American Tune

by

Eva Cassidy

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New music from the Eva estate. This album will be a huge seller, and may outdo "Songbird". I will say this though, nothing to date surpasses "Live At Blues Alley" (the true Eva CD). Nevertheless, this is still a fantastic album.

"American Tune" is a collection of 10 songs featuring covers of some very humble tracks including Cyndi Lauper's "True Colours" and The Beatles "Yesterday". The title track of course being a Paul Simon cover..

Included on this album is another version of "God Bless the Child" which she did as a duet on her album with Chuck Brown titled "The Other Side".

The highlights on the album are "The Water is Wide" and "You Take me Breath Away" - so beautiful they will bring tears to your eyes.

This may be the last of Eva's recordings, so grab yourself a copy and disappear for awhile.

I have been a fan of Eva ever since 'Songbird' came out in 1998.I take great delight in all her previous 'official' albums.She was a magnificent singer, second to none.We have been blessed with some excellent posthumous songs, but there was always a limit to what was available.It must be remembered that the songs on American Tune are all discards.They were put aside and forgotten about because it was decided they were not good enough to release.These songs are not as good as previous Eva CDs.This is not a criticism of Eva. Mostly they are from rehearsal tapes, and it show.In 'Yesterday' Eva two time shrieks out some of the lyrics in a harsh manner.I am sure she would have never wanted this track to be released. She was a perfectionist, and didn't even want 'Live at Blues Alley' released.It seems to me that 'American Tune' scrapes the bottom of the barrel. At least we have better albums than this to remember her by.