself into realms of creative living that leave me breathless. How can one listen to her and not attempt to live to one's fullest potential?
Name: Eric
Home town Silver Spring, Maryland
Found the website frequent visitior
Sent: 3.38 AM - 7/30
As always, thank you Laura for providing this wonderful forum for us.
Now, on to Paul: I'm glad your viewpoint has changed, and I agree with Harry and Dagon that it takes a lot of character to come back and apologize.
I hope that you've come back with an open mind and really give Eva a chance and that you at least find out a bit more about who she is/was. I get the sense that you don't really know what she was about. But listen, I like a lot of hard rock and blues too. But I also have an appreciation and understanding for different styles of music. Not all, mind you, but enough to try and be open to new things. Perhaps through Eva's eclectic repetoire you too will be exposed to different styles and appreciate music other than 3 chord rock songs.
Furthermore, I think you'll find that she is definitely NOT a part of that corporate driven, media-hyped, pre-fabricated "star" schmaltz and pop stuff you referred to that is so prevalent in music today. I'm just surmising that that is also what got you so angry. I don't know what the media is like over in the UK, but I can understand getting tired of hearing about some band or some "star" constantly.
The big difference is this: Eva is someone that MATTERS. She SHOULD be getting this attention because she is a true artist and has great talent. Not to pick on the current teen pop "stars", but really, do they play their own instruments? Do they write their own songs? Are they really deserving of all this attention and fame? Will anything they do stand the test of time other than be know as a fad?
Who knows? And for a great many people, who cares? Cuz obviously SOMEBODY's buying their CDs and those fans don't care what I think! But that's been the history of pop music thru the ages. The corporate interests dictate to a vast demographic population what they will listen to. As a result, you have a great many people who are not exposed to other great music, styles, and artists that are out there. So, they don't really know what else is out there unless corporate radio plays artists like Eva.
I don't know what radio is like in the UK, but here in the US there are very few independently owned radio stations. In general, what you end up with is bland, middle-of-the-road, appeal-to-the-greatest-common denominator radio. It's a tough line between commerce and artistry. Anyway, that's why Eva has had a hard time getting airplay in the US.
Sorry for the lengthy exposition, but I'm guessing this is what you were angry about, Paul. If this was the case, then I sort of understand where your head was at, even if Eva got caught in the crossfire. At any rate, peace be with you, mate....
Sent: 7.46 AM - 7/30
ok paul. I would just like to say that it takes a lot to say sorry & I do appreciate you for returning to Eva's web site to say what you did . I hope you enjoy Eva as much as we all do here.
******
Name: Steve Underwood
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album not sure
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Woodstock
Home town Cumming, GA (USA)
Found the website not sure
Sent: 4.39 PM - 7/30
I'm a 30-something American male that grew up liking bands like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, and gradually got into others like Metallica, Alice in Chains, Creed and so on. In other words, I've always liked hard rock stuff.
I do have a little history of being a Simon & Garfunkle/Joni Mitchell/Judy Collins/Cat Stevens fan as a younger man --- and have a wife who's into R&B, Jazz, etc. -- but otherwise am into the classic hard rock/new rock/metal genres...
All that said ... I consider it an extreme blessing that my wife I were introduced to Eva probably about a year ago by a Helen Oney of Huntsville, AL, a blues singer and former DJ who has become a huge Eva fan and transformed us as well.
I don't normally listen to the types of music she did -- not that I dislike it, it doesn't do what hard rock does for me -- but the quality of the work she (and Chuck) have done is so irresistably engaging that I can't help myself. Great voice, great music and I'm still just a neophyte who has only heard the compilation tape that Helen put together for us. I look forward to better financial days when we can get a CD player and buy the CDs.
My favorite Eva song (so far) is Woodstock. I always thought it was an OK song by Joni M (and CSNY later), but Eva's wistful rendition of it moves me near to tears every time. In my mind, I picture someone in a cottage on a misty day, 30 years removed from Woodstock and pulling out their scrapbook as they sit in a candle-lit living room, remembering the days when they were young. Her version is just so beautiful!
Thank you so much for this comprehensive site. I like reading the touching stories about Eva almost as much as listening to her. It's great to read how Chuck and others were transformed from doubters to true believers and it's wonderful to (despite her not being widely appreciated during her life) see how much appreciation she gets now.
Name: DJ
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water
Home town Newark, DE
Found the website internet
Sent: 5.24 PM - 7/30
On my way to work one morning, I heard someone on the radio mention Eva's name. Without ever hearing her music or even knowing anything about her, I felt a deep connection to her. By the time I got to work, I couldn't remember her last name. That day, I got on the internet and looked until I found her. Since then, I have ordered her Songbird CD and now her Time after Time CD. Today, I preordered the book being released about her life. I don't know what the connection is, but its there and it doesn't go away. I rejoice in her music and I find myself thinking about her so often. I play her CDs for anyone who will listen and I just wish as everyone does, that she was still here doing her thing. I have this great image in my mind of her in a beautiful, peaceful place, wandering among the animals, touching the flowers and singing quetly to herself. This probable sounds crazy and I have never done this before, but I felt the need to.
Name: Alan Byrne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song still Over the Rainbow, just ahead of Fields of Gold
Found the website Frequent visitor
Sent: 3.02 PM - 7/31
I just wanted to come back on the board to say THANK YOU to all the people who saw my original message and e-mailed me to offer copies of the Radio 2 programme. I have it now, but have been pleasantly surprised at the response I got (which I wasn't expecting at all. It kind of restores your faith in human nature a bit, doesn't it?
My Eva collection is growing and even my wife, who is a musical philistine, appreciates the rare quality of Evas' interpretation of songs.
Thanks Laura, for introducing me, thru this site, to Evas' music.
Name: Marlee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Over the Rainbow"
Home town Near Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 3.57 PM - 7/31
Wow...what can I say? I had never heard of Eva Cassidy, but one day I had our satelite dish music on(soft rock station) and I hear what seems to be a voice of an angel. "Over the Rainbow" left me crying happy tears. Not knowing anything about this gal, or her name, I pictured a very young 20ish black female pulling at my heart strings. I looked her name up on Yahoo and found this web site on her, and was TOTALLY taken by surprise that Eva was a 33 year old white gal and dearly devestated that she passed on to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland would have loved this gal...maybe they're singing duets somewhere, huh? I will certainly be buying her C.D.s and enjoying her calm and beautiful voice soon. Thanks for this web site...I especially love the clouds and rainbows.
