Eva Cassidy

Don't buy "No Boundaries." It is said to be "overproduced pop drivel that Eva surely would not have wanted released were she still with us today," and I understand that Eva's parents did not want it released.

Buy The Other Side, Live at Blues Alley, Eva By Heart, Songbird and Time After Time. I dont have Songbird, but I read that it went platinum and recently topped the charts in the UK.

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

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

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