Continuing my resolution to recommend cool stuff, this week I suggest picking up any and all CDs you can find by the late, great Miss Eva Cassidy.
Eva died in 1996 of melanoma just before she by all rights should have exploded on the world stage. Had she lived she would have turned 43 years old this Thursday, February 2nd.
Like most of her fans I discovered her after she passed away. I was at a rehearsal for one of the many god-awful murder mysteries I used to do and the director had one of her CDs playing. I recognized the song “Fields of Gold” written by Sting, but performed as I had never heard it before: slow, wistful, almost unaccompanied.
To this day it is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. Sting himself was reportedly moved to tears the first time he heard it.
Anyway, since that night I have picked up every one of Miss Cassidy’s sadly finite recordings I’ve been able to find.
Give her a spin.