Marlee
Name: Sandrine
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Je ne connais que Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Toutes
Home town Montreal
Found the website InfiniT
Sent: 7.43 PM - 7/31
Cette voix et ces vibrations transmisent sont un don tout simplement merveilleux. Je suis heureuse que beaucoup l'apprécie, car Eva réussi alors à nourrir nos âmes d'une beauté profonde qui habite chacun de nous...
Name: Charly Scheck
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song woodstock and time after time (so far)
Home town ULM (Germany)
Found the website Google
Sent: 10.42 PM - 7/31
The first time ever I heard your voice, it made the earth move under my feet.... that's the only thing I can say after I came across this voice today for the first time in my life. Fantastic, moving, just great. There should have been more.
Name: Karen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Boston
Sent: 2.44 AM - 8/1
My best friend just brought Eva Cassidy to my attention by playing Fields of Gold over the phone to me. I felt such peace, happiness and sadness come over me. I 've just been reading about her life and her musical/spiritual journey here on earth. What a blessing to have her here with us long enough to leave this music for us to enjoy. I just ordered some of her music. I too am ready to enjoy this little bit of heaven while here on earth.
Name: Deb
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town texas city
Found the website Googles
Sent: 3.56 AM - 8/1
My husband introduced Eva's music to me yesterday. Her voice along with her story blew me away. I am deeply touched by her music. God must have wanted an Angel to sing for him.
Name: John
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Melbourne
Found the website From the CD
Sent: 4.24 AM - 8/1
I am just thinking about Eva singing "Over the Rainbow" and I get all teary. What a talent, what a sad loss.
Name: Simon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Munich (Germany)
Sent: 6.38 AM - 8/1
Hi!
We just had a liitle docu in the new last night.
This morning, "Songbird" is already No. 1 at Amazon.de.
And that's actually where it ought to be ...
Simon
Name: Ruth
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Perth WA
Found the website excite
Sent: 6.41 AM - 8/1
I do not think I have enjoyed listening to anyone sing as much as I have Eva. I feel very lucky to have discovered her and very sad that she is no longer with us. Here in Australia she is certainly not a well known artist and I notice that among the emails included on this site there are not any from Australia. I shall have to spread the word!
Name: Dennis Ryckman
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album first but not the last "Songbird"
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow, Fields of Gold
Home town St. Louis Mo. Living in Hockenheim Germany for the last 30 years
Found the website www.didgerecords.com
Sent: 2.39 PM - 8/1
I had never heard the name Eva Cassidy. Watching the ZDF News on German TV, Aug 31st,2001, a 2 min. coverage was broadcasted, presenting a short biography of Eva. At the end of the footage, she was shown singing "Over the Rainbow". My wife and I, fighting back the tears in our eyes and goosepimples all over, had never heard such a beautiful and penetrating voice as hers. Today I bought the only CD of Eva I could find, "Songbird" ... the first, but not the last ! Eva sings from her heart, and touches those of others.
Name: Rick M
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album SB
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song OTR
Home town Grand Junction, CO
Sent: 5.43 PM - 8/1
It's been four months since I discovered Eva, I've got all of her CDs. Two weeks ago I loaned SB to a co-worker at the office and got it back today. I was needing an "Eva fix" so I played SB-more particularily Over the Rainbow. I still choke and and tear up so bad that I can't see. Need I say more!!
Name: Tom Stachowiecz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Found the website Ask Jeeves
Sent: 5.53 PM - 8/1
I first heard Eva on a CD yesterday (31 July 2001). I found out this morning that she had passed away years ago - and somehow, I feel a deep sense of loss. Maybe it's because I spent 24 hours imagining her in concert...or on TV.... Thinking about her next album that I now know will never come. Her voice touched me and the musical poetry she 'read' spoke volumes of my life experience and redefined moments I had long since packed away and forgotten. What a 'special' lady -
Name: Cathy White
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wade in the Water, Songbird
Home town Los Gatos, CA
Found the website blixstreet links
Sent: 3.25 AM - 8/2
I read about Eva in the San Jose Mercury News (the John Blake review), and immediately ordered The Other Side and Songbird. I used to hate "Over the Rainbow", and was sorry to see that it was on both CDs--NO LONGER! Now, I'm trying to avoid the addictive behavior of listening to her CDs over and over and over....
Name: Jane
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Bristol, UK
Found the website MSN
Sent: 3.29 PM - 8/2
I saw a performance of Eva singing 'Over the rainbow' and was really touched by the soulful quality of her voice. Having listened to more of her music I love her interpretation of familiar songs - 'Fields of gold' is one of my favourite Sting compositions. 'Songbird' goes everywhere with me now, in the car and when I'm working. I regret that she is no longer able to record, but will eagerly listen to the music which she has left behind. I enjoyed reading the messages above- except that one from the moron from London- who evidently is so brain dead that simple, basic spelling is above his capabilities! I think that Eva can do without fans of his calibre- leave him to Janis Joplin!!
Name: Bruce
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Not fair, I love them all!!!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird....no wait, What a wonderful....no wait
Home town Seattle, wash.
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.35 PM - 8/2
I first heard of Eva on a T.V. special July 4th,. 2001 (I think "Dateline"). My nephew and I were watching it together. He's 15 and loves rap. Well, the next day when I got home from work he had gone with my wife and bought me and himself a copy of "Songbird". I think him and I both fell in love with Eva that night. Now I have all of Eva's extrordinary works and love them all.
Thanks Eva.... ou are missed!!
Name: leslie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by heart, Over the Rainbow
Home town towson, maryland
Found the website Eva Cassidy on the web
Sent: 12.21 AM - 8/3
I recently found Eva's music. I too like so many others cried when I listened to her for the first time, finding out that she died so young made her music even more poignant. Isn't it awesome that in this fast moving noisy world, somewhere in Bowie Maryland a woman was hauling bags of dirt and planting flowers and shrubs, maybe thinking about the songs she wanted to sing someday. I live less than an hour from Bowie and am sorry I never had the chance to see her perform.
I am amazed with how clear her words are and how much emotion comes forth when she sings, be it a spiritual, or rythm and blues. She sang like no other, was a superb artist and musician, and from reading about her on web sites a wonderful friend and daughter. Each day we meet people that are simple in their dress and demeanor, working in less than prestigious jobs, but oh! what gifts they bring to us.Thank you Eva for having the courage to share your music with us, and the conviction to sing the songs you loved.
Name: Heiner Muelbrat
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song oh,had I a golden thread
Home town Bremen, Germany
Sent: 3.53 AM - 8/3
What a great voice. There is nothing more I can say. Thank you, Eva
Name: Lee, Kwangseok
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live At Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Seoul, Korea
Found the website MSN
Sent: 5.01 AM - 8/3
Think I'm gonna be the 1st Korean guy in this guest book. The day before yesterday, I first heard of Eva's "Over the rainbow" on radio with a brief comment that she had already passed away. And today I bought 2 sets of Eva's CDs, one for me, the other for my best friend to share the most beautiful voice I've ever heard.
Name: Bienvenido P. Flores
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Price City, Utah, USA
Sent: 6.13 AM - 8/3
Eva is the most inspiring singer I have ever heard so far. Each time I listen to any of her songs, I feel she is singing to me personally. Thanks to Night Line for airing on TV Eva's biography and songs. Thanks too to all her friends and relatives who put together the history and songs of Eva. How I wish I knew her when she still alive.
Name: Dee-Dee
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town London, UK
Found the website frequent visitor
Sent: 6.47 AM - 8/3
Thanx, Laura, for the Quiz. I managed to graduate as a 'Real Eva Expert' and will now have another listen to Waly Waly to really start my day !
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Guestbookers: to find the Quiz, click on the 'Welcome' page link at the bottom of the Guestbook and go from there. Have fun !
Name: Laura Ross
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album All of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of them
Home town Gustavus, Alaska
Found the website Frequent Visitor
Sent: 1.33 PM - 8/3
I find myself peeking at this website almost everyday, and always with Eva singing in the background. It has grown to feel like I am checking in with "family". Thank you Laura for this wonderful site, and Eva I can't help but think you are unaware of what has happen here and what can only continue to grow.
Name: Ron & Jackie Duncan
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album only have one so far, Live at Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song What a Wonderful World
Home town Dallas, Texas
Found the website dog pile
Sent: 3.12 PM - 8/3
First heard of Eva on Nightline. What a sweet voice!!!!! Just like an angel. God bless her family. Ron and I lost our son (only child) in 1999 and we are so sorry we did not know of Eva and her music before his death. He was a hugh music fan and loved all kinds of music and we know he would have loved Eva's voice. Who knows, she may be singing to our son and lots of other music lovers in heaven right now. Thank you Eva and God bless you!!!
Name: Kerstin
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the rainbow
Home town Hamburg
Sent: 3.12 PM - 8/3
Last time I saw a very short TV- spot of Eva and her life, I never heart her name before. And today I wanted to buy one of her CD´s, but it was impossible, there where none, many people before me get them all. I was so dissapeared, the voice of Eva is so beautifull and sad, I like it, Monday I try it again!
Kerstin
Name: joe blevins
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album love
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song them all
Home town greensboro, nc
Found the website loyal patron
Sent: 4.37 PM - 8/3
quickly, to our notorious british friend paul ,
music is to bring us together
not to bring us to odds
I wonder what joplin would've said
to you to help you understand that...
try just a little bit harder
my earnest regards to those who knew and loved Eva , I am sorry for your loss,and thankful for your willingness to share her with the rest of us .
thank-you,
joe
Name: Anne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird, Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Every song I heard up to now is exeptionally beautifull, but I like Woodstock very much
Home town Wermelskirchen near Cologne
Found the website Metager
Sent: 7.18 PM - 8/3
I heard Eva`s voice in the German TV-news, and, being member of a family of musicians, was at once fascinated by this beautiful and soul-touching voice!
Name: Bob
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Brentwood,Essex UK
Found the website Copernic
Sent: 8.14 PM - 8/3
Its my birthday today, my wife bought me a copy of Songbird,I have never heard anything so moving, there were tears in my eyes after I played the C.D.for the first time.I feel involved in as much as I lost my sister to cancer and my wife is now three years clear of the evil disease.
I once saw Christine McVie perform Songbird, as wonderful a vocalist as she is,(and I've been a fan since Chicken Shack) the song is really brought to life by Eva.
I am sure Eva will live on in her music, forever.
Name: peter goetz
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album the other side
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town d - berching
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 8.15 PM - 8/3
today I herard this incomparable music for the first time - I was speechless and deeply impressed.
what a voice, what a talent, what an emotion, what a sense of music!
maybe tho only (and insufficient) comfort for us is, what formerly the latin and greek poets used to say: quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur- those loved by the gods have to die young (or, with the lyrics of the quite equal musician billy joel: "only the good die young"!)
Eva Cassidy, I fear there will never be another you!
Name: Rolf Steinemann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Opfertshofen (CH)
Found the website Frequently, from time to time.
Sent: 8.49 PM - 8/3
G´day Everyone!
Just 5 Minutes ago I´ve seen a short Portrait, on our Swiss TV-Chanel about Eva, and her homestead. And a very nice Interview with her parents. They really have a nice little Haus and a lovely Garden. Her Mum spoke
in English and German. A really nice Couple, keep going, it must be a strange time for them. Afther 5 Years, to get a famous Daughter. Hopefully the money of those Albums, will go to their account, then at the moment they did´nt see much at all. Her Dad said that
they want to do a lot of good things. He get´s loads of Fan-Post every Day, that must be hard as well, but he said that he answers quit a few all the time.
I wish them lots of power to manage this fortcoming
hectic time. They really where glad to hear that
EVA´S ALBUM SONGBIRD REACHED LAST SUNDAY THE 3rd POSITION AT THE SWISS-CHARTS. CONGRATULATION,and keep your ears stiff (Haltet die Ohren steif) A Germans saying, and I reckon Evas Mum knows it as well.
