Tag: Eva Cassidy Band

YouTube features a fascinating mini-documentary (or let’s say a podcast with pictures) on Eva Cassidy’s Live At Blues Alley. The recording for this album was hindered by technical setbacks. Consequently, Eva Cassidy initially did not want the album to be released at all. The live album released in 1996 features …

Twenty-seven years ago, singer Eva Cassidy (2 February 1963 – 2 November 1996) died. She only became famous after her death, but if it had been up to Mick Fleetwood (1947) that would have happened much earlier. In the 1990s, the Fleetwood Mac drummer owned music club Fleetwood’s in Alexandria, …

“I was made in Germany,” Eva Cassidy used to tell her friends. She was born on February 2, 1963 at 10 PM in the Washington Hospital Centre in Washington, DC. Her first name was taken from her great grandmother Eva McGrew who sang and played guitar in church. The family’s …