Eva Cassidy - Walkin' After Midnight (Bonus Track) (2024) -Silkroad-
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1. Walkin' After Midnight (Walkin' After Midnight) (02:44)
2. Blue Skies (Walkin' After Midnight) (02:39)
3. Next Time You See Me (Walkin' After Midnight) (03:17)
4. Summertime (Walkin' After Midnight) (03:47)
5. Honeysuckle Rose (Walkin' After Midnight) (03:10)
6. Route 66 (Walkin' After Midnight) (03:02)
7. Ain't No Sunshine (Walkin' After Midnight) (04:06)
8. Fever (Walkin' After Midnight) (03:54)
9. Down Home Blues (Walkin' After Midnight) (03:31)
10. Wade In The Water (Walkin' After Midnight) (03:40)
11. Cheek To Cheek (Walkin' After Midnight) (04:21)
12. Won't Be Long (Walkin' After Midnight) (04:03)
13. Lenny Williams - Desperado (03:34)
The heart-tugging story of Eva Cassidy reads almost like the plot of a "Movie of the Week" tearjerker. A native of the Washington, D.C., area, the painfully shy Cassidy earned a local reputation as a masterful interpreter of standards from virtually any genre, blessed with technical agility and a searching passion that cut straight to the emotional core of her material. Despite the evocative instrument that was Cassidy's voice, record companies shied away from her, unsure of how to market her eclectic repertoire; for her part, Cassidy adamantly refused to allow herself to be pigeonholed, prizing the music above any potential fame. In 1996, just when she had begun to record more frequently on a small, local basis, Cassidy was diagnosed with cancer, which had already spread throughout her body and rapidly claimed her life. But her story didn't end there; her music was posthumously championed by a BBC disc jockey, and amazingly, the anthology Songbird became a number one million-selling smash in England.