All the best from Rolf :-D
Name: Rolf Steinemann (again)
Home town Opfertshofen (CH)
Sent: 9.37 PM - 8/3
JUST A SHORT NOTE: THE SMALL PORTRAIT AND INTERWIEW
WITH EVAS PARENTS WILL HAVE A RERUN ON CHANEL "SAT3"
TONIGHT AT 00.40!! IT´S CALLED: "10 VOR 10".
I CAN´T RECORD THAT, CAUSE I DON´T REACH THAT STATION.
SORRY:-(
CHEERS Rolf :-]
Name: david sampson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town London
Found the website AOL
Sent: 11.37 PM - 8/3
My name is David.I am in my 30's.I have had a neurological illness that has kept me bedbound/ housebound for the best part of 13 years.I don't cry but I heard Over the Rainbow and tears started to roll down my cheeks.Its rare to see a window open to someones soul but thats what it feels like to hear Eva sing.Thank you so much.
Name: BONNIE A. WILLIAMS
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album I LIKE THEM ALL
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I LIKE THEM ALL
Home town WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS
Found the website ON THE BACK OF----LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY
Sent: 12.36 AM - 8/4
SHE WAS TRULY A SONGBIRD HERSELF.. I JUST LOVE ALL HER MUSIC.. GOD ALWAYS TAKES THE GOOD HOME FIRST..
Name: Derek
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album everythig
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song everything
Home town everything
Found the website everything and everyone
Sent: 1.13 AM - 8/4
I agree with a lot of Rolfs sentiments but im only just coming to terms with the death of Diana,and have only recently been able to"move on".I feel that Eva has helped me,with her out of this world voice,she has reconciled me too this world.And I thank Eva and her fans puriley and gratefully.
Name: Eric
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Bridge over Troubled Water/Waly Waly
Home town Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Found the website frequent visitor
Sent: 1.46 AM - 8/4
As always, Laura, my thanks to you for managing this website and letting us share in Eva's wonderful legacy.
I read a Richard Brautigan poem that made me think of Eva and the Eva Cassidy Band's music:
Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.
Name: Lynne
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them
Home town Melbourne Australia
Found the website www.evacassidy.com
Sent: 2.04 AM - 8/4
Eva's music knocks me out, what a voice, if only she was alive today I love her to sing my lyrics... A suggestion, could you please have a... email this page to a friend... I know a few people that would love this, and don't have easy access to the internet as I do.
Name: Kerry
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow & Fields of Gold
Home town Perth , Western Australia
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 6.25 AM - 8/4
I first heard of Eva when her record producer was interviewed by the host of one of our early-morning breakfast shows.
Her rendition of Over the Rainbow affected me like no other piece of music...it touched my soul! Other friends have had the same reaction. Eva lives on through her music in the hearts of those of us her never met her . She is a true blessing!
Name: Christian Bohle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Berlin
Found the website www.didgerecords.com
Sent: 11.43 AM - 8/4
Greatly moved by Voice and songs....so sorry that there will be no more songs possible...
Name: Jodi Leadbeatter
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird & Fields of Gold
Home town Sydney, Australia
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 1.26 PM - 8/4
I have only just discovered Eva. I read a review in a magazine, then went out and bought Songbird. Hearing it bought a lump to my throat and made my hair stand on end. What a beautiful, beautiful voice. Congratulations to Eva's parents on a truly beautiful and unique daughter.
Name: Doug
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time after Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Woodstock
Home town PA
Found the website been here before
Sent: 2.01 PM - 8/4
A recurring theme in here is supporting live and local music; something the Eva Cassidy Band could have used more of at times. A DC area-talent that I have seen, heard, and will recommend is Melanie Mason. Have not scrolled down thru the Guestbook pages recently, but I think she has been mentioned in here before. Being A member of the Washington Area Music Association, chance are that Ms. Mason's circle of musical colleagues includes some that Eva knew. Her web site (mmband.com) does mention Danny Gatton.
In a similar vein, an earlier Guestbook entrant from Nederland (great country to visit; and a bicyclist's dream destination) mentioned Dutch singer Iles Delange, who had a recorded track in common with Eva. She has an album available (especially for domestic readers) at music express.com. Like any good online shopping site, it has Eva's music available, including a pair of CD singles.
Name: Malin Aronsson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva by heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song wade in the water
Home town Stockholm
Found the website by a friend who has lived in London
Sent: 2.41 PM - 8/4
Hi!
I heard Eva Cassidy for the first time today, and from now on I will not be needing any other cd:s this sommer. Her voice spoke to me,I listened to Eva by heart and I felt just like Eva knew what I was thinking. I live in Sweden and don´t know anything about this amazing woman.
Who was she, and where do I get hold of her music?
Please help me!
Name: Lawrence
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live at
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Houston, TX
Found the website search
Sent: 4.20 PM - 8/4
What a gift she had and what a blessing we had to have her as long as we did. We should be thankful for her recordings because we can keep her with us even though she is now gone.
Name: Gina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Eva By Heart
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town London UK
Found the website frequent visitor
Sent: 4.37 PM - 8/4
For those of you who know lots about Eva, test yourself on Laura's Quiz that she has hidden away on the 'What's New' page. Running the Quiz is a good way of finding out what you DON'T know, too - as I discovered with my miserable 80% score.
Try it now just for fun - nearly 150 Fans have entered - try it before Laura makes it even more difficult for us !
Name: Ruth J Ganderton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Golden Thread
Home town Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Found the website Hot Bot
Sent: 5.59 PM - 8/4
Dear Laura,
Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak from the heart and tell you what Eva's music has meant to me. I first head her sing 'Over the Rainbow' on a BBC program last year during a visit to England. After returning to the Sultanate of Oman, I contacted Amazon.com who sent a copy of 'Songbird'.
Living the past 11 years in this remote area of the Middle East, I often feel that I'm living in a void... but as I listened to 'Fields of Gold', a lump came into my throat, and as many others have written, by the time she began to sing 'Wayfaring Stranger', tears were running down my cheeks. Her rendition of 'Wade in the Water' and 'People get Ready', brought back memories of my youth.. a time when Mother, now gone, knew how much I loved black spiritual music and gave me her precious radio, a brown plastic affair, so that I could listen to gospel music originating from Detroit Michigan in the middle of the night (with the radio hidden under the covers on my bed). I now have 3 of Eva's CDs and hope to one day own all that are available.
Thank you Eva's parents, for sharing your daughter's talent and gift.
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album dont know yet
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song ditto
Home town st. paul, mn
Found the website alta vista
Sent: 7.57 PM - 8/4
A guy at work said " I saw her on TV, what can you find out". Well, after searching, and listening to brief audio clips, I ordered Song Bird from Amazon.com.
Truly the voice of an Angel, inspired by God.
'nuff said !!
Name: J.C. Horton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Hard to pick one
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Wayfaring Stranger
Home town Garner, North Carolina
Found the website MSN.COM
Sent: 4.28 AM - 8/5
Only saw last few minutes on "Nightline" Show, but what I saw and heard blew me away. Immediatley bought three CD'S from Amazon.Com and plan to buy another right away. Eva Is the most incredible singer I have ever heard but as a jazz singer friend of mine said it is bittersweet to listen to her knowing that what she has recorded will be all that we ever have. Nevertheless the CDs I have will be listened to over and over for years to come. (I am a jazz musician and have worked with many many singers over the last 40 years and Eva tops them all.) Wish I had known about her while she was alive. I would have driven to Washington DC to see her in person. What a thrill that would have been
Name: Carmen Johnson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town Memphis, TN
Found the website Read the CD cover for a website address.
Sent: 4.30 AM - 8/5
I first heard about this amazing Angelic singer from watching a TV special. I knew then that I had to seek out her music. Time went by and while recently visiting my sister (15 years my senior) in Massachusetts; I was riding in her car and I noticed she as playing music that I really enjoyed. When I asked who was singing, she said, she learned about the artist on TV and had to get her music....It was Eva Cassidy singing Over the Rainbow. We both had no ideat that the other had seen the special or even heard of Eva and here we were, so excited to know we loved her beautiful voice.
Only God could have arranged us to both know about her music since we live 2200 miles apart.
Eva was an angel that was with us for a while and left us to go home to be with our Heavenly Father. He called his Songbird home.
Name: D C
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song I know you by Heart
Home town Salinas,Ca
Found the website Google
Sent: 5.59 AM - 8/5
I just heard Eva at Borders music/book store last week and couldn't get her out of my mind and heart. I started to get teary eyed while I was hearing her voice and reading her bio which says she passed away at 33. Believe me as a guy I don't often get teary eyed about anything. Her voice slips you into another realm. A place where you feel fortunate to just exist while Eva soothes your mind , body and soul. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my thoughts about this wonderful woman.
Found the website I haven't a clue
Sent: 9.02 PM - 8/5
I'm just trying to buy the two available Eva Cassidy CDs and I can't find a way. Ohhhhh! *f*r*u*s*t*r*a*t*i*o*n*!! I've been all through the Barns & Noble web site and (amazingly!) found no opportunity to BUT.
Name: paul p
Sent: 9.31 PM - 8/5
i still hate Eva Cassidy!HaHa.
No im only joking with you,of course I dont hate her,it would be quite a hard thing to do to hate somebody as gentle in spirit and humble as Eva was dontcha think?
But im very jealous for Janis Joplin,when I visit this site and see the amount of interest in Eva,I just feel so sorry for Janis.She gets no airplay in the UK at all.
I find a lot of similarities between the two of them,i think the difference in thier vocal style is that Evas voice has an unearthly quality to it if you know what I mean,whereas Janis sings in a very earthy and bluesy style.
I know Janis puts a lot of people off with her Brash n Ballsy chick act,but deep inside she was a real vulnerable and needy person,you can find it her music its all there for the reading.
She also had a very assaultive singing style which she did on purpose to test people,if you want to see my beauty,you got to take me as I am kind of thing.
As far as Eva goes,Janis would have seen her as a great threat.(if they were around at the same time.)Janis wouldnt have tried to compete with a singer as good as that and somebody so pretty.I dont think would ever want to be on the same bill as Eva Cassidy.
Well im glad that glad that there is so much interest in Eva.I had the misfortune to watch top of the pops today,and its like dross after dross...I joked with my mate that the best thing on TOTP is the theme tune.(That heavy riff from Whole Lotta Love)All these manifactured bands God help the kids of today!
Come and check out the Janis Joplin kozmik blues site.
Go on the message and talk to my good friend Tex.She hasnt even heard any Eva Cassidy.
Well peace out to yall. paul
Name: Stonie
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song All of´em
Home town Bern
Found the website From the CD
Sent: 10.48 PM - 8/5
Hey!You!!
Pauli What You want? I reckon you´re in the wrong movie! If you know what I mean. Change the Station, over to the Janis Joplin Website, and you´re fine then. http://www.officialjanis.com !!
All the best from Stonie :-}
Name: paul
Sent: 11.52 PM - 8/5
What do I want?
I want Janis Joplin to recieve the respect and recognition that she was looking for in her short and tragic life.I want to hear her on the radio once in a while,but they rejected and humiliated her when she was on this earth,so how much more after her death.
Name: john sexton
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song how can I keep from singing
Home town pana, Il
Found the website yahoo
Sent: 2.16 AM - 8/6
I WAS WATCHING TV AND SAW EVA SINGING, "SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW". IT REALLY TOUCHED ME INSIDE. LIKE I KNEW HER FROM MY PAST- SHE TOUCHED ME WITH HER VOICE. IT MAY SOUND WIERD OR KORNY BUT I CAN APPRECIATE AN ARTIST WHEN THEY PUT ALL THEY HAVE INTO WHAT THEY ARE DOING. EVA PUT ALL SHE HAD INTO HER SINGING AND YOU CAN TELL. I CAN'T THANK HER ENOUGH FOR WHAT SHE HAS DONE. SHE WILL TOUCH PEOPLE FOR YEARS TO COME. SHE HAS DEFINITLY TOUCHED ME, THANK YOU EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: Donna Turner
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Live
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Tall Trees in Georgia
Home town Greensboro,NV
Found the website AOL
Sent: 2.53 AM - 8/6
In 1996, I was driving down the street listening to the local jazz station. Eva's cover of Fields of Gold
Name: Jo
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Sent: 3.30 AM - 8/6
To Paul,
I think it all depends on where you're from. I remember sneaking into my friends sister's room to hear Cheap Thrills, listening to Piece of My Heart over and over at slumber parties, wishing I had a pink feather boa like Janis', crying with my friends when she died and wanting to be the first to the record store to buy Pearl. Janis was famous and was adored by her fans. She was also sad, unhappy and used by a lot of people. I have a lot of memories tied to Janis' music and think of them often because I hear her songs several times a week on the radio. I don't hear Eva's. Even though I request her, they don't play her here. I can go into Wal-Mart and buy Janis' CDs, but I have to go to the internet to buy Eva's. There are many more web sites devoted to Janis than Eva. She even has her own page at RollingStone.com. If I say Janis' name everybody knows who I'm talking about. If I say Eva's it's "Who?" Like I said, it all depends on where you're from.
I came to Laura's site a long time ago because after listening to Eva for three years, I finally found people that shared my love of her music. That's why we are here.
I hope you find peace,
Jo
Name: Bruno Horisberger
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields Of Gold, Over the Rainbow
Home town Toffen, Switzerland, Europe
Found the website Google
Sent: 6.14 AM - 8/6
Dear parents of Eva,
Please excuse my broken english.
Last Friday the Swiss TV showed those wonderful recordings about your doughter and I knew suddenly, that Eva's songs will tell my about feelings out of someone's deepest heard. Next day I was running behind that CD troughout Berne and found out, that I was not the only one (the CD was almost sold out!).
Finally at home with your doughter's voice I found myself in such deepnes, brought up with thousand's of warm feelings she told me about. What a wonderful moment in my life I compared with a friend of mine. With tears in my eyes I let her angel's voice tell me such wonderful things of life and being. And I remembered you telling about your - our - loss because of her decease.
Be sure about she will go on in our hearts with her wonderful singing and lyrics.
And I compare that deep hurt with you having lost her.
Bruno.
Name: Rolf Steinemann
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Opfertshofen (CH)
Found the website Direct
Sent: 6.12 PM - 8/6
Hey Paul!
Why just start a Website, by yourself. That´s my only Advice I can give You. There are so many Websites about Janis. Just give you self a kick and make the ultimative and much better Janis Joplin Website.
From Nothing, comes nothing. Just go for it, what you´re waiting for? Do it like Laura did, just start to think with your Heart, and let the brain away, and you´ll manage to do a wonderful Thing. And remember this´ll be allways an Eva Cassidy Website, who was made straight from the heart, and got nothing to do with Janis, or somebody else.
Cheers Rolf :-]
Name: Mike Wilson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Still finding out
Home town Bromley. Kent. UK
Found the website goto - found it by accident!
Sent: 7.04 PM - 8/6
Have only just discovered Eva. What a loss to the world of music that she should die so young. Have only recently obtained theSongbird and Time After Time albums and am trying to find out what else is available
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Song Bird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them (maybe Wayfairing Stranger or Rainbow)
Home town St. Paul, MN USA
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 8.08 PM - 8/6
( A la Homer Simpson...) Whoo Hoo !! I just ordered Songbird from Amazon.com, and spent the 10 bucks to overnight ship it !! Wow, just Wow,..what more can you say about Eva??!! I think maybe God took her because she was just too good for this World...?
Now, I'm a macho guy and everything, but I don't know the last time I cried and smiled at the same time.
I'll be wearing a big smile (with a little tear behind it) for the rest of today. Hey God: thanks for Eva!
( everyone-- spread the word about Eva!!)
Name: Rita Murphy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town Modesto, Ca
Found the website just entered her name
Sent: 10.57 PM - 8/6
I just recently heard her song "Over the Rainbow" on a jazz station, and was blown away. I called the station to find out more about her and went right out and bought her CD. Now I'm listening every night and cannot believe that such a treasure has been kept from us all this time. I will spread the word of her beautiful voice.
Name: sandy
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album time after time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song anniversary song
Home town girvan, scotland
Found the website Google
Sent: 11.32 PM - 8/6
tonight on BBC TV's University Challenge the two teams were asked to name the singer and song.
blank faces all round - until after about fifteen seconds into the song one of the Edinburgh team buzzed in and looking as if he was dredging his answer from the deepest recesses of his mind offered "Eva Cassidy - Over the Rainbow"
"Well Done" said quizmaster Jeremy Paxman.
Name: Mick, Jackie & Ivana
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of gold
Home town Leeds
Sent: 3.17 PM - 8/7
This website is great!
Name: Britta
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Don't know yet, I only have one
Home town Stuttgart, Germany
Found the website no Search Engine, adress in CD
Sent: 4.51 PM - 8/7
After I have read about Eva Cassidy I immediately bought the only CD Í could get. I do enjoy her singing and look forward to buy the other CDs as well
Name: sherri
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song what a wonderful world
Home town gloucester,mass.
Found the website looked up Eva Cassidy
Sent: 6.31 PM - 8/7
Eva's voice has truly touched my soul in a way no other singer has ever done for me. I was deeply saddened to just find out she has passed on in 1996,and will never get to see her perform. I myself am a singer/songwriter and she has been such a great inspiration for me as I battle Multiple Sclerosis. I am sure GOD is listening to her beautiful voice each and every day. GOD bless her parents and all who knew her and all who loved her beautiful soulful voice! I will never stop listening to her.
Name: Paul
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all
Home town St. Paul,Mn
Found the website Altavista
Sent: 7.07 PM - 8/7
Hi, I just got my Songbird today and listened to it about 8 times at work today..it made me a little sadder that she died, but it made her music even sweeter....PLEASE don't confuse me with the other Paul talking about janice Joplin...it wasn't me !!
I just wish Eva was here to see all of us raving over her...I imagime she'd grin from ear to ear...
peace.
Name: Gerhard
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town near Kassel
Sent: 7.36 PM - 8/7
Hab schon lange nicht mehr so gute Musik und so eine klare Stimme gehört.
Gerhard
Musiker
Name: Sylvia Brinson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Dark End of the Street
Home town Jackson Louisiana USA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 8.49 PM - 8/7
I didn't even know who Eva Cassidy was until I saw her picture on the Yahoo entertainment photographs page. That was 5 (thank goodness for Amazon.com)albums ago. Several days later we had a late afternoon rainshower. Just before dark, the sun appeared at the very edge of the horizon. Upon looking out to the east, there was the rainbow. Against an almost slate blue sky it seemed to sparkle and glow. Sing, Sing, my sweet child. I swear Judy Garland must be standing there beside you. She never had a major record deal, she never was on MTV, she never played the Superdome. But you know what, I can never remember buying 5 albums of one artist at one time in my life.
Name: Margaret
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Blues Alley
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Bridge Over Troubled Water
Home town New York City
Found the website Previous Contributor/ABC News
Sent: 2.15 PM - 8/8
Sunday's New York Times published an article about Chuck Brown ("Neglected but a Legend, At Least to His Fans") and his association with Eva was mentioned a few times...."the surprise success of his protege, the singer Eva Cassidy, who died in 1996 and whose albums have sold millions of copies, has drawn wider attention to Mr. Brown", and "his most unlikely comeback occurred with the 1992 release of an album of duets with Cassidy, a white, crystal-toned singer whose pop-soul sweetness suggested the likes of Roberta Flack.
Just wanted to pass this along. Regards to all.
Name: Michelle
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Belmont, CA
Found the website Yahoo
Sent: 5.02 PM - 8/8
I read about Eva Cassidy in a recent San Francisco newspaper article. The story of her life haunted me, so I went in search of the CD, Songbird. Eva's voice has touched my soul like no other artist. Thank you, Laura, for this opportunity to thank Eva's parents for sharing her life and music with the world. Their daughter was a gift from God who will live on in the hearts of many through her beautiful voice.
Name: Richard Eames
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird (so far)
Home town Boca Raton, Florida
Found the website Google.com
Sent: 8.49 PM - 8/8
I downloaded Songbird, out of curiosity, off of one of those MP3 sites. Man! Was I blown away. This girl sang this song with more heart & feeling than Christy McVee ever could. I play the song over & over on my way to work & back home again. I did a search on Google for her & got here, only to find out that she is no longer with us. Sadness fills me, but I know her voice will bring joy & comfort to people for many, many years to come.
Eva, I never knew you, but I miss you already!
regardz...
Name: Gwen
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold
Home town Waco, Texas
Found the website NBCi
Sent: 9.16 PM - 8/8
I am a new Eva fan. What a talent!! I would very much appreciate if someone would email me if you know where I can find the lyrics to her songs. Thanks!
Name: patrick lennon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song all of them
Home town chatham kent . UK
Found the website AOL
Sent: 11.32 PM - 8/8
hi to all Eva fans. for those of you who live in the south east of England & receive southern water . I made a telephone call to there office last friday to inquire about my water bill .& guess who was singing on the other end of the line . you got it ( Eva . it cooled me right down . I even congratulalted them on there choice of music . I came of the phone feeling great . Evas voice makes you feel good . god bless you Eva xx and all your family fans & friends .
Sent: 6.27 AM - 8/9
re Patrick's nice note about the music....trust the track was not " Wade In The water "....!!!!
Name: an unimportant musician
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Golds
Home town germany, around frankfurt
Found the website www.swr3.de
Sent: 7.20 AM - 8/9
thank you, Eva
Name: Jack Pierce
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Fields of Gold, I Know You By Heart, Over the Rainbow
Home town Fort Pierce, Florida
Found the website via www.Blixstreet.com
Sent: 10.40 AM - 8/9
I am sixty eight years of age and I am thrilled to know I can still be moved to tears by someone so young and talented. I learned of Eva from 'Nightline' recently and have be captivated ever since. My wife just yesterday spoke of the way she is so moved in her spirit at just hearing 'Over the Rainbow' sung by this angelic soul. I am an artist (sculptor) and I greatly appreciated the inclusion of her drawings. Heaven is filled with her voice as she is singing even greater music. I think God needed her there for this purpose. (God, I hope you know what you are doing. We could have used Eva here with us a while longer.) There is no greater compliment than being able to so completely touch the hearts of a few of our dearest friends. Eva is touching the hearts of many hundreds of people around the world. This 'Songbird' album is going to be a gift today to my first girlfriend of my youth, Gayle, ...who is dying of cancer. Gayle will enjoy listening to "I Know You By Heart" as I hold her close to me.
I wish I could find the lyrics to it.
Thanks, Laura, for this opportunity to pay tribute.
Name: barbara bullock
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album all of them
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song summertime
Home town riverdale, maryland
Found the website metacrawler
Sent: 2.34 PM - 8/9
Eva was a friend of mine. I worked with her at the Behnkes Nursery (1983-87) and I keep in touch with her family. I don't know if anyone knows this about Eva, but she was one of the funniest people I've ever known. She would come up with these comments that would set everyone laughing. She also loved working hard at the nursery....lifting and carrying heavy materials. I always knew she was super talented. I have saved drawings she did, and I bought a box of Christmas cards from her that she produced. She would sometimes sing over the loudspeaker at the nursery. I took her canoeing on the Patuxent River as well. That was a memorable trip. Once I saw her performing with her brother, Dan,at a little bar in Fells Point, Baltimore.
I first found out she was very serious about singing when I, and some friends went to see the Neville Brothers at Wolftrap, (Virginia). We took our time in the picnic area while the opening act was playing. Being music lovers, we could hear this wonderful female voice that reminded us of Bonnie Raitt, Aretha Franklin, or Tracy Nelson....Who was this wonderful voice? As we turned the corner and I spotted the blond hair of my friend up on stage with her band and Chuck Brown, I said "There's Eva!" I was so proud of her. We went to see her back stage after it was over. We followed her progress for the next few years, until.... I still have the sweet card she sent me with the heart, that she wrote me only weeks before she died. I taped the Nightline special on Eva. Everytime I watch it, I cry. (Just now my employee walked in and caught me with my eyes full of tears).
I am so happy that her recorded music still lives and has spread around the world. I really miss her sweet impishness, and amazing creativity and talent.
A few weeks ago, an old friend of mine wrote in on 7/13. Is there anyway I can get in touch with her? (Earlene Stewart). I am glad she taped her visit with Eva. I hope that Earlene is also still singing.
Sincerely,
Barbara
Name: Petra
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird (so far)
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn leaves
Home town The Hague in the Netherlands
Found the website through didgerecords website
Sent: 2.50 PM - 8/9
Absolutely amazing, I was feeling very low when I found out about Eva Cassidy and her beautiful music, she cheered me up tremendously. That in itself became a very spiritual experience after I found out she had died such a difficult death. Now I feel very grateful to her for having shared her voice with the world the way she did. She sounds to me like she was a very strong and positive person. She has given me a great gift by her music and by reading about her, thanks enormously!!! love Petra
Name: Gary Diamond
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song You Know Me By Heart
Home town Denver CO
Sent: 4.16 PM - 8/9
Seeking out the Pieces of a Dream and Danny Gatton
cuts that Eva did...Totally unable to find either
in the Rocky Mtn. area....Is there anyone willing
to come to my rescue? Thanks for reading this! Gary
Name: Gary Diamond
Home town Denver CO
Sent: 4.22 PM - 8/9
Apologies for the quick follou-up e-mail....
I am seeking the Eva cuts that she did for Steve
Estes (Alexandria, VA). Willing to trade or find
needed music of your needs. Any one? Thanks, Gary
Name: Nigel
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Anniversary Song
Sent: 5.11 PM - 8/9
Barbara
Your friend Earlene Stewart gave her e- mail address as earlene@bellatlantic.net. Hope this helps.
Good Luck
Nigel
Name: Rich Jones
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song "Over the Rainbow"
Home town Dallas, TX
Found the website yahoo.com
Sent: 10.03 PM - 8/9
I never knew "Over the Rainbow" was a spiritual song until I heard Eva sing it. A friend gave me her SONGBIRD CD for my birthday. I can't tell you how much listening to her version of this song has helped, and is helping me through a difficult time in my life.
I've always liked the song since I heard it in "The Wizard of Oz". Judy Garland was great. But I percieved the song as sweet and wonderful and just a piece of bubble gum from a Hollywood musical. I wish I had known Eva Cassidy while she was here on earth. At least I have a piece of her in my heart now.
Name: Rich Anderson
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves, Fields of Gold, Songbird, Over the Rainbow
Home town Mesa, Arzona
Sent: 10.18 PM - 8/9
A friend introduced me to this Angel, who is gift from God. Eva knew her place in life and lived for the things that counted here on earth. She loved all creation and never focused on material. I lost my sister in law to cnacer at the age of 37 whom I knew since she was 9. Her name was Eva and I don't have to tell anyone how Eva Cassidy has affect my wife and I. We wonder sometime why people such as Eva are taken from us at such a young age. One day each and everyone of us will know the answer. In the meantime, Eva left an indeliable mark to people who love her. Her legacy will never never die.
Name: john pursall
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Songbird
Home town kingswinford,west mids, UK
Found the website bt
Sent: 10.51 PM - 8/9
what a voice,sadly only reconised after her death,her songs really sooth my soul,and calm me in todays hectic world.i feel a great sadness not having found her music when she was alive,but her memory lives on,god bless you Eva
Name: Ginger Millington
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album OOh, that's too hard a call!
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Autumn Leaves
Home town Whyteleafe, Surrey.UK
Sent: 11.21 PM - 8/9
Hello Laura
Firstly, well done for erecting a fine big top, under which people may express their thoughts, wishes and emotions about someone whos remarkability and essence was and is beyond compare.
Ayear or so ago, and I'm sure many of my fellow Brits would say the same, there was a clip of Eva performing Somewhere Over the Rainbow on a programme called Top Of The Pops 2.Now I'm a somewhat cinnical old git of a muso, but that was the greatest emotional kick that I have ever recieved from a peice of music. The purity of soul and spirit, and the erosion of our rather narrow minded views on time/space/life/death seems to have been trancended in that we all feel like we have known her all our lives. Maybe we have, and what a connection.
There really is no finer performer. No more heartfelt a singer and no greater twister of the heartstrings. I think you are still here Eva.
Regards to all.
Ginge x x x
Name: Ginger
Home town Whyteleafe, UK
Sent: 11.23 PM - 8/9
P.s
Please excuse my diabolical spelling. Frenetics rule Oh KAY ???
Name: Dave Sneddon
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home town Sheffield (England)
Found the website EvaCassidy.com
Sent: 11.48 PM - 8/9
I first heard Eva on Radio2 (The year 2000)where Terry Wogan was saying what a performer Eva was. I was in a traffic jam but was able to take down the name of Eva Cassidy.
I bought Songbird and I am in love with the music.
The one thing about life is that we know that we are born and we die. Why are we given talents? In Eva's case WHY?
I appreciate sounds musically whereby the sound is effortless and the last time I could appreciate such quality was when I listened to Karen Carpenter. This may not be complimantary to modern music but after all I am 50 years old.
The good die young as it would seem. Maybe I'm not that good but I thank Eva wherever she may be for making me happy with her special adaptation of music.
Cheers Dave.
Name: michael quilty
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Songbird
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Over the Rainbow
Home town orlando
Found the website hear from friend
Sent: 1.56 AM - 8/10
my son had a favorite song. he was severly disabled and loved to hear his song. at his funeral we had the song sung for him. Eva's version was not known to be then. since his death in 99 at age 22....I now listen to Eva's version and think of him and I think they are together....she has taught him to sing as he could not talk....but he did hum....thank you for this web site
Name: Gina
Favorite Eva Cassidy Album Time After Time
Favorite Eva Cassidy Song Waly Waly
Home town London UK
Found the website frequent visitor
Sent: 3.00 AM - 8/10
Visitors may like to see how votes have been cast on this Guestbook for favorite Eva Albums and the 'top ten' of her Tracks in the year-to-date.
ALBUMS
1 Songbird462
2 Blues Alley107
3 Time After Time61
4 Eva By Heart47
5 The Other Side8
TRACKS
1 Over the Rainbow271
2 Fields of Gold166
3 Autumn Leaves77
4 Songbird71
5 What A Wonderful World49
6 I Know You By Heart44
7 Time Is A Healer21
8 People Get Ready19
9 Waly Waly18
10 Anniversary Song15
Availability of the albums will have affected the ratings in part and many of us find it difficult to make any favored choice at all. Rather well summed up in the words of one Visitor as "They all become one".
But, just looking